A bettor at the Westgate SuperBook turned $100 into $125,730.49 on Sunday after hitting an 11-team multi-sport parlay.
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.
The battle to play in Las Vegas in Super Bowl 58 is down to four teams, with Baltimore and San Francisco early favorites in the NFL conference title games.
Former President Donald Trump captured a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses this week in his bid to reclaim the White House in 2024.
Sharp bettors backed the Lions over the Buccaneers in Sunday’s divisional round game. Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay also likes a side in that game.
The Bills opened as slight favorites over the Chiefs in Sunday’s divisional round matchup in what will be the first road playoff game of Patrick Mahomes’ career.
Former Northeastern University football teammates James Mitchell and Ryan Przydzial won a $100,000 booby prize for placing last in the Circa Sports Million contest.
The Dallas Cowboys had won 16 straight home games before Sunday’s 48-32 wild-card playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers as 7-point favorites.
Seattle native Kris Lundborg won the Westgate SuperContest with a 58-27-5 record against the spread (68.2 percent) to top a field of 1,301 entries.
The four Circa Survivor winners celebrated Friday at the D Las Vegas, where they collected $2,316,750 after correctly picking 20 straight NFL games.
The retiree and longtime Las Vegas resident outlasted a field of 6,234 entries in Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing NFL contest en route to winning $150,000.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay, handicapper Scott Kellen and pro sports bettor Jeff Whitelaw offer their best bets for the NFL’s Super Wild Card Weekend.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay won the Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge with a 59-25-6 record against the spread (70.2 percent).
Matt Ste. Marie, a married father of two from Minnesota, won the Circa Sports Million with some help from the Buffalo Bills in the final game of the NFL regular season.
Circa Sports made Alabama and Georgia the 5-1 co-favorites to win the College Football Playoff national title next year, when the playoff expands to 12 teams.
Michigan has ticked up to a consensus 5½-point favorite over Washington and the consensus total has dipped to 55½ for Monday’s national championship game.
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