Westgate vice president of risk Jeff Sherman said he’d prefer to see the Clippers beat the Nuggets to set up a marquee Western Conference Finals matchup with the Lakers.
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.
The downtown Las Vegas sportsbook was slammed with sign-ups the last two weeks and ended up with 4,538 $1,000 entries — 3,148 in the Million and 1,390 in Survivor.
All of the bets were placed at BetMGM books, most notably The Mirage and Bellagio, except for a $275,000 wager on the Patriots -7 that was placed at William Hill.
A BetMGM bettor turned $10 into $152,341.28 after hitting an 11-team multi-sport parlay with nine college football picks, an NBA play and a baseball play.
Sharp money poured in on the Tennessee Titans when Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller suffered a potential season-ending ankle injury Sept. 8.