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How To Make A Super Bowl Bet In Vegas Nv

There are prop bets to make pertaining to the Super Bowl before the opening kickoff. So if you're looking for some pregame action, perhaps you'll want to bet on the coin toss prior to the game. FanSided’s Super Bowl 55 betting guide is now live. The big game is finally here as the Kansas City Chiefs face off with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl 55. There are plenty of story. Bet on the Super Bowl 55 Game Total Another extremely popular way to make money betting on Super Bowl 2021 is to bet how many points will be scored in the game. You have two options; bet on the Over, or bet on the Under. This refers to the amount of points going “over” the game total or going “under.”.

FanSided's Super Bowl 55 betting guide is now live.

The big game is finally here as the Kansas City Chiefs face off with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl 55. There are plenty of story angles worth exploring in this game, like whether Tom Brady can outduel Patrick Mahomes for another ring, but there are also a lot of bets you can make on the action.

The Chiefs opened as favorites in the matchup but let's look at all of the various options you have to bet on the Super Bowl. All odds are presented, as always, courtesy of the FanDuel Sportsbook.

Kansas City Chiefs (16-2) vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (14-5)

The Spread

The spread for the Super Bowl sees the Chiefs laying three points against the Buccaneers. If that number sounds familiar it is because these teams also played back in Week 12, with Kansas City winning by three in a 27-24 victory at Tampa Bay.

It is important to note that the game wasn't as close as the final score indicated, with Kansas City jumping out to a 27-10 lead before a late Buccaneers' surge closed the gap. The Chiefs are the superior team and three points isn't a lot to lay so Kansas City is the smarter bet to make there.

The Total

The over/under total for this game is sky-high at 56.5 points, which makes sense since these two teams feature explosive offenses. The Week 12 meeting produced 51 points while the teams combined for 69 points on Championship Weekend, making the over a wise choice given the amount of firepower on each offense.

The Money Line

How To Make A Bet In Vegas

The money line is predictably tight with the Chiefs as -176 favorites and the Buccaneers as +148 underdogs. Neither is particularly attractive unless you feel strongly on an outcome, making it a bet you'd have to drop a lot of money on to try and turn a profit.

The Props

We'll focus on game-specific props here, including the coin toss, which is -103 either way for the actual call of heads or tails and -105 either way on if it is called correctly. A true dice roll of a prop bet, this is one better made with friends.

How To Make A Super Bowl Bet In Vegas

Another one to watch is the winning margin, which offers good payouts with the Chiefs sitting at +330 to win by 1-6 points or +490 for a 7-12 point victory. The margins are also profitable on the Buccaneers as well, with a 1-6 point victory checking in at +400 while a 7-12 point margin is +700.

The MVP prop bet market is stacked towards the quarterbacks, with Mahomes a staggering -105 favorite while Brady is the clear second choice at +220. A sleeper value here could be Chiefs' wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who is +1400 but recorded a 13/269/3 line in Tampa back in Week 12. A stellar performance from Hill could result in an MVP payout at a nice price.

The anytime TD scorer props are also interesting since both Hill (-150) and Travis Kelce (-155) are heavy favorites. Values can be had with Tom Brady's intermediate weapons like Rob Gronkowski (+220), Cameron Brate (+260), Scotty Miller (+370) and Tyler Johnson (+500). Brady himself is at +410 which isn't a bad buy given his notable history for trying to sneak the ball quickly at the one-yard line.

The best strategy with the props is to lock in your numbers early, particularly when it comes to things like yardage totals and touchdowns. Early action can push those lines up to ridiculous levels and can make the difference between winning or losing the bet.

The house wins again.

Nevada sportsbooks won $18.7 million off $154.6 million in bets on Super Bowl LIV, according to figures released Tuesday by gaming control officials. Both the win and the amount wagered were near-records for Nevada's bookmakers and stand as evidence that Las Vegas remains the epicenter for American sports betting.

The Kansas City Chiefs rallied in the fourth quarter to knock off the underdog San Francisco 49ers 31-20 on Sunday. The Chiefs covered the 1.5-point spread, the game stayed under the 53.5 total and Nevada cleaned up.

The $18.7 million win is behind only the $19.6 million Nevada sportsbooks won on Super Bowl XLVIII between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, and the $154.6 million bet is just behind the record $158.5 million that was wagered on Super Bowl LII between the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots.

This was the second Super Bowl since a 2018 Supreme Court decision opened a path for states outside of Nevada to offer regulated sports betting. Since the ruling, legal sportsbooks have opened in 14 states, with several more poised to get into the bookmaking business this year. The expansion hasn't slowed down the action in Nevada, though. A record $5.3 billion was bet with Nevada sportsbooks in 2019.

'The overall picture in Nevada [since the Supreme Court decision] remains positive,' Michael Lawton, senior research analyst for Nevada Gaming Control, said in an email to ESPN. 'Nevada has set annual records in 10 consecutive years for sports pool volume and won $329.1 million in 2019, which is an all-time record and up 9.5% over last year. In fact, since 2010, sports betting volumes in Nevada have increased 92.6% or $2.555 billion.'

Bettors had more success on the Super Bowl in some of the new states offering sports betting. New Jersey sportsbooks reported a $4.2 million net loss on the $54.2 million bet on the Super Bowl, although some of that loss can be attributed to promotions offered by Garden State bookmakers. Pennsylvania sportsbooks reported a $3.3 million loss on the $30.6 million bet on the Super Bowl.

Kip Levin, president and chief operating officer of FanDuel, pointed to in-play wagering as a big factor in the book's Super Bowl loss in New Jersey.

'With their knack of playoff comebacks, there was a lot of interest in the Chiefs when their odds peaked in the fourth quarter,' Levin told ESPN.

He emphasized, though, that FanDuel was still pleased with the betting interest on the Super Bowl, despite the loss.

'I think we have a lot of years to go before revenue, instead of customer acquisition, is the primary metric for success on days like Super Bowl Sunday,' Levin said.

Rhode Island sportsbooks fared better, winning $804,000 off $5.5 million bet on the Super Bowl, according to state lottery officials. The Oregon state lottery did not report a net result but said more than 90,000 bets totaling more than $2 million were placed on the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and 49ers.