BetMGM took a $135,000 wager to win $100,000 on the Eagles on the money line (-135) over the Chiefs, and Caesars took a $110,000 bet on over the total of 49½.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are 1-point favorites over the Cincinnati Bengals in Sunday’s AFC championship rematch after the favorite flipped twice this week.
The NFL conference championships are set, with the Eagles favored over the 49ers in the NFC and the Chiefs favored over the Bengals in the AFC.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened as the favorites at DraftKings to bring back quarterback Tom Brady next season, but action on the Raiders has them favored now.
Atlanta native Ryan LeGates won the Westgate SuperContest with a 60-29-1 ATS record (67.4 percent). He also won the first nine-week in-season contest.
Any list of the worst bad beats ever should include the one dealt to a Circa Survivor contestant who needed the Colts to beat the Texans to win at least $2 million.
Motivation can be hard to quantify. The Packers must win against the Lions to clinch a playoff spot. But that doesn’t make them an automatic bet on an inflated line.
Raiders bettors cashed their tickets as 9½-point underdogs. But most of the money was on San Francisco, which led 34-27 before winning 37-34 in overtime.
In a span of less than 17 hours starting Christmas Eve, the bettor went from the cusp of being the sole Circa Survivor contest winner to being eliminated.
Only 14 entrants remain alive from a field of 6,133 in the elusive quest for the $6,133,000 Circa Survivor contest prize. And they must pick two winners this week.
For every bad beat, there’s a miracle cover, and that’s what Raiders bettors got Sunday in one of the most bizarre endings to a game in NFL history.
Canarelli Middle School math teacher Marshal Taylor turned $25 into $150,000 after winning Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing pro football contest.
Bettors backed the Raiders for the first time in three weeks and had their faith rewarded, as the Raiders won and covered in a 27-20 victory over the Chargers.
The roars from the crowd at the Red Rock Resort sportsbook came one after another late Sunday afternoon as the NFL took fans and bettors on another thrill ride.
Eleven of the 74 remaining entrants in the Circa Survivor contest, which pays $6.1 million to the winner, might be too stressed to properly enjoy their Thanksgiving feast.