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It was the Super Bowl. I was there when uh Tom Brady came back against the Atlanta Falcons 28 um he's been fantastic. He kinda exercise some demons last week at Tory Pines Place, where he misses a lot of cuts so he might play well here I agree with you go a little gripping against. That’s what someone bet on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. They’re +3.5 on the spread. Someone bet $2.3 million that they’d be able to cover against the Chiefs, according to Bet MGM.
Big bets were coming in fast and furious in the hours leading up to the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor megafight, highlighted by two more $1 million bets made Saturday on the favored boxing champion.
That brought the total of $1 million bets on the fight to six. In comparision, Las Vegas bookmakers recorded just one for February's Super Bowl LI.
The MGM and South Point sportsbooks each reported taking $1 million bets on Mayweather on Saturday afternoon. The Wynn sportsbook also revealed that it had taken two million-dollar bets on Mayweather on Friday, according to executive director Johnny Avello.
The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook began the day with Mayweather at -700, but had moved the price down to -550 by midafternoon. About three hours before the fight, Mayweather's odds had dropped to their lowest yet, at -460. About an hour before the fight was scheduled to begin, Mayweather was back up to -500 with McGregor at +375.
The amount of money being wagered on the fight was stunning bookmakers. By late Saturday afternoon, more bets had been placed on just McGregor at William Hill's Nevada sportsbooks than were placed on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI, according to vice president of marketing Michael Grodsky.
Twice as much money had been bet on Mayweather-McGregor than had been bet on Mayweather-Manny Pacquaio at William Hill. The 2015 Mayweather-Pacquiao fight was the most heavily bet boxing match ever in Nevada, generating an estimated $60 million in handle.
Even with the big bets on Mayweather, most sportsbooks were still facing sizable liability on the underdog McGregor. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT Saturday, Caesars Palace sportsbooks wrote more than 1,200 bets on the fight. Ninety-two percent of those bets were on McGregor.
Nevada sportsbooks were estimating that as much as $80 million could be bet on the fight statewide, making it the most heavily bet boxing match ever.
Statewide bets in Nevada on Super Bowl LI between the Patriots and Atlanta Falcons reached $138.4 million.
Not everything went right for undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather on Saturday night.
Multiple sources told ESPN that Mayweather went into the sportsbook at the M Resort in Las Vegas at around 3:30 p.m. PT Saturday with cash and plans to bet on his fight against UFC star Conor McGregor.
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Mayweather attempted to place a $400,000 bet on the fight ending under 9.5 rounds at -200 odds, but according to a source, there were concerns over the legality of a fighter betting on anything other than a straight win, which caused a delay.
Mayweather then tried to bet on himself to win by knockout, but was unhappy about having to wait to place the wager and left without getting the bet down, the sources said.
'He was pissed,' one source said.
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The sources weren't sure whether he placed the bet at another sportsbook.
Mayweather, who went off as a -500 favorite at most sportsbooks, stopped McGregor 1 minute, 5 seconds into the 10th round. Mayweather would have won either attempted bet: under 9.5 or to win by knockout.
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'I think that we bet 100 on 9½,' Mayweather told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio after the fight. 'I gave my guy six figures to go bet. I have to make sure he bet because earlier today I went to the sports book to bet and they wouldn't let me bet.'
Mayweather later told SportsCenter he gave a friend $400,000 to bet, but that the friend was only allowed to place a bet for $87,000.
Neither the Nevada State Athletic Commission nor Nevada Gaming Control has regulations addressing a fighter's ability to bet on himself.
CG Technology, which operates the sportsbook at the M Resort, said it would not comment on an individual customer.
