“There was just a different feel with the game being here from the crowds and the atmosphere in every one of our books,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook director Chuck Esposito said.
Football
The RJ spent the biggest day in the city’s sports history at the biggest sportsbooks in the world. Here’s some of what we saw.
Two Clydesdales made wagers at South Point on Super Bowl 58, which will take place at Allegiant Stadium.
Advertisements for sports betting continue to flood the airwaves, but the NFL said viewers will see only a few such ads during the Super Bowl broadcast.
Circa owner and Detroit Lions superfan Derek Stevens plans to give away two seats on his flight to the Bay Area and two tickets to Sunday’s NFC championship game.
Kenny Davidsen has stood the test of time as a Las Vegas showman, and he also has persevered as one of 30 entrants left in the $9.2 million Circa Survivor contest.
Five days before Saturday’s entry deadline, the odds are against Circa meeting its unprecedented $14 million in guaranteed prize money for its two $1,000-entry NFL handicapping contests.
After Circa Sports paid a total of $3.2 million the last two years to cover overlays, the downtown sportsbook is staring at another seven-figure payout.
Same-game parlays, which have become wildly popular in the U.S. in recent years, became available in Nevada in June with the launch of the new Caesars app.
After raising the stakes for the Circa Million and Circa Survivor contests to $12 million last year, the sportsbook is sweetening the pot to $14 million this season.
U.S. Integrity, an independent sports wagering monitor based in Henderson, works with 150 clients in 36 states to detect and report suspicious betting activity.
For the first time in history, the NFL’s championship game will be staged in a state that offers legalized sports wagering, with a legal sportsbook at the stadium.
The two entries made 20 straight winning selections to split the $6,133,000 prize in the contest, in which contestants pick one straight-up NFL winner each week.
In a span of less than 17 hours starting Christmas Eve, the bettor went from the cusp of being the sole Circa Survivor contest winner to being eliminated.
Canarelli Middle School math teacher Marshal Taylor turned $25 into $150,000 after winning Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing pro football contest.