Office pools are well and good. But there’s a better way. A way with personal servers and a wall of TVs. A way where your 12/5 upset will pay off literally. Below, the town’s finest sportsbooks for watching/eating/legalized gambling during the tournament. Feel free to print this in bracket form.
In gambling, it’s all about having an edge. It’s why you have cheerleaders, athletic directors and at least three mascots on payroll. And it’s why you’ll use a fiber optic personal tablet for live, in-game prop betting during the tournament. It’s like an iPad... that was designed by a bookie.
The first few days of March Madness can be overwhelming. Thus, you may want to sit down. Perhaps in a cushy leather booth. That’s in a sports bar. That’s studded with high-definition TVs, serving special ghost chili Firecracker Burgers and zoned for accepting bets. Which, incidentally, also makes it zoned for danger.
Your completed bracket: a work of art. The only thing left now: watch victory dramatically unfold. Ideally, you’ll want to do this in a sports den that’s outfitted with stadium seating, a nine-foot plasma TV and direct patio access. They prefer you take all champagne-spraying celebrations out to the patio.
Sports and superstitions go hand in hand. Pitchers don’t step on the baselines, hockey players grow beards during the playoffs, and you watch the Final Four from a private luxury box where personal servers supply a steady stream of Dark and Stormys. Some habits just aren’t worth breaking.
March Madness is a marathon, not a sprint. So you’ll settle in for the long haul at the Mirage. They’ve got 10,000 square feet’s worth of sportsbook to roam in, a coinciding $525,000 blackjack tournament and towering pastrami on rye from Carnegie Deli. You can easily ration one to last through the Sweet Sixteen.
