SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal

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A total of $93.1 million was wagered last year on the Super Bowl. Walker and Wynn Las Vegas sports book director John Avello said the handle was up slightly this year at their books.

Walker said there were fewer six-figure wagers at MGM Mirage books. The largest bet he took, he said, was $250,000 on the Giants plus-12.

New England was about a minus-420 favorite to win straight up on the money line, and the books took a beating mostly because the betting public piled on New York to win at about plus-350.

"When you're giving out 3-1 (odds) or more on the money line, you just can't overcome that," Walker said. "I would take that scenario every time where we just need the Patriots to win outright to win money."

"I expected the Patriots money-line bets to come in, and they never did. I was really surprised. We just didn't take any large wagers."

Kornegay said proposition bets turned a profit at the Hilton, but the result as a whole was a lost cause.

"We got crushed on the game," Kornegay said. "By the time we got to the Super Bowl, a lot of people were tired of the Patriots, and they didn't want to root for Goliath."

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