Bookmakers' Strategy for Managing the Public's Super Bowl Bets

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00:00The books aren't necessarily looking for a side, right?

00:03They are not looking to take a side in the game.

00:06They may need one in a lopsided betting situation,

00:09but with two public teams like this and a short spread,

00:13they don't necessarily want to have to rely

00:15on the Chiefs winning or the Eagles winning

00:17in order for them to have a good or bad day.

00:19If they get 50% down the middle on the bets, great.

00:23We'll make it up somewhere else.

00:24They like the volume, obviously,

00:27and the juice paid to them,

00:29but prop bets and parlays are key and big winners,

00:34especially in the parlay front for the books.

00:37Yeah, 100%.

00:38I would imagine, if anything,

00:40they'll be rooting against Travis Kelsey

00:41scoring a touchdown,

00:43rooting against Saquon scoring multiple touchdowns,

00:45less than rooting for the Chiefs to cover one and a half.

00:49Correct.

00:50Saquon, minus 195 any time,

00:52plus 400 to score that first touchdown,

00:55and two touchdowns, plus 290,

00:57which is an amazingly short price to score two touchdowns.

01:01It's a very hard thing to predict.

01:02He scored three the other day,

01:04which would be 15 to one if he goes back to back

01:07on scoring three touchdowns.

01:09So did anything related to the lines,

01:13obviously a short line, Chiefs a short favorite,

01:15or the total, did that raise an eyebrow at all?

01:19I thought it was about what I expected,

01:21maybe a point higher on the total,

01:23but these were the hypothetical lines

01:26that were put out there,

01:27and they haven't moved at all.

01:29Yeah, the total, to me,

01:30seems lower than I kind of would have guessed,

01:33considering last year, you went to overtime,

01:36and the Chiefs, obviously,

01:38had been in a lot of close games again this year.

01:40I mean, it's hard to factor in having overtime,

01:44but I think it'll be a close game,

01:45given the fact that,

01:47while the Eagles can run the ball very well,

01:49they've shown that,

01:51the Chiefs can put up a lot of points in a quick hurry.

01:53So I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiefs got out ahead,

01:56and then the Eagles are kind of playing catch-up.

01:59They do have a lot of weapons of their own,

02:01so when there's so many big players involved,

02:04and so many names,

02:05and so many popular bets for any time touchdown,

02:07it's hard for me to see it being a low-scoring game.

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