On New Year’s Day, the betting house William Hill, USA, bet six figures for the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, but defending champions are not the biggest concern of sports betting towards the playoffs.
The worst case scenario for several bookmakers is for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs are the agreed Super Bowl favorites, listed on Caesars Sportsbook’s +190 by William Hill. The Green Bay Packers are next at +450, followed by the Buffalo Bills (+700) and New Orleans Saints (+750). The Buccaneers are +1,000.
“The buccaneers winning the Super Bowl would be 100% of the worst case scenario for us,” Nick Bogdanovich, director of commerce at William Hill US, said in a post on the bookmaker’s website. “We’re in good shape with most of the teams, but the Bucs are a big loser.”
The WestBook Las Vegas SuperBook and BetMGM also reported significant liabilities to the Buccaneers, many of whom accumulated before the season, when Tampa Bay added Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski.
There has also been recent interest in the Buccaneers. William Hill reportedly had a $ 40,000 bet for the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl 12-1 on Saturday. As of Wednesday morning, it is the second largest Super Bowl futures bet made with the bookmaker, behind just a $ 115,000 bet on the Chiefs that was made Friday in Nevada.
The Chiefs have attracted the most bets and the most money in the William Hill Super Bowl futures market. The Packers have their second Super Bowl bets, followed by the Buccaneers, Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers.
At William Hill, there has been interest from bettors in some of the Super Bowl’s long-distance throws, including a $ 10,000 bet on the Indianapolis Colts at 45-1 and a $ 2,000 bet on Washington at 125-1.
“I had a client calling me [on Tuesday], calling for a bet that would make Cleveland the worst case scenario, “Jason Scott, director of commerce at BetMGM, told ESPN.” But in this business you have a lot of tire pitchers. If you really deposit it is another story. He was asking for $ 60,000 in 50-1, so he would earn $ 3 million. “