Matt Amodio fell almost $1 million shy of Las Vegas resident James Holzhauer in winnings on the show when his 38-game win streak came to an end Monday.
Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
Email: tdewey@reviewjournal.com
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Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
After the Crimson Tide suffered its first loss in two years Saturday at Texas A&M, Georgia became the top choice to win the national title.
Fresh off the Bills’ 38-20 win over the Chiefs, Buffalo supplanted Kansas City as the 5-1 co-Super Bowl favorites with Tampa Bay at multiple books.
Baltimore is a consensus 7½-point home favorite over Indianapolis at Las Vegas sportsbooks. The consensus total is 46½.
Caesars Sportsbook is on the hook for $1 million-plus if the Seattle Kraken win the Stanley Cup, and BetMGM has a mid-six figure liability on the NHL expansion team.
Favorites were 9-5 ATS in Week 5 entering “Sunday Night Football.” Bettors won big as the Packers, Buccaneers, Titans, Cowboys and Cardinals all covered the spread.
The Raiders, 5½-point favorites over the Chicago Bears at Allegiant Stadium, are among the ticket and money leaders at Las Vegas sportsbooks.
Aasi.com handicapper Joe D’Amico analyzes every Sunday and Monday NFL game and gives final scores for each.
Sportsline.com handicapper Micah Roberts leads the contest with a 15-5 ATS record, and Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay is second at 13-6-1 ATS.
Kansas City opened as a 4-point home favorite, but action on Buffalo has driven the line to 2½. The Chiefs were -3 in the AFC title game when they beat the Bills 38-24.
The Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder heavyweight title fight Saturday at T-Mobile Arena shapes up as a matchup of sharp bettors vs. the betting public at Las Vegas sportsbooks.
The Raiders, coming off their first loss, to the Los Angeles Chargers on “Monday Night Football,” are 5½-point favorites over the Chicago Bears. The total is 44½.
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale bet $3.35 million in June to win $35.6 million on the Astros to win the World Series.
Review-Journal sports betting reporters Jim Barnes and Todd Dewey post their best college football and NFL bets for Week 5.
BetMGM lost six figures on San Francisco, which won a franchise-record 107 games to edge the Los Angeles Dodgers (106-56) by one game to win the NL West. The Giants were 60-1 in April.