I'm in Winnipeg and our jackpot in Western Canada was only 140,000. used to be 250000 before covid.don't know why there are less players playing. not one person hit all 15 games. there were 7 winners here that split the pot winning 14/15. I have been playing pools religiously for 5 years as I too think it is the best kept secret. I have not won the NFL pools yet but won hockey twice and baseball about 20 times in 5 years, however baseball jackpots are only 5000-8000.gl yo you next week.
@Montecarlo23
Cant see it ever hitting above 600000 any more players have moved on in the last 2 years it doesn't help that the OLG makes you feel like a criminal when you win any thing over 10000 it takes 6 hours of waiting to get your check as they interrogate you on camera with questions like where did you play your ticket what time did you play your ticket and so on answers they already know. I won college football about 10 years back 1 winner 26 000 and change went to Toronto to get paid and was told i was a inside winner because my daughter works at a store that sells lottery tickets a store that t didn't play at it took two more interviews and about 4 months to get paid and they do not pay you any interest that you lost because it took 4 months to get paid Oh by the way college football is lucky to have 8000 in each pool anymore
I have been playing/following OLG NFL Pools for close to 2 decades and I agree with some of the lads here. The overall pot used to be well over $800K, approaching $1 million at some point about a decade ago.
The weekly pot has dropped down to about $500K in the past few years, going down as low as under $400K for some weeks last year. Depending on what your objectives, bankroll, risk tolerance and other factors are, this number may not be +EV to invest.
I think there are a number of factors explaining the decline in overall interest in OLG NFL Pools and the subsequent (significant) pot reduction.
1. There are too many individuals/groups/syndicates/whatever you want to call it boxing games left right, and centre. It is not an even playing field (and it never was). Joe Public only has so much $ to spend these days, with inflation and rising interest rates, and they simply can't afford to spend $ on Pools, weeks in and weeks out, if they can't compete with the individuals/groups with deep pockets.
2. The legalization of sports betting in Ontario. There are, simply put, way too many choices and options for the Players now. They don't really need to play Pools to make the dough, if they know what they are doing. Easier said than done obviously but my point is there are many more choices now, competing for the same amount of $ from the players, compared to the past where Pools (and ProLine parlays) were the only game in town.
I would be very surprised to see the pot reaching half a million like Week 1 but we will find out soon enough.
Good luck to all the Poolies out there!
Yep ric, I did mention earlier it's not an even playing field for Pools so the Joe Pub who can only afford to spend $80 every week to box 4 games simply don't stand a chance...that's the ugly truth...unless they are NFL Prognosticator Extraordinaire, who can routinely predict NFL winners on a consistent basis, but if that's the case, they should take their talents to Vegas/other online books, instead of playing with OLG, but I digress.
Obviously you need to know which games to box to optimize your chances and payouts but there is no denying the fact that the more games you box, the more chances you will create for yourself to win the Pools. Whether you have the $ to consistently do so on a weekly basis (boxing 8 games will set you back $1,280, so on and so forth) is another question.
There were Pools players on another ProLine forum, which has gone extinct, who openly bragged they knew people who worked for OLG who could let them know how many winning tickets were waiting for Monday Night, so these guys could figure out the potential payouts and hedge properly, if necessary. I don't have a problem with that approach, you have to gain every edge that you can. What I do have a problem is these guys sometimes turned around and wanted to flip their winning Pools tickets for double the projected payout to other unsuspecting players. That's a bush-league move and they were pure grifters, plain and simple.
Be interesting to see what pot Week 2 will end up with. It's mid-day Saturday and estimated pot is hovering around $125K right now. That's a lot of ground to cover, to get up to $500K, with less than a day to go although majority of Pools tickets are no doubt purchased on Sunday morning, or as close to cut-off as possible, factoring in injuries and inactives.
Pot this week is about $445K so less than last week.
I counted 4 dogs winning outright so far (Titans, Seahawks, Ravens and Commanders). Colts/Texans was more or less a Pick'em type of game. The 2 games tomorrow have low spreads and many folks tend to box the prime-time games to begin with.
If both dogs won tomorrow night, I am thinking the payout maybe similar to last week e.g. 5 figures, due to the number of upsets and the fact it's a 15-game card.
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