Post your Super Bowl winnings (or losings) right here... I personally didn't bet myself, but my friend's mom won about $200 on squares.
I lost $2 on squares, but won $10 playing poker through the whole game. We only really watched the fourth quarter when it got interesting.
Not much of a gambler. Before the game started, I had been saying that I thought the over was a lock, and people were giving me crap when the score was still zip-zip late in the second quarter. When the Pats finally got on the board a few seconds later, I told the host of the party I'd bet him ten bucks and take the over with thirty points. Of course, both teams scored again within just a few minutes. One of the girls in attendance said something about Nelly when he came out at half time, and I piped up with, "five bucks says he takes his shirt off." Some guy jumped up and said, "I'll take that bet." So I guess I grossed a total of five whole dollars. Still had a good time.
That's a way for those fat chicks and geeks in accounting that don't know anything about football to get involved with the Superbowl. There are different versions of squares. The kind my friend and his mom were playing, you put your name in a square that has a different number for each team. If the last number of the each team's score matches your numbers, you win some money. Let's say you had the numbers 4 for team A and 0 team B and Team A leads Team B at the end of the first quarter 14-10, then you win whatever amount is designated for that quarter. If you're lucky, you can win every quarter and get a pretty nice payday...
Hey, I've got a question, if I would have put down $20 on the Panthers covering the spread in Vegas, how much would I have won?
Depends on what the juice was on the line. Usually the line is at (-110) in Vegas. This means that you have to wager $110 to win $100. So if you would have bet $20, you would have won $18.18
Just to clear up the misinformation: Bet: Carolina to cover the 7 point spread Juice: -110 Amount Bet: $20 Payout: $38.18 Winnings: $18.18
That's what I was about to say...."OK, so how much do you have to bet in order to actually MAKE any money?"
Lost $50 total. $25 on the actual game, and $25 that Vinatieri would choke again after missing 2 FGs. That rat b*stard.
Lost $12 bucks for the Pats winning but got $25 for Delhomme leading the Cats downfield on that last drive and scoring the TD. Sucker.
$200 on the OVER 37.5. Only 1 Superbowl has scored less than 38 pts since 1990, and that was 2 years ago when the Pats played the Rams to 20-17. I figured lightening couldn't strike twice. Needless to say, I was about to put a bullet into my TV well into the 2nd quarter.
At least you weren't this guy... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/160908p-141142c.html Bettor luck as snow cushions bridge jump A Super Bowl gambler who lost big allegedly took a dive off the Whitestone Bridge - but doctors wager he'll pull through after landing in a pile of snow. Cops did not say how much Adrian Conde, 25, lost on the game, but it was enough to make him want to cash in his chips. So around 11 p.m., less than an hour after the New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29, Conde stopped his girlfriend's station wagon in the bridge's far right Bronx-bound lane and leaped, cops said. Conde, who lives with his parents in Morris Park, landed 100 feet below, in a 10-foot pile of snow in Ferry Points Park in the Bronx. EMTs, called by witnesses, found him writhing in pain just a stone's throw from the edge of the East River. "He was moaning and groaning, with no comprehensible words," said EMT Jennifer Ferraro of Battalion 20 in the Bronx, who along with her partner, Justin Lim, treated Conde at the scene. "Everybody was pretty amazed that he survived," she said. Conde was listed in stable condition yesterday at Jacobi Medical Center, nursing head wounds and some cuts and scratches on his legs, hospital officials said. Conde's relatives and friends, who gathered in the hospital's lobby yesterday, refused to speak with reporters.
