At the risk of a bad beat on kneel-downs at the end of Super Bowl LV, Cris Zeniuk is backing Tom Brady to go over ½ yards rushing, which pays +175 at the Westgate.
Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
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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.
Dealing a -110 price has been standard operating procedure at the South Point sportsbook for every game since it opened 15 years ago.
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale made a $3.46 million bet to win $2.72 million on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers +3½ at DraftKings sportsbook in Colorado.
Westgate sportsbook director John Murray said there’s typically a correlation between how the books fare on the MVP prop and the Super Bowl overall.
It’s the same situation in virtually every Super Bowl. The betting public backs the underdog on the money line and the favorite against the spread.
All the six-figure or higher bets confirmed to have been placed at Las Vegas sportsbooks for Sunday’s game between the Chiefs and Buccaneers.
Tom Brady will be a betting underdog for only the second time in 10 Super Bowl appearances. He helped the Patriots to a 20-17 upset of the Rams as 14-point underdogs in 2002.
The COVID pandemic is expected to reduce the amount of visitors to Las Vegas for Super Bowl LV and will restrict the number of people at casino parties.
A BetMGM bettor in Nevada on Thursday night placed a $2.3 million wager to win $2 million on the Buccaneers +3½ (-115) over the Chiefs in Super Bowl LV.
William Hill released 1,218 ways to bet on the Super Bowl at 2 p.m. Thursday, and the video wall at the Westgate lit up at 7 p.m. sharp with more than 1,000 wagering options.
Football betting proved to be pandemic-proof, as the state’s sportsbooks set all-time records for football betting handle ($1.9 billion) and football win ($127.7 million).
The Chiefs are 3-point favorites over the Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. But betting on a team ATS is only one of 1,218 ways to wager on the game at William Hill.
Jon Rahm is the 7-1 favorite to win the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego. Rory McIlroy is the 9-1 second choice and Xander Schauffele is 12-1.
Kansas City is not only favored to win Super Bowl LV over Tampa Bay, but it’s also the clear 5-1 favorite at Las Vegas sportsbooks to win Super Bowl LVI next year.
Kicking is for losers. That’s a favorite saying of Westgate sportsbook director John Murray, and it was never more true than on the NFL’s conference championship Sunday.