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Incredible
#KyDerby
hit from
@MGMRaceSports
, per
@scottatmirage
: Bettor made two identical superfecta wagers, $4 apiece, and he nailed it. After taxes, he collected ~ $80K. “He must’ve been a saint in a previous life. He literally turned $8 into $80K. This is a miracle.”
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: Unbelievable ending to
#FinalFour
. Reaction
@SuperBookSports
. Big roar on UCLA bucket. Stunned roar on Gonzaga buzzer beater. Wow.
@Covers
Over 25 years
@VegasInsider
has reinvented itself as a sports betting info destination. The latest change is the hiring of
@PatrickE_Vegas
.
Read more about how VI balances out its infotainment approach:
Per
@PointsBetUSA
, opening lines on
#CFB
Power 5 conference championship games:
Pac 12
Utah -6.5 vs. Oregon
Big 12
Oklahoma -7.5 vs. Baylor
SEC
LSU -5.5 vs. Georgia
ACC
Clemson -21.5 vs. Virginia
Big Ten
Ohio State -12.5 vs. Wisconsin
@Covers
Per
@WilliamHillUS
Nick Bogdanovich,
#SuperBowl
bettor just put $1.5 million on Rams moneyline, to win $1.8 million. So total payout of $3.3 million if Rams win outright vs. Patriots.
@Covers
Ok here we go!! Per
@MGMRaceSports
@scottatmirage
:
A very big house player put $500K on Patriots moneyline +150, which would win $750K (total payout $1.25 million). Bettor also put $500K on Over 57 in Rams-Saints. That’s largest bet MGM books have ever taken on a total.
@Covers
Interesting sale on
@PropSwap
today: Bettor had $100 10-team NFL moneyline parlay. First 9 in, needs Raiders to win $6,876. Bettor sells for $2,100, meaning Raiders +237 ML odds. For seller to instead hedge, "He would've had to bet $5,000 -- cash which he doesn't have."
@Covers
Per
@WynnBET
, a customer is in an enviable spot heading into LOU-OLEMISS tonight. Bettor placed a $10, 14-team
#CFB
parlay, all on Unders for Week Zero/Week 1 games.
The first 13 games are in. Just needs Under 75.5 in Louisville-Mississippi game. To win just shy of $80K.
Here we go. Large player at MGM books blasted Texas in
#AlamoBowl
vs. Utah:
$235K over two bets Texas +7
$245K over two bets Texas first half +4
$245K over two bets first half Over 27.5
$100K Texas moneyline to win $167.5K
$100K Texas first-half moneyline, to win $170K
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: It’s still 16 hours until opening tip of
#MarchMadness
, and
@southpointlv
sportsbook is already slammed. This place will be nuts Thursday-Friday!
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: Spent a chunk of the afternoon at
@MandalayBay
sportsbook with my son, who heads back to college this week. He had a little fun today and made a few bucks!
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: Well, this is one of the largest tickets I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. From a smart guy/larger bettor who pops into Vegas/
@MandalayBay
sportsbook pretty much every football weekend. Wow!
#MajorWager
@Covers
Per MGM books'
@scottatmirage
, a sharp group that "killed it last week, didn't lose a game, had one push," is on:
Rams pick
Patriots -9.5
Seahawks -6
Bucs -4.
"And they were on Ravens -14.5 Thursday."
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: A group of Patriots fans gets to celebrate early with that TD, at The Book at
@TheLINQ
. They’re all from Iowa, so I asked, why Patriots? “They make money. We’re in the Patriots Investment Club.”
@Covers
“Frankly, I think they’ve got the wrong side favored. That’s one of the reasons why I’m putting my money on Kansas City.”
— Billy Walters, highly regarded sports bettor, during his
#SuperBowl
#RadioRow
one-on-one interview with
@VegasInsider
/
@ActionNetworkHQ
1/ A lot of hullaballoo today about the
#SuperBowl
streaker purportedly making a $50K bet at +750 that there would be a streaker during the game.
Per a global-market sportsbook spokesperson:
"No book in their right mind would take $50K limits on that. Nowhere close."
One bettor at MGM books is having a big day. Hit a $110K Penn State -17 first half bet (made Thursday). And just cashed two $50K 2-teamers: Georgia -25.5/Ohio State -20.5, and Penn State -17 first half/Ohio State -20.5. Wins $130K on each parlay. Total payday: $360K.
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: The four chips in front here represent
@ScottABerry1
’s $400 bet that the Blues would win the
#StanleyCup
. The monster stacks behind are the $100K he won on those 250/1 odds.
@Covers
From Vegas cook left jobless by the pandemic to
@CircaSports
#CircaSportsMillion
winner. “Just luck,” says Dakota Reed. “I didn’t really look at the (standings) until the last three weeks.”
