\nIt will be good for the books. Well, maybe. We\u2019ll see,\u201d<\/strong> Bogdanovich said. \u201cMaybe we\u2019ll get our butts kicked. I want to say it was \u201993 or \u201994, it was a tsunami. They won every game Thursday, so they had more to bet with on Friday. They won every bet Friday, so they had more to bet on Saturday. Then they won more on Saturday. By Sunday, the bookmakers were crying, it was so bad. It was the most insane four-day run of all-time. It was an unparalleled beating for bookmakers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nSalmons has some bad memories, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always the favorites,\u201d who get bet, he recalled. \u201cI have a lot of bad memories of Thanksgiving and the favorites winning every game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Win or lose, sportsbooks know the importance of Thanksgiving runs deeper than Thursday’s bets. This isn\u2019t just about printing some extra tickets. Rather, it\u2019s about attracting and maintaining customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanksgiving\u2019s a massive opportunity,\u201d<\/b> Eichner said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to see a lot of very aggressive pricing, promotions, boosters to perhaps capture new clients or keep existing clients happy and sticky to your book, and make sure that your book remains their book of preference. It\u2019s an opportunity on both sides of the table.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the CDC encouraging people to stay home for Thanksgiving due to rising COVID-19 rates, the sports-betting action might be hotter than the Thanksgiving gravy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":156629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16,1074],"tags":[81004,80968,81859,81865],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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