Paddy Power Odds: ‘US Government Shutdown Will Not Last More Than 7 Days’

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Gambling911.com has received significant traffic for odds on a US Government shutdown, but being a news site, we don’t actually take such bets.  We’ll leave that to the fine folks over at Paddy Power, who, ironically, do not accept wagers from US bettors.

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The shutdown is already in effect.  Now it’s all about how long such a government shutdown will last.

Paddy Power spokesman Rory Scott told ABCNews.com that the agency believes the shutdown will be over within seven days. Those odds were 11-to-10. 

If the shutdown goes on for eight to 14 days, the odds are a little under two-to-one.  22 to 28 days will pay around 10-1 odds.

A shutdown lasting into December pays 20-1 odds.

At the time of publication, the US Government had been shut down nearly 24 hours. 

- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com

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