There is massive interest in this weeks Scoop6, with an expected £3 million plus win fund. Tote have just announced details of the races that will make up tomorrow’s Scoop6. They are: –

Race 1 : 2.10 Lingfield
Race 2 : 2.40 Lingfield
Race 3 : 2.45 Haydock
Race 4 : 3.20 Lingfield
Race 5 : 3.30 Huntingdon (3m2f Handicap Hurdle - was the 2.55)
Race 6 : 3.50 Lingfield

As usual Scoop6.co.uk will be updated throughout the day allowing you to see how the prize funds inflate during the morning and check how many tickets remain after each leg and which horses they are on.

We are looking forward to another thrilling afternoon – though this week we plan to watch the races and not be working on ensuring this site keeps going under the load of 1,000s of people checking the progress of the Scoop6.

Totesport are running a great offer this weekend. As well as a free £25 bet to new customers they are also offering 5% cashback on totepool stakes, including the Scoop6. Full details are on the Totesport site and we encourage you to open an free account now so as you are ready for Saturday. Visit Totesport now

6 things to know about the scoop6…

• Saturday’s Win Fund Rollover £2,037,527 is the largest in the history of the bet.
• Coupled with the Bonus fund rollover, the combined sum of £2,941,953 is the highest combined rollover ever
• It has now been 11 weeks since the scoop6 was won, the longest run of Win Fund rollovers in the history of the bet.
• The scoop6 place fund has paid an average of £669 so far in 2008, but has paid over £1,000 five times in the last eight weeks.
• All customers who landed the Place fund last week shared a payout of almost £500,000
• There have been four scoop6 millionaires in the history of the bet.

Other points:

totescoop6 facts and figures

Record Win fund dividend: £1,519,301 (20th October 2007)
Record Bonus fund dividend: £1,339,148 (10th November 2007)
Record Place fund dividend: £39,240 (30th September 2006)

On Saturday 22nd November 2008 a single winner of both the Win and Bonus funds is expected to win close to £5 million!

Top 5 Small staking winners:

£878,939 (Win) – Ron Nicholson, Sat 17th April 2004 (£4)
£695,911 (Win) – Archie Evans, Sat 10th March 2007 (£2)
£688,620 (Win & Bonus) – Agnes Haddock, Sat 3rd February 2007 (£2)
£610,620 (Win & Bonus) – Adam Phillips, Sat 21st July 2007 (£2)
£517,142 (Win & Bonus) – Paul Freeman Sat 23rd November 2002 (£8)

Will you be the next winner. Place you Scoop6 bet at Totesport to find out.

Yesterday we brought you news of Totesport running a market on How much will be bet on the Scoop6. Well, If money talks, then over £4million will be bet on the scoop6 this Saturday! Just before 3.30pm today Totesport were forced to suspend the market.

Spokesman Damian Walker said: “It has been a crazy day. We opened the market at 9.30am and the 50-1 about £4 million or more being bet on the scoop6 this Saturday was soon snapped up followed by all the prices down to 8-1 in just over half an hour.”

“But even after that, punters were taking any price we put up. Our odds compilers said they had seen nothing like it. Just before 3.30pm the decision was taken to suspend the market. It would be fair to say we have a very one-sided book, but £4million+ turnover would more than make up for that.”

How much will be bet on the scoop6 this Saturday? This is how the market moved: –
Market opened at 9.30am
9.30am : 50-1
9.36am : 20-1
9.46am : 14-1
9.53am : 10-1
10.02am : 8-1
10.56am : 13-2
12.14pm : 5-1
1.00pm : 5-2
2.26pm : 2-1
3.21pm : SUSPENDED

If £4 million is bet on the scoop6 this Saturday that would take the win prize to at least £3.4 million with another £1.5 million available as a bonus the following week. Had you asked us yesterday we would have thought to have £4 million bet would be very unlikely but it looks like it might happened as awareness of this massive rollover spreads particually to people hearing about the Scoop6 for the first time.

New to the Scoop6? Register with Totesport now so you are sure to be ready for Saturday. It’s free to register and they are offering 5% cashback on Scoop6 bets and a free £25 bet. Register now.

It has now been eleven weeks since the Scoop6 was won. Not only has the win fund ballooned in that time, to a predicted £3 million this Saturday, but also interest online has been surging ahead as people take advantage of the Internet to research selections, find the latest news and to place their bets.

The Scoop6.co.uk website has had a huge increase in traffic over the last few weeks and the team behind it have been working hard to ensure that it keeps up with the pace this Saturday, as well as adding some new features.

Scoop6 Traffic v Amount Bet on the Scoop6

Traffic to Scoop6.co.uk (Blue) v Amount Bet on the Scoop6 (Red) - Percentages relative to 15 Nov figures

As the value of the win fund rose past £2 million last weekend traffic to the site was up to 215% of what it was the week before and over 485% of what it was at the start of the month. A similar increase is expected this week as there is a lot of buzz about the huge Scoop6 rollover and awareness of Scoop6.co.uk is spreading almost as quickly.

About Scoop6.co.uk

Scoop6.co.uk is a site run by fans of the Scoop6 to give other Scoop6 punters easy access to data about the pool. Set up over 3 years ago, the site is the easiest way to get the latest information about how the Scoop6 is unfolding.

The site is updated every few minutes each Saturday with the very latest information available on how the Scoop6 is progressing. This starts in the morning, at around 8:30am, when final confirmation of the Scoop6 races is made and those are made available on the site. During the rest of the morning the payouts available from each pool can be watched increasing as more stakes are added into the pool.

