On New Year’s Day, professional bookmaker William Hill US placed a six-figure bet on the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, but the defending champion is not the biggest concern of the sports book in the playoffs.
The worst case scenario for several bookmakers is that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs are the consensus Super Bowl favorite, listed at +190 at Caesars Sportsbook 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.
“Buccaneers who win the Super Bowl will be the worst case scenario for us,” Nick Bogdanovich, director of trade for William Hill US, said in a report on the bookmaker’s website. “We’re pretty good with most teams, but the Bucs are a big loser.”
The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook and BetMGM also reported significant commitments on the Buccaneers, which increased well before the season, when Tampa Bay added Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski.
There has also been recent interest in the Buccaneers. William Hill reported that he took a $ 40,000 bet on the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl 12-1 on Saturday. As of Wednesday morning, it is the second largest Super Bowl futures bet placed at the bookmaker, behind only a $ 115,000 bet on the Chiefs placed in Nevada on Friday.
The Chiefs attracted the most bets and the most money in William Hill’s Super Bowl futures market. The Packers have the second most Super Bowl bets, followed by the Buccaneers, Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers.
At William Hill, there was interest in betting on some of the Super Bowl long shots, 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 customer call [on Tuesday], asked for a bet that would make Cleveland in the worst case, “Jason Scott, director of commerce at BetMGM, told ESPN.” But you get a lot of ties in the business. Whether he actually makes deposits is another story. He asked for $ 60,000 at 50-1 so that it would win $ 3 million. ‘