The Westgate sports book opened Giancarlo Stanton’s total at 39½, and it had soared to 43½ as of Tuesday — two days before all 30 Major League Baseball teams take the field Thursday for Opening Day.
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.
The Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey competes with handicappers Dave Cokin and Micah Roberts, professional sports bettor Frank Carulli and Westgate sports book manager Randy Blum in a contest based on selecting over-under on regular-season win totals for Major League Baseball teams.
New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton is the 3-1 favorite to lead the majors in home runs this season.
Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens posted a poll Sunday on Twitter asking if he should hedge his bet or let it roll, and as of Monday afternoon, more than 3,400 votes were evenly split.
When Kansas defeated Duke 85-81 in overtime Sunday as a 3½-point underdog, it capped a 16-4 ATS streak for ‘dogs — including 11 outright wins — in the past 20 NCAA Tournament games.
Opening and closing lines, results and point-spread highlights from both games Sunday in the NCAA Tournament.
No. 1 seed Kansas is a 3-point underdog to Duke on Sunday, but betting on the Jayhawks has been hazardous to our health — emotionally, physically and financially — as they’ve dealt their backers back-to-back bad beats.
Opening and closing lines, results and point-spread highlights from both games in the NCAA Tournament.
Underdogs have gone 13-3 against the spread with nine outright wins over the last three days of the NCAA Tournament, going 7-1 ATS on Sunday and 3-1 ATS on both Thursday and Friday.
Opening and closing lines, results and point-spread highlights from all four games in the NCAA Tournament.
The sharp bettors are on two underdogs in Friday’s Sweet 16 games, while the betting public is all over two favorites.
Opening and closing lines, results and point-spread highlights from all four games in the NCAA Tournament.
Handicapper Bruce Marshall likes Kentucky (Even) to win the South Regional, where it would face the winner of UNR-Loyola-Chicago in the final and set up a sizable middle.
Westgate sports book manager Ed Salmons and Boyd Gaming sports book director Bob Scucci reported taking sharp action on Kansas State, a 5½-point underdog to Kentucky after the line climbed as high as 6½.
Review-Journal sports betting columnist Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart and CG Technology sports book vice president Matt Holt preview the Sweet 16 games on Thursday and Friday.