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Million Dollar Marco wins $2.8M on a parlay including Vikings’ epic comeback, Raiders’ last-second miracle

No, he didn’t hedge. Yes, he nearly cashed out. And there’s a logical reason he let it ride.

Marco Piemonte could see it in Jeff Saturday’s play-calling. The Colts were about to blow a 33-point lead in Minnesota.

Indianapolis was passing on second down, choosing not to work the clock and the Vikings were finally starting to string some drives together.

With the Colts up 36-14, and the Vikes +700 live on the moneyline, Marco made his move. He jumped on Minnesota’s odds to finish off the largest comeback in NFL history and parlayed it with a few other picks he’d already tossed out on his 100x Club podcast; Browns ML, Dolphins +7, Jaguars +4, Raiders ML (+9191), dropping $31,000 to win $2.88 million.

It miraculously cashed, and the journey to get there was unlike any Marco had experienced. He found himself on the right side of three completely bonkers finishes that are still hard to comprehend 24 hours later.

“This parlay will go down as my best win ever,” Piemonte told BetFTW on Monday. “Three storybook comebacks and the most insane ending in the world that football has ever seen with the Raiders.”

From the comfort of the his suburban Chicago home, Marco watched his 12th successful million dollar parlay of the year cash surrounded by a few friends and a representative from DraftKings. The moment the Patriots inexplicably lateraled a win to Las Vegas was captured by Betr and shows Piemonte’s appropriately stunned reaction.

(WARNING: There’s NSFW language in the video below)

“I thought I was going to pass out when [Chandler Jones] was running to the end zone,” Piemonte said.

If the end of the Raiders game was pure joy, the Jaguars-Cowboys game was pure exhaustion.

Piemonte thought he was cooked after Dallas went up 27-10 in the third quarter. Then Jacksonville scored three straight touchdowns to bring him back to life before a wild pick-six in overtime brought him one leg from nearly $3 million.

“That was the most excruciating game,” Piemonte said. “At least get me to the [afternoon] games. Don’t cut my day now. When that game was over it was a surreal feeling.” 

That’s not to say things got any easier for him while the Raiders were battling the Pats. And, yes, Marco did think about either hedging or cashing out. But he didn’t have enough money left in his account to hedge.

“The cashout got as high as $2.4 million,” Marco said. “I’m not going to lie, I thought about clicking the button. Take the win, move on.”

The only reason he didn’t? Dinner arrived at the house, momentarily taking his attention away from the TV. Unfortunately, that was also the moment the Raiders threw a pick-six. That put the Pats within a touchdown of tying the game and dropped the cashout to zero.

Piemonte was crushed, convinced his bet was about to bust. Then Las Vegas tied the game with 30 seconds left.

“When the Raiders tied it the cashout went from zero back to $2.4 million,” Marco said. “I thought I had zero so you just have to live with it.”

Now he’s living with an extra $2.8 million sitting in his account. Marco said he’s up $9 million on the year but none of those wins come close to this one.

One of the wildest weekends in NFL history will go down as the latest bit of magic for Million Dollar Marco.

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J.J. Watt is going to reward a bettor who lost a parlay on his TD that refs erroneously called back

This bad beat just turned into a huge win.

J.J. Watt should have had an easy touchdown in Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams.

When his Cardinals teammate Myjai Sanders strip-sacked John Wolford in the second quarter, Watt had an easy scoop and what should’ve been a short return.

The ruling on the field, however, was an incomplete pass. So Watt’s recovery didn’t count. And while replay review overturned the call, correctly giving Arizona possession, it couldn’t correct the true outcome of the play.

For Arizona bettor Joey Reyes, that was the difference in a parlay that came up short needing one final leg: a touchdown for Arizona’s defense.

Instead of winning $1,000, Reyes got nothing, and he couldn’t help but share his disappointment with Watt on Twitter.

Watt, who clearly wanted that score, shared in his pain. So the three-time Defensive Player of the Year is apparently gifting Reyes something to make up for it.

“I got you. DM me your address.”

“I’m just an AZ boy born&raised, love nothing more than my Arizona Cardinals. So Cardinals ML is obvious, had faith in the defense stepping up yesterday against Wolford & James Conner is healthy again so I knew he would do his thing!” Reyes told For The Win in a direct message.

