The Week in Dollar Bets: September 28 – October 04, 2026
63 markets featured across 7 days. Here's what stood out.
biggest longshot
Primetime opens to $22 million or more
$1 could have paid $2,000
22 million in tickets, 21 million of them bought by Colorado boosters
most respectable longshot
Iran sees a coup attempt this year
$1 pays $10, dramatic but credible
act three of every Tom Clancy paperback on my dad's shelf
lowest payout on the board
Boise Airport sets a new passenger record this year
$1 pays $1.67, barely worth bragging about
Napoleon Dynamite would absolutely hate what they've done with the place
All markets this week
-
Primetime opens to $22 million or more$1 pays$2,00022 million in tickets, 21 million of them bought by Colorado boosters
-
LeBron and Bronny play together next season$1 pays$41.67Bronny's four garbage minutes get more camera time than the actual game
-
Fay strengthens into a hurricane$1 pays$25Fay sounds like a sweet lady right up until she takes your carport
-
NASA puts a person on the Moon before 2028$1 pays$24.39like your buddy who has been moving to Austin next spring since 2019
-
US and Iran sign a nuclear deal this year$1 pays$10.31i love a treaty. the big folder, the flags, the handshake, all of it
-
Iran sees a coup attempt this year$1 pays$10act three of every Tom Clancy paperback on my dad's shelf
-
OpenAI IPOs before Anthropic$1 pays$6.25Anthropic responds with a forty page blog post about restraint
-
California gets an 8.0 earthquake before 2028$1 pays$6.25the Waffle House index opens its first West Coast branch office
-
Someone breaks the single season receiving yards record$1 pays$5a grown man running sideways for a mile and a half still moves me
-
SpaceX lands something on Mars before 2030$1 pays$3.70the Browns drafting a quarterback and everybody nodding along this time
-
China is next to put humans on the Moon$1 pays$3.23the flag doesn't ripple because they filmed it correctly
-
Nolo strengthens into a Category 5$1 pays$2.56Jim Cantore arriving in your town is the real evacuation order
-
Rippling beats Deel to the IPO$1 pays$2.44HR software with an actual mole in it. Donnie Brasco but payroll
-
Luis Guto Miguel wins in Curitiba today$1 pays$2.06challenger tennis in Brazil is the open mic night of professional sports
-
Colts win by four or more tonight$1 pays$2.02Indiana's whole personality is basketball and one guy in a horseshoe hat