The World Series started Tuesday with the Boston Red Sox hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers at Fenway Park. That means more bettors at the sportsbook.
The National Football League is the most popular sport to bet on, but the final series of the Major League Baseball Season, or any other major sport for that matter, will always attract more bettors.
This year with Los Angeles and Boston, Atlantis Race and Sports Ticket Writer Solomon Debord says the big series has one huge market and one passionate one.
"Everyone from the west coast, it brings in all the L.A. people," Debord says. "And then all the people from Boston whether it's the Patriots or the Red Sox, they always attract a big crowd."
He says there are some clear betting tendencies, at least about the series, and game 1.
"Early a lot more people bet the Red Sox, and I would say a lot more money on the series went on the Red Sox," Debord says. "But towards game time a lot of people took the Dodgers, because Clayton Kershaw, the starter, a really good starter, was getting a huge underdog price."
He says he's just hoping for a good series, but the sportsbook would benefit if the series went 7 games.
"If it goes seven there will be a lot of people betting that for sure," Debord says.
Jaime Navarro is from Reno and says the Dodgers have it this year, after losing in the World Series last year to the Houston Astros. He says he's always been a Dodgers fan, and never had doubt they were going to make it this year even with the shaky stretch after the All-Star break.
"My dad used to love the Dodgers," Navarro says. "I guess it was after Fernando Valenzuela. So I grew up a Dodger you know."
