It's been an onslaught all week-you'd think Denver was Vegas. Here's the latest
http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_3419386
Bettors' money not on Broncos
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Las Vegas - A handful of early dinner-hour patrons at the nearly empty Mandalay Bay Sports Book in midweek gazed at the TV monitors showing East Coast basketball games.
"Sunday it will be wall-to-wall people," sports book supervisor David Behrends said. "You'll have trouble seeing the carpet. We'll have a gung-ho crowd. Even with the $20 bettor, the people who yell the loudest usually bet the least amount."
Today's title games - Pittsburgh at Denver in the AFC and Carolina at Seattle in the NFC - are only the undercard for football's main event, the Super Bowl, in two weeks, the biggest sports betting day of the year. But they'll have this city rocking.
As a Colorado State graduate and former Denver resident, Las Vegas Hilton race and sports book executive director Jay Kornegay wouldn't mind seeing the Broncos win today, and not just because of his Colorado ties. He's letting the general public set the line for him, and late into the week they were laying their money on Pittsburgh. The more money on the Steelers, the better chance to win the 10 percent "juice" on losing bets if Denver wins.
On Sunday, the Hilton opened the early line on the Steelers- Broncos at Denver by 4.
"The money started coming in on the Steelers, we dropped the line to 3 1/2 points and then three points," Kornegay said Thursday afternoon. "The Broncos are not getting respect. They haven't gotten their props. Denver's playing in the shadows."
Assuming the line stays at 3, or less, a Broncos victory of three or more points would win money for the Hilton.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>general public likes the points it is getting with Pittsburgh today, the Broncos remain the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Denver is listed at all the Mirage satellite sports books as a 17-10 favorite to win it all, with the new South Coast Casino putting Denver at 3-2 and the Hard Rock Hotel listing the Broncos as 9-5 favorites to get past Pittsburgh and whoever represents the NFC. Pittsburgh helped the sports books last Sunday when it upset the heavily favored Indianapolis Colts in the playoffs. Bettors had moved the Colts up to 10-point favorites by kickoff. Until then, it was great season for favorites, which the public usually backs, and the worst regular season in memory for the sports books, according to numerous published reports. Not only was Indianapolis winning every week, the Colts were usually covering huge point spreads. Sports books make their money by getting a 10 percent "juice" on losing bets. For example, a bettor lays $110 to win $100. With a high percentage of the favorites winning each week - 57.7 percent for the regular season - the books were losing out on the juice.
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http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_3419386
Bettors' money not on Broncos
<!--subtitle--><!--top author info--><TABLE width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=articleByline><!-- overline-->By Natalie Meisler
Denver Post Staff Writer </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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Las Vegas - A handful of early dinner-hour patrons at the nearly empty Mandalay Bay Sports Book in midweek gazed at the TV monitors showing East Coast basketball games.
"Sunday it will be wall-to-wall people," sports book supervisor David Behrends said. "You'll have trouble seeing the carpet. We'll have a gung-ho crowd. Even with the $20 bettor, the people who yell the loudest usually bet the least amount."
Today's title games - Pittsburgh at Denver in the AFC and Carolina at Seattle in the NFC - are only the undercard for football's main event, the Super Bowl, in two weeks, the biggest sports betting day of the year. But they'll have this city rocking.
As a Colorado State graduate and former Denver resident, Las Vegas Hilton race and sports book executive director Jay Kornegay wouldn't mind seeing the Broncos win today, and not just because of his Colorado ties. He's letting the general public set the line for him, and late into the week they were laying their money on Pittsburgh. The more money on the Steelers, the better chance to win the 10 percent "juice" on losing bets if Denver wins.
On Sunday, the Hilton opened the early line on the Steelers- Broncos at Denver by 4.
"The money started coming in on the Steelers, we dropped the line to 3 1/2 points and then three points," Kornegay said Thursday afternoon. "The Broncos are not getting respect. They haven't gotten their props. Denver's playing in the shadows."
Assuming the line stays at 3, or less, a Broncos victory of three or more points would win money for the Hilton.
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