Guess who's back? Per
@MGMRaceSports
@scottatmirage
, Duffel Bag Bettor
#DBB
just dropped in a little while ago and plopped $55K on Illinois -17 vs. Akron, to win $50K. Game is among Saturday's first kickoffs, noon ET/9 a.m. PT. Here we go!
@Covers
With Tiger Woods winning
#TheMasters
,
@WilliamHillUS
pays out its largest liability ever on a golf bet, $1.19 million on an $85K wager at 14/1 odds. Per the understated Nick Bogdanovich: "There's nothing much to say. Just pay the man, that's all."
@Covers
.
@WilliamHillUS
is facing the largest liability for a golf wager in their history after a bettor in Nevada wagered $85,000 on Tiger Woods to win
#TheMasters
.
Woods was listed at 14/1 and the ticket-holder would cash a net win of $1,190,000 if 🐯 wins.
Scenes from Sin City: A packed house at
@southpointlv
sportsbook, including an Eagles fan taking a victory lap, reacts after Bears’ last-second field-goal attempt goes wanting. Mostly a Bears crowd here, in disbelief. A little NSFW at the end.
@Covers
What’s the maximum number of points by which your team can be trailing, and you’re still allowed to pop up and give a first-down signal after you get tackled?
Let me preface this with: This is 2020, so YMMV. But:
As others have noted, there are reports of a vote coming Friday on Big Ten football. Per a source in Nebraska with knowledge of events, vote is expected to pass to start season Oct. 10. We'll see what happens.
@Covers
So far, three of the largest
#SuperBowl
bets reported are on 49ers moneyline, and all three are at
@CaesarsSports
:
* $1 million 49ers -120 (last week)
* $500,000 49ers -125 (also last week; H/T
@BFawkes22
)
* $136,000 49ers -130 (this morning)
"We need Houston pretty badly. It's very lopsided on Browns -2, and money is still coming in on -2.5. And there's tons of action on Browns moneyline." –
@BetMGM
's Seamus Magee (
@SRM95
)
Updated
@VegasInsider
#NFL
#SuperWildCardWeekend
Odds Report:
What a day had by this
@WilliamHillUS
bettor, on the mobile app in New Jersey. After winning $360K on Steelers and $450K on Chargers, he bets $440K on Ravens +3 to win another $400K. Total winnings: $1.21 million.
#MajorWager
@Covers
FINAL UPDATE: Large casino player wins $300K on Packers spread bets. Loses $100K on Packers 2H moneyline and $100K on 2H Under 21.5. So for game, up $300K. And for
#NFLDivisionalRound
Weekend, bettor is up $1.057.5 million at MGM books. Crazy.
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: I watched
@atomic_lock
make this bet this afternoon. UMBC Moneyline at +2000. He's got a historic upset ticket in his hands! I'll be talking to him in a few minutes.
@Covers
BREAKING: Helluva weekend for
#WorkdayCharityOpen
bettor, per
@BetRivers
Illinois. Won $200K on Morikawa 50/1 to lead after Round 1, $210K Morikawa +750 top-5 finish, and $280K Morikawa 28/1 to win. $690K total. Other Morikawa bets put bettor over $1 million for weekend.
@Covers
👀 MAJOR MONEY MOVER 👀
A $4,000 bet won $204,000 on Collin Morikawa (+5000) to Lead
#WorkdayCharityOpen
after Round 1 and that's only just the beginning.
Scenes from Sin City: Son and I, over a couple of cold ones at
@TheMirageLV
sportsbook, taking in some
#NewYears2019
bowl games before he heads back to college tomorrow.
#BestLife
Per
@WynnBET
, a NJ customer bet $1,000 on a two-leg parlay of Jagurs moneyline (+700) and LAC-LVR being tied at the end of regulation. Odds of 115/1.
Cashes for a $115K win.
OK, how about some
#MarchMadness
leftovers from the crazy first weekend? First, from a guy I run into on occasion when he visits Vegas, a huge moneyline parlay bet on three huge favorites Saturday. It delivered.
@Covers
Per
@PropSwap
: "We just got the biggest NHL ticket we’ve seen all year. Islanders to win the Metro Division. They haven’t won it since 1988, and are only 1 game back. Seller got them at 100/1, on Nov. 1." $400 ticket pays $40K; seller asking $13.4K.
@Covers
I took Vikings +225 when they got the ball down 17-0. Just for the hell of it. Within minutes of that, figured it was beyond gone. Now? Apparently
@Chilis
awaits tonight.
#ChilisMoney
"There wasn’t a bookmaker dead or alive that I didn’t beat. I won a lot of money, and I paid my taxes." – Lem Banker
Banker passed away early Friday at age 93 (h/t
@sports8
). A man of many stories, he shared several with me in this 2014
@Covers
piece:
2020 will not stop a tradition unlike any other: my annual adaptation of the timeless classic Christmas poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” — with a sports betting twist.
