Gambling

Whether you call it the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship, March Madness, Bracketology, or the World’s Best Office Pool, every year office work grinds to a halt as millions of people sweat over their 63 game selections as they fill out their basketball brackets – hoping ultimately to win their local office pool.

How tough is it to pick the perfect tournament bracket? Try 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1 (nine quintillion, if you lost track of the number of commas in that number).

Officially, the NCAA does not support using the grid in any form of gambling, and frowns upon the amount of effort thrown at filling out the brackets for monetary gain.

Got that? Good. Now that THAT is out of the way, let’s talk about the 10 BEST WAYS TO FILL OUT YOUR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKET SO YOU CAN WIN YOUR OFFICE POOL.

(Okay, we may cover more than 10 rules for you to follow while filling out your bracket, but who’s counting?)

With the Academy Awards this weekend, Dancing with the Stars gearing up in a few weeks, American Idol still whittling away singers, the NCAA Basketball Tournament coming up in March, now is a good time to take a look at who the oddsmakers are saying is going to win.

The bookies at BETUS have the following for Dancing:

Steve Wozniak – 6000:1
Belinda Carlisle – 1000:1
Denise Richards – 750:1
Shawn Johnson – 250:1

And while some of these singers may be gone in a few weeks before the competition even gets rolling, they currently show American Idol favorites to be:

Danny Gokey – 350:1
Adam Lambert – 450:1
Matt Giraud – 450:1
Anoop Desai – 1000:1