Hoop schemes: The betting action beyond the NBA Finals action
San Antonio residents and relatives of Spurs players aren't the only ones rooting against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals: Las Vegas bookies are pulling hard for a Heat loss, too. Longtime Vegas...
View ArticleFootball betting is more popular than ever in Las Vegas
With the Super Bowl approaching, fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets. Fans bet an unprecedented US$99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada gambling...
View ArticleVegas getting souped up for Super Bowl XLVIII
With the Super Bowl approaching, US fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets. Fans bet an unprecedented US$99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada...
View ArticleGetting souped up for the Super Bowl
With the Super Bowl approaching, US fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets. Fans bet an unprecedented US$99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada...
View Article>Football betting more popular than ever in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — With the Super Bowl approaching, fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets. Fans bet an unprecedented $99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the...
View ArticleFootball betting more popular than ever in Vegas
LAS VEGAS: With the Super Bowl approaching, fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets. Fans bet an unprecedented $99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada...
View ArticleIn Las Vegas, oddsmakers put a lot on the line for the Super Bowl
LAS VEGAS Johnny Avello has a big title, executive director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas – but in a town that talks about point spreads with the same intensity that farmers discuss...
View ArticleSuper Bowl betting is big business in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS • With the Super Bowl approaching, fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets. Fans bet an unprecedented $99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada...
View ArticleNevada reports $116M wagered on Super Bowl; Vegas sports books lament...
If being $3.3 million richer after Sunday's Super Bowl is what Nevada sports books consider a worst case scenario, imagine the riches if a last minute play, second-guessed around the world, had gone a...
View ArticleSuper Bowl: Fantastic finish resulted in so-so day for Nevada sports books
LAS VEGAS -- If being $3.3 million richer after Sunday's Super Bowl is what Nevada sports books consider a worst-case scenario, imagine the riches if a last-minute play, second-guessed around the...
View ArticleHeads I Win, Tails You Win More With Super Bowl Coin-Toss Wagers
(Bloomberg) -- Super Bowl gamblers are betting heads, not necessarily with their heads. “Bettors favor heads so much that some sports books are actually making it cheaper to bet tails in an effort to...
View ArticleIt was no serendipitous Super Bowl for Vegas sports books
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- If being $3.3 million richer after Sunday's Super Bowl is what Nevada sports books consider a worst case scenario, imagine the riches if a last minute play, second-guessed around the...
View ArticleLas Vegas bookies lost their Super Bowl
REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve MarcusDerwood Haines (L) of Michigan looks over a board of Super Bowl XLIV bets at the Las Vegas Hilton sports book in Las Vegas, Nevada. See Also If being $3.3 million...
View ArticleNevada gambling regulators sign off on Olympic betting
Add comment Reprints + - FILE - In this March 22, 2013, file photo, bettors watch the odds for second-round NCAA tournament games displayed on a board at the Mirage hotel-casino Race & Sports Book...
View ArticleFor gamblers, March is sheer Madness
March Madness — which concludes in April with the Final Four in Arlington — might be the Super Bowl of sports betting. By some measures, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is even bigger than the...
View ArticleDid Las Vegas's Super Bowl Black Sunday actually benefit the casinos?
It’s one of gambling’s most peristent urban legends: the day Vegas took a historic bath on a moving point spread for Super Bowl XIII. But did it really happen? ...
View ArticleMayweather-Pacquiao a gold mine for Vegas bookies
LAS VEGAS — Days before the fight, one Manny Pacquiao believer had already put $500,000 on his man in the MGM Grand sports book. Now, book operator Jay Rood is working hard to balance the action....
View ArticleMayweather vs. Pacquiao a gold mine for Las Vegas sports books
Add comment Reprints + - The sports book at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino displays the betting line on April 29, 2015, for the upcoming fight between WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr....
View ArticleMayweather vs. Pacquiao: Big fight means big bets for Vegas bookmakers
LAS VEGAS -- Days before the fight, one Manny Pacquiao believer had already put $500,000 on his man in the MGM Grand sports book. Now, book operator Jay Rood is working hard to balance the action....
View ArticleRichest fight ever is also a gold mine for Vegas bookies
Share PhotoReddit✉ Manny Pacquiao, left, laughs while posing for photographers with WBO president Francisco Valcarcel during a news conference Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Las Vegas. Pacquiao will...
View ArticleBookies living it up so far with football
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jimmy Vaccaro thought he would offer bettors a little fun — and a long-shot chance at some real cash — when he put up a proposition this week at 25-1 odds on the Jacksonville Jaguars...
View ArticleVegas Bookies: Patriots-Seahawks pick 'em for Super Bowl
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Super Bowl looks like a tossup in this gambling city, where more than $100 million will likely be riding on the game by kickoff. A flurry of early money on the New England...
View ArticleVegas Bookies: Seahawks a 1-point early favorite in SB
LAS VEGAS The Super Bowl looks like a tossup in this gambling city, where more than $100 million will likely be riding on the game by kickoff. A flurry of early money on the New England Patriots moved...
View ArticleRecord betting placed on Super rout
The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP)—Gamblers wagered a record $119.4 million at Nevada casinos on the Super Bowl, allowing sportsbooks to reap an unprecedented profit as the betting public lost out in...
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