How Parlays Became the Biggest Bet in Sports

帕莱如何成为运动中最大的赌注

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2025-02-08

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If you’ve watched any professional sports this year, chances are you’ve seen ad after ad pushing parlay bets. WSJ’s Katherine Sayre explains how parlays became big business for sports betting companies.  Further Listening: - How a Psychiatrist Lost $400,000 on Gambling Apps  - Disney Gets Into Gambling   Further Reading:  - America Has Fallen in Love With Long-Shot Sports Bets  - This Year’s Big NFL Winners: Fans, Not Sportsbooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Alex Haberkern is 29 years old.

  • She tends bar at a casino in Atlantic City.

  • And despite being surrounded by gambling or maybe because of it, she doesn't consider herself a big gambler.

  • When you work in the industry, it's kind of hard to want to go back and just like be there casually too.

  • Like, I do go to the casino occasionally, but.

  • But I wouldn't say that gambling would be my favorite thing just because I see it every day.

  • There is one thing she really loves betting on, though.

  • Football games.

  • Using apps like FanDuel and DraftKings.

  • And one Sunday last December, Alex made a particularly wild bet.

  • It was before I was going to work and I had like a free $10 bonus.

  • It was like a last minute thing that I was like, it expired if you didn't use it.

  • So I was like, okay.

  • Alex started stringing together a complicated.

  • She bet that Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota vikings would get 80 receiving yards,

  • that James Cook of the Buffalo Bills would score a touchdown in the Steelers Bengals game.

  • She bet that both Ja'marr Chase and Najee Harris would find the end zone.

  • And then the rest just kind of kept going.

  • Most of them were just scorers.

  • Derrick Henry needed 80 yards.