The first puck in anger in this year’s championship will take place in Saturday, 30th May at approximately 7pm when Wexford face up to Offaly in the first round of the Leinster Hurling Championship. With the league over, I felt now would be a good time to review the betting for the championship. A quick perusal of the various online betting sites reveals the following:

Bookie number one odds

Bookie number two odds

Bookie number three odds

Bookie number four odds

Surprise, surprise. Kilkenny are the short odds favourites. The best odds you can get them at are 1.54 or 8/15 with bookie number one (I’ll leave you guess who the various bookies are ). The 4 bookies are unanimous on who are the top 4:

1. Kilkenny
2. Tipperary
3. Galway
4. Cork

Waterford fans might feel somewhat aggrieved that they are not more fancied….or they may enjoy the underdog status.

So there you go.  You takes your pick and you pays your money.  I’ll review this post in September when the dust has settled on championship oh nine.

FaceTheBall.com update: I finished in tenth position :).  I actually scored 0 points in the final week.  I predicted a 6 point win for Kilkenny and of course the result was a draw at full-time.  I predicted a draw in Offaly v Wexford match.  Well done to SixPointsUp who won the competition.