Patrick Mahomes improved to 11-1-1 against the spread as an underdog to help bettors beat sportsbooks on the spread and money line on the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
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Matt Ste. Marie, a married father of two from Minnesota, won the Circa Sports Million with some help from the Buffalo Bills in the final game of the NFL regular season.
For the second time in four weeks, sportsbooks posted a line on a Vikings game that seemed off to some bettors. But, once again, oddsmakers were spot on.
The NFL kicked off the first weekend of the season in style with a tie, four outright upsets, five games decided in the final minute and countless missed kicks.
Not even halfway through the 20-week Circa Survivor NFL contest, 83 percent of the field has been eliminated in the quest for the $6 million prize.
Leave it to a team from Las Vegas to beat the odds and pull off the biggest upset of the NFL season.
Underdogs were 7-4-1 ATS on Sunday with outright upsets by the Titans, Browns, Bills, Redskins and Cowboys.
ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt was interviewed for the keynote chat on the future of legalized, regulated sports betting in the U.S. on Wednesday at the Global Gaming Expo at the Sands and Expo Convention Center.
We should have majored in math or economics. If we had, this column might have been about us winning half a million dollars in the Westgate SuperContest Gold or $168,000 as the back-to-back winner of the Golden Nugget’s Friday Football Showdown.
Philadelphia’s odds to win Super Bowl LII were moved from 4-1 to 10-1 in the wake of quarterback Carson Wentz’s knee injury.
