2025 Large Bets report: Thunder, Oilers titles stand between bettor and $100k

NBA playoff odds are getting much more attention-grabbing with the convention finals underway. 

It’s at this level the place futures bets — and extra so futures-parlay bets — actually begin to get the heartbeat racing.

That’s actually the case for one FanDuel Sportsbook buyer, who’s trying to flip a couple of dollars into practically $100,000.

Learn on for extra on that wager, enjoyable parlay payouts, together with different notable bets and main wagers tied to NBA playoffs betting, and an intriguing MLB win for a number of DraftKings Sportsbooks clients.

Constructed for the Futures

Many months in the past, a bettor put collectively a six-team futures parlay at FanDuel, with what gave the impression to be no matter was left in that individual’s account — $4.44 to be precise.

The six legs:

Los Angeles Dodgers -1050 to win the World CollectionJoey Logano +340 to win the NASCAR Cup championshipOhio State +400 to win the Faculty Soccer PlayoffPhiladelphia Eagles +1300 to win the Tremendous BowlEdmonton Oilers +800 to win the Stanley CupOklahoma Metropolis Thunder +600 to win the NBA Finals

The primary 4 legs are already in. Now, it’s stomach-churning time. 

The Oilers are within the NHL’s Western Convention finals vs. the Dallas Stars, and OKC is within the NBA’s Western Convention finals vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves.

If these final two legs get there — the Thunder are favored to win all of it — then the bettor pockets $94,358.88. 

Fairly insane ROI on a $4.44 guess, in the event you ask me.

Parlay Partay

Again on Jan. 17, a Exhausting Rock Guess buyer determined to drop $40 on a 15-leg parlay. In different phrases, sports activities betting’s model of a lottery ticket, with odds of +45574, or virtually 456/1.

It was a cornucopia that included NFL, NCAA soccer, NCAA ladies’s basketball, UFC and NBA.

The primary 14 legs obtained there. Then on Tuesday night time, the ultimate leg delivered: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander profitable the NBA MVP Award.

And that’s the way you flip $40 into $18,269.60.

Quick Break

In Recreation 1 of the Western Convention finals, a FanDuel Sportsbook buyer set a land-speed document, going from $100 to $3,500 in 13 seconds. 

OK, perhaps not a land-speed document, however you get the gist.

The bettor put $100 on the tactic of first basket between Minnesota and Oklahoma Metropolis. 

The choose: Jaden McDaniels 3-pointer, at +3400.

13 seconds in, McDaniels made a 27-foot jumper to offer the Timberwolves a 3-0 lead. And the bettor pocketed $3,400 in revenue, for a complete payout of $3,500.

Triple Scoop

Within the Indiana Fever’s WNBA season opener vs. the Chicago Sky, DraftKings Sportsbook had Caitlin Clark +1300 to document a triple-double. Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy, an enormous Clark fan, couldn’t resist placing down a $25,000 wager.

And Clark delivered — simply barely. The second-year celebrity had 20 factors, 10 assists and 10 rebounds. So Portnoy picked up a hefty $325,000 revenue (whole payout $350,000).

Baseball Bonanza

DraftKings Sportsbook has an attention-grabbing market that it calls King of the Diamond. On days that it’s supplied — Fridays by the top of June, and this previous Monday — bettors can win a share of $1 million in bonus bets.

The way it’s completed:

From eligible video games — often night time matchups — clients select between two and 5 gamers in any sort of home-run parlay.If considered one of your gamers hits a number of residence runs, and that participant’s workforce places up essentially the most runs of the day amongst eligible video games, you win a share of the bonus bets.

Oftentimes, standard gamers on standard groups — the Yankees’ Aaron Choose, the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, and so on. — get the majority of the motion. So a King of the Diamond win will see that $1 million divided up amongst a large variety of clients.

However in the event you take a flier on an surprising participant from an surprising workforce, and it hits, the payoff may be phenomenal.

That was the case in Monday’s Tigers-Cardinals tilt. 

Solely 12 DK clients had home-run parlays that included St. Louis’ Pedro Pagés. He hit a two-run shot within the seventh inning, the one homer of the sport. And the Playing cards received 11-4, placing up essentially the most runs of any workforce in eligible video games.

So these 12 clients obtained $83,333 in bonus bets — 16 bets of $5,000 apiece, and one guess of $3,333.

Higher nonetheless: A few these clients circled Tuesday and used a $5,000 bonus guess on Rhys Hoskins +400 to homer for the Brewers, towards the Orioles. Hoskins led off the eighth inning with a solo shot.

And this time, the payout wasn’t in bonus bets. It was $20,000 in money. Each bettors had been incredulous on X:

I Like Large Bets And I Can not Lie

Main wagers proceed to roll in on NBA playoff odds. 

Arguably one of many extra thrilling bets: a $55,000 play on Indiana Pacers +4.5 vs. New York Knicks, in Wednesday’s Recreation 1 of the Japanese Convention finals.

Halfway by the fourth quarter, it didn’t look good for that Caesars Sports activities buyer, with the Pacers trailing 111-94. With 2:51 remaining, Indy was nonetheless down 119-105, trying unlikely to cowl as a highway underdog, by no means thoughts profitable the sport outright.

However shockingly, the Pacers did each. 

Indiana closed the fourth quarter on a 20-6 run, forcing additional time on Tyrese Haliburton’s lengthy 2-pointer. The Pacers went on to a 138-135 victory.

So the bettor picked up a $50,000 revenue (whole payout $105,000).

On that very same recreation, BetMGM took this wager:

$115,000 Over 220.5 factors (-115). That guess simply cashed in regulation, with the client profiting $100,000 (whole payout $215,000).

As at all times, needless to say these huge bets are sometimes made by high-roller clients who can take up such a loss. Common Joes and Janes such as you and me can not.

And as for these parlays? Effectively, as they are saying, Parlays are a bookmaker’s finest buddy. So preserve it cheap. Don’t guess greater than you may afford to lose.

Patrick Everson is a sports activities betting analyst for FOX Sports activities and senior reporter for VegasInsider.com. He’s a distinguished journalist within the nationwide sports activities betting area. He’s based mostly in Las Vegas, the place he enjoys {golfing} in 110-degree warmth. Observe him on X: @PatrickE_Vegas.

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