For Saturdays semi-final, William Hill was offering the miserly odds of 4/5 on Wales winning and 11/10 on France.
Ladbrokes were yesterday offering 11/8 odds on a Wales versus New Zealand final and 9/2 on Wales versus Australia.
Ladbrokes Alex Donohue said: Were cheering on Australia in a big way for the tournament. New Zealand would be an acceptable result but a Wales win would leave us in despair.
Sky Bet was offering 4/6 odds for Wales and 6/5 for France to prevail on Saturday, a distinct shift from 24 hours earlier when France were at evens and Wales the narrow 5/6 favourites.
Bookmaker Stan James said the semi final lineups have led to a shake-up in Rugby World Cup betting with StanJames.com.
The big Rugby World Cup betting story so far is that New Zealand can be backed now at a bigger price than they were available pre-tournament, he said.
New Zealand were on offer at 1/2 with StanJames.com before the Rugby World Cup began, with New Zealand having looked the proverbial good thing, but despite them having reached the Rugby World Cup semi-finals the wheels have at times looked like they might be coming off their train.
New Zealand can now be backed at odds of 8/13 to win the Rugby World Cup.
He added: Wales have been a revelation in this Rugby World Cup, and are now 11/2 chances to win the Rugby World Cup outright having been a massive 80/1 at one stage during the summer.
Here at Stanjames.com we make Wales slight favourites to beat France (13/2 to win the Rugby World Cup) in their semi-final clash on Saturday.
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