The biggest bet on Super Bowl LV to date has been that of the underdog Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
On Thursday night, a Nevada gambler placed a $ 2.3 million bet on the Bucs +3.5 (-115) with sportsbook BetMGM. If Tampa Bay covers the spread against the Kansas City Chiefs, the bettor would net $ 2 million in winnings.
According to company spokesman Elisa Richardson, the bet was placed on the BetMGM mobile app and is the largest Super Bowl bet reported by a US sportsbook on Friday morning.
Since most of the early action was on the favorite Chiefs, the big bet on the Buccaneers was a welcome sight for BetMGM.
“This was a bet that we were very happy with,” Jason Scott, vice president of commerce at BetMGM, told ESPN. “We’d written several other six-figure bets before, all on Kansas City, and the public is definitely behind Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes.”
The Chiefs remained consensus 3-point favorites, securing 74% of point-spread bets at William Hill’s Caesars Sportsbook. The two biggest Super Bowl bets William Hill took on Friday were both on the Chiefs: $ 120,000 on Kansas City -3 (-120), and a $ 95,000 bet on the Chiefs with odds of -165 that net $ 57,575 would pay out. .
FanDuel and DraftKings also reported skewed action against the Chiefs, with over 75% of the early money supporting the defending champions at every sportsbook.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be wagered on the Super Bowl with US sportsbooks, including a handful of seven-figure bets that regularly pop up in the big game every year. Million dollar bets are typically placed by casino VIPs, high rollers who are given extensive betting limits. Sportsbooks do not regularly offer seven-figure bets to professional gamblers or the average customer coming off the street.