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Bettors Place Nearly Record $180 Million Of Wagers on Sunday’s Super Bowl In Nevada’s Sports Books With Books Winning $15.4 Million

Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Sports gamblers wagered nearly $180 million on Sunday’s Super Bowl in Nevada’s 179 sports books, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

The sports books won $15,413,228 on wagers totaling $179,823,715 — a win of 8.6 percent, according to the gaming control board.

With the record Super Bowl wagers of $179.8 million in Nevada you could have built the Las Vegas Aviators’ baseball park, which cost $150 million two years ago — and have almost $30 million left over.

Take a look at how the $180 million compares to past years — not too shabby:

 

 

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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