Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy places $1M wager on Bills to win Super Bowl

Published 12:45 am Sunday, January 26, 2025

Founder and CEO of Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy is seen before Loyola (Illinois) takes on Florida Atlantic in the Barstool Sports Invitational at Wintrust Arena on Nov. 8, 2023, in Chicago. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images/TNS)

LAS VEGAS — Million-dollar bets typically don’t start showing up at sportsbooks until the Super Bowl. But there have been two seven-figure wagers placed this week.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy made a $1 million wager to win $5.5 million at DraftKings sportsbook on the Bills to win the Super Bowl (+550).

Portnoy posted on X (@stoolpresidente) early Sunday morning that he made a quick $1 million buying and selling President Donald Trump’s new cryptocurrency meme coin, $TRUMP, after investing $500,000.

He also wrote that he would probably bet the $1 million on Buffalo in Sunday’s divisional round playoff game against Baltimore. But on Sunday afternoon, he said on a video he posted that he bet $1 million on the Bills to win the Super Bowl instead.

Portnoy showed a screenshot of the bet at DraftKings, which doesn’t operate in Nevada, before Buffalo beat the Ravens, 27-25, to advance to Sunday’s AFC title game at Kansas City. DraftKings sportsbook director Johnny Avello, who lives in Las Vegas, confirmed the bet.

The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs are 1 1/2-point favorites over the Bills and -130 on the money line.

A bettor at Caesars Palace on Monday wagered $1.3 million to win $1 million on Kansas City on the money line (-130) to beat Buffalo for the fourth straight time in the playoffs.

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