The Tampa Bay Buccaneers closed as -110 co-favorites with the New England Patriots at the Westgate sportsbook to be Tom Brady’s 2020 team.
Todd Dewey
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.
Holzhauer, a Las Vegas pro sports bettor, was captain of the team “All In For Alex,” named in honor of “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who is battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
The only sporting events on Friday’s betting card were a pair of Mexican soccer matches and the Westgate sportsbook posted props on both of them.
Nevada sportsbooks won $36.5 million on basketball in March 2019 from $498.7 million in bets, with an estimated $349 million from the NCAA Tournament.
Las Vegas bookmakers expect the decision to ban fans from the NCAA Tournament because of concerns over the coronavirus to have a small impact on the game’s lines.
Oregon is the +175 favorite to win the Pac-12 conference tournament at T-Mobile Arena. But eight teams appear capable of claiming the title, with odds of 15-1 or less.
Nevada’s 2019 horse racing handle of $245 million was the lowest since the state’s Gaming Control Board started tracking numbers in 1988.
After the Westgate sportsbook took the largest wager to date on the Tom Brady prop, it moved the Chargers to the +350 second choice behind the Patriots.
A handful of billionaires were among the guests at the ultraexclusive event on the Strip who competed for the title of “World’s Greatest Blackjack Player.”
Filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket figures to be more maddening than ever this year with no dominant college basketball team to be found.
William Hill has posted odds at its Nevada sportsbooks on which team quarterback Tom Brady will take his first snap with in Week 1 of the 2020 NFL regular season.
After the Knights acquired goaltender Robin Lehner in a trade deadline deal with the Blackhawks, the Westgate made them the sole +450 favorites to win the Stanley Cup.
An MGM Resorts bettor won $199,500 on Tyson Fury when the Briton beat Deontay Wilder, but MGM Resorts still enjoyed one of its biggest boxing wins of the past decade.
Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) is a -130 favorite over Fury (+110; 29-0-1, 20 KOs), who opened as a -130 favorite at the Westgate in Saturday’s fight at the MGM Grand Garden.
Deontay Wilder is a -130 favorite over Tyson Fury (+110) in Saturday’s heavyweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden. A survey of opinions from oddsmakers and handicappers.