Sports odds: How to bet Nathan’s hot dog eating contest, picks

Two of essentially the most dominant performers will take heart stage on the Fourth of July.

We’re speaking, in fact, about Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo at Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in New York.

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The annual 4th of July spectacle might be held at Nathan’s Famous unique location at Coney Island, N.Y.

Chestnut has received the lads’s competitors an astounding 14 instances, together with 4 male-female competitions (2007-10). He has additionally dominated of late, profitable the previous six males’s competitions (2016-21).

Sudo has dominated the ladies’s competitors, profitable the occasion seven instances. Sudo sat out final yr’s competitors as she was pregnant, leading to Michelle Lesco profitable. Both have been the largest contenders for the ladies’s title, as Sudo received from 2014-20, with Lesco ending second from 2017-19.

The girls’s contest might be proven beginning at 10:45 a.m. ET on Monday on ESPN3 (streaming). The males’s contest might be proven beginning at 12 p.m. ET on Monday on ESPNews.

Here are the chances for Monday’s occasion by way of Caesars Sportsbook:

Men

Joey Chestnut wins: -3000 (bet $10 to win $10.33 whole)

Field (all different entrants): +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 whole)

Over/underneath Joey Chestnut’s hot canines eaten: 76.5

Women

Miki Sudo wins: -1800 (bet $10 to win $10.56 whole)

Field (all different entrants): +900 (bet $10 to win $100 whole)

Over/underneath Miki Sudo’s hot canines eaten: 45.5

The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest is sort of an outlier for betting professionals, FOX Sports betting analyst Sam Panayotovich stated.

Usually, betting execs take a look at worth when making picks – they search for a wager with longer odds for a greater return.

When it is comes to Nathan’s, Sammy P says to not overthink issues and go along with essentially the most dominant performer.

“This is among the few occasions the place professionals will lay the -3000 and pocket the cash,” Panayotovich stated. “It’s principally a lock that Chestnut will win the occasion and he ought to most likely be round -6000.

“As for the precise rely, Chestnut stated this week on VSiN that he’s wolfed down 80 canines and buns in his apply rounds. It’s exhausting to brief a man that repeatedly overachieves and clearly desires to beat his private report.”

PICK: Joey Chestnut to win males’s contest (-3000, bet $10 to win $10.33 whole)

PICK: Joey Chestnut to go over 76.5 hot canines eaten (+210, bet $10 to win $31 whole)

Chestnut’s report is 76 hot canines and buns in 10 minutes, set final yr. Sudo’s report is 48.5 hot canines and buns in 10 minutes, set in 2020.

Chestnut’s profitable totals (hot canines and buns):

2021: 76

2020: 75

2019: 71 

2018: 74

2017: 72

2016: 70

2014: 61

2013: 69

2012: 68

2011: 62

2010: 54

2009: 68

2008: 59*

2007:  66

* = received in 5 hot dog eat-off

Sudo’s profitable totals (hot canines and buns):

2020: 48.5

2019: 31

2018: 37

2017: 41

2016: 38.5

2015: 38

2014: 34

The winner of every contest will obtain $10,000 and a championship belt, with $5,000 going to the runner-up.

The occasion drew its greatest TV viewers in 2011 when slightly below 2 million folks tuned in.

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