Last week, New York reported taking more than $2 billion in sports bets in a month, the first state to surpass the milestone, and Colorado disclosed that bettors had wagered $12.5 million on table tennis in September.
Yet, the wildest wagering storylines of the week came out of Florida.
On Sunday, a bettor with Hard Rock casino’s newly reopened online sportsbook in Florida won $5.5 million on a four-leg, same-game parlay on the Houston Texans-Cincinnati Bengals game… It resulted in one of the largest parlay payouts ever reported by a U.S. sportsbook. But it wasn’t even the wildest bet of the first week of legal betting’s return to Florida.
