Florida Gambler Loses Seven Figures On MACtion A Day After Sporting Betting Returns To The State

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Sports betting is once again legal in Florida following the end of a lengthy legal battle, and plenty of residents in the Sunshine State seized on the chance to start wagering when it returned on Tuesday. Unfortunately, one person wasted no time losing a fortune thanks to an ill-advised bet on Kent State.

In 2021, Florida began to allow people within its borders to take advantage of online sports betting after the Seminole Tribe was given the green light to accept wagers via the Hard Rock sportsbook app. However, the operation was shut down around a month later thanks to multiple lawsuits challenging the legality of the de facto monopoly they were granted.

While the legal battle continues to play out, the defendants took advantage of a recent court ruling in their favor and resurrected the app on November 7th—one day before Kent State was slated to face off against Bowling Green for some Wednesday night MACtion.

The Golden Flashes headed into the contest with a 1-8 record against a Falcons squad that was 5-4 on the season, and the latter was favored to win by 10.5 points. When everything was said and done, we were treated to a true Bowling Green Massacre where Kent State ended up on the wrong side of the 49-19 outcome.

I’d argue you’d need to be a true College Football Sicko to feel the urge to place any money on that game in the first place, but one bettor in Florida apparently couldn’t stop themselves from throwing down $1.12 million on the spread and another $426,000 on Kent State to win outright.

Unfortunately for them, neither of those bets hit, and they found themselves out of a grand total of $1,546,000 as a result.

I’m going to assume anyone who was able to bet that much on MACtion in the first place can afford to lose it, but that still had to hurt.