The Golden Nugget Las Vegas will have its eyes focused on No. 7 Michigan as the Sweet Sixteen begins on Thursday evening. That’s because Derek Stevens, the owner of the D Casino, placed a $12,500 wager at +8000 for the Wolverines to win it all.<\/p>\n
\nGolden Nugget owner and host of CNBC’s “Billion Dollar Buyer” Tilman Fertitta isn’t yet sweating the bet. “I’ve got a million up, and you’re in #SWEET16? Should be fun my friend!” the billionaire tweeted at Stevens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe D Casino owner is one of Las Vegas’ early March Madness victims. Stevens placed $11,000 on each of the 32 first-round games. He went 10-19-3 to lose $109,000.<\/p>\n
To win his $1 million bet, Michigan will need to beat No. 3 Oregon on Thursday, then likely get past No. 1 Kansas to reach the Final Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Las Vegas oddsmakers are welcoming in spring with open arms. After a run of 12 months that was filled with underdogs overcoming long odds, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is providing casino sportsbooks with the perfect elixir. With the first week of March Madness in the books, it was the oddsmakers in Nevada that played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":47205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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