Winner on 49ers -1½, and losers on Browns -3, Panthers -2½, Washington +4½ and Bills +3½.įormat: Contestants pick one straight-up NFL winner each week (each team can be used only once) and are eliminated with a loss ($1,000 per entry).įield: 4,080 entries, but Circa added $1.92 million to the prize pool to reach the $6 million guarantee. A second entry from Hannibal Barca is alone in second place at 50-20.īarnes’ status: 1-4 last week, 31-38-1 overall, tied for 3,281st. Leader: One entry (Hannibal Barca) at 51-19. Here’s how the contests stand after Week 14:įormat: Contestants pick five NFL games against the spread each week ($1,000 per entry).

“I prefer watching and betting on pros,” he said, “but I do much better moneywise on college.”Įach week, I’ll track the major handicapping contests and detail my progress.

But college football will have a special place now. “To get them all out in the same week was amazing.”īorchers said he bets every day and considers baseball his best sport and the NFL his favorite sport. “When I went in to pick up next week’s lines, they said congratulations,” Borchers said. The week began with six entries alive, and Borchers said he assumed at least one or two others had survived with him to Week 10. Entries cost $25 each, with a maximum of five for $100.īorchers got the best kind of surprise after he won his pick in Week 9 with Oregon, which covered -6½ in a 26-16 victory over Washington. In Last Man Standing, entries pick one game against the spread each week and are eliminated with a loss. “It’s a nice little cushion to do everything I want.” “It makes everything very comfortable,” he said. The 51-year-old said he is retired and has lived in Las Vegas for more than six years. Winning Station Casinos’ college Last Man Standing contest isn’t going to change Daniel Borchers’ life - but it sure made it a lot easier.īorchers won $100,000 in the contest last month, prevailing in a field of 3,075 entries. Daniel Borchers, center, with Station Casinos officials in an undated photo, after winning the college Last Man Standing contest for $100,000.

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