William Hill sports books offer new college football contest

William Hill has 106 sports books in Nevada/

Pro and College Contests are now available at over 100 William Hill Sports Books across Nevada
LAS VEGAS (August 3, 2016) – With the 2016 football season just over a month away, William Hill Sports Book has opened registration for a pair of contests - the popular Pro Pick‘em and the all-new College Pick ‘em.

Back for another season, the Pro Pick ‘em contest is just $25 to enter and offers $300,000 in cash prizes. For each of the 17 weeks of the Pro Football Regular Season, players will pick the winner of the Sunday and Monday games (Saturday games for Week 16), with a $10,000 weekly cash prize paid to the entry with the most winners. The entry with the most wins at season’s end will collect a $20,000 Grand Prize. The contest also offers a $100,000 bonus to the contest’s season winner if they finish with 200 or more wins.

New for 2016, the College Pick’em – Nevada’s only college football handicapping contest – costs $500 to play, with a maximum of 3 entries allowed. Offering 100% payback, players choose seven games against the spread from a menu of 25 designated weekly games. At the end of the season, the top finisher will collect 70% of the final prize pool and is eligible for an additional $25,000 cash bonus if they finish with 49 wins or more. The entry with the second most wins throughout the season will collect 20% and the entry with the third most wins will collect the remaining 10% of the prize pool.

“Our contests are a reflection of William Hill’s commitment to offer the best product to our sports betting customers in Nevada,” said William Hill Director of Marketing Michael Grodsky. “The College Pick’em contest was a popular request from our patrons and we look forward to an exciting inaugural season.”

The Pro Pick ‘em contest begins on Sunday, September 11th and lasts through the conclusion of the regular season on January 1st. The College Pick ‘em contest lasts 10 weeks, starting on Friday, September 9th and running through November 12.

The deadline to enter the Pro Pick’em contest is 8am on Sunday, September 11th. The deadline for the College Pick’em contest is 8am on Saturday, September 10th. Players may register their entries at any of the full-service William Hill books throughout Nevada. Weekly contest picks can be submitted at any William Hill full-service or kiosk location. For full contest rules and a list of William Hill Nevada Sports Book locations, please visit www.williamhill.us.

Las Vegas Sports Book Notes: It's go-time for the books

The Mirage sports book is always entertaining for ticket writers.

It is go time for Las Vegas sportsbooks with the calendar turning to August, which is a kind of alert bell signifying there are only four weeks to get all final football season preparations done.

There’s a check list many book directors go through to ensure they maximize earning potential in the final business quarter while also having procedures in place to stay in compliance with internal and state controls.

Is the book clean and ready to go with suitable TV’s? Are all the marketing campaigns and promotions already set in motion? Has the staff been given a refresher course on gaming regulations and has all the necessary hiring been done to properly accommodate longer business hours and more tickets written? The list is much longer, but you get the idea.

A JOB THAT'S FUN
If looking for employment on the Strip or at local properties, try writing bet tickets for one of the sportsbooks during football season. I’d estimate 50 percent of the seasonal labor increases have been put in motion already, but there’s still more hiring to be done all over town. In addition to competitive hourly wages, there’s also a percentage of tips that come your way based on hours worked. Write a few tickets, keep up with all the scores, enjoy the fast-paced environment with roaring crowds and then make some money on top of it.

Most of the openings are part-time, but if thinking further down the road the book might be a place where you want to make a career, this is where you start. Get your foot in the door anywhere. Absorb all the info you can, and most importantly, listen.

If you have a great attitude, can follow rules and balance your drawer, you’ll move up the ladder quickly. Every book supervisor, manager, director and VP currently in town went through the exact same process.

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Olympic wagering available in Las Vegas first time since 1998

William Hill went all out with Olympic props.

For the first time since 1998, bettors in Las Vegas can now wager on the Olympics thanks to a Nevada Gaming Regulation change last year.

And if looking to bet on the most obscure of events, the largest wagering menu in the state is offered at William Hill's 106 sports books. They've got 96 betting options for the Brazil summer games scheduled to begin Aug. 5.

"The action has been better than I thought it would be at this juncture," said William Hill's top oddsmaker Nick Bogdanovich.

"I'm expecting once the television coverage starts with people getting more involved in the stories and hype coming from ESPN, NBC and the radio, we're going to get a 'see and react' type of deal from bettors. And now it's more convenient than ever for people to make a wager as events are happening with the mobile phone app offering everything we have on the board."

The last time Nevada betting on the Olympics took place was in the 1998 winter games, and action was large for the final hockey games where Dominik Hasek and the Czech Republic won the the gold. The games were late at night, but the books were still full with dozens of fans rooting their bets in while others just watched because they had the Olympic spirit.

Soon after, Senator John McCain questioned why Nevada didn't take action on its two college basketball teams, but did for all others. McCain was campaigning for prohibiting wagers on college athletics. Nevada lawmakers quickly reacted and made a change allowing UNLV and Nevada-Reno to be on the board, but they also threw in Olympics in the amended verbiage as a prohibited event with other amateur events such as high school athletics.

The topic of Olympic wagering didn't come before the state again until 2014 when the South Point, William Hill and a few other sports book operators campaigned for a change, since most of the athletes are professional anyway, and last year it was approved.

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Drew Brees favored to have most 2016 passing yards

2016-17 NFL REGULAR SEASON PROPS RELEASED

Oddsmakers at William Hill have released 35 new props (sheets attached) for this upcoming 2016-17 Pro Football Regular Season. The props are available at all of William Hill’s 106 Nevada Sports Books and on the Mobile Sports app.

