The Week in Dollar Bets
50 markets featured across 6 days. Here's what stood out.
biggest longshot
Carlos Bruce wins the next Lima mayoral election
$1 could have paid $400
like caring deeply about a county commissioner race in rural Idaho
most respectable longshot
US strikes a new Iran nuclear deal this year
$1 pays $14.29, dramatic but credible
this is the Lions winning a Super Bowl, except with uranium
lowest payout on the board
A team goes worst to first this season
$1 pays $1.52, barely worth bragging about
meanwhile the Nationals stay exactly where God put them
All markets this week
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Lane Johnson makes First-Team All-Pro offense$1 pays$100a dollar turns into a hundred because one man blocked people correctly for five months
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NASA lands a person on the Moon before 2028$1 pays$25.64"Houston, we have a slide deck"
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US strikes a new Iran nuclear deal this year$1 pays$14.29this is the Lions winning a Super Bowl, except with uranium
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Taylor Swift wears Louis Vuitton at her wedding$1 pays$14.29Kelce in a monogram tux looking like a very expensive duffel bag
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Kash Patel is first out of Trump's cabinet$1 pays$4.76like getting benched week three after they traded up to draft you
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Databricks hits a $225B valuation this year$1 pays$4.35the Gonzaga of enterprise software
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Databricks is worth $225 billion by year's end$1 pays$4.35private markets are the NIL era of finance
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Republicans win three races in states Kamala won$1 pays$3.68New Jersey would absolutely do this purely out of spite
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Cowboys and Eagles clear 54.5 points$1 pays$3.4755 points exactly, one more than you needed, as is tradition
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Kristi Noem leaves the Trump administration before 2027$1 pays$3.03like the part of Survivor where they snuff your torch
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Bonnie Crombie wins the Mississauga mayor race$1 pays$2.74mayor of the airport
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Cooper Flagg makes First Team All-Pro this season$1 pays$2.08Nico Harrison watching this from a Blockbuster parking lot
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Utah tops 6 million skier visits this season$1 pays$2.086 million people, four working chairlifts, one bathroom
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Minneapolis gets over a foot of snow in December$1 pays$2.04Vikings fans start ice fishing in the stadium lot by 9am
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Boise Airport sets a new passenger record this year$1 pays$1.61every single one of them a Californian with a Tesla and a grievance