Leave it to a team from Las Vegas to beat the odds and pull off the biggest upset of the NFL season.
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.
The Dodgers are -230 series favorites over the Braves and would be the worst-case scenario at the Westgate sportsbook of the four remaining teams to win the World Series.
Handicapper Mark Franco (FrancoSports.com) is 16-4 ATS (80 percent) after going 4-1 ATS in each of the first four weeks of the NFL season.
Handicapper Joe D’Amico went 3-1-1 ATS last week and is in second place in the Review-Journal NFL Challenge with an 11-8-1 ATS record.
The Colts and Browns each lost their opener before winning three straight. Indianapolis leads the NFL in scoring defense (14 points per game) and interceptions (seven).
Handicapper Dana Lane (@DanaLaneSports) leads the contest with a 16-3-1 ATS record, and Paul Stone (@PaulStoneSports) is second at 14-5-1.
Kansas City is a -10,000 favorite at the Westgate to win the AFC West. That means a bettor must wager $10,000 to win $100, or $100 to win $1.
Three Las Vegas oddsmakers put Seattle’s Russell Wilson, Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers at the top of the list of most valuable quarterbacks.
Las Vegas resident and PGA Championship winner Collin Morikawa is 18-1 and considered the best bet by handicapper Wes Reynolds and Jeff Sherman of the Westgate.
Derek Stevens bet $110K to win $40K on Atlanta to beat Miami in the NL Division Series to hedge two bets that will pay $1M each if the Marlins win the NL and World Series.
The Las Vegas casino owner placed the wagers in July at the Westgate sportsbook: $5,000 to win the NL at 200-1 odds and $2,500 to win the World Series at 400-1.
Depending on the contest at Circa Sports, Station Casinos or the Westgate, selecting an NFL game that is postponed can result in a win, loss or push.
For the second straight season, Circa is the first to market with point spreads and totals on college football at 11 a.m. each Sunday and 99 percent of the money is sharp.
There was sharp action at Circa on the Falcons +7 before the line dropped to Packers -6 and on the Patriots +11½ before the number dropped to Chiefs -10½ on Monday.
Overs have cashed at a 61 percent clip (36-23-2) this season after going 6-1-1 in the Sunday morning games and 7-4-2 overall in NFL Week 4.