SPORTS BETTING SPOTLIGHT: Week 1
Matt and Kelly are back, along with Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller, to give you their top football picks for the weekend in our first installment of Sports Betting Spotlight.
Sharp bettors lost wagering against popular public underdogs in the NFL wild-card playoffs in the Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers.
Four lifelong friends from Indiana went 25-64-1 against the spread to finish last in the Circa Sports Million NFL handicapping contest and win the $100,000 booby prize.
When two entries in the Circa Million contest tied for first, they expected to win $750,000 each. But a tiebreaker neither entry was aware of gave one entry $1 million and the other half a million.
Henderson resident Bryan Boren went 33-12 against the spread in the first nine weeks of the Westgate SuperContest and finished 61-28-2 to win a total of $321,630.
Professional sports bettor Scott Pritchard (Pritchardspicks.com) analyzes every NFL wild-card playoff game and makes predictions for each matchup.
CBS Sportsline handicapper Bruce Marshall provides NFL notes and trends for wild-card playoff games for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Las Vegas pro sports bettors make their best bets from the NFL wild-card playoff games, with two of them predicting Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills to get eliminated.
Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge winner Jay Kornegay and Bowl Challenge winner Paul Stone give their best bets for the CFP semifinals and NFL wild-card weekend.
The Las Vegas Raiders are searching for their sixth coach since moving to the valley in 2020, and DraftKings Sportsbook and BetOnline have posted odds on the market.
Since making a splash in Nevada in 2025, prediction markets could become a $1 trillion industry as they continue to grow, according to a recent report.