With Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament approaching, there are several teams with double- and triple-digit odds that could be worth a wager to win it all.
Betting
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale bet $1 million to win $7.5 million at Caesars Sportsbook on Houston (+750) to win the NCAA Tournament.
The Oakland Athletics finished with baseball’s worst record last year at 50-112 and have the lowest regular-season win total at the Westgate SuperBook at 56½.
Billy Walters, widely regarded as the most successful sports bettor of all time, gave his Super Bowl pick on radio row Thursday at Mandalay Bay.
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.
And they’re off. The first $1 million bet on the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas was placed Tuesday by a Caesars Sportsbook bettor.
A bettor at the Westgate SuperBook turned $100 into $125,730.49 on Sunday after hitting an 11-team multi-sport parlay.
The battle to play in Las Vegas in Super Bowl 58 is down to four teams, with Baltimore and San Francisco early favorites in the NFL conference title games.
Circa Sports made Alabama and Georgia the 5-1 co-favorites to win the College Football Playoff national title next year, when the playoff expands to 12 teams.
Only two entries from a field of 6,324 were still in the running for the $150,000 prize entering the final day of Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing contest.
When the Circa Survivor field was whittled to 13, 12 of them agreed to a partial chop of the $9.2 million pot. But one high-stakes gambler stood in the way.
San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy is the favorite to win NFL MVP, which means sportsbooks may need to pay out millions on longshot wagers on the award.
At least one big bettor believes a recent “Monday Night Football” trend will continue based on the large wager they placed on the Eagles-Seahawks game.
Caesars Sportsbook slashed the Dodgers’ odds to win the World Series from 8-1 to the +550 favorites after they agreed to a contract with Shohei Ohtani.
The point spread for the Raiders-Chargers game swung 6½ points after Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert fractured a finger, and the total plummeted nine points.
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