4 finalists wound up tying and splitting a record pot of $9,267,000 evenly amongst themselves in Circa Sports’ year-very long NFL survivor pool, the sportsbook introduced Monday.
The quartet of champions — who competed underneath the aliases Circus Grasp, IndianaJet, Jax Jags, and LAJoneser — finished the period a excellent 20-, with wins by the Bengals and Raiders on the season’s last working day sealing their joyful fates. In survivor contests like Circa’s, each individual contestant must pick a crew to gain straight up each and every week (in addition to a pair of reward “weeks” on Thanksgiving/Black Friday and Xmas Working day) with no utilizing the exact staff two times.
For The Win noted that the 4 finalists agreed before Sunday to a chop that would assurance each individual of them at minimum $2 million, but with all the right way creating their last choose, the tie intended every gained $2,316,750. This arrived about two months soon after following an particularly self-assured experienced gambler named Sean Perry was the lone holdout avoiding a chop settlement that would have guaranteed just about every of the final 13 contestants $400,000, with the remaining $4 million to go to the eventual winner.
This year’s Circa Survivor contest drew a history 9,267 entries at a buy-in of $1,000 per entry (highest 10 entries for each man or woman), with the sportsbook retaining no share of the costs as a rake. According to VSiN, the former large was 6,133 entries the yr in advance of when two winners walked off with $3,066,500 apiece, a history that still stands.
A celebration is in buy! 🍾
This #CircaSurvivor contestant, IndianaJet, gained Big with the @Bengals nowadays! He finished 20-, and has gained AT Minimum $2,300,000! 🤑#CircaLasVegas @DerekJStevens #FootballSunday @CircaSports pic.twitter.com/StRoSfMKGZ
— Circa Las Vegas (@CircaLasVegas) January 7, 2024
Upping the ante
In Circa’s different Circa Million contest, in which contestants decide on 5 games against the spread each individual week, an entrant making use of the handle Saint31 amassed the greatest total file to assert the $1 million 1st prize, with Buffalo’s Sunday Night time Football gain over Miami securing victory.
When using payouts to runners-up and quarterly winners into account, Circa awarded $15.2 million to the best contestants in its two pro soccer contests.
Indication Up For The Sports activities Handle Publication!
“When we introduced these contests, we knew the prize required to be a person of the most coveted in all of sports betting,” Circa Sports activities CEO Derek Stevens said in a press release. “Every yr we’ve upped the ante, and this was the most important degree-up of all. Congratulations to all the winners and we glimpse forward to seeing what the 2024/2025 time delivers.”
Circa will current checks to the huge winners at 6 p.m. Friday at the D Las Vegas.