It turns out Reyes was right, but the referees were wrong for blowing the play dead. They should have let Watt score, then reviewed the fumble after.

Thanks to Watt, the blown call might not cost Reyes. But there’s likely someone else out there who isn’t so lucky.

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Same cities, same night: 3 parlays to sweeten the rare World Series-NFL crossover between Houston and Philadelphia

The Astros and Phillies will play a World Series game at the same time the Eagles are playing the Texans.

On Thursday night, one of the truly rare things in sports will occur when Game 5 of the World Series takes place at the same time as Thursday Night Football — and Philadelphia and Houston teams play in both games.

It’ll be just the seventh time ever that a World Series and NFL game takes place on the same day involving the same two metro areas, according to ELIAS.

That also means it’s time for bettors to get crazy with parlays they never thought possible. Below, I put together my favorite low-risk, medium-risk and high-risk two-leg parlays from tonight’s action between the Astros and Phillies, and Eagles and Texans.

(Odds from BetMGM)

A last-minute hedge saved a bettor after the final leg of their $124K parlay failed

>>> losing on the last of 17 legs.

Sometimes hedging a bet is your only option. Because if turning $7 into $124,000 on a 17-leg parlay seems to good to be true, it probably is.

That was the case for one NFL bettor who decided he wasn’t leaving his earnings up to fate.

Ahead of Week 8 action, the bettor placed a bet for $7.77 on a 17-leg parlay with +1600073 odds. It would have paid out more than $124,000. Incredibly, the first 16 legs hit Sunday, leaving Joe Mixon’s rushing yards over on Monday night as the only leg left.

At that point, the bettor had two options. Let it ride and risk coming away with nothing. Or sprinkle something on Mixon’s under to create a win-win scenario.

Wisely, they did the latter. Mixon was held to just 27 yards in a rough game for the Bengals.

It helps to have $34K sitting around that you can use on a hedge. But with that money at their disposal, the bettor netted $29,000.

It’s not the $124K they would’ve won if the final leg of the parlay had hit (or $90K with the hedge subtracted). But for a bet that started with just $7, it’s most definitely a big win.

And it should lead to a pretty good honeymoon. The bettor got married Sunday.

The lesson here is always hedge if you can.

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Brothers Amon-Ra and Equanimeous St. Brown incredibly scored Week 1 touchdowns just seconds apart

Have a day, St. Brown family.

Have yourself a day St. Brown family.

Brothers Equanimeous and Amon-Ra St. Brown of the rival Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions both scored touchdowns for their respective teams Sunday, and they did it just a few second apart — albeit 300 miles away from each other.

While Equanimeous was hauling in an 18-yard pass from Justin Fields to give the Bears their first lead in the fourth quarter of their game at home against the 49ers, Amon-Ra was scoring on a four-yard pass from Jared Goff in the third quarter of Detroit’s game at home against the Eagles.

Any bettor who actually thought to parlay the brothers as anytime touchdown scorers got fantastic odds, per Action Network analyst Gilles Gallant.

The only thing that could’ve made the day better was a win for both teams. While the Bears appear to be well on their way to pulling off the upset over San Francisco, the Lions look to be headed for a Week 1 loss.

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Newlyweds were gifted a 4-leg MLB parlay tip for their wedding. It actually cashed out

A lock, gift-wrapped.

Let me tell you, as a sometimes awful gift giver, there’s one gift you can never go wrong with, and that’s the gift of cash. When I have no clue what to get someone, I throw a couple bucks in a Hallmark and let them decide on their own.

That’s what one person did as a wedding gift for Twitter user Vin Simeone…kind of. Simeone shared an image of the card his buddy gave him, and the cash wasn’t exactly in hand.

Simeone’s money was gifted in the form of a four-leg parlay on Monday’s MLB action. His buddy drew a little lock underneath the picks, which was apparently all Simeone needed to put $50 on the action. And it actually cashed for a gift of more than $600.

Having to spend your own money to unlock the potential for more money as a wedding gift sounds like the pyramid scheme I was lucky to dodge in college.

