Irelands PaddyPower put Trump as a 1-to-7 favorite, with Rubio following at 5-1 and Cruz at 12-1.
But Trump, who rolled to wins in at least seven states on Super Tuesday, was outdistancing both Cruz and his other top rival, U.S. PredictIt had Trumps odds of winning the nomination at 76 percent early on Wednesday, down 4 points from Mondays record high of 80 percent.
Ladbrokes PLC said on Wednesday morning that Trump’s odds of securing the nomination were 1-5. On PredictIt.com, operated by Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, the predicted chances of the Texas senator winning the nomination for the Nov. It was independently created by the Reuters editorial staff. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. major-party convention since 1952 when the Democrats nominated Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson on the third ballot.
“I am betting against Trump getting the nomination at these odds but only because I think there is a 30 percent chance the GOP elite somehow successfully blocks him at the convention,” said a post from a forum member with the username matthewcooley.
Rubio, who scored his first win in a nominating contest on Tuesday with the Minnesota Republican caucuses, dropped 1 point to 10 percent, a record low for him.
Betting volumes on both Trump and Cruz hit records for the candidates on Tuesday and Rubio’s volume was his second highest ever.
This article was funded in part by SAP. 8 election rose to 10 percent as results from Super Tuesday voting continued to be tallied.
Ted Cruz’s Super Tuesday victories in his home state of Texas and neighboring Oklahoma strengthened his odds for the Republican presidential nomination on online betting sites but he still trails far behind Donald Trump.
(Reporting by Dan Burns in Washington and Anjali Athavaley in New York; Editing by Peter Cooney and Bill Trott)
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Cruz has gained 4 percentage points in the past two days and his predicted chances stood at the highest level on the site since he tumbled to a record low after a weak showing in the South Carolina primary on Feb 20.
Other online betting venues also gave Trump, a New York billionaire businessman, the strongest odds of winning the nomination. Rubio came in a distant second at 9-2, followed by Cruz at 25-1.
Message boards associated with PredictIt featured growing discussion of a possible brokered convention, which can occur when no candidate has won a clear majority of delegates before the start of the party’s nominating convention.