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you and yours, from
@Covers
!
"The gaming area will include a two-level casino and multi-level, stadium-style race and sportsbook."
I am ready for that sportsbook in the newly announced Circa downtown resort-casino. Hoping
@DerekJStevens
gives
@Covers
plenty o' access!
I ran into Nostradamus just now at
@Cosmopolitan_LV
sportsbook. In March, he bets proposition of an Astros-Nationals World Series. $350 at 30/1. Hello $10,500. Bam.
@Covers
"It was spectacular, it was glorious, and we don't need new lungs. We're deciding between a new hotel tower or an additional two pools at
@stadiumswim
."
–
@CircaSports
'
@JeffreyBenson12
, a little tongue-in-cheek, after Chiefs clear up game and more so futures Ravens liability.
Per
@PropSwap
, the Texas Tech $1,500 wager at 200/1 odds to win the championship, a ticket that would pay out $300,000, just got a confirmed bid of $57,500. Current ticket holder was initially seeking $65K. That person is now in an even more interesting spot.
@Covers
BREAKING:
@SuperBookUSA
announces its second location, expanding to soon-to-open Colorado sports betting market. SuperBook will partner with Jacobs Entertainment & open new sports book at The Lodge Casino in Black Hawk. Offering retail and mobile.
@Covers
"Washington is one that bettors are interested in. We opened 60/1 and are now 35/1. They're interested in the Huskies much more than Oregon in the Pac-10." –
@CaesarsSports
lead
#CFB
trader Joey Feazel
Much more in
@VegasInsider
#CFP
Futures Odds Report:
This is such sad news to digest.
@Coach_Leach
is epic. From football to, better still, Halloween candy and wedding preparation, he's a Renaissance man and a massive breath of fresh air, always. Prayers up for
#MikeLeach
and family.
My dad, 21 years in the Army post-WWII, and my grandfather on my mom's side, who served in WWI. Hopefully clinking drinks together today in the great upstairs.
#VeteransDay
Scenes from Sin City: The dealers at
@theDlasvegas
are geared up and ready to go as
#Vegas
prepares for the midnight reopening on Fremont Street
@FSELV
.
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: So a guy who just flew into town this morning says he bets on everything. Not kidding. During flight, he bet fellow passenger Over/Under of what time plane would get to gate. He took Under. Won $1,000 before he even deplaned!
@Covers
This should be done and apparently is. Let’s hope so. 30 minutes ago, Goodell could’ve issued a statement from the NFL simply stating:
“Tonight’s game is postponed. We will reevaluate Tuesday morning. Please keep your thoughts and prayers with Damar Hamlin and his family.”
Scenes from (far from) Sin City: How do you get over losing $506K -- spread over 2 bets ($396K/$110K) -- on Browns +3.5 last Sunday night? Same bettor puts $275K on Eagles +4
@WilliamHillUS
sportsbook
@TheOceanAC
last night. Wins $250K to take off a little of the sting.
@Covers
"Two-thirds of spread tickets are on the Chiefs. But our bigger tickets and most importantly our sharper players have been on San Francisco."
–
@SuperBookSports
'
@vegasmurray
, on moving 49ers from -2 to -2.5.
Updated
@VegasInsider
#SuperBowl
Odds Report:
It's still 75 minutes until Las Vegas gets 2020 vision. I ain't gonna make it that long. So, Happy New Year! Thank you to all at
@Covers
for a great 2019, and to all those who take the time to follow/view/read my work and engage on the Twitter machine. Much appreciated. Cheers!
How about this six-team parlay hitting last night at
@FDSBMeadowlands
, a $4,999 wager that paid out a total of nearly $526K:
Mets -1.5 runline +130
Yanks moneyline +148
Warriors ML +240
Pirates ML +138
Angels ML -180
Red Sox ML -215
@Covers
Per
@MGMRaceSports
@scottatmirage
, bettor who put down 6 figures on Cowboys first half/second half jumps all over Chargers for Sunday game at Ravens. $100K on Chargers +2.5 (even); $100K +0.5 first half; $100K +130 moneyline; $65K +120 first-half moneyline. $365K total.
@Covers
Scenes from Sin City: Full house at
@SuperBookNV
reacts to Arkansas knocking out No. 1 seed Kansas. There won’t be a repeat champion. And a
@SuperBookSports
patron is shirtless.
You see it all in
#MarchMadness
.
Gotta love golf betting. I went 0-for-4 at Colonial, 0-for-5 at RBC, then 1-for-4 this week. And that 1, with DJ winning today, nearly doubles what I’ve bet the last three weekends. Bang!
Oh no way. A totally meaningless 3-pointer by the Raptors, except that it wasn't meaningless. Total closed 221.5. Celtics were up 122-97. Win 122-100. And the Over hits.