I have tried to look on here incase someone else didnt know, i looked on the BB website, and i just don't understand it, please can someone tell me what they mean?

50/1 means however much you bet on lesley winning and she somehow does, it will be multiplyed by 50 for your winnings amount

9/2 means if you put 2 pound on someone to win and they do, you will win 9 pounds plus your 2 pund bet back

It's the odds from the bookies, how it works is say it was 50/1, and you betted £10 that Lesley will win, if she does you win £500. With 9/2, say you betted £2 and Maxwell won you'd win £9.

They are the odds that bookmakers are currently offering on that particular person. Lesley is currently 50/1 meaning that if you bet £1 and Lesley wins you will receive £50. If you bet £2 you would receive £100 etc etc. Her odds are very high to win as it is highly expected she won't last the week.

Maxwell is 9/2 - so if you bet £2 you would win back £9 plus your £2 stake IF he wins. This is very low because Maxwell is currently highly favoured to win.

thank you all, i am so glad i now know

[quote=Roosafee]thank you all, i am so glad i now know[/QUOTE


50-1 roughly means the bookies and the people betting think there is less than a 2% chance of Lesley winning.

9/2 means Maxwell, they think, has a bit less than a 20% chance of winning.

Basically they are saying "no way" Lesley and " possibly" Maxwell.

9/2 is equivalent to 4.5/1. (by dividing)

So take the current betting at the top of DS:BB

9/2 = 4.5/1 (Kemal)
9/2 = 4.5/1 (Maxwell)
11/2 = 5.5/1 (Saskia)
6/1 - (Makosi)
10/1 - (Science)
11/1 - (Anthony)
etc

The bet can also be odds on - which means you get back less than what you stake (you always get your stake back)

So Lesley to be evict this week is 1/4 which means if you bet £4 you only get £1 back (plus your stake)

What is actually means is that if the eviction was held 5 times (1+4) Lesley would be voted out 4 times. Or it is 4/1 that lesley won't be evicted

50/1 = Lesley is totally buggered (but thats only the bookies take on it)

Europeans use a decimal system which includes your stake

Amercians work out what you get if you bet $100 or how much you'd need to bet to win $100 - the first is shown with 'plus' sign, the second with a 'minus'.

So 3/1 would be shown as:

4.0 to the Europeans
+300 to Americans

The real odds might be much longer than that 5000/1 but the bookies aren't going to risk offering too high odds (she might do a Jade)

I think they're breast sizes

and 4 out of 5 times (80%) as betting odds is pretty certain....

they will need to evict lesleh 4 times, as there's so much of her