Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are expecting their child any day now. And just like with previous royal baby births, gamblers are lining up to place their bets on every aspect of the new addition to the family. According to a report in The New York Times, William Hill is […]
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James Holzhauer Chasing Ken Jennings as Jeopardy! GOAT After 10th Win
James Holzhauer won his tenth-straight match on Jeopardy! by breaking his own record along the way, but he still has a long-way to go to catch Ken Jennings and the GOAT’s record of 74-consecutive victories. Holzhauer, a professional sports bettor from Las Vegas, has shaken up the Jeopardy! establishment with […]
Sports Bettor James Holzhauer Shatters Own One-Day Mark With New Jeopardy! Record Win
James Holzhauer continues to pile up records – not to mention dollars – during his run on Jeopardy!, as he broke his own record for the largest single-day win in the show’s history in the episode that aired Wednesday. Holzhauer won an astounding $131,127 on Wednesday, shattering his previous mark […]
Hafthor Bjornsson, World’s Strongest Man and ‘The Mountain’ from ‘Game of Thrones’ Admits Steroid Use
Hafthor Bjornsson, the reigning World Strongest Man from Iceland and most known for his role as Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane from the “Game of Thrones” series on HBO, admitted to past steroid use. In an interview filmed by ESPN in 2017, Hafthor Bjornsson admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in the […]
Golf Movies: Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack (1980)
“Caddyshack”, directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Bill Murray, is one of the most-popular golf movies ever made by Hollywood. “Caddyshack” is a slapstick comedy with several lines of dialogue becoming a part of everyday vernacular. Tiger Woods, who is currently making a run at […]
James Holzhauer Wins Jeopardy! Again, Moves into Top 5 All-Time Money Winners
James Holzhauer, a pro sportsbettor from Las Vegas, won Jeopardy! for the seventh episode in a row for a score worth $89,158, which put him into the all-time Top 5 money winners. The total of $89,158 represented the second-highest single-day score of Jeopardy. Holzhauer broke the record a couple of […]
Sports Betting Pro James Holzhauer Keeps Winning, Smashes Jeopardy! Record with $111K Day
James Holzhauer continued his incredible run on television quiz show Jeopardy! on Tuesday, winning $110,914 in capturing his fourth victory on the show. That performance gave Holzhauer the single-day Jeopardy record for winnings, surpassing the $77,000 that Roger Craig won on Sept. 14, 2010. Moving Up All-Time Jeopardy Leaderboards                                  The […]
Baseball Movies: Kevin Coster and James Earl Jones in ‘Field of Dreams’ (1989)
Kevin Costner appears in several baseball movies, but “Field of Dreams” with James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson is the one sports film which achieved both critical acclaim and became a huge box office success. The legendary actor Burt Lancaster plays the role of Dr. Archie […]
Las Vegas Professional Sports Bettor James Holzhauer Wins Big in Jeopardy! Debut
Professional sports gambler James Holzhauer had an impressive performance on Jeopardy! Thursday, winning $43,680 to secure his spot as the defending champion. Holzhauer had locked up victory heading into Final Jeopardy!, as his $40,412 was more than double the $18,000 held by second-place contestant and defending champion Alex Koral. Holzhauer […]
WrestleMania 35 Offers Bettors Plenty of Chances to Suplex Sportsbooks
The most important night of the year for the WWE will take place on Sunday, when WrestleMania 35 takes place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The card is set to feature well over a dozen matches, including the first ever main event featuring women in the form […]
Alex Trebek Cancer Diagnosis Shocks Jeopardy! Fans Previously Having Fun Betting on His Replacement
The sobering news Alex Trebek announced last week that he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer was met with condolences and encouragement from everyone from Ryan Seacrest to the CIA. Trebek, who has hosted the popular game show Jeopardy! since 1984, vowed to fight the disease, and said he will keep […]
Baseball Movies: ‘Eight Men Out’ and the Chicago Black Sox Scandal
In 1988, John Sayles wrote and directed “Eight Men Out”, a baseball movie starring John Cusak and Charlie Sheen, which chronicles the Chicago Black Sox scandal after the team fixed the 1919 World Series. The Chicago White Sox won the World Series in 1917 but were favorites to win the […]
Frenchman Leads Iditarod Dog Sled Race, Royal Shrovetide Medieval Football, and Pothead Lineman Quits NFL
The annual Royal Shrovetide Football kicked off in Ashbourne, England this week, and a Frenchman named Nicolas Petit is leading the grueling Iditarod Alaska dog sled race after the lead pack reached the Eagle Island checkpoint approximately 592 miles into the 998-mile race. Aily Zirkle is currently in sixth place. […]
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa to Host WrestleMania 36 in April 2020
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) made an official announcement that Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida will host WrestleMania 36 on April 5, 2020. WrestleMania is the pro wrestling’s version of the Super Bowl. The inaugural WrestleMania occurred on March 1, 1985 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. […]
WWF Wrestler King Kong Bundy Dies at 61
Chris Pallies, who wrestled under the name King Kong Bundy in legendary cage match against Hulk Hogan in WrestleMania 2 during the halcyon days of the WWF, passed away at his home in New Jersey the age of 63. Chris Pallies, a former bartender from northern New Jersey, is the […]
‘Game of Thrones’ Betting: Bran Stark Favorite to Rule Westeros Over Jon Snow and Sansa Stark
The final season of “Game of Thrones” begins in six weeks and according to William Hill, Bran Stark is the favorite to rule the Westeros and sit on the Iron Throne at the conclusion of the show. “Game of Thrones”, based on the novels by George RR Martin, returns to […]
Oscars Betting Scandal for Best Director Award Gives False Hope to New Jersey Bettors
Suspicious betting patterns for the Best Director category at Sunday’s Academy Awards caused some New Jersey and internet sportsbook operators to believe there might’ve been advanced knowledge about who would win. It turned out to be much ado about nothing, but not before some sportsbooks had taken the category off […]
Fortnite World Cup Set for July 2019, Includes $30 Million Prize Pool
The Fortnite World Cup will take place in New York City at the end of July with the top 100 Fortnite players and Top 50 teams in the world vying for $30 million, which is the largest prize pool in the history of esports. Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, […]
Oscars Betting, NASCAR Longshot Could Warm Your Weekend Wagers
Nobody loves a longshot more than us at Five Bets, and for this weekend’s picks we have included two that we really hope come through. One reason is because of the potential payday. Second is because we genuinely like the person and film we are betting on. Jimmie Johnson is […]
Oscars Odds: Regina King and Mahershala Ali Favorites to Win Best Supporting Roles
Regina King from “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Mahershala Ali from “Green Book” are favorites to win Oscars in their respective Best Supporting categories at the 91st Academy Award in Hollywood. According to William Hill, King is a 1/3 favorite to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for […]