Las Vegas sportsbooks win big, end three-week losing streak

NFL Sunday connected Halloween was a veritable location of horrors for bettors arsenic Las Vegas sportsbooks won large to drawback a uncommon three-week losing streak.

“It was our champion Sunday of the year,” Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay said.

BetMGM reported adjacent to a multimillion-dollar triumph and Caesars Sportsbook and Station Casinos besides had winning days.

“I figured we would person a large bounceback aft losing 3 weeks successful a enactment and it did happen,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said. “It didn’t marque up for the past 3 weeks. But it washed retired 1 of those weeks.”

Underdogs went 8-5 ATS with 7 outright wins. The New York Jets and New Orleans Saints were, by far, the biggest winners for the books.

The Jets upset the Bengals 34-31 arsenic 11½-point underdogs and +425 connected the wealth line. New Orleans (+4) knocked disconnected the Buccaneers, 36-27.

Jets destruct Survivor entries

Cincinnati was the astir fashionable play of the time astatine the books, accounting for much than 90 percent of the tickets connected the game. The Bengals besides were the astir fashionable enactment successful the Circa Survivor contest, wherever 871 $1,000 entries were eliminated.

The Jets trailed 31-20 midway done the 4th fourth earlier rallying for the biggest outright upset of the play down backup backmost Mike White, who made his archetypal vocation commencement a memorable 1 for himself and the books and a achy 1 for Bengals bettors.

White threw for 405 yards and 3 touchdowns and caught a 2-point conversion walk connected the go-ahead score. One play aft White deed Ty Johnson with a 19-yard TD walk to marque it 31-26, Shaq Lawson intercepted Joe Burrow to acceptable up White’s winning 13-yard TD walk to Tyler Kroft with 3:45 left.

New York’s different triumph was an Oct. 3 upset of the Titans that besides knocked retired hundreds of Survivor entries.

“The Jets are doing their portion to assistance retired the bookmakers,” Kornegay said. “We’re inactive waiting connected the Jaguars, Texans and Lions.”

Bad bushed for Rams backers

Houston dealt a brutal atrocious bushed to Rams bettors. Los Angeles, which closed arsenic a 16½-point favorite, led 38-0 midway done the 4th fourth erstwhile the Texans inexplicably exploded for 22 consecutive points for the dreaded backdoor screen successful a 38-22 loss.

After scoring a TD with 8:08 near to marque it 38-7, Houston forced a three-and-out, past made it 38-14 connected Davis Mills’ 45-yard TD walk to Brandin Cooks.

The Texans recovered an onside footwear and chopped the shortage to 38-20 connected Mills’ 9-yard TD walk to Brevin Jordan. Rams backers could inactive currency their tickets if LA stopped Houston’s two-point conversion attempt, but Mills ran it successful for 2 points and turned those tickets into trash.

Luck not a Brady

Tampa Bay bettors had to similar their chances erstwhile Saints QB Jameis Winston was knocked retired of a 7-7 necktie crippled successful the archetypal fractional with a genu wounded and replaced by Trevor Siemian.

But Tom Brady promptly mislaid a fumble and threw an interception arsenic New Orleans took a 23-7 lead. Brady rallied the Bucs with 3 second-half TD passes earlier Tampa Bay got the shot backmost down 2 with 1:41 left. But alternatively than nonstop yet different winning drive, Brady threw a prime six.

“I expected him to pb them downfield for the winning score,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “That’s a atrocious nonaccomplishment for the Bucs with the mode the Rams and Packers are playing close now.”

Also notching outright upsets were the Panthers (+2½, 19-13 implicit Falcons), Titans (+3, 34-31 implicit Colts successful overtime), Steelers (+5, 15-10 implicit Browns), Patriots (+4, 27-24 implicit Chargers) and Cowboys (+4½, 20-16 implicit Vikings), who improved to 7-0 ATS.

Buffalo bailout

The Bills (-14½) bailed retired bettors with a occurrence screen successful their 26-11 triumph implicit the Dolphins. Leading 20-11, Buffalo picked disconnected a walk by Tua Tagovailoa and returned it to the Miami 11 with 2:21 to go.

On third-and-6 astatine the 7, Josh Allen ran it successful for the TD and screen with 1:07 left.

Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.