We told you last week the third leg of the Superprestige in Gavere would not be really hard... but it really was :P Profiting of the bad fall by Niels Albert in the reconnaisance before the race and various errors and troubles by Lars Boom during the race, Sven Nys claimed another win in this season in a magnificent scenery. Renowned shirtmaker tourdedoping took the lead of the Fantasy Betting rankings by putting all his money on Baal-based rider's win. On the other hand, Viborg FF abused from very agressive betting tactics and got down to the bottom of the standings by losing more than 1800 € in a risky - nonsense bet towards Lars Boom. In the first places of the classification, Stairs didn't move out too much money, while lagetcher, t-baum and tate kept their winnings comfortable until a good chance comes for them.

We'll take sort of a rest week starting from this Sunday... but don't miss the action! China's Tour of Hainan is still to conclude, and bets for the final stages can be placed everyday till Wednesday 19th, 04.00 CET. Winnings for the GC will be sent as soon as final standings are known. In the track, we'll be taking contact with the most prestigious 6-Day event in Ghent - place your bets for the final classification, as well as the provisional standings halfway the event! Finally, we'll have a couple of races in cyclocross: GvA trophy's Hasselt in Saturday, followed by SP's Hamme-Zogge in Sunday.

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Edit 17/11 17:11 CET: I forgot to say that the Round 2 of the UCI Track World Cup series are hosted in Melbourne, Australia, from Thursday from Saturday.

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Denmark's Viborg FF has taken the leading spot at the Fantasy Betting standings by putting all his money on Lars Boom's magnificent victory over Belgian Niels Albert in the third race of the World Cup series in Pijnacker, Netherlands. The other results on cyclocross did not seem to give such winnings to our gamblers, as less than half the betters on Tijmen Eising's predictable victory in the Junior category were right, where almost all gamblers put their money on Philipp Walsleben to win, hours later, at the U23 race. This way, risks taken by former leader Andro haven't paid off as much as he wold have expected - he's now on the bottom of the ranks, earning around 110 PCM$, where Stairs, lagetcher, tate and CrueTrue are above 400 PCM$.

Activity around our Fantasy Betting next week will have the Tour of Hainan as main event to bet on - it's starting on Tuesday, and you can bet on the GC and the prologue favourites right now! We'll add stage pronostic every morning, where the deadlines to bet are set around 04.00 CET / 22.00 Eastern / 19.00 Western. Keep in mind that the 6 Days of Milan - led miracolously by Paolo Bettini and Joan Llaneras, after the Italian went injured in a fall on the second day - are still to finish and give winnings. Activity on 6-Day competitions won't restart until the Revolution #21 series are on the way (6 Days of Ghent start in November 18th). On the other side, bets for the Jaamarktcross in Niel will be sent shortly after this news article is published - remember it's the second round of the GvA trophy.

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Head-to-Head bets for the U23 Cyclocross European Championships proved to be critical for the provisional outcome of our Fantasy Betting standings. Denmark's Andro unificated leaderships for both PCMScandinavia and PCM.daily rankings by putting all his money on Joeri Adams's ranking over Jim Aernouts's, a tough competition since they finished one beside the other one! Winnings are already strong now - 10 gamblers went past the 400-point burden - but remember they won't be saved for 2009: we're resetting the ranks as of January 1st!

Remember there's still one bet set for this week to be solved, as the 6 Days of Dortmund are still on the way. For next week we're expecting to see two more 6-Day events, with the velodrome in Milan mainly getting routiers to make some cycling enjoyment in the capital city of Lombardy, as well as the 6 Days of Munich. Also we'll be expecting for the 2nd leg of the Cyclocross World Cup for Elite and U23 riders, with the first CdM muudy route in Pijnacker, perfectly set for the first 08-09 win from World Champion Lars Boom to come. And don't miss the last 2.1 event of 2008 to come on Asian soil - the Tour of Hainan will see the best teams from Far East starting in China. That will happen in November 11th, though.

Stay tuned, and don't forget to put your money in time! We're sure you'll enjoy this the most when next road season starts.

Hello, this is Waghlon the resident comedy writer around these parts. Some people have recently doubted my ability to post reviews, so i decided to write a review about the good Karack 2009 v3 DB. You can read it at the link below. Because ive forgotten how to operate the word editor.

Dont forget to rate it five ;)

http://pcmdaily.com/articles.php?article_id=81

-Waghlon
PCM.Daily admin/database reviewer

The day after edit: Article edited, conclusion slightly changed and math improved.

So here's our new section, in order to sum up what's happened this week around our Fantasy Betting ;)

Three users were in the lead at the end of this first week in the contest. Our famous jerseymaker cunego111, along with Hasselinhoo and chuckie, profited from Damiano Cunego's victory over Giovanni Visconti and Ivan Basso in the last HC race of the 2008 road season (the Japan Cup) to get maximum benefits from their first 100 PCM$ in the game.

Only few hours earlier, Spain's Riccoen took the first official leadership of the game after predicting Andriy Grivko's triumph at the Firenze - Pistoia time trial. The two cyclocross races in Tabor did not change the provisional outcome that far, with fenian_1234 being the only user able to predict the magnificent victory from Niels Albert in the second leg of the UCI series in Czech Republic. Keep in mind that one event which did start this week hasn't finished yet - the Danish duo Morkov-Rasmussen have found strong contenders on the German couple Kluge-Pollack for the win at the 6 Jours of Grenoble.

Next week's bets will get, as it will happen until next year comes, cyclocross and track events covered. Don't miss anything of the action at the Manchester Velodrome, which hosted the 2008 Track World Championships last spring - the UCI Track World Cup will start in Brit soil! Also, there's a couple of really interesting races at the mud, with the magnificent GvA-trophy's opener - the Koppenbergcross in Oudenaarde - and the second leg of the Superprestige, in Veghel-Eerde. Also another race is to be added this week: the European Championships for u23 riders in Liévin, France, to be ridden on Sunday.

Stay tuned, and don't miss any bet to become the best cycling gambler on PCM-earth! Remember you can comment anything on your bets in our special forum for the game.