Gross Bombs: NFL Props for Week 16
Josh Gross
The quickest way to build your sports gambling bankroll is by taking advantage of the bonus offers, odds boosts and free bets the online books are offering. They are flush with private equity money and using it to fuel growth. If you know where to look, they are literally giving it away in some cases. Taking advantage of these bonuses puts free money in your pocket and can help make up for a bad bet or two along the way. Want to know how to get it? Just keep reading.
DraftKings Sportsbook
The NBA season is about to start up this week. DraftKings really wants your business. I say we give it to them. You can go to our sportsbook offers page on FTNBets and see that DraftKings is offering a $500 deposit match for new users on their first deposit and a $500 risk-free bet. That alone is reason to sign up with them if you do not have an account and your state allows it. Unfortunately, this offer is only for new users. New users also will have chances throughout the week to boost feature games up to 100-1, with a likely limit of only a few dollars. Still, 100-1 odds on anything that is about a 60/40 chance is worth investing in, even if it’s only $1 to win $100.
If you already have a DraftKings account, you can still get a piece of this free money. DK is going to allow any user to boost either the Nets/Warriors or Lakers/Clippers game up to a spread of +75. They are capping this bet at like $25 or $50, but they are also paying it out at +100. This means they are basically allowing you to double your money if your chosen team does not lose by 75 points. It’s pretty safe to say that all four of these teams are going to cover a spread of +75 in their favor, so this is basically a free early Christmas present to build your bankroll. Will it make you rich? No, but if you are walking down the street and see a $20 and a $5 bill on the ground you would definitely pick it up and not ignore it. That’s exactly the situation here, so take advantage of it.
BetMGM
The good people at BetMGM have a similar offer here for the NFL games this weekend. Not only can you get a matched deposit up to $500 by signing up through our link on the bottom of the FTNBets page, but they are also offering new users a 100-1 NFL profit boost bet to pad that new bankroll. This boost is amazing as it’s virtually impossible not to win it. All you have to do is bet at least $1 on a game and if either team scores a touchdown, you get $100. It does not even have to be the team you bet on. They just want you to feel good about depositing and winning a bet, so they made it as easy as possible to win.
The same-game parlay protection boosts
Both PointsBet and FanDuel Sportsbook are offering parlay protection on a three-leg same-game parlay. You have to pick three random events in any game to occur in order to make this bet, and they have to be from the same game. You can take a QB to throw for 300 yards, one of his pass catchers to get over 100, and the team to win the game. You can go higher variance since you have the protection of getting reimbursed on a loss and try to hit a 6-1 or 8-1 play on first touchdown of the game to parlay with a team to win and another prop like rushing, receiving or passing yards that you may like for payouts that would exceed 10-1 or even 20-1 depending on the odds of the plays involved. Both FanDuel and PointsBet offer this boost, but remember before you put in the play you do have to opt-in to these bonuses on the respective sites you are playing them on. We have tons of analyst inputting prop plays for every game and Jeff Ratcliffe has his prop bets rankings posted on FTNBets as well. I use the plays Jeff ranks with the most stars and parlay a few of them together when I have these types of boosts to utilize.
Remember you can get a couple hundred bucks down every weekend in situations where your chance to lose are minimal. In the worst case you receive betting vouchers or bonus money even if you do lose. These types of deals are not always going to be available and while they have caps on the wager amount, taking a little bit of free money from 3-4 different places in a weekend adds up to a nice chunk of change. You can then build up your bankroll by combining all this free money on one site and having a chance to attack that site next weekend with a small outlay from your pocket turning into a sizeable amount of money to wager for a decent score. I took advantage of multiple 20% odds boosts DK offered up to a max $50 on each game last weekend. I maxed this bet out on every game available and walked away with $1,400 at the end of the day. I missed doing it on Thursday but caught the 14 games that took place over the weekend at $50 a pop for a total outlay of $700. Returning over $1,400 meant I walked away with a profit of more than $700, more than doubling my investment. This was with existing accounts as well. A new user who did what I did last week would probably also have a bunch of bonus money to go along with the betting profits. His return on investment would likely be even higher given that he is available to take advantage of multiple offers that existing users are no longer allowed to benefit from. It’s a good problem to have if you do not already have an account at PointsBet or FanDuel.
