Moments after the NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed, the South Point sportsbook posted lines on the first 32 games, and sharp bettors pounced.
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The Buffalo Bills look like Super Bowl contenders again after destroying the Dallas Cowboys. Also, Circa Survivor is down to 10 entries alive for the $9.2 million prize.
In a baffling decision that dealt a bad beat to Niners bettors and gave many Rams bettors a backdoor cover, Los Angeles kicked a 38-yard field goal as time expired in its 30-23 loss.
Bettors dealt sportsbooks a loss as they cashed tickets on Fairleigh Dickinson at up to 25-1 on the money line, including five-figure payouts at two casinos.
Two days after leaving Las Vegas with a wheelbarrow of cash, Mattress Mack began giving back $72.6 million in winnings from his World Series wagers on the Astros.
The first day of the NCAA Tournament was a blessed one for Las Vegas sportsbooks, which won big when No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s knocked off No. 2 Kentucky.
The Los Angeles Lakers (27-31), the +350 second choice to win the NBA title in the preseason, soared to 50-1 on Wednesday, their longest odds of the season.
Caesars Sportsbook and BetMGM each reported multimillion-dollar losses, and the South Point, Station Casinos and Westgate SuperBook also suffered their worst losing day of the season.
Kansas City is a 3-point home favorite over Buffalo in the AFC title game and Green Bay is -4 over Tampa Bay in the NFC championship game at Lambeau Field.
Washington’s Ron Rivera would be the worst result for Circa, which took a notable bet on him at 40-1 to win Coach of the Year and had him higher than 100-1 at one point.
Fresh off their biggest August ever, sportsbooks followed that up with a huge betting handle — or amount of money wagered — on Week 1 of the NFL season.
D.J. Reed returned a fumble of a botched lateral for a TD with no time remaining to give the 49ers a 36-26 win over Arizona, a 9½-point underdog at multiple sportsbooks.
The Ducks — fresh off their Pac-12 conference tournament title run at T-Mobile Arena — quickly moved to 1-point favorites Sunday night over No. 5 seed Wisconsin after opening as 1½-point underdogs.
Arctic blast or not, professional sports bettors Rufus Peabody and Ron Boyles lean to the over in the rematch of New England’s 43-40 regular-season win over Kansas City.
Tiger Woods topped Phil Mickelson in each of the first two rounds of The Players Championship, where they played in the same group together in May, and has an 18-15-4 edge over Lefty when playing in the same group.