Published on February 5, 2014 by Vincent Tapoglia III
The end of the football season is often bittersweet for gamblers. After spending all year betting on football, the Super Bowl is the one game left to wager on, and wager gamblers did.
This year's Super Bowl was essentially the most bet on of all-time. A record $119 million was spent between betting at the Seahawks and Broncos, and all the proposition bets that were available. For the 18th time in 21 years, Las Vegas walked clear of the Super Bowl as winners.
The bad a part of Super Bowl Sunday is it also signals the top of football betting until August. With out a football in sight, gamblers have now turned their attention to March Madness and the beginning of the baseball season.
March Madness trails only the Super Bowl in relation to amount of cash wagered. The few weeks that faculty basketball takes over the sports landscape serves as some way for bettors to still get their fix while watching a highly publicized event.
The baseball season is somewhat different. While gamblers will take their guesses with college hoops, it's only a select few gamblers that experience the patience to stay out all of the 162 game schedule in baseball. Gamblers of baseball are known in betting circles as one of the most knowledgeable gamblers around.
This season, the cash has already began to roll in at the usual suspects. The Yankees, after spending nearly half 1000000000 dollars this off-season, have jumped up and joined the l. a. Dodgers, Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox as favorites to win the sector Series.
In basketball, it has become a craps shoot the past couple of years. This season, the teams on the top of the rankings, Syracuse, Arizona, and Whicita State, have all been nearly perfect, making it likely that every team could be heavy choices in March Madness brackets and in Las Vegas sports books.
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