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Super Bowl Sunday is the
biggest gambling day of the year. Various reports suggest that
more than $400 million dollars will be gambled on Internet
sites this year. Last year in Las Vegas, bettors wagered a
record $81.2 million on the New England-Carolina game with
Nevada sports books winning a record $12.4 million. This year,
an estimated $100 million will be wagered in "Sin City."
It seems like everyone in the world puts something down on the game.
Compulsive gamblers lose their pants, the mailroom guy from
the office gets a free vacation picking Larry Brown to win
MVP, and your sister has to wash the dishes because Kevin
Dyson comes up a yard short.
This is the biggest and busiest weekend for us. Hands down," says Maurice
Perez,an oddsmaker at www.playersonly.com. "Everyone comes out
of the woodwork to place a bet. With the whole world watching
the game, a lot of folks like to have something a little extra
riding on the outcome. It makes sense." According to Perez,
the Super Bowl "blows out of the water" Final Four weekend,
the second-most active weekend for online betting.
The beauty or ugliness, depending on who you ask, of gambling on Super
Bowl Sunday is not the money won or lost. The best part is the
absolutely wacky, ridiculous and absurd types of Superbowl Proposition bets that are
made. Sure, the spread and the over-under get the most action.
However, on Super Bowl Sunday, millions of dollars will be
lost on the outcome of the coin toss, the MVP, or the first
player who catches the ball.
In past Super Bowls, I have won money on an injury to Terrell Davis, lost
my weekly allowance on a Steelers onside kick and paid for a
spring break trip with a two-point conversion scored by Mike
Vrabel. If you can think up a hypothetical situation for the
Super Bowl, there's a way and a place to bet on it.
Web sites from all over the world are capitalizing off the
demand for bizarre bets, known around the gaming industry as
"props." Of course, to contact these bookmakers, you need to
make the holy voyage to off-shore casinos you've probably
never heard of. Or, you can just go to your computer, get out
your trusty credit card and search the
Internet.
The most popular "prop bets" being discussed this week have
been the "Sports Specials" currently listed at a Canadian
casino's website, www.sportsinteraction.com. Among users, this
is the most entertaining of the gambling Internet sites and
probably the least
annoying as it has no pop-ups.
Sports Interaction, "the world's most interactive venue for
sports betting," is taking action on millions of bets this
week. Here are some examples of basic ones:
New England vs. Philadelphia (Winning Margin)
New England to win 31-35
Bet $10, Win $250
New England v Philadelphia (First Scoring Play)
Philadelphia Field Goal
Bet $10, Win $35
For the music fans out there, here are a few examples for the
halftime show
on the odds of Paul McCartney's first Song:
"Here Comes The Sun"
Bet $10, Win $330
"Eleanor Rigby"
Bet $10, Win $510
"Martha My Dear"
Bet $10, Win $810
And we haven't even touched the Jeff Thomason specials. Yes,
the former NFL vet-turned construction worker-turned "Super
Bowl story of the week" has an entire page of the website
dedicated to bets revolving around him. Here are just a few:
Jeff Is Named Super Bowl MVP
Bet $10, Win $250
Jeff Wears His Hard Hat instead of his Helmet
Bet $10, Win $340
Jeff Helps Construct the Halftime Show Stage
Bet $10, Win $1,010
Alex Cruz is the proposition bet manager at www.gamblerspalace.com.
Though his Web site doesn't offer such "exotic" lines as
Sports Interaction does on its site, he has
received "hundreds, maybe thousands" of phone calls in regard
to them.
"The phone is ringing off the hook for prop bets," Cruz said.
"Anything you can imagine on Sunday -- there are people out
there who want to bet on it. Guys have called me asking what
the odds are that Paul McCartney gets booed off the stage,
like Ashlee Simpson did in the Orange Bowl."
As if putting one of the Beatles and Jessica's little sister
in the same sentence wasn't enough, Cruz adds in a serious
tone: "Everyone is very interested on what the odds of a
streaker running on the field are this year. It's one of the
hottest bets of the weekend."
Full story on Super Bowl Gambling brought to you by
ESPN.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=schrager/gambling By Peter Schrager
2010 Super Bowl XLIV odds and Live Lines
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