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Payne Insider •
Payne Insider - Feb 13, 2013
Spring training is here and the start of baseball season is SIX WEEKS AWAY! That can only mean one thing: Season win totals are out for Major League Baseball. Today, Atlantis Casino released their 2013 MLB Season Win Totals which pegs the Nationals, Tigers, and Dodgers all at 90-wins a piece.
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Staff Report •
RGJ - Feb 16, 2013
Oddsmakers at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa said they were the first to post MLB season win totals earlier this week. The casino’s race and sports book posted its lines on Thursday.
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Staff •
Covers.com - Feb 15, 2013
Pitchers and catchers reporting for Spring Training is Steve Mikkelson's cue. The sportsbook manager at the Atlantis Casino in Reno, Nevada is the first bookmaker to release MLB season win totals each year, and 2013 is no exception. Mikkelson posted his MLB season win totals for the upcoming baseball season Wednesday morning, along with a number of season-long odds and player props. We asked him about the trickiest win totals to figure out as well as which teams moved the most from last year’s win totals.
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Tyler Morgan •
Pregame.com - Feb 13, 2013
With pitchers and catchers already participating in Spring Training, the odds makers at the Atlantis Casino have decided to release their 2013 MLB Season Win Totals. The Reno, Nevada based book expects the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Washington Nationals to be this year’s best teams, at least in terms of wins and losses, as the three clubs have a win total set at 90 games.
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Beyond the Bets •
Beyond the Bets - Feb 13, 2013
We thought it’d still be a couple days before the Atlantis Casino in Reno came out with their 2013 MLB regular season win totals, but we were wrong. The Atlantis released them today, and the Tigers, Nationals and Dodgers are all tied at the top with 90.
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Don Burke •
NY Post - Feb 15, 2013
And you thought Yankees fans had questions about their favorite team’s prospects for the 2013 season. Steve Mikkelson, the sports book director for the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno, Nev., put the Yankees’ projected win total for this season at 86 1/2. The Yankees haven’t won fewer than 87 games in a full season since 1992, and have had 94 wins or more seven of the past eight years.
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Tom Verducci •
Sports Illustrated - Feb 19, 2013
Watching the Baltimore Orioles win baseball games last year was a study in the illogic. They were poor at getting on base and scoring runs, only one pitcher threw enough innings to qualify for the ERA title, only one pitcher won more than nine games and none won more than 12, and they had more players strike out 100 times (seven) than any team in the history of baseball....The Atlantis Casino in Reno put the over/under number of wins for the Orioles this year at 76.5, the lowest number of any team in the AL East and -- gulp! -- lower than those of the Pirates, Royals and Indians.
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Bill O'Driscoll •
USA Today
Super Bowl bettors, fueled in part by ex-Nevada football star Colin Kaepernick's starring role with the San Francisco 49ers, wagered a record $98.9 million on Sunday's game, the state reported Monday.
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Erin Breen •
KTVN.com
Even though the Baltimore Ravens took home the Vince Lombardi Trophy, Reno gained a lot from this year's Super Bowl. Grocery stores, sporting good stores, and sportsbooks were all packed with Colin Kaepernick gear and Super Bowl stuff. It seems - win or lose - it was a moneymaker for Northern Nevada.
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Rob Sabo •
Northern Nevada Business Weekly
The Atlantis these days uses more coins making change for restaurant patrons than it does for the 100 or so coin-operated slots scattered throughout the casino floor.
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Bill O’Driscoll •
USA Today
Just before the NFC Championship Game two weeks ago, eager bettors patiently waited in lines that stretched down the aisles at sportsbooks in Reno where San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick played college football for the University of Nevada Wolf Pack.
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Al Moe •
Examiner.com
Reno’s Atlantis Resort is continuing its aggressive move towards national recognition as one of Nevada’s premier gaming facilities by hosting yet another high profile poker tournament. The casino now will be holding their third annual Atlantis All In Poker Series March 15 to 25, 2013, which will be part of Card Player’s flagship poker tour, which started in July 2012 at the Choctaw Casino in Oklahoma.
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