Sam Panayotovich
Fox sports betting analyst
When the Prohistoric and Prohistoric Sports Protection Law (Passespa) was finally scored in May 2018, they raided the way for legalized sports bets throughout the United States as we know it today.
Of course, I could bet on games and events such as the NFL draft in Nevada before the Supreme Court ruling, but could not log in to its application of mobile bets and bet from its sofa in Illinois or New York or Pennsylvania.
Sportsbooks began to be launched to the left and the right and all those books fought for customers. Man, I miss the days when a sports booklet would sacrifice you a bet “without risks” of $ 1,000 just to register. Some sacrifices were bigger.
Those were the days.
The betting houses also found themselves competing in the field of creativity. Stores such as Betmgm, Caesars, Draftings and Fanduel decided that it was better to have more markets to attract customers to wet their peaks.
The more options, the more action.
This caused the 2019 NFL draft to be a cursed free for everyone.
It was the first time that I could bet on the draft out of Nevada, and vividly memory stories of traigators who led or fly to different states to prevent programming markets. Draft Tot was published in early March, some places published face to face, and long shots abounded along the way.
The problem is that the Bettor were obtaining solid information porch Sports betting houses and strong bets with decent limits. In those days, one could see that a player out of less than 13.5-115 to less than 13,5-600 on a random Tuesday.
In 2019 about things like TJ Hockenson going exactly eighth in general and Dexter Lawrence falling into the Top 10 took the books in 2019.
You knew it could be the last forever.
Lung Time Las Vegas Betting Corridor Chris Andrews closed the NFL Draft bets a couple of years ago as Chief of Honcho at the South Point. He sacrificed Draft markets for years, but got sick and tired of seeing red on the spreadsheet.
I am sure that in the background it is lost to reserve it.
“Oh my God, no,” Andrews told Fox Sports by phone. “It was never what we should go to betting runners. There is always someone who knows what a team is going to do in the draft. There is always a leak somewhere. And the escape reaches the right boys, you are dead.”
Fascinating, isn’t it?
“Nor is it a contest,” Andrews continued. “It is not a game between the Philis and the Mets, and you are harming which team you think is better that day. The Draft has nothing to do with that. It is about who gets the information first and the people who get it before doing so every year.
“There was nothing I could do about it.”
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Draft markets are few and distant in Las Vegas. South Point and Golden Nugget did not sacrifice any menus, the Westgate offered a day of $ 500 for six hours and on Tuesday and reserved limits of $ 300 for a week.
It is clear that headaches simply throw it.
“Several years ago, we got used to an accessory about how many supporters would go in the first round,” Andrews recalled. “We put [O/U] 3.5. Three supporters ended up going, but one of the great attire on the high seas paid four by mistake.
“A couple of boys came to me and they told me that they were 3.5 and this book paid, so we should also the right thing. We are out of nfl.com, which said it was only through supporters. It is not our work to pay a player a fist.
“We paid all the winners of less than 3.5 and that was all.”
The old adagio says that all good things come to an end. That certainly feels precise considering that we can no longer choose separate draft markets for six to eight weeks and take money from betting runners who have no means of defense.
Draft bets as we knew is dead.
“Time and energy was not used,” Andrews said. “We are not going to win, and I will end up angrying my players regardless of what happens.”
“I’ll watch the draft on television, but I’ll sleep as a baby.”
Sam Panayotovich is a sports betting analyst for Fox Sports and the Betmgm Network. He previously worked for WGN Radio, NBC Sports and Vsin. Follow it on Twitter @Spshoot.
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