A Florida bettor had $6 million on the line when Houston Texans kicker Matt Ammendola lined up for a 38-yard field goal in the fourth quarter on Sunday in an attempt to win the game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
After the field goal sailed through the uprights, the bettor officially turned $500,000 into $6 million (a $5.5 million profit) by way of a four-leg parlay wager, a type of bet where multiple bets are combined into a single wager for a higher payout.
The four legs of the same-game parlay were as follows:
- Houston Texans to beat the Cincinnati Bengals
- Texans-Bengals to go over 44.5 points
- Texans running back Devin Singletary to score a touchdown
- Singletary to go over 51.5 rushing yards
The field goal gave the Texans the win, and sealed the victory for the Florida bettor, who placed his wager at the Hard Rock Bet platform in Florida.
“Who else cooked us?”, the sportsbook posted on social media after the bet cashed.
The parlay win is one of the biggest parlay bet wins ever reported at a legal U.S. sportsbook, according to ESPN. The bettor has yet to publicly identify themself, and the sportsbook has declined to disclose the name of the $6 million parlay winner. A wager as high as a half-million dollars may suggest this individual is a seasoned professional rather than a casual bettor.
“The $6 million Same Game Parlay win puts an exclamation point on what has been an exciting first week of action for our early access players,” Jon Chapper, senior director of communications at Hard Rock Digital, said. “Access to legal sports betting has already been a game changer in Florida, where many are experiencing same game parlays and play-by-play markets for the first time.”
The odds of the bet were +1100, which carries an implied probability of 8.3%.
Sports betting in Florida relaunched last week after a two-year hiatus related to a series of legal challenges executed by groups saying Florida’s sports betting laws violated the state constitution. Currently in Florida, mobile sports betting is only available through Hard Rock’s app to its premium members, but in-person sports betting will be rolled out in several casinos beginning Dec. 7, the Seminole Tribe of Florida announced.
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Sports-betting operators like Hard Rock, DraftKings
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and FanDuel are not shy about highlighting betting tickets like this because those wagers give hope to people who envision making millions on sports bets.
“Parlay [bets] are popular because everyone dreams of turning a little bit of cash into a big payday,” says Steven Petrella, deputy editor for the Action Network. “Sportsbooks love to promote big parlay winners on Twitter and Instagram, but they’re not posting the thousands of losing parlay tickets.”
The NFL is by far the most-wagered-on sport in America as over 73 million Americans adults said they would place a wager on an NFL game this season.
Since the Supreme Court struck down the ban on sports betting in 2018, over $268 billion has been bet on sports in the U.S., leading to $22 billion in revenue, according to publicly available data compiled by Legal Sports Report. As of November, 37 states plus Washington, D.C. have legalized sports betting in some form.
The Roundhill Sports Betting & iGaming ETF, a tier-weighted index of global sports betting & iGaming companies, is up 9.54% in 2023 to date.
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