A Caesars Sportsbook bettor in Nevada had to sweat out several college basketball games, including Creighton-Oregon in double overtime, to cash in.
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For the first time since seeding began in 1979, no team seeded better than No. 4 has made the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. No. 4 UConn is the highest remaining seed.
Refresh often for minute-to-minute updates on all of Sunday’s NCAA Tournament action — live line movement, props, halftime bets and more.
Bettors bank on Syracuse’s Buddy Boeheim to help No. 11 Orange cover as 6½-point underdogs to No. 2 Houston at Hinkle Fieldhouse, site of the movie “Hoosiers.”
Paul Stone leads the contest after going 8-4 ATS in the first round and hitting his best bet. Doug Fitz is in second place and Kelly Stewart third.
Sportsbooks won $52.4 million in January from a betting handle of $646.5 million, according to figures released Thursday by the state’s Gaming Control Board.
A frenzy of late scoring between the Knicks and Blazers and an awful defensive play from the Packers crushed total bettors Sunday.
Bets on Wednesday’s NBA, WNBA and MLB games that were called off to protest the shooting of a Black man by police will be refunded at most Las Vegas sportsbooks.
For the sheer amount of pain and suffering it caused in Las Vegas, the Knights’ bitter defeat to the Sharks is No. 1 on our list of the top seven betting bad beats of 2019.
The NCAA will start accepting bids Monday on nearly two dozen sports championships. This is the first year that Las Vegas is eligible to bid after the governing body for college sports indefinitely suspended a ban last year that prevented events from being hosted in states that accept wagers on single games.
In the Western Conference, the Houston Rockets were listed as plus 240 series underdogs at the Westgate sportsbook to the Warriors (-300) before Friday night’s Game 6 between Golden State and the Clippers.
Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens posted a poll Sunday on Twitter asking if he should hedge his bet or let it roll, and as of Monday afternoon, more than 3,400 votes were evenly split.
Will the Los Angeles Lakers make the 2017-18 NBA playoffs? Yes is the plus-500 underdog and no is the minus-700 favorite.
We have been waiting nearly a year for the inevitable rematch of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors. And so we must wait a few more days to get part three of this trilogy.
The state’s sports books won a record $41.275 million on basketball in March, a hold of 9.61 percent from a record handle of $429.5 million.
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