Last weekend's football games take toll on sportsbooks, admits Sports Interaction official


Sports Interaction, based outside of Montreal, Quebec, confirms that bookies, themselves included, took quite a battering on what they are deeming NFL’s “Black Sunday”.

An unprecedented run of favourites winning this past weekend in the NFL has left the bookmaking industry paying out millions to its football bettors, the sportsbook has revealed.

Sixteen NFL games were played last Sunday and Monday, and eleven favourites won and covered the spread. The culmination was Seattle’s demolition of Philadelphia on Monday Night Football. Good news for bettors, but not so good for the bookmakers who have to write the checks.

“We’re calling it ‘Black Sunday’,” revealed Anthony Munnelly, Vice President, Sports and Events, at Sports Interaction, the first online sportsbook licensed and registered in North America. “In my time in the industry I have never seen a Sunday like it.”

This was further confirmed by Gambling911.com posting forum contributor and online gambling expert, The Insider:

"I'm hard pressed to recall a worse pro football weekend EVER for the books," commented The Insider.  "If some midsized goes belly up this week or next I wouldn't be shocked in the slightest."

Obviously, it would be prudent to ONLY use those sportsbooks endorsed by Gambling911.com.

Sports Interaction is certainly a bookmaker that can handle the onslaught, unlike a number of the startups and smaller poorly managed sportsbooks. 

“It’s very unusual to see that many favourites cover at any one weekend, especially in this era of parity,” added Munnelly. “I’m happy for our customers, they won their money fair and square and good luck to them. But when I’m writing my letter to Santa later this week I’m going to ask for some underdogs to starting biting, before I end up on standing on the street wearing a red hat and ringing a bell.”

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Gambling911.com News Wire

Originally published December 7, 2005 3:45 pm EST
 

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