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Betting on March Madness: Vegas Secrets to Bracketology
Buckle up, sports bettors—save for Super Bowl Sunday, there’s no better time to hit Las Vegas sports books than the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s basketball tournament, which starts with a play-in game on March 16.
This ritual, known as March Madness, plays out over the course of three weeks every spring, and pits the 65 best teams in the country against each other for a shot at the national title.
The 2010 national championship game is April 5, but the best part of the tournament is the first full weekend—March 18-21. Sports fans like this weekend because 48 of the tournament’s 64 games take place over four days, providing virtually non-stop tailgate-like excitement in the books. Bettors like these matchups because, inevitably, oddsmakers undervalue certain teams, providing ample opportunities to strike it rich.
We won’t waste this space to tell you where to watch the games (after all, we’ve already rated the best sports books in town). We will, however, provide you with five important pointers on how to get the most out of your March Madness experience, and how to ensure that the ritual doesn’t leave you, well, mad.
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Wynn's Bookmaker Sets Odds On Top Chef Las Vegas Contestants
By now it’s no secret that the newest season of Top Chef was filmed in Las Vegas. We've been keeping track of rumored and confirmed locations for the past few months and we've just started doing re-caps of each episode. (Stay tuned for tomorrow's recap!)
But less well-known are the odds on the show hung weekly by Johnny Avello, executive director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas.
The fast-talking native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., runs the only sports book in all of Sin City that sets odds on entertainment. Though you can’t actually bet money on any of the lines (the Nevada Gaming Control Board only allows books to take wagers on events played in sporting arenas), Avello's insights offer interesting indications of who are the favorites and who aremost likely to be asked to pack their knives and go.
