Tony Dunst Hits A Super Bowl Jackpot

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What’s the largest longshot you ever before hit?

Prior to last Sunday, I couldn’t address that inquiry. I do not make several long-shot bets, and even the small parlays I place are within the exact same video game (like wagering a side and also the under) as well as pay maybe 3 to 1.

The Super Bowl felt like the ideal excuse to find a long-shot wager. Everybody loves disputing the odd prop-bets for The Big Game, and also no American sporting event creates the same action. On the internet online casinos utilize the props for client acquisition, as well as normally, area little limitations on the wager. These online casinos don’t have the sources to research every odd bet and find the best cost, so they eye-ball it and also sometimes make errors.

I spent the week leading up to the Super Dish in Atlanta, doing meetings and chatting gambling with the media in Radio Row. I didn’t have the time to study numerous props, lines, and also books the method I wanted yet I recognized every person would certainly ask what I was wagering, so I flipped through Super Bowl MVP probabilities for an enjoyable wager to make.

FanDuel was offering the most effective odds of guides I had access to, and Patriots lead receiver Julian Edelman looked mispriced at 35 to 1. For comparison, Brady as well as Goff were around 2 to 1, and lead backs Sony Michel and also Todd Gurley were 15-ish. Besides rate, there were a few various other factors in Edelman’s favor:

He bet the popular group.
He’s the Patriots clear number-one option in the death game.
He returns punts.
Brady as well as Gronk have fallen back.
Does any of that mean I knew Edelman was going to have a great video game? Heck no. It just indicates his rate looked a little off for his possibility. So I put $200 on him and really did not sweat it up until game-day when all of a sudden I had a factor to yell during one of the most dull Super Dish in a years.

He was all over on infraction and also invested half the video game making reasonable catches following a Rams punt.

Near the end, I was concerned Sony Michel’s touchdown placed him ahead, or that Stephon Gillmore would win for the Patriots defense, yet Edelman’s receiving stats triumphed and they gave him MVP. The only drawback is that while investigating this blog site, I realized he opened at 50 to 1.