Big Bets Report: Bettor Misses $1.3 Million Payday After USA Hockey Wins Gold

There’s no doubt that the NFL drives the American sports betting bus. That’s where the bulk of action is, including plenty of major wagers and wild winners.

But there are still plenty of bets flowing elsewhere, now that the NFL season is over, perhaps on college basketball, the NBA, tennis and golf.

Or the NHL, where last week, a Caesars Sports customer turned a three-figure bet into a huge six-figure payday.

More on that winning wager, notable parlay hits and misses and other interesting plays as we recap betting from the past week or so.

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Huge Hockey Hit

Last week at Caesars, a customer put $500 on a nine-leg NHL parlay, spread across Wednesday and Thursday games. 

The parlay had a nice balance of favorites and underdogs, be it on totals or the puckline — teams to either win by more than 1.5 goals or lose by less than 1.5 goals.

Stunningly, all nine legs got to the finish line. At odds of about +83000 (830/1), the bet would’ve paid out approximately $415,000.

However, the bettor also utilized an escalator boost, which bolsters the odds with each leg that’s added to a parlay.

So instead of $415,000, the bettor walked away with an even more whopping $704,042.25.

Above-Par Bettor

At Fanatics Sportsbook, a customer dove into all three of the top professional golf tours last week. The bettor put a modest $10 on a three-leg parlay of each winner:

Add all that up, and you’ve got massive long-shot odds of +207900 (2079/1).

Nico Echavarria shot 5 under in the final round to win the PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic by two strokes. On the LPGA