Sportsbooks hit elusive Super Bowl trifecta for millions
The ideal scenario for sportsbooks in the Super Bowl is usually for the favorite to win but not cover and for the game to go under the total.
Las Vegas books hit that elusive trifecta for millions Sunday when the Rams defeated the Bengals 23-20, but didn’t cover the 4½-point spread and the game stayed under the total of 48½.
“Most people betting on the Rams are laying points, and people betting the Bengals bet them to win the game. But the under was the big one,” Boyd Gaming sportsbook vice president Bob Scucci said. “Because whether they bet the Bengals or the Rams, everybody seemed to parlay them with the over.”
Los Angeles trailed 20-16 with 6:13 left when Matthew Stafford directed a game-winning 15-play, 79-yard drive, capped by a 1-yard touchdown pass to Cooper Kupp with 1:25 left.
Joe Burrow marched Cincinnati to midfield in the final minute before turning the ball over on downs when his fourth-and-1 pass fell incomplete.
It was the biggest Super Bowl win ever for Station Casinos, according to Red Rock Resort sportsbook director Chuck Esposito.
“What a kind of Hollywood ending with the way that game finished,” he said. “Giving them the ball back with 1:25 left, with the way this season has gone, I thought there was a real chance it could go to overtime. But the Cinderella slipper finally fell off.”
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Sportsbooks hit elusive Super Bowl trifecta for millions
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