Record $179.8M wagered on Super Bowl at Nevada sportsbooks

Super Bowl LVI saw millions of dollars crossing the counters at Nevada's 179 sportsbooks. A record $179,823,715 was bet, and the casinos kept $15,413,228, or 8.6 percent.

The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals by a score of 23-20. The best scenarios for sportsbooks are for the favorite team to win but not cover the spread and for the two teams to score under the total predicted by the casino.

In Sunday's game, the favored team, the Rams, didn't cover the 4 1/2 point spread, and the total game score of 43 was under 48 1/2 points, giving the casinos exactly what they wanted for the win.

Had Joe Burrow and the Bengals been able to score when getting the ball back with 1:25 left, the outcome would have been very different for the casinos.

News from Las Vegas earlier in the week said Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale of Texas had bet $9.5 million in money-line bets on the Bengals at Caesars Palace. He lost since a money-line bet doesn't give points, just a straight-up win by one's team.

The biggest win by casinos on Super Bowl was in 2014 when Seattle beat Denver, 43-8. That year casinos won $19,673,960, kept almost 20 percent

Other games from the last ten years (year, amount bet, amount won by casinos, percentage kept, teams and score):

2021 - $136,096,460 - $12,574,125 - 9.2% - Tampa Bay 31, Kansas City 9
2020 - $154,679,241 - $18,774,148 - 12.1% Kansas City 31, San Francisco 20
2019 - $145,939,025 - $10,780,319 - 7.4% New England 13, Los Angeles 3
2018 - $158,586,934 - $ 1,170,432 - 0.7% Philadelphia 41, New England 33
2017 - $138,480,136 - $10,937,826 - 7.9% New England 34, Atlanta 28
2016 - $132,545,587 - $13,314,539 - 10.1% Denver 24, Carolina 10
2015 - $115,986,086 - $ 3,261,066 - 2.8% New England 28, Seattle 24
2014 = $119,400,822 - $19,673,960 - 16.5% Seattle 43, Denver 8
2013 - $98,936,798 - $ 7,206,460 - 7.3% Baltimore 34, San Francisco 31