Patrick Everson
FOX Sports Betting Analyst
The common season has come to a detailed, with the NFL Week 18 odds within the books. With it, quite a lot of attention-grabbing parlays hit after simmering all season, particularly the division winner parlays.
And maybe nobody did it higher than a DraftKings Sportsbook buyer who turned $60 into almost $100,000. More on that winner, together with different notable parlays, distinctive wins and large bets, as we recap NFL Week 18 bets.
Division dominators
Months in the past, a DraftKings bettor was prescient sufficient – or serendipitous sufficient – to place collectively this eight-legged parlay:
- The Philadelphia Eagles win the NFC East
- The Detroit Lions win the NFC North
- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win the NFC South
- The Los Angeles Rams win the NFC West
- The Buffalo Bills win the AFC East
- The Baltimore Ravens win the AFC North
- The Houston Texans win the AFC South
- The Kansas City Chiefs win the AFC West
Sure, a few of these seem to be kid’s play. But it’s nonetheless no simple process to deliver an eight-team crew to the end line.
The Rams are within the division that’s dwelling to the San Francisco 49ers, who almost gained the Super Bowl final 12 months and have been within the final three NFC Championship video games.
The NFC South is seemingly all the time a coin toss of mediocrity, and it was once more this 12 months. And the Detroit Lions additionally needed to struggle all Sunday evening – within the final recreation of the common season – to take the NFC North crown from the Vikings.
So that bettor’s $60 guess, at odds of +160421 – or about 1604/1 – become $96,252.
A few Caesars Sports clients echoed this sentiment.
In the preseason, an Iowa bettor guess $25 on the eight-leg division winners’ parlay and pocketed $29,398.
Similarly, a bettor from North Carolina guess $25 on the identical parlay with barely totally different odds and gained $29,110.
Take a free journey
A FanDuel Sportsbook bettor doubtless took a gentler, albeit lower-payout path to a win in an eight-game NFL division winners parlay. In this case, the shopper used a $5 bonus guess.
In different phrases, it was a free guess.
Seven division winners had already gained earlier than Week 18. So this bettor wanted, together with everybody else enjoying such a parlay, for the Lions to win at dwelling Sunday evening towards the Vikings.
The Lions did simply that, profitable 31-9 within the second half. And the bettor’s $5 free play grew to become $6,252.56 in revenue.
Parlay Party
NFL Week 18 odds have definitely had their share of extra commonplace parlays for gamers as properly. At Caesars Sportsbook, a bettor positioned $25 on a seven-leg guess on anytime landing scorers.
All seven discovered their luck and the bettor made a revenue of over $46,000.
At FanDuel, one bettor put collectively a modest three-legged $10 parlay:
- Kyle Juszczyk +1500 to attain at any time within the 49ers-Cardinals recreation
- Tyler Higbee +1000 to attain at any time within the Rams-Seahawks recreation
- Tyler Conklin +600 to attain at any time within the Jets-Dolphins recreation
Juszczyk was the one sweaty one of many three, and he wasn’t really sweating in any respect. The San Francisco fullback scored late within the third quarter of a 47-24 loss to Arizona.
So, with parlay odds of +123100 (1231/1), the shopper turned ten {dollars} right into a revenue of $12,310.
I hope you had it
It’s not nearly raking in wild positive factors of 1000’s or tens of 1000’s of {dollars}. When you multiply a guess by 10 or 20, or on this case 35, and the guess wins, it’ll fatten your pockets.
At Caesars Sports, Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young was +3500 to attain two touchdowns towards the Atlanta Falcons. In the second quarter, Young ran in from two yards out and added a nine-yard run late within the fourth quarter of Carolina’s 44-38 extra time win.
A $10 guess on that proposition guess would have netted $350.
Here’s one that might have been a lot more durable to foretell: Detroit operating again Jahmyr Gibbs scoring 4 or extra touchdowns.
FanDuel Sportsbook provided this proposition, with odds of +3600. Then Gibbs had a implausible Sunday evening, scoring the primary landing of the sport towards the Vikings, then scoring three extra touchdowns within the second half.
So in case you took a $10 flyer on that market, proper now you’ll have $360 extra.
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I like large bets and I can not lie
As normal, there have been a bunch of huge bets on the NFL Week 18 odds. Caesars Sports reported the next large bets:
- $165,000 Titans -1.5 vs. Texans. That guess grew to become a donation to the home, as Houston gained 23-14.
- Moneyline Vikings $151,400 +130 vs. Lions. Minnesota was overwhelmed within the second half by Jahmyr Gibbs & Co., dropping 31–9.
- $110,000 Bengals -1.5 vs. Steelers. Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh 19-17, masking by half a degree. The bettor earned $100,000 (whole win $210,000).
Caesars additionally noticed a few notable future bets, together with this one: $7,500 on the Chiefs beating the Packers within the Super Bowl, with odds of +3500. If the matchup materializes and the Chiefs win their third consecutive title, the bettor would pocket a cool $262,500.
And maybe within the class of lovable losers: Last week, earlier than Cincinnati was eradicated from playoff competition, a Caesars buyer guess $3,000 on the Bengals +10,000 — that is 100/1 — to win the Super Bowl.
This might have generated a revenue of $300,000. But alas, Cincy did not make the playoffs. Which is simply one other good reminder to maintain it affordable. Never guess greater than you possibly can afford to lose.
Enjoy the postseason!
Patrick Everson is a sports activities betting analyst for FOX Sports and senior reporter for VegasInsider.com. He is a distinguished journalist within the nationwide sports activities betting business. He lives in Las Vegas, the place he enjoys enjoying golf in 110-degree warmth. Follow him on Twitter: @PatrickE_Vegas.
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