Once again both Bovada and Pinnacle Sports have their betting odds on the nine remaining contestants on Season 11 of American Idol available online, and there are some interesting changes from last week. Now Bovada puts Phillip Phillips as the favorite over Jessica Sanchez, but just barely (9/4 odds versus 5/2 odds). Pinnacle, however, still has Jessica as their top favorite with 2.75 odds versus 3.25 for Phillip. The best gainer from last week was Colton Dixon who is now squarely the 3rd favorite after Jessica and Phillip with odds of 9/2 and 5.85 after his "Piano Man" performance last week. Hollie Cavanagh, Skylar Laine and Joshua Ledet are now all in the middle of the pack with odds of 13/2 to 9/1 on Bovada and all tied at 10.0 on Pinnacle. Elise Testone now improved to have the lowest odds of the 3 "long shots" of winning with odds of 40 and 42.86 on the two sites. After his unsual Wednesday performance, Heejun Han fell from being a mid pack contestant to being a long shot now with odds of 30 on Bovada but 67.48 on Pinnacle. And now the contestant with the highest odds is DeAndre Brackensick who is a 40:1 long shot on Bovada and an impressive 86:1 long shot on Pinnacle. I have averaged the odds from the two sites together and rebuilt my graph of the changing odds for the final 9 contestants below:
