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Mad Bets: Falcons blunder was a big win for bettors

Minty Bets is joined by the Director of Trading for MGM Resorts, Jeff Stoneback, to discuss the top winners and losers from NFL Week 7.

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MINTY BETS: Hey, Everyone! It's Winners and Losers Week 7. I'm here with Director of Trading for MGM Resorts, Jeff Stoneback.

Jeff, who are the winners of the House, this week?

JEFF STONEBACK: Well, the, uh, the bettors were a winner, overall, for today. Just a few winners for the house, that was the Steelers beating the Titans. The Steelers open to 1 and 1/2 point favorite, they actually closed as a dog. Titans were 1 and 1/2 point favorite at closing. 49ers beating the Patriots, that was a winner for us too. And then this Sunday night game here when the Cardinals end up upsetting the Seahawks. The public was all over the Seahawks. So those were really our only 3 winners of the day.

- Interesting. OK, now who are the biggest winners of the public. I know there was a lot of money on the Bucks-Raiders game, is that right?

- Yeah, uh, well that wasn't-- that didn't even hit the top 5 of our list. Here, the Chargers game against the Jaguars, that was our biggest loser the day. We had, uh, some large wagers on the Chargers that came out-- opened 8 went to 9.

Of course, the Chiefs beating the Broncos, that was a big loser for us. The public was all over the Chiefs, just like they are every week, even though the professionals were on the Broncos. That game went from an opening number of 9 all the way down to 7. But the public obviously all over the Chiefs.

The big, uh, real tough one for us was the Lions over the Falcons. Lions opened up plus 3. Game went all the way down to pick. The Falcons could not fall down close enough to the end zone there. And they did their second-- the Falcons their second half collapse in a minute and 4 seconds, I think it was. So last play in the game. That one really hurt.

Packers beating the Texans. Packers always a public team.

And then the Cowboys, used to be a public team, now people like to bet against them. They open as a 2 point favorite. Closes a 1 point dog. And got spanked by Washington. And that was also another big loser for us.

- Interesting. Well, hope all of you that are watching, we're on the winning side. And if not, there's always next week. Thank you so much, Jeff!

- Thanks.

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