Below are six charts showing six of the thirty-five Pro Football Regular Season props that William Hill has made available for wagering at the 106 Nevada Sports Books and on the Mobile Sports app.

Most Regular Season Passing Yards in 2016-17:

PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER @WILLIAMHILLUS	Current Odds (7/28/16)
DREW BREES	4/1
CARSON PALMER	8/1
ANDREW LUCK	6/1
PHILIP RIVERS	8/1
ELI MANNING	10/1
AARON RODGERS	12/1
MATT RYAN	12/1
MATTHEW STAFFORD	15/1
BEN ROETHLISBERGER	7/1
BLAKE BORTLES	15/1
RYAN TANNEHILL	25/1
RUSSELL WILSON	40/1
TONY ROMO	15/1
CAM NEWTON	40/1
JAMEIS WINSTON	20/1
KURT COUSINS	20/1
DEREK CARR	25/1
JOE FLACCO	40/1
ANDY DALTON	40/1
FIELD	9/2

Most Regular Season Rushing Yards in 2016-17:

PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER @WILLIAMHILLUS	Current Odds (7/28/16)
ADRIAN PETERSON	9/2
TODD GURLEY	5/1
DOUG MARTIN	10/1
LESEAN MCCOY	12/1
DEMARCO MURRAY	12/1
EDDIE LACY	12/1
LATAVIUS MURRAY	12/1
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT	15/1
THOMAS RAWLS	15/1
JAMAAL CHARLES	18/1
JUSTIN FORSETT	20/1
CHRIS IVORY	20/1
MATT FORTE	22/1
DEVONTA FREEMAN	22/1
JONATHAN STEWART	30/1
RYAN MATTHEWS	35/1
JEREMY HILL	25/1
CJ ANDERSON	40/1
LAMAR MILLER	30/1
FIELD	4/1

Most Regular Season Receiving Yards in 2016-17:

PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER @WILLIAMHILLUS	Current Odds (7/28/16)
JULIO JONES	5/1
ANTONIO BROWN	5/1
ODELL BECKHAM JR	5/1
DEMARYIUS THOMAS	12/1
AJ GREEN	10/1
ALLEN ROBINSON	8/1
BRANDON MARSHALL	12/1
DEZ BRYANT	15/1
TY HILTON	12/1
ALSHON JEFFERY	20/1
RANDALL COBB	20/1
AMARI COOPER	15/1
SAMMY WATKINS	30/1
KEENAN ALLEN	25/1
MIKE EVANS	30/1
LARRY FITZGERALD	40/1
BRANDIN COOKS	25/1
ROB GRONKOWSKI	50/1
JARVIS LANDRY	50/1
FIELD	5/1

More Passing Yards 2016-17 Regular Season: Russell Wilson vs Cam Newton

PASSING YARDS: WILSON vs NEWTON @WILLIAMHILLUS	CURRENT ODDS @WILLIAMHILLUS
RUSSELL WILSON	-110
CAM NEWTON	-110

More Receiving Yards 2016-17 Regular Season: Julio Jones vs Antonio Brown

RECEIVING YARDS: JONES vs BROWN @WILLIAMHILLUS	CURRENT ODDS @WILLIAMHILLUS
JULIO JONES	-110
ANTONIO BROWN	-110

Highest Individual Passing Touchdowns Total in 2016-17 Regular Season

INDIVIDUAL PASSING TD TOTAL @WILLIAMHILLUS	CURRENT ODDS @WILLIAMHILLUS
OVER 38.5	-110
UNDER 38.5	-110

Las Vegas Sports Book Notes: Football Two Sunday's Away

South Point hot dogs might be best value in town.

The South Point has come up with a fresh idea to make visiting its property a must throughout the NFL season. Of course the lure is cash, a whole bunch of it.

How does winning a weekly progressive jackpot that begins at $250,000 sound?

Beginning with Week 1 and running through Week 17, $10 is all it takes to enter the contest. If no one correctly picks all 17 options, half the cash taken in will be added to the following week’s jackpot. To win the big cash it’s going to take some skill, but also a lot of luck.

There will be 17 options to choose from on the card with pointspreads and a few totals between the Sunday and Monday games. You can enter as many times as you like. Hit all 17 and you win the Jackpot. Simple, right? Yes, it will be difficult to hit, but there aren’t many betting options in town where $10 can win you more than $250,000.

Anticipate the pot increasing about $20,000 per week. And also figure the Jackpot being won about three to four times during the season, which would make the South Point’s Progressive a huge overlay, meaning they’re going to pay out way more than they’re making off it.

In addition to being able to play for the jackpot, you can also enter under their umbrella of sportsbooks at the Rampart in Summerlin and Riverside in Laughlin.

So when making that route out to turn in all your contest entries around town, be sure to include in a stop at one of the South Point’s books to take a crack at this.

Almost football time

We’re two Sundays away from the first exhibition game and while the Hall of Fame preseason matchup never features a great brand, it’s still pro football. And we’ve been patiently waiting for any kind of hint that football is really back. CG Technology sportsbooks posted Green Bay as a 2.5-point favorite over Indianapolis in this year’s game in Canton.

After Aaron Rodgers runs the offense for two series, the Packers will give former UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley the reigns and then take long looks at Marquise Williams and Joe Callahan. The Colts will have a healthy Andrew Luck for a few series then let new back-up Scott Tolzien take over and eventually give way to Stephen Morris.

No matter what angle someone throws your way, there is no solid handicapping method, so tread lightly. But it’s real football action so a bet or two has to happen, right? I always like to believe the defenses are far more advanced than the offenses early on so I’m usually looking to bet UNDER the total in early preseason games. CG has this total at 35.5.

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