Almighty Athlete Chapter 6: OPAP company
As the main stadium of the Olympic Games, the Athens Olympic Stadium has its own commercial facilities. There are commercial streets and shopping malls planned nearby. Most of them are not newly built, but transformed from old buildings. Although the construction speed of the Athens Olympic Stadium has always been criticized, the construction of the commercial area is very fast, even before the completion of the stadium.
The corner of a commercial street was crowded with people. Zhang Guan stood in front of a building and looked up at the big sign of "OPAP" on the signboard. He took out a tourist map and compared it. Go in.
OPAP is the abbreviation of Greek football spinach company. Greek football spinach company is the largest spinach company in Greece, and also a Greek state-owned company. It almost monopolizes the entire Greek spinach market.
The Olympic Games is undoubtedly a huge gold mine for spinach companies. At the same time, for speculators, Olympic spinach is also a feast not to be missed. But Zhang Guan remembers many Olympic results, buying a few upsets through spinach and making a speculation is a good way to get rich quickly.
Therefore, Zhang Guan raised funds as much as possible before going abroad to exchange for Euros, even at the expense of loans. At the same time, Zhang Guan signed up for the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and hoped to arrive in Athens earlier to participate in this spinach event.
Zhang Guan first went to the bank to get a debit card. Although the Greeks are not very efficient, after all, it is very easy for foreigners to apply for a debit card in Greece during the Olympics. Take out your passport It can be done in minutes.
Then Zhang Guan came to the biggest betting station near the Olympic Stadium.
If it is a few years later, the European online spinach industry is maturing, Zhang Guan can fully handle online banking, and then online spinach through the website, but this time Internet spinach has no legal status in many European countries, and some countries even have many limits. For example, Finland, the largest online spinaching country in Europe, has a law stipulating that only permanent residents of Finland can participate in online spinach; while the UK’s largest spinaching country, the United Kingdom, has not implemented the "2005 Spinach Act" that legalizes online spinach. Others such as Germany , Italy, Spain, etc. also have no laws and regulations on online spinach.
So the spinach of this era is mainly betting on-site through betting stations.
OPAP's betting stations are all over Greece. Most of the small and medium-sized betting stations only sell OPAP's sports lottery tickets. Some large betting stations, in addition to selling OPAP's own sports lottery tickets, also represent major European players. Sports lottery of spinach company. In the case of European countries still striving to protect their spinach industry, this kind of situation of OPAP is rare in Europe.
The spinach industry is an industry where it is easier to make money than to grab it. At the national level, it is natural to hope that local people only buy their own lottery tickets; and from the perspective of big spinach companies, it is natural to hope that all countries can open the market.
The EU has always been committed to the economic and financial integration of the euro area, so it also hopes that the EU countries can open up to each other, including some monopoly industries dominated by state capital. At that time, Greece's entry into the euro area was actually opposed by many countries in the European Union. In order to enter the euro area smoothly, Greece had to promise to open some areas of its own country to allow foreign investment, including the conditional opening of Greece's spinach industry.
The Olympic Games is a big cake for the entire spinach industry. Greece also knows that it is impossible to swallow this big cake alone. Moreover, in order to build an Olympic venue, Greece also borrowed a lot of money from the EU. The big spinach group passed the EU to Greece put pressure on it, so the Greek government allowed foreign spinach companies to enter Greece through agency sales, but limited the only agent to the Greek state-owned company OPAP.
For foreign spinach companies entering Greece, Greece has strict approval and supervision. OPAP will draw a certain fee as an agency fee for each spinach transaction. At the same time, Greece also stipulates that the purchase of foreign spinach companies through OPAP Products, you must register an account with OPAP, and directly buy OPAP spinach products without account registration.
Although there are many restrictions, there are still many people who are willing to spend more time to buy products from foreign spinach companies. Many of them are tourists, especially local European tourists, who are more inclined to buy products from their own countries.
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Zhang Guan walked into the lobby of the betting station. I saw the wall covered with LCD TVs, which broadcasted the odds of the Olympic games in real time. There were also dozens of odds self-checking machines, some of which are available. Check the odds of foreign spinach companies.
Zhang Guan took the newly opened bank card and passport and registered at OPAP. Then he came to a self-service inquiry machine. He first checked the odds of the men’s 100-meter sprint event.
Basically all the athletes who entered the Olympics with the Olympic A standard score are listed. As for the B standard athletes, it is not worth it for the spinach company to put them on, even if they are put on, no one will buy them.
The odds of the champion are ranked from low to high. The top three are American players. The first is the defending champion and the sprinter who has broken the world record. Morris Green, after Morris Green It was Sean Crawford and Justin Gatlin, Jamaican trapeze Asafa Powell was only fourth, the fifth was Portuguese Francis Obic Viru, followed by Caribbean island country St Kitt With Nevis athlete Kim-Chris and British veteran Jason Gardner, looking down, the name of Zhang Guan apparently did not appear on the first page.
