Bovada’s #whatsyawager Super Bowl 55 Promotion

Those looking for new ways to get into the action for Super Bowl 55 definitely have to check out what Bovada has in store. The renowned sports gambling website is offering a promotion for this Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa bay Buccaneers. It’s called #whatsyawager and it has to do with the concept of parlay betting, which gives bettors the chance to win a lot more on a single wager than usual.

Sports betting websites are predictably pulling out all the stops for this Sunday’s Super Bowl LV game. In addition to typical wagers such as moneyline, spread and over/under, most sites are also offering a wide swath of prop bets. But some sites are going even deeper than that.

One of those is Bovada, which is generally regarded to me among the cream of crop of real money sports betting websites. Bovada’s outstanding reputation depends in part upon its ability to bring exciting and potentially lucrative wagers to their customers. And they’ve come up with an interesting way of making Super Bowl 55 bets interactive with the #whatsyawager promotion.

How #whatsyawager Works

The idea being #whatsyawager for Super Bowl 55 is to let the bettors have some say in what kind of wagers they get to make. As a result, Bovada is inviting gamblers to tweet at them using the #whatsyawager hashtag on Twitter. With those tweets, bettors can suggest their own parlay wagers.

If Bovada feels like the parlay is worthwhile, they will include it on their dedicated #whatsyawager page for Super Bowl 55. They will also assign odds to the wager based on what they feel the likelihood of winning the wager might be. At that point, anyone can wager on it, not just the person who proposed the wager.

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In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at the #whatsyawager promotion offered by Bovada for Super Bowl 55. We’ll explain how the bets work and we’ll take a look at some of the wagers on the page right now that we feel could be advantageous to you. Finally, we’ll offer some tips for you to help you make these bets, and we’ll also answer your questions about the promotion.

Making Parlay Bets

The #whatsyawager promotion for Super Bowl 55 is based on the concept of parlay bets. A parlay bet is one that requires you to pick at least two different bets and choose a side for each bet you include. But it includes all these bets on a single ticket.

The trick to a parlay is that you must get every element of the bet correct to win. If you’re wrong about even a single part of the wager, whether it includes two bets or several, you lose the bet. As a result, parlay bets are much harder to hit than individual wagers.

To compensate for this, the oddsmakers in charge will offer you more payback in return for the risk you have to incur. This generally makes parlays a bit more lucrative than individual wagers. As an example, say you like the following two bets for Super Bowl 55:

If you were to make two individual football bets on Super Bowl LV in this manner, you’d get roughly even-money odds on both, meaning that you get back in winnings roughly what you risk on the wager. Hence your range of outcomes would be this:

• Win both bets and end up with a profit of about 2 to 1
• Split both bets and roughly break even with a small loss
• Lose both bets

But if you were to make this bet in parlay form, you’d have both the spread and over/under bet included. And you would need to hit both. You would likely get excellent odds for the parlay, more lucrative that what you could expect from the straight wagers.

In other words, there is no breaking even on a parlay bet. The more bets that are included in the parlay, the more payback you will be offered. As we start to look at the wagers offered on the #whatsyawager page at Bovada for Super Bowl LV, you’ll start to see how this works.

Making Your Pitch To Bovada

Based on what can be found on the #whatsyawager page at Bovada, people have been pretty creative with their parlays for Super Bowl 55. And that’s the benefit of this promotion. You’re in control of what’s includes, which means that you can construct a bet based on outcomes about which you already feel pretty strongly.

Of course, there isn’t any guarantee that Bovada will accept your pitch.

But even if not, the #whatsyawager page is filled with very creating parlays. They run the gamut from ones that seem like pretty safe plays for small payback, to others that are more like lottery tickets that won’t be easy to hit bit will pay you back a ton.

Bovada also does you a service by including a small “bet slip” at the bottom of the page that will show you what you could expect to win from the various wagers based on the size of your bet. Add it all up and it is a very bettor-friendly promotion. Choose your parlays well and you could make a lot, even without betting that much.

The Top Bets In The #whatsyawager Bovada Super Bowl 55 Promotion

Each Team To Score More Than Nine Points In Each Half: -110

This is one of those bets that might not seem like a parlay, but it is. This is despite odds where you’ll need to bet a little bit more than you potentially make back, which is a little low for this type of wager. But when you think about it, you need the Chiefs to score at least nine points in the first and second half and the Buccaneers to do the same, meaning that you need four things to all take place.