In the afternoon the racing starts. As each race result is declared by the tote the results are shown on Scoop6.co.uk and details of how many tickets are still in with a chance of winning are released. It also displays which runners those tickets are resting on in the next race. If a punter is doing well they can use this to see how the prize fund may be split if their luck continues. If they are not doing so well they can join the other Scoop6 punters who are hoping the horse carrying the least tickets wins, since that increases the chances of another rollover.

Finally, after all the the results are in, the number of winning tickets is shown along with the payout each will receive – or how much will rollover to the following week if there has been no winner.

New Features

While focusing on improving the behind the scenes systems that drive Scoop6.co.uk so as they handle this increased traffic, the team have also been adding some improvements to the site to keep it the best Scoop6 resource on the net.

• A news section has been added to the site so as information that comes in during the week can be shared.
• A Scoop6 Twitter account has been set up which will be automatically updated with the latest information as it becomes available.
• The live Scoop6 results pages will now refresh much more frequently and, when showing how many tickets are on each horse in the next leg, will now show the horse’s name along with it’s number.
• Super7 results have now been added too the site. The Super7 is a somewhat similar to the Scoop6 but runs on the days when the Scoop6 doesn’t.
• and there is more in the works.

Scoop6.co.uk would like to wish everyone the best of luck with this weeks Scoop6. The buzz will keep growing over the next few days and we are ready for it! (fingers crossed;) )

The Tote have opened markets on this weekend’s record-breaking Scoop6 and reckon the bet is 1-4 to be won this Saturday and 11-4 to rollover to Hennessy Gold Cup weekend on Saturday 29th November.

And the firm have also priced up a market on how much money will be taken in Stakes on the Scoop6 this Saturday. They have 13-8 joint favourites of are Over £2million to £2.5million and Over £2.5million to £3million.

Spokesman Damian Walker said: “We took £1M two weekends ago and £2M last Saturday, so we reckon this weekend’s turnover is most likely to fall between £2M-£3M. I’m sure we won’t mind paying out at 50-1 on over £4million being bet this Saturday.”

“The scoop6 doesn’t look as though it will be as difficult as it has been the previous two weekends and it is a 1-4 chance to be won.”

“With that in mind and almost £3M of dead money in the pool, punters need to get busy this weekend as the huge rollovers might not be around if they wait a week.”

Our thoughts agree with the Tote’s assessment, which is good since they know much more than us! Though the races for this week’s Scoop6 haven’t been released yet, it looks like there aren’t the number of difficult races for the Tote to pick from this time. Overall we think that’s a good thing. The massive rollover is a great target to go for but we think it is time it was won. Also a less daunting line up should mean more new Scoop6 punters are ready to give it a go for the first time.

Make sure you are ready for this Saturday by opening an account with Totesport. They currently are offering a £25 free bet and 5% cash back on totepool bets including the Scoop6.

Tote’s Scoop6 Markets

How much will be bet on the scoop6?
33-1 : Under £1.5million
11-2 : Over £1.5million to £2million
13-8 : Over £2million to £2.5million
13-8 : Over £2.5million to £3million
5-1 : Over £3million to £3.5million
14-1 : Over £3.5million to £4million
50-1 :Over £4million

Will the scoop6 be won?
1-4 : Yes
11-4 : No
All six legs must be run. Prices from 9.30am

Ok, finding a loser after last weeks Scoop6 was not won isn’t really that hard a task, there is one sat behind this keyboard, but one punter had a particually close call.

Going into the final race there were 19 tickets still live, split over 9 runners. Coming to the last this punter held the only ticket still in with a chance, a chance of scooping the full £2,098,527 for himself and befcome the largest Scoop6 winner ever. His hopes lay with 66/1 shot Maneki Neko who had a good run and was battling with Sunnyhillboy for the lead. Unfortunately his dreams weren’t to come true as Sunnyhillboy pulled away to win by four lengths.

Betfair have announced that the unlucky punter placed their Scoop6 bet with them and, though the punter wishes to stay anonymous, they have released some details. The punter was making only his second Scoop6 bet but was giving it a good go by selecting 2,304 lines. He had three selections in the last race (Maneki Neko (2nd), Hernando Royal (4th) and Busker Royal (fell). This means his likely combination was 4x4x4x4x3x3, though the other 3 could be in any of the first five race.

Hopefully there is some good news from this for the unlucky punter. He is likely to have had quite a few winning place lines paying out at £407.40 each to soften the blow. Though I’m sure it would take a while to forget the £2 million+ that he was so close to.

There is good news for everyone else. The Scoop6 rolls over for another week and it looks like we will be playing for a win fund of over £3 million this Saturday. Add in the bonus fund and there could be a possible prize of over £4 million!!

Beat the rush and open an account with Totesport bookmakers, the home of the Scoop6. They currently have a £25 free bet promotion and will also give you 5% cashback on your Scoop6 bets this month. The unlucky punter didn’t take advantage of that offer so lost himself £230 before racing started, that’s not unlucky, it’s foolish!

Welcome to this new section of the Scoop6.co.uk site where we hope to bring you the latest news about the Scoop6 along with a sprinkling of other totepool and general betting news.

As well as posting details of the Scoop6 races as soon as they are made public and details of the results and dividends we will be searching the Internet to bring you the best of the information posted elsewhere. That includes Scoop6 tips, analysis and general commentary.

We hope you will find this a useful addition to the site. If you have any feed back about this, or any other part of the site, please leave a comment.