Westgate sports book vice president Jay Kornegay said Monday he’s never had a game-fixing issue involving a proposition bet and that safeguards such as lower betting limits are in place.
Football
The drive sent New England to the Super Bowl for the third straight year and fourth time in five years and gave William Hill sports book director Nick Bogdanovich a case of Pats’ fatigue.
New England opened as a 1-point underdog to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII, but early action on the Patriots quickly made them 1½-point to 2½-point favorites Sunday night at Las Vegas sports books.
Whether it’s Rams-Chiefs, Chiefs-Saints, Saints-Patriots or Patriots-Rams, Las Vegas bookmakers are expecting plenty of points and Nevada’s fourth straight record Super Bowl betting handle.
Arctic blast or not, professional sports bettors Rufus Peabody and Ron Boyles lean to the over in the rematch of New England’s 43-40 regular-season win over Kansas City.
The Westgate SuperContest, the world’s most prestigious NFL handicapping contest, drew a record number of entries (3,123) for the eighth consecutive year in 2018.
Las Vegas oddsmakers expect NFL Championship Sunday to feature a pair of close shootouts. Both games are rematches from the regular season that each produced at least 80 points.
In the divisional round of the 2016 playoffs, 15 of the 16 possible teaser options hit, with three games cashing all-way teasers on each side, over and under.
Two weeks after the Westgate was in position to win $100,000 if Chicago won the Super Bowl, it stood to lose $200,000 on the Bears winning it all, before Cody Parkey missed a 43-yard field goal try that hit the upright and crossbar with 10 seconds left.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in wagers changed hands at Las Vegas sports books when Chicago kicker Cody Parkey’s 43-yard field goal try hit the left upright and then the crossbar with 10 seconds left.
Sharp bettors are on the Colts over the Texans on Saturday in the opener of the NFL’s wild-card weekend. Houston opened as a 2½-point home favorite, but the line has been bet to 1.
California resident Eric Kahane went 5-0 against the spread Sunday to win the $1.4 million first-place prize in the Westgate SuperContest with a 59-25-1 record (70.2 percent).
An MGM Resorts sports book bettor has a total of $755,000 to win $311,000 riding on Georgia to top Texas in the Sugar Bowl to cash two money-line parlays.
Minnesota, which simply needed to beat Chicago at home to make the playoffs, closed as a 5½-point favorite but played dead in a 24-10 loss.
Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has won all 10 of his career starts against the Titans, including a 38-10 home victory Nov. 18, and has led the Colts to wins in eight of their past nine games.
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