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Originally Posted by evman150
Attracting high rollers. Unlike a poker room where the rake is capped, a sportsbook makes way more money from high bettors.
Since you have to have $1000 around to make the bet, presumably a lot of the people doing this have lots of money to throw around.
Plus they most likely hedge their bets elsewhere to guarentee a smaller loss that is more manageable.
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Mansion was also probably hoping that for the people that won would leave some of that extra cash behind in their new account and gamble a bit.
I also wonder how much interest they earned on those deposits.