But it worked out for Simeone. And I’m guessing his buddy gifted himself a few bucks as well. So I guess all’s well that ends well.

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This lucky bettor made more than $400,000 on inexplicable WNBA road underdog parlay

What a gamble.

If you’re going to bet $7 thousand on an all-road underdog parlay, I can only assume you have money to burn. But what can I actually say when it pays off?

Lucky bet. That’s what I’ll go with. It was a lucky bet – albeit it a very lucrative one in the case of a DraftKings bettor who ended up with more than $400 thousand from a three-leg WNBA parlay on Saturday.

The first leg, a Phoenix Mercury win over the Dallas Wings, may have been the least shocking outcome of the three. But even that was far from a given considering it was Phoenix’s first game since parting with second-leading scorer Tina Charles. At +7.5 on Tipico Sportsbook, the Mercury were actually bigger underdogs than the LA Sparks (+6.5) against the Seattle Storm.

The Washington Mystics (+9.5), who capped this parlay with a win over the Las Vegas Aces, were actually the biggest underdogs of the three winners despite having the best record of the three. That tends to happen when you’re playing against a team favored to win the league championship at +110 odds. Their one-point overtime win in the late game was the one that made our lucky bettor sweat the most.

But like I said, this bettor obviously had money to blow and took a swing. And boy did they connect.

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This massive cross-sport parlay made one bettor so much money

The first result was in April and the ticket just cashed out in June.

The best way to maximize your profits on a parlay is to add as many outcomes with favorable odds as possible. And sometimes you have to look to futures bets to stack up enough of those to make it worth your while.

That’s exactly what Instagram user @dpargs did with an incredible five-sport parlay that spanned three different months before being decided. And it was absolutely worth the wait, as he turned $100 into more than $19,000, according to FanDuel.

It all started April 24 with two simple moneyline bets — one on an English Premier League match between Liverpool and Everton and the other on an MLB game between the Giants and Nationals. A few additional results later, including both NBA conference winners and both French Open singles winners, the bet cashed out when the Colorado Avalanche clinched the NHL’s Western Conference title on Monday.

Surely, dpargs had ample opportunities to cash out earlier for a smaller sum. But his patience was rewarded with a small salary. Now, if we can get him to teach the rest of us his ways.

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One bettor turned $10 into $16 thousand with this wild college hoops parlay

This cash-out needed 19 legs to hit.

Why have $10 when you can have $16,000?

It’s a fair question after one bettor flipped their little lunch money into enough cake to buy a car. But if it were easy everyone would do it.

Instagram user @kevbibby___ pulled off the feat Thursday, according to FanDuel, with a highly improbable 19-leg college basketball parlay. His $10 bet resulted in a $15,979.07 payout.

The bettor went chalk for the majority of their picks, but like a pro, they also tossed in a few borderline picks to sweeten the pot, including Purdue Fort Wayne’s +220 moneyline over Oakland.

It all made for a really good night.

Maybe the craziest part of this parlay is that it isn’t made up of a bunch of ranked or Power 5 college games. Some of these picks required some serious attention to the lower levels of college hoops, research, luck, or all of the above.

Impressive all around.

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Bad Beat: Unlucky bettor misses 25-leg parlay payout by one point

One bettor narrowly missed out on a huge payout on a multi-leg college basketball parlay.

Parlays are one of the more fun ways to bet, but stringing together correct pick after correct pick is immensely difficult. This is especially true the more involved the parlay. One bettor put together a 25-leg college basketball parlay on February 22, and they were SO close to hitting paydirt.

At +307697 odds for the parlay, the bettor stood to make $3076.97 on their $1 bet.

The bettor in question went with the favorites in 23-of-25 picks, going with the underdog for UNLV (+125) at Nevada and San Diego State (+106) at Boise State. UNLV won comfortably by eight, but a one-point loss by SDSU cost them the whole payout.

Not only was it a one-point loss, the Aztecs were leading by one until a missed free throw by SDSU led to a foul on the rebound. This sent Abu Kigab to the line with a chance to win the game, and he hit both to give Boise State the 58-57 victory.

Absolutely BRUTAL way to lose.

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