00:00but how about from a betting perspective were more people betting this year than in years past
00:04generally speaking as we talked about last year i always say every year it breaks a record
00:09seems like maybe that didn't happen this year
00:13yeah we're still waiting on betting results um we probably won't get like all the state reports
00:18all the sports book reports for about another week maybe another month we'll have like sort of
00:23all of what we were looking for uh so far it looks on the surface like the public had a
00:28really good
00:28day they were obviously all over the seahawks at minus four and a half uh seahawks money line
00:33cashed they did lose on the total as the you know the game went under a lot of bets were
00:37on the over
00:38um so on the surface it kind of looks like the public had a good day but when you dig
00:43deeper
00:43than that uh you know we projected about 25 percent of handle was tied up in parlays and when you
00:49look
00:49at those parlays and what were the popular bets it looks like it actually was a pretty good day for
00:54the sports books at the score uh six of the most popular same game par lay legs only one of
01:00those
01:00hit which was seattle money line and obviously not a lot of you know odds boosting on that you know
01:05they really benefited from kenneth walker not scoring from jackson smith and jig but not scoring
01:09stefan diggs and drake may they all didn't find the end zone there's only four touchdowns
01:13in the game itself you know actually talked with somebody at that mgm who said the fact that there was
01:17only four touchdowns and that it came from who it came from uh was actually really beneficial to the
01:22books bottom line which is kind of a similar story you saw last year where you know i think everybody
01:26was on the eagles uh certainly in philadelphia and pennsylvania everyone thought the books got crushed
01:31but turns out they had a great day now when it comes to actual how much people are betting we
01:36only
01:36have one state that's reported so far and it's a really special state it's nevada which obviously
01:40has been the capital of sports betting forever nevada sports books took 133 million dollars on the game
01:48which is the lowest they've ever taken in the legal sports betting era so it was not a record in
01:53nevada
01:54but you know in the past we've had nationwide records every year while nevada has gone you know
01:59up or down it's actually a very interesting case it's not quite representative of the entire country
02:04because nevada has las vegas right where most of the sports betting is still done in person there's
02:10actually a mobile registration requirement which makes it a lot more difficult for the online sports
02:15books to really do a lot of business in the state that's kind of by design you know they want
02:18people
02:19to go to the casino still so it's unlike a lot of other markets and tourism was actually down about
02:24eight percent last year in las vegas so it could be a situation where you just had less people in
02:29vegas betting on the game certainly more people are going online sports books in nevada held about 7.5
02:36which is kind of on average with what you know sports books usually hold on any sport when you look
02:41at
02:41last year they held 14.6 which is about double it was their best day ever in terms of a
02:47profitability
02:48standpoint so not quite the same here in nevada uh we'll know more when other states report uh you
02:53know i certainly expect it to break records elsewhere across the country but so far nevada kind of showing
02:59not quite the case and of course we'll have the earnings reports uh in about a month where operators
03:04will talk a little bit more about how exactly they did on the day but so far it looks like
03:08they survived
03:09the losing to the public on the big headline bets and benefiting from you know a few touchdown scores
03:14and a lot of same game parlay legs not hit
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