In 2005 Super Bowl, an amount of 90.7 million dollars was wagered only in Las Vegas casinos sportsbooks. According to online analysts, internet sportsbook profited between 450 and 600 million dollars from wagers on last year Super Bowl. Larger amounts of bets were placed during the game week in legal and illegal gambling operations.
Even though sports booking is legal only in the state of Nevada, sports bookies collected bets across South Louisiana. Louisiana State Police Capt. Joseph Lentini says he is aware to the illegal sports gambling scene in the area.
According to the gaming historian David Schwartz, around 60 million people will bet 6 dollars billion on the Pittsburgh-Seattle game that will be held Sunday night. The Super Bowl game is the sports event with the biggest number of people wagering. It is usually the busiest event for sports bookies.