Maybe you’re not to excited about a #whatsyawager parlay with such modest payback. But it’s all about winning bets, and a payback around even money is nothing to sneeze at. This one surely seems like a sure thing.

There are just too many playmakers on each side to imagine that either of the defenses will put up a stout effort for as long as a half. Remember that the over/under is 56, which means that the oddsmakers are expecting the points for both to soar about the nine-point benchmark each half. You’re safe with this one.

Tom Brady And Patrick Mahomes To Throw For More Than 300-plus Passing Yards Each: +175

The first time these teams met back in Week 12, each of these guys soared over 300 yards. Mahomes got there in the first half by hitting Tyreek Hill early and often. Brady was helped along by a big fourth-quarter as the Bucs desperately tried to get back in the game.

For the season, Mahomes managed over 300 yard in ten of 18 contests. Brady was a little less efficient, managing over 300 yards just eight times in 19 games. But four of games have come in the last six contests.

This has all the makings of a shootout. There just aren’t enough bodies in the Chiefs secondary to handle all the Bucs weapons, and Tampa doesn’t have the shutdown guys to slow down Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce. Hence Brady and Mahomes should make this a nice payoff for you.

Travis Kelce 100-plus Receiving Yards And To Score A TD: +250

Here is one that you should be able to jump all over. This game is set up as one where Kelce really smashes. And that has everything to do with the way the regular season game between these two teams went.

If you’ll recall, Tyreek Hill went hog-wild in that game, lighting up Tampa early and often in a three-touchdown explosion. Chances are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will adjust to that and have safeties flanking the coverage on Hill all game long.

And that means that linebackers will be tasked with stopping Kelce, who is coming off the finest season by a tight end in NFL history.

Kelce managed the feat if a hundred yards and a score seven times this season in 18 games, including the last two playoff wins. Even with Hill going off the first time they met, Kelce still had 82 yards in that game. Expect him to find more open lanes in this one and end up winning you this bet at 2 ½ to 1.

Tom Brady 300-plus Passing Yards, Chris Godwin 100-plus receiving yards: +400

First of all, this is a parlay that pays four to one odds despite the fact that it relies on only two outcomes. And they are in no way unreasonable outcomes, closer instead to 50/50 chances. That makes this a pretty beneficial wager before you even consider the particulars of it.

We’ve already told you why we think Brady is a cinch for 300 yards. As for Godwin, he picked up 97 yards the first time the two teams met, and he did so despite being nagged by injuries back then. He is much healthier.

Kansas City’s defense does a good job taking away big plays on the perimeter. To compensate for that, they’ll sacrifice yards in the middle of the field. That’s where Godwin lives, meaning he should top triple digits and put this #whatsyawager parlay on your wager.

Chris Godwin And Travis Kelce 100-plus Receiving Yards Each: +700

We’ve already talked up these two, and here we have a bet with the two of them involved that will get you 7 to 1 odds. Godwin is the more worrisome of the two in terms of doing what he needs to win the bet. But when you boil the season down to finer terms, he doesn’t look like much of a concern.

It seemed like he just couldn’t get rolling early in the year. Some said it was because of a lack of chemistry with Tom Brady. But more than that, it had to do with Godwin missing game time and practices with a series of nagging injuries.

You could argue that Tampa’s season really took off once they got Godwin back in the fold full-time. His first 100-yard game came in Week 17, and he followed that up with another in the NFC Championship victory over Green Bay. Look for him to keep that rolling, combining with Kelce here for a really nice #whatsyawager Super Bowl 55 score.

Tom Brady And Patrick Mahomes 250-plus Passing Yards Each, Travis Kelce And Chris Godwin 100-plus Passing Yards Each, Bucs 2-plus sacks: +1100

We’re now at the point on the #whatsyawager dance card where you’re getting more than 10 to 1 odds for these parlays. This one includes a lot, but much of it we’ve already discussed. We’ve already told you we’re bullish on the two quarterbacks and that we think both Kelce and Godwin will go off.

