Matt Amodio fell almost $1 million shy of Las Vegas resident James Holzhauer in winnings on the show when his 38-game win streak came to an end Monday.
Todd Dewey
Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
After the Crimson Tide suffered its first loss in two years Saturday at Texas A&M, Georgia became the top choice to win the national title.
Fresh off the Bills’ 38-20 win over the Chiefs, Buffalo supplanted Kansas City as the 5-1 co-Super Bowl favorites with Tampa Bay at multiple books.
Baltimore is a consensus 7½-point home favorite over Indianapolis at Las Vegas sportsbooks. The consensus total is 46½.
Caesars Sportsbook is on the hook for $1 million-plus if the Seattle Kraken win the Stanley Cup, and BetMGM has a mid-six figure liability on the NHL expansion team.