The winning team is 48-7-2 against the spread. In other words, there have been only nine Super Bowls in which the favorite has won but failed to cover.
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Station Casinos posted its full list of prop bets for Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ passing yards prop has soared from 280½ to 294½ at Caesars Sportsbook while garnering the most over money of any prop.
Station Casinos has posted its full menu of prop bets for Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13 between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams.
There’s no shortage of star power at wide receiver in the Super Bowl, but sharp bettors targeted running backs more than receivers when sportsbooks posted props.
Dealing a -110 price has been standard operating procedure at the South Point sportsbook for every game since it opened 15 years ago.
The bet was made at BetMGM in Pennsylvania. Some sportsbooks in Las Vegas also offer some alternative ways to bet on the coin toss.
Entrants select the winners of 30 prop bets for Sunday’s game. The buy-in is $100, and bettors can have up to three entries.
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale made a $3.46 million bet to win $2.72 million on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers +3½ at DraftKings sportsbook in Colorado.
The $18.8 million won by the books is their second-largest Super Bowl win, behind the $19.7 million (16.5 percent) win on Seattle’s 43-8 upset of Denver in 2014.
A game that set a Super Bowl record for futility fell well short of setting a Nevada record for betting handle. The books won $10.7 million on the game, which was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever, for a 7.4 percent hold, or win percentage.
South Point bettor wins a 400-1 prop on a $250 bet when Greg Zuerlein misses 48-yard field goal with five seconds left in Rams’ 13-3 loss to Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.
The mystery bettor — just call him Biff Tannen Jr. — who beat Las Vegas out of millions of dollars when he won all of his wagers on the World Series reportedly won more than $10 million on at least $7.4 million in money-line bets on Philadelphia, which closed at plus 170.
The Patriots opened as 6½-point favorites over the Eagles on the halftime line of Super Bowl LII and the total opened at 28.
Despite the big bet on the favorite, William Hill dropped the Patriots from 4½-point favorites to 4-point favorites early Sunday afternoon.
