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Tampa Bay and Kansas City are the wide favorites to triumph the Super Bowl. But the Raiders are the largest liability astatine Las Vegas sportsbooks to instrumentality location their archetypal Lombardi Trophy since 1984.
Caesars Sports and the South Point are connected the hook for mid-six figures apiece if the Silver and Black triumph it all. BetMGM, wherever the Raiders are 80-1 to triumph Super Bowl LVI, volition suffer 7 figures successful Nevada alone.
The Raiders are the biggest liability astatine Station Casinos and the largest realistic liability astatine Circa Sports down the Houston Texans, the longest changeable connected the committee astatine 750-1.
“I’m not that disquieted astir the Raiders. Their discourtesy volition beryllium fine, but their defence is inactive a large question mark,” South Point sportsbook manager Chris Andrews said. “They would truly person to amusement a batch of betterment from past year. But arsenic I accidental that, each twelvemonth there’s ever 1 squad that’s mode amended than we expected and 1 squad that’s mode worse than we expected.
“I’ve been astir agelong capable to cognize that’s precise hard to predict.”
The Buccaneers are the biggest liability astatine BetMGM, which took a $50,000 wager to triumph $450,000 connected Tampa Bay astatine 9-1 likelihood successful February to repetition arsenic Super Bowl champions a fewer days aft it bushed the Chiefs successful Super Bowl LV.
The Bucs are the 7-1 2nd prime astatine BetMGM down Kansas City (+450).
“Every time there’s a ton of Tampa tickets,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said. “They person the astir tickets written and the astir money.”
The enactment besides has been relentless connected Tampa Bay and the Chiefs astatine the Westgate SuperBook.
“When you look astatine the ticker, the 2 constants you spot each time are the Chiefs and Tampa,” Westgate vice president of hazard Ed Salmons said. “We’re a loser connected Tampa to triumph the Super Bowl and a loser connected Kansas City to triumph the Super Bowl. They person the 2 shortest odds.
“A 3rd of the wealth successful the excavation is stake connected 2 teams, which is crazy. They’re acting similar it’s the NBA.”
The Patriots are the largest liability astatine the SuperBook, which took 2 wagers totaling $15,000 to triumph $600,000 connected New England astatine 40-1.
“Before that, they were betting them astatine 60-1 and adjacent present astatine 20-1, they’re inactive betting them,” SuperBook manager John Murray said. “Buffalo is intelligibly amended than them successful that division, and determination are inactive respective teams up of them successful the pecking bid successful the AFC.
“The Chiefs, Chargers, Ravens and Browns should beryllium amended than New England. The Patriots volition astir apt beryllium successful the mediate of the battalion successful the AFC.”
Cleveland and San Francisco correspond the 2 largest liabilities astatine Caesars Sports, which is connected the hook for 7 figures connected each team. The Browns and 49ers are tied for the 12-1 sixth prime astatine Caesars to triumph the Super Bowl.
“The Browns person arsenic bully a accidental arsenic anyone. Baker Mayfield is progressing nicely, and the squad is rock-solid crossed the board,” Caesars Sports vice president of trading Nick Bogdanovich said. “The Niners are a bigger mystery. The jury’s inactive retired connected Jimmy (Garoppolo), conscionable due to the fact that helium can’t enactment healthy.
“They’ve got a precocious ceiling, but it’s precise tricky to accidental the least.”
The Colts are different ample liability astatine the SuperBook (where they’re 30-1) and South Point, which volition suffer six figures if Indianapolis wins its archetypal Super Bowl since the Peyton Manning era.
“The Colts are the biggest question mark,” Murray said. “That was a squad a batch of crisp guys liked earlier Carson Wentz and Quenton Nelson got hurt.”
Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.
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