For greater than a decade, on Friday nights within the fall, soccer bettors packed a small, smoke-filled sportsbook on the Strip to look at two handicappers go head-to-head in a $10,000 contest on the that the winner takes all of it. The names of the contestants have been illuminated on the marquee, including a component of status to being part of the Stardust Invitational.
The competition concluded after the 2005 season — the Stardust closed on November 1, 2006, and the lodge’s two towers collapsed in March 2007 — and has been misplaced.
So it is time to carry again recollections of an previous buddy. In a contact of the duvet of the Stardust Invitational, Circa proprietor Derek Stevens is placing up his cash and supporting a brand new occasion produced by VSIN, the Circa Friday Soccer Invitational.
The theme is similar, however the contest format is barely completely different and improved. Whereas there are nonetheless 16 handicap gamers in a pool, all contributors take part every week in a season-long competitors, in contrast to the Stardust format which pitted solely two handicap gamers per week in a head-to-head elimination duel. Stevens has elevated the prize cash to $25,000.
The 16 handicap course is formally established. Listed here are the competition particulars:
Sixteen handicappers compete, with no entry payment, in a season-long contest with $25,000 in prizes awarded.
When: Friday, September 9 to Friday, January 6, 2023 (18 weeks)
The place: VSIN examine at Circa bookmaker
Competitors works: 5 performs, school and NFL groups and totals (no props, staff totals, first half performs, and so forth.) with one designated the most effective guess (BB).
SELECTIONS WEEK 13
BOBBY “CUBE” BRUBECK
Ohio +3
jets +3
Jaguars -1
Raiders -1
(BB) Titans +4.5
File (factors): 28-30-2 (29)
Finest bets: 4-8 (4)
chuck edel
Kansas State +2
Kansas State-TCU underneath 61.5
Toledo-3
Carolina Coast +8.5
(BB) Fresno State-Boise State Over 54.5
File (factors): 36-24 (36)
Finest bets: 5-7 (5)
BRIAN EDWARDS
Fresno State +3
LSU +17.5
Vikings -3
lions +1
(BB)TCU-2
File (factors): 27-33 (27)
Finest Bets: 6-6(6)
CHRIS “THE BEAR” FAILS
Fresno State +3
jets +3
Jaguars -1
49ers-4
(BB) Georgia -17.5
File (factors): 35-25 (35)
Finest bets: 9-3 (9)
X-STEVE FEZZIK (second eradicated)
File (factors): 21-28-1 (21.5)
Finest bets: 6-3-1 (6.5)
JOEY “TUNES” FORTUNE
Kansas State +2
LSU-Georgia Over 51.5
Purdue-Michigan Over 52
Rams +7
(BB) Browns -7
File (factors): 32-28 (32)
Finest Bets: 6-6(6)
doug kezirian
Toledo-3
LSU +17.5
Purdue +17
Packers-Bears Over 44.5
(BB) Browns-Texans Sub 47
File (factors): 36-22-2 (37)
Finest bets: 6-4-2 (7)
MARC LAWRENCE
LSU +17.5
Purdue +17
Titans +4.5
giants +2
(BB) State of Kansas +2
File (factors): 31-27-2 (32)
Finest bets: 7-5 (7)
RANDY MCKAY
Kansas State-TCU Below 62
Purdue +17
Montana State -5
Jets-Vikings Over 44.5
(BB)Richmond +17
File (factors): 32-26-2 (33)
Finest bets: 7-5 (7)
X-MIKE NORTH (first eradicated)
File (factors): 16-26-3 (17.5)
Finest bets: 3-6 (3)
X-ERIN RYNNING (third eradicated)
File (factors): 24-30-1 (24.5)
Finest bets: 3-7-1 (3.5)
Dan Saley
Ohio +3
Fresno State +3
Purdue +17
Titans +4.5
(BB) Central Florida +4
File (factors): 30-28-2 (31)
Finest bets: 5-7 (5)
JAMES SALINAS
LSU +17.5
North Carolina +7.5
jets +3
Dolphins +4
(BB) Lions +1
File (factors): 34-23-3 (35.5)
Finest Bets: 6-6(6)
PAUL STONE
Fresno State +3
LSU +17.5
North Carolina +7.5
Purdue +17
(BB)TCU-2
File (factors): 33-26-1 (33.5)
Finest bets: 5-7 (5)
jeff whitelaw
LSU-Georgia Over 51.5
Bears +3.5
Packers-Bears Over 44.5
Foals +10.5
(BB) 49ers -4
File (factors): 34-23-3 (35.5)
Finest bets: 7-3-2 (8)
X-CRIS ZENIUK (fourth eradicated)
File (factors): 26-32-2 (27)
Finest bets: 4-8 (4)
MIKE PALMA
Kansas State-TCU Over 61.5
Purdue +17
lions -1
Saints +3.5
(BB) Jets +3
File (factors): 33-25-2 (34)
Finest bets: 8-4 (8)
MATT YOUMANS
LSU +17.5
North Carolina +7.5
Steelers choose
Titans +4.5
(BB)Purdue +17
File (factors): 31-28-1 (31.5)
Finest bets: 7-5 (7)