Live Sports Betting

Live sports betting is a unique way to take your online sports betting to the next level, especially during the football season!

At the best online sportsbook, live odds are available for thousands of events each year. Starting with the opening kickoff, first pitch, or tee shot, in-game wagering allows you to place live bets from your couch, sports bar, watch party, or in the concession line at a football game.

If, for example, you don’t like the pregame NFL odds for a Baltimore Ravens game, you can wait until the game starts and pounce when odds are updated. Or, if you bet on pregame odds but see a hedging opportunity in the second quarter, a live bet can be placed.

At BetMGM, there are live odds for everyone!

What Is Live Betting?

When an event begins, pregame (or pre-match, pre-tournament, etc.) betting odds are locked, and live betting opens. As the sportsbook reacts to in-game action, live odds are posted.

Here’s an example with live NFL odds:

Brock Purdy throws a 45-yard touchdown pass to Deebo Samuel one minute into the San Francisco 49ers’ game against the Detroit Lions. The book might move the odds from Niners -7.5 to Niners -9.5. You could bet on the Niners to cover -9.5, the Lions to cover +9.5, an updated over/under total, or other available odds.

Or perhaps Rafael Nadal becomes a bigger favorite in French Open tennis odds after dominating the first set, Kansas basketball moves from an 11.5-point favorite against Iowa State to a 16.5-point favorite after building a 10-point lead in the first half, or the New Orleans Pelicans become a shorter underdog against the Boston Celtics after an early run.

Where Can I Do Live Betting?

BetMGM has live betting for thousands of events each year.

Whether you’re a first-time bettor watching a boxing match, a casual fan checking out college basketball moneylines, or a diehard tennis fan breaking down tennis betting trends, you can add more excitement to each minute of every game.

What States Allow Live Betting?

You can place bets in any of BetMGM’s online betting markets.

Visit the sportsbook to see if betting is available in your state, district, province, or territory.

How To Bet On Live Odds

Placing in-game wagers has never been easier at the BetMGM sportsbook. Here’s how to place live bets during an NBA game:

As Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets take a 15-7 lead on the Phoenix Suns, the moneyline odds shift from the Nuggets -150 (in pregame odds) to Nuggets -200. Despite the eight-point deficit, you still like the Suns to win the game and place a $20 live bet on the Suns’ moneyline (+150).

Over the next three hours, you watch Devin Booker lead the Suns to an upset win, which cashