Wednesday February 4, 12:21 pm ET
LOS ANGELES, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. football fans bet a record $81.2 million in Nevada on the Feb. 1 Super Bowl, and casinos won a hefty $12.4 million, state gambling regulators reported on Wednesday.
Betting on the championship game between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers, won by the Patriots 32-to-29, jumped 13 percent from $71.7 million a year ago, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said.
Gamblers set the previous record of $77.3 million in 1998, but that year Nevada casinos eked out a collective profit of only $472,033, while this year the house won a hefty 15.3 percent of all wagered bets, one of the highest percentages in the last decade.
Last year they pocketed 7.3 percent of the bets, or $5.3 million, the control board said.
LOS ANGELES, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. football fans bet a record $81.2 million in Nevada on the Feb. 1 Super Bowl, and casinos won a hefty $12.4 million, state gambling regulators reported on Wednesday.
Betting on the championship game between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers, won by the Patriots 32-to-29, jumped 13 percent from $71.7 million a year ago, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said.
Gamblers set the previous record of $77.3 million in 1998, but that year Nevada casinos eked out a collective profit of only $472,033, while this year the house won a hefty 15.3 percent of all wagered bets, one of the highest percentages in the last decade.
Last year they pocketed 7.3 percent of the bets, or $5.3 million, the control board said.
