Super Bowl 49 Morning Line: Vegas Books Hold at Pick’em, Bookmaker -1
The Super Bowl 49 morning line was coming in at New England -1 at nearly 90% of the online sportsbooks with only a few minor variations noted. Nonetheless, these variations are taking place at two of the Web’s biggest books.
Sportsbook.ag had the Patriots at -1. This is a recreational book with extremely high volume, mostly from “squares” or small every day gamblers.
BetOnline.ag follows a similar business model as Sportsbook, however, their lines tend to be more aggressive. They were at a PICK’EM with their Super Bowl 49 morning line.
Then there is the sharpest of the sharp books, Bookmaker.eu, which for the past 14 hours had held onto the Seahawks -1.
Gambling911.com has seen at least one online books offering the Patriots at -1.5 Sunday morning.
It’s interesting to note that most of the Las Vegas sportsbooks, including Westgate, Stations and the Mirage, were offering Super Bowl 49 as a PICK’EM (or with EVEN odds) Super Bowl morning.
73% of the spread action was coming in on New England in North America whereas the European bookmakers appeared to have slightly more action coming in on Seattle, though there was a tendency for nearly all those books to offer both teams priced around -110.
- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
