For bookmakers who have been in Las Vegas since the 1960s and ’70s, seeing the NFL change its stance on betting and award a Super Bowl to the city has been surreal.
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.
Billy Walters, widely regarded as the most successful sports bettor of all time, gave his Super Bowl pick on radio row Thursday at Mandalay Bay.
The Arizona bettor placed the parlay at FanDuel in May 2023 composed of five NFL award winners that would have paid off at astronomical odds if they all won.
Super Bowl prop bettors are all over Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce to score the first touchdown and to score a TD at any time during Super Bowl 58.
Circa Sports has posted its entire 14-page packet of props for Super Bowl 58 between the Chiefs and 49ers on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.
One $1 million wager and eight six-figure bets have been placed at sportsbooks on the Super Bowl spread and money line. All nine are on the same side.
Same-game parlays are a relatively new sports betting innovation that will be widely available at Las Vegas sportsbooks for the Super Bowl for the first time.
The unidentified gambler wagered a total of $150,000 on Friday, when he bet $2,000 each on 75 props, and he continues to add to his prop portfolio at South Point.
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale isn’t planning to place any Super Bowl bets despite a conversation with Patrick Mahomes last year.
On the first play of the Broncos-Seahawks Super Bowl in 2014, the ball was snapped over Denver quarterback Peyton Manning’s head and went into the end zone for a safety.
Read all about the history of betting on the Super Bowl, including when Bears lineman William “The Refrigerator” Perry inadvertently ignited the prop bet craze in 1986.
The winning team is 48-7-2 against the spread. In other words, there have been only nine Super Bowls in which the favorite has won but failed to cover.
Gamblers lined up at the Westgate SuperBook to take the first crack at the book’s massive menu of Super Bowl prop bets. Here is some of what they bet.
The Westgate SuperBook posted its massive menu of prop bets Thursday for Super Bowl 58 between the Chiefs and 49ers on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium.
Betting on the Kansas City Chiefs or San Francisco 49ers to cover the point spread is only one of the many ways to wager on Super Bowl 58 at Caesars Sportsbook.
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