The athletes ranked on the previous page only listed the odds for winning the championship. Obviously they were regarded as sure to enter the finals, and the athletes afterwards gradually listed the odds for the finals and the semifinals.
"Where am I?" Zhang Guan kept pressing the page turning key and finally found his name.
"There is only one company that gave me the odds to enter the semifinals, and the odds are very low, only 1 to 1.2. Apparently the spinach company thinks that I will definitely be able to enter the semifinals. Bo is 1 for 2 and Ribo is 1 for 2.5, William Hill is 1 for 2.1 and Tibo is 1 for 2.5. Hey, this Spanish company has opened the highest for me, it is 1 for 3.3."
Based on these data, Zhang Guan knows that the major spinach companies in Europe are relatively optimistic about being able to enter the finals.
"Look at my odds of winning... Uh, Ladbrokes 1 loses 80, Ribo 1 loses 100, William Hill 1 loses 80, Timber 1 loses 100, this Spanish spinach company Opened 1 to lose 120, and this Italian company opened 1 to lose 150! OPAP gave me the odds to win the championship is 1 to lose 180, the Greeks want to die! I want to get rich! "
Zhang Guan is secretly happy, but look again, from the fourth page, all athletes have the same odds to win the championship, ranging from 1 to 80 to 1 to 150.
"It seems that this is the highest odds offered by various spinach companies." Zhang Guan thought to himself.
Large spinach companies have an upper limit when setting odds. The upper limit of odds given by British spinach companies is basically 1 to 100. Since the United Kingdom is the most developed country in the European spinach industry, so Spinach companies in Western and Central Europe also basically refer to this British standard.
The biggest business of the spinach company is Football Lottery. Spain in southern Europe has La Liga and Italy has Serie A. The two top leagues and the Premier League are also in a competitive relationship. Spain and Italy will naturally not match the UK in the odds setting. People are on par, especially the shadow of the Mafia behind many spinach companies in Italy. It is not without man-made control of the game. Naturally, the odds are more bold, and the odds can be over 1 to 150. Occasional odds such as the Greek OPAP company that pays 1 out of 200 in the local market also occasionally appear.
As far as Northern Europe and Eastern Europe are small spinach companies, they can only be mixed in their home countries, and there is basically no market and influence overseas.
The larger the company, the more conservative the odds are given. For example, in the World Cup in Brazil, the big spinach company's odds for North Korea to win North Korea is 1 cap 100, while some small companies The odds of winning the championship can reach 1 to 700.
Zhang Guan started to check the odds of other games. The single-player events are almost the same. The odds of winning hot players are very low. Players who do not hope to win the championship are all about 1 to 100.
And in the team project, the biggest favorite of basketball to win the championship is of course the US team. The second odds are the Greek men’s basketball team, the Spanish men’s basketball team ranked third, followed by the Argentina men’s basketball team and the Italian men’s basketball team, then Germany, For Russia and Serbia, as for the Chinese men's basketball team, Ladbrokes' odds of winning the championship are 1:80. Of course, the Chinese team is not the worst. The highest odds of Japan and Nigeria are 1:100.
"The performance of the men’s national basketball team in this Olympic Games is still very good. Although there is no hope of winning the championship, they have also reached the quarter-finals. It’s just why the Greek men’s basketball team ranked second and the Greek men’s basketball team these two. Years have been losing, is it because of the host, there are too many people to buy ~ IndoMTL.com ~ the odds are downright downright?" Zhang Guan thought to himself.
The odds given by the spinach company are not static. According to different game performances, the odds will keep changing. In addition, if the amount bought is too much, the odds will also drop. Theoretically speaking, even if the odds of 1 to 100 are lost, as long as there is enough buying, it may be reduced to 1 to 1.1.
"Remember that the basketball champion of this Olympic Games is Argentina, but Argentina has indeed performed very well in the past two years. It is not an upset, and the odds are very low. It is not profitable to buy it. Look at football!" /
Zhang Guan started to check the odds of football.
The atmosphere of European football is the strongest. The annual sales of spinach in the top European leagues are tens of billions of euros, so the Olympic football is not only the most concerned, but also the most involved in spinach.
However, the Olympic football athletes are age-restricted and cannot exceed 23 years of age. This makes many famous big-name football players miss the Olympic Games and increases the uncertainty of the Olympic football events. If you are not a senior fan, I am afraid that you will not have much understanding of athletes under the age of 23, so the odds given by the spinach company has become the most direct way for fans to understand the strength of each team.
From the odds, Portugal, Italy, Argentina and Paraguay are the four favorite teams to win the championship, but Zhang Guan did not pay attention to the odds of these strong teams, but directly found an Asian team-Iraq .
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