NBA home teams trailing a series 2-0 are 15-3 against the spread in the first quarter and first half of Game 3 this postseason and 17-3 ATS going back to the 2016 NBA Finals.
Betting
Game 3 of the NBA Finals will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Cleveland.
Professional poker player Matt Affleck remains in the hunt for his first career WSOP bracelet and enters Day 3 of the $565 “Colossus” tournament in 10th place with 41 players remaining.
Las Vegas resident Doug Polk won the World Series of Poker’s $111,111 buy-in High Roller for One Drop event late Monday at the Rio Convention Center, outlasting many of the biggest names in poker to claim the $3.69 million first prize.
Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier held the chip lead the past two days in the World Series of Poker’s $111,111 buy-in High Roller for One Drop No-limit Hold’em tournament and was guaranteed his first six-figure payout since 2013.
NFL players are prohibited from betting on NFL games and making promotional appearances at casinos, but are allowed to wager on other team sports, per the league’s gambling policy, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed in an e-mail to the Review-Journal.
Popular poker pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier of France owns a sizable lead entering the final table of the $111,111 High Roller for One Drop No-limit Hold ’em event with $3.69 million for first place.
Come August, Encore guests won’t need to trudge to Wynn Las Vegas to make an in-person sports wager once.
Bettors at the Mirage sports book placed two six-figure money-line wagers on the Cavaliers to beat the Warriors on Sunday in Game 2 of the NBA Finals.
While the entry fee for the prestigious Westgate SuperContest will remain $1,500 and the top 50 finishers will be paid, the Westgate is adding a winner-take-all contest titled SuperContest Gold that has a $5,000 entry fee.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC 212 on Saturday at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, with picks from the Review-Journal’s Adam Hill and Heidi Fang.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred seems to be a progressive leader who is open to the expansion of sports gambling. But there is one problem in this particular case.
The team of Daniel Negreanu, Eric Wasserson, David Benyamine and Mark Gregorich owns the chip lead with six teams remaining in the $10,000 Tag Team event.
Jeff Gross, a former midfielder at South Carolina, has almost $3 million in career live tournament earnings and was tabbed by many observers as a potential breakout performer at this year’s World Series of Poker.
Today the trend is for racetracks to cluster their stakes in a festival-style program. Thus, the Met Mile will be among nine graded stakes on the Belmont Stakes card June 10.
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