Slight Shift in American Idol Winning Odds after Top 8 Performances


I noticed there was a slight change in the on-line betting odds at bodog.com after last night performance episode. It looks like Scotty McCreery is narrowly back in front of Lauren Alaina as a 9/4 favorite to her 5/2 odds. Remember again that Pia Toscano was a 2/1 favorite going into her elimination last week. The odds for James Durbin winning are down to 3/1 (he was 4/1 last week), and now both Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart are tied with 15/2 odds. Jacob Lusk's odds have actually improved from 14/1 to 12/1 and now Paul McDonald and Stefano Langone are tied as long shots at 18/1. In reality anybody could be going home tonight, so we will have to wait and see.
Last week nobody on the Zap2It exit poll had correctly picked Pia to be eliminated and this week their overwhelming favorite to leave is Paul with 21 of 28 "experts" picking him to leave. The second most popular picked to leave surprisingly is Casey with 3 picks, followed by Stefano with 2 folks. One person also picked Jacob and one other person picked Lauren (which I seriously doubt.) I noticed that none of them picked Haley which I bet they all think is safe because she is female.