Raiders kicking off wild 3-day playoff weekend for bettors

The Raiders were the past squad to gain a playoff berth, and they’re favored to beryllium the archetypal squad retired of the postseason.

The Raiders are statement 6½-point underdogs for Saturday’s Wild Card playoff opener against the Bengals successful Cincinnati. The statement full is 49½.

That crippled volition footwear disconnected an NFL playoff feast of six games implicit 3 days.

Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito can’t wait.

“Anytime you get your location squad successful it, and we’ve seen the enactment we’ve had connected Raiders games, it’s decidedly a triumph for us,” helium said.

Esposito said Red Rock was packed with its biggest Sunday nighttime assemblage of the play to ticker the Raiders beforehand to the playoffs with a 35-32 overtime triumph against the Los Angeles Chargers astatine Allegiant Stadium. He said helium expects the aforesaid ambiance — and summons number — for Saturday’s game.

“We expect the nationalist to backmost the Raiders with their hearts and pocketbooks,” helium said.

Playoff lines

In Saturday’s different game, the Buffalo Bills are 4½-point location favorites successful their rubber lucifer against the AFC East rival New England Patriots (total 43½).

On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are -8½ astatine location against the Philadelphia Eagles (total 49), the Dallas Cowboys are -3 astatine location against the San Francisco 49ers (total 51), and the Kansas City Chiefs are -12½ astatine location against the Pittsburgh Steelers (total 46½).

Wild Card play ends with the archetypal Monday playoff game, with the Los Angeles Rams -4 astatine location against the Arizona Cardinals (total 50).

Esposito said stretching retired the play to 3 days with 3 prime-time games is cleanable for sportsbooks.

“Anytime you person an isolated prime-time game, you person much interest, much props, much handle,” helium said.

No necktie (barely)

The Raiders won Sunday’s crippled connected a 47-yard tract extremity by Daniel Carlson connected the last play.

In a script that captivated NFL fans and bettors, aft Indianapolis mislaid to Jacksonville earlier successful the day, the Raiders and Chargers would person some precocious to the playoffs if the crippled ended successful a tie.

Some sportsbooks successful different states reported having large liability connected a tie, but that didn’t make successful Nevada.

Circa sportsbook manager Chris Bennett said it took beardown two-way enactment connected a necktie prop with likelihood of 16-1 to 10-1 connected the “yes,” but ended up with lone a tiny liability.

The Westgate SuperBook did not person a necktie prop, but sportsbook manager John Murray said it besides did not instrumentality overmuch enactment connected a prop connected the crippled going to overtime.

Instead, bettors got conspiracy-minded and piled connected a prop that nary touchdown would beryllium scored, envisioning a crippled successful which the Raiders and Chargers simply punted the shot backmost and distant to guarantee they some advanced.

The likelihood connected the nary TD prop dropped from 500-1 each the mode to 100-1 by kickoff, Murray said.

“We couldn’t warrant going little than that,” Murray said via substance message.

All that wealth went successful the Westgate’s pouch astatine the 3:14 people of the archetypal 4th erstwhile Hunter Renfrow scored for the Raiders.

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