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About 80 percent of the action will be on which team wins, but Vegas bookmakers offer more than 200 wagering options, including Player to Score First Touchdown (Eddie George, Titans, is the 9-2 favorite); the Double Result, a bet on who's ahead at the half and at the end (you can have Tennessee at the half and St. Louis at the end at 7-2); who scores first and who wins the game (you can take the Rams both ways at 5-6).
Used disparagingly by bookmakers of their customers, especially those placing small bets.
Having won the Kentucky Derby at 31-1 odds (the longest long-shot winner since 1940), he surprised the bookmakers again by winning the Preakness at 8-1.
It was about the huge losses taken by the Nevada bookmakers on the Holyfield-Tyson fight, and I was delighted all over again when the article was "posted" Nov. 22, only seven days after I had taken on the assignment.
2) Adding injury to insult, Branson will lose the $300,000 he had bet (against British bookmakers) that the trip would succeed.