Sports betting in Las Vegas is great. Wether you want to bet the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby or March Madness, if you live in the United States, Las Vegas is the place to bet!
I was just out there and had some action going on the NFL playoffs! I had some action out there on the last Super Bowl too… I should have bet a future on the next Super Bowl, but I didn’t think of it… I do bet some baseball out there, but I usually end up betting that online… Yes, even when I am in Vegas, I will still sports betting online. Why? because you can get better odds online than you can in Vegas.
But it is fun to place bets in the Las Vegas Sports Books. Every casino has them, and some are nicer than others. The one at Wynn is great of course. I also like the sports book at the Mirage. I just one of the most famous Las Vegas Sports Books is the Hilton. The Hilton hosts the largest NFL football pool in the country year after year. I forget what the buy-in is, but I think it’s either $5,000 or $10,000. Either way, a lot of people join and the pay out is BIG.
The Sports books make a killing during the NFL season. Sure they make some money on baseball, basketball, horse racing, hockey, boxing, etc. But the real money is in people betting the NFL. It’s weeks of action for these sportsbooks, topped off with the mother of all weekends, the NFL Super Bowl. I think this weekend is the 2nd most sports bet weekends in Vegas with only 1 game. The first most sports betting weekend in Vegas is the first weekend of March Madness with 32 different games to bet on… It’s easy to tell that the most bet game in sports, year after year, is the NFL Super Bowl.
People often ask me how to bet on the super bowl. Well, it’s really easy in Las Vegas. All you really have to do is walk into almost any casino (or literally any casino on the strip) and look for their sports book. Right now, you can bet future bets on who will play in the Super Bowl and who will win the Super Bowl. The different odds for these bets are determined by who people think have a good shot at going to and winning the Super Bowl today. So these odds will change drastically after next weekend’s NFL games because half the teams will be eliminated.
Once the 2 Super Bowl teams are decided, there are a lot of different ways to bet on the Super Bowl. This is when the Super Bowl odds are determined for both the spread and the over/under (total) bet for the game. There are also a ton of prop bets offered on the Super Bowl, and these bets are created after the AFC and NFC Championship games too.
Super Bowl prop bets often range from which quarterback will throw the most yards to whether or not a particular running back or wide receive will score. Hell you can ever bet on the coin flip every year (heads or tails) or even on Super Bowl commercials (the BoDog online sports book usually offers a few bets on the adds).
Anyway, as we get closer and closer to Febuary 1st and to betting on the 2009 Super Bowl, be sure to continue to check back here at “Bet on the NFL Super Bowl†for all the up to date news and odds. Thanks for coming by!
