Final scores, opening and closing lines, totals and point-spread highlights from all four NFL Wild Card playoff games.
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.
Jay Kornegay, who won the Review-Journal NFL Challenge with a 50-33-2 ATS record, likes the Seahawks (-1½) over the Eagles and the Titans (+5) over the Patriots.
Westgate sportsbook vice president Jay Kornegay won the contest with a 50-33-2 ATS record (60.2 percent) to edge handicapper Doug Fitz, who finished 49-34-2 (59 percent).
Using the alias Booty Blockers, Isaac Meier went 57-25-3 ATS (69.5 percent) to top a field of 1,875 in the Circa Sports Million Pro Football Contest.
It Ain’t Breezy finished 58-25-2 ATS (69.9 percent) to top a record field of 3,328 entries who paid $1,500 apiece and made five weekly picks ATS.
The victory by Miami (5-11) cost an MGM Resorts bettor two $100,000 five-team money line parlays that would’ve paid a total of $200,000. The gambler won the other four legs.
Final scores, opening and closing lines, totals and point-spread highlights for every NFL Sunday game.
Tuco (52-25-3, 53½ points) trails leader It Ain’t Breezy (55-23-2, 56) by 2½ points entering the final week of the Westgate SuperContest.
Jay Kornegay (46-32-2 ATS, 47 points) leads Hank Goldberg (45-32-3) by a half point and Doug Fitz (45-33-2) by a point with one week left in the contest.
For the sheer amount of pain and suffering it caused in Las Vegas, the Knights’ bitter defeat to the Sharks is No. 1 on our list of the top seven betting bad beats of 2019.
The under is 38-22-1 (63.3 percent) in Christmas Day NBA games since 2005 and has been a profitable proposition in 13 of the last 14 years.
A William Hill bettor at Casino Royale turned $5 into $100,000 when he hit a 15-team NFL parlay over the weekend.
Oakland needs to beat Denver as a 3½-point road underdog and needs the Texans to beat the Titans, Ravens to beat the Steelers and the Colts to beat the Jaguars.
CG Technology took early sharp action on the Vikings, who opened as 4½-point favorites. The line climbed to 5½ before dipping back to 5 and 4½ Monday at Las Vegas books.
The bettor who won Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing pro football contest needed the Dolphins to beat the Bengals, who forced OT after trailing 35-12 in fourth quarter.
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