Super Bowl 58 appears to have broken sports betting records − and not just because the game was played in Las Vegas.
Amid an ongoing boon in online sports wagering, millions of football fans placed bets from their phones and laptops on the Kansas City Chiefs’ 25-22 overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night, in addition to those who wagered in-person at sportsbooks in Las Vegas and other cities where sports gambling is now legalized.
While the specific size and scope of wagering around the Super Bowl was unclear as of Monday morning, some sports betting companies released data that points to a record amount of money changing hands because of Sunday night’s thriller.
GeoComply Solutions, a Canadian company that monitors geolocation data for several major online sportsbooks in the United States, said in a news release Monday that in the minutes before kickoff, its systems recorded “a massive spike in traffic,” with nearly 15,000 transactions per second. GeoComply, which counts DraftKings and FanDuel among its most prominent clients, said it was the highest rate of transactions it has ever recorded.
The company also noted that it saw a 15% increase in the number of active accounts that it monitored and a 22% increase in the number of geolocation checks it conducted, relative to the same time period around last year’s Super Bowl. Those figures point to a significant uptick in the number of people who placed online bets with regulated sportsbooks; GeoComply said…