That leaves the Bucccaneers sacking Mahomes at least twice in the game. Mahomes is a crafty one in terms of feeling the rush and finding open lanes, which makes him tricky to sack. But Tampa Bay’s pass rush is a big reason that they’ve surged in this postseason.

Throw in the fact that the Kansas City Chiefs are coming into the game with their offensive line in disarray with injuries. That’s not great timing, considering they’ll be dealing with Shaq Barrett and Jason Pierre-Paul. All the ducks should line up and make this a winner for you.

Chiefs Win, Leonard Fournette, Travis Kelce And Darrel Williams To Score 1-plus TD Each: +1100

11 to 1 seems to be the lucky number for #whatsyawager Super Bowl 55 parlay wagers. Here is one that is dependent on two likely events and two others that might not seem so probable. But if you think about it, going four-for-four on this wager isn’t all that far-fetched.


The Chiefs are favored, so them winning the game is more likely than not. We’ve told you about how Kelce sets up so well for this contest. That leaves the two running backs needing to find the end zone.

Say what you will about Fournette, but he has always had a nose for the end zone, racking up eight more this year as a part-timer. And you know the Bucs are going to be focused on stopping the big play, which puts Williams falling into the end zone from short yardage well within the realm of possibilities. A lot has to go right, but in terms of parlays, there are worse plays you can make.

Travis Kelce To Score 2-plus TDs And Be Named Super Bowl MVP: +1600

As you can tell, we’ve been pretty much ride or die with Kelce all the way through here. Why not go all the way with a 16 to 1 shot that he really goes off? He’d be making history if he did, but the guy made history all year long in his massive season.

To set the stage: No tight end has even won the Super Bowl MVP in 54 tries so far. Quarterbacks usually win, getting it done 30 times, meaning that more often than not, it’s been the signal-caller doing the interview at the end. History is certainly against Kelce, even if he manages the two touchdowns to satisfy the first part of the parlay.

But that’s all the more reason to pick him here.

Those who vote on the Super Bowl 55 Most Valuable Player Award (a combination of sportswriters and fans) may like the narrative of a first-ever tight end getting it done, instead of simply rewarding Patrick Mahomes for the second straight season. Go all in on Kelce and you won’t be disappointed.

Tom Brady And Patrick Mahomes 1-plus Interception Thrown Each In First Half: +4500

It probably says something about the state of the NFL that two quarterbacks throwing just a single interception apiece in the first half is such a long shot. Defenses have a hard time getting their hands on passes thrown these days, especially when you’re dealing with a pair of aces like Mahomes and Brady. But think of how this game is likely to play out and there is way you can squint and see this happening.

First of all, Mahomes figures to be under as much pressure as he has been all year long. Granted, Andy Reid’s scheming and Mahomes’ innate ability to get out of that pressure will help mitigate it. But it’s certainly possible that, with his offensive line in disarray, that Mahomes lofts one up for grabs during the first half of play.

As for Brady, we just saw in the last game how prone to interceptions he can be, as the Packers picked him off three times in a single half. And that was when he had the lead. Imagine what might happen as he plays from behind against the Chiefs and those 45 to 1 odds start to look very favorable.

Tips For Making #whatsyawager Parlay Bets

• Think always of the value. There are certain #whatsyawager parlays that won’t pay you very much, but are such a sure thing that you consider taking it. By contrast, a potentially big payback on a parlay isn’t really a value if there is no way you can see it going in your favor.
• Identify the goals you have as a bettor. If it’s all about coming up with the bets that give you the best profit potential and minimize your risk, you might be more inclined to stick with the parlays that are quite realistic. But if you want to make a lot of money without putting a lot of it on the line, you might have to go for some of the long shot plays in the offing.
• Diversify your parlay bets. This is an old stock market trick that could work here because of the wide spread between low-paying and high-paying options on the #whatsyawager page. If you establish a foundation with some of the surer things on the board, it will give you the ability to take some Super Bowl 55 fliers that could provide monster payouts if they hit.

Conclusion

We hope that you’ve enjoyed this deep dive into Bovada’s new #whatsyawager Super Bowl 55 promotion. In our opinion, it’s a clever innovation allowing bettors to get on in the act of choosing the wagers they most want to make. It can also be a lucrative opportunity, even if you haven’t proposed any of the wagers yourself but just want to bet them.