He had seen that gambling site Bovada had offered prop-bet odds on all kinds of peripheral events around the Super Bowl, and was paying +750 (a $100 bet wins $750) on a wager of whether a fan would make it onto the field during the game.Īndrade told Tampa radio station WiLD 94.1 that he got several friends to set up accounts and place bets totaling over $50,000, yielding winnings of $370,000 by making good on the bet himself.Īsked whether they would honor a prop bet in a situation like this, Bovada acknowledged “some betting irregularities” on their Super Bowl prop that asked, “Will a fan run onto the field during the game?” Super Bowl motiveĪndrade boasted on social media and in radio interviews that the entire streaking stunt was done not only for a friend’s adult site but as a lucrative money-making scheme. His criminal history goes back 15 years, ranging from amusing marijuana charges to dozens of traffic citations to multiple felony arrests, one as a teenager, another sending him to jail for three years. But Andrade is far from a first-time offender. Kevin Harlan's call of the idiot on the field (w/video from : /iAI7WDi5xxĪ misdemeanor trespass might not be much for a first-time offender - generally a short probation, community service, paying court costs. We will continue to make sure that any publicity stunts or ill-intended behavior cannot adversely affect the outcome of a player’s wager.Andrade was arrested Sunday night and charged with criminal trespass, a first-degree misdemeanor, and out on $500 bond by Monday morning and back partying with players that night. “Our players have always trusted us to ensure the integrity of all props offered in our sportsbook. While Andrade did not make a $50,000 prop bet and he did not win $375,000, some of his acquaintances did make a number of smaller wagers that with the online sportsbook Bovada.īovada said that it was voiding all bets from people who had forehand knowledge of Andrade's stunt and that it was refunding bets to those who bet that there would not be a streaker during the game. 10, 2021, Front Office Sports reported that there was a small grain of truth to this claim. You actually think if there were 500 guys all betting $100 the streaker prop at the same time the book wouldn’t take it down. Gets bet up huge on Friday after the rehearsal. If Andrade couldn't place a $50,000 bet himself, what if he got hundreds of people to place smaller bets? Stewart threw cold water on that claim, too: Stewart said that it can be difficult to get a $200 prop bet, let alone one at $50,000: Kelly Stewart, another reporter who covers the gambling beat under the handle also noted that there was no chance someone would be allowed to make a $50,000 prop bet. "No book in their right mind would take $50K limits on that. Per a global-market sportsbook spokesperson: While social media posts and news articles might use "streaker" to describe Andrade, we doubt that a bookie backing a $50,000 bet would let this sort of technicality slide, especially when the gambler is attempting to game the system.įurthermore, it's unlikely that Andrade would have been able to gamble such a large sum of money on a prop bet (or novelty bet.) Pat Everson, a senior writer for the gambling website Covers, doubted someone would take a $50,000 bet on something like this:Ī lot of hullaballoo today about the #SuperBowl streaker purportedly making a $50K bet at +750 that there would be a streaker during the game. As seen in the meme above, Andrade was not naked when he ran across the football field. We have some doubts about this claim, to say the least.įor starters, a streaker, by definition, is a person who runs naked through a public space. In the fourth quarter, when the game thus far had been streak-less, Andrade took matters into his own hands: The sports-centric social media account shared a picture of Andrade at a restaurant and wrote that the Super Bowl streaker had told him that he had placed a $50,000 prop bet that someone would streak during the game. This rumor appears to have originated with an Instagram post from Sideline Daily. There's little evidence to support this claim. Shortly afterward, a rumor started circulating that the 31-year-old, Yuri Andrade, had a second motive: To win $375,000 on a $50,000 prop bet he had placed before the game: 7, 2021, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs faced off during Super Bowl LV, a man wearing a pink bathing suit "streaked" across the field in order to promote an adult website. The Super Bowl streaker did not make a $50,000 wager and did not win $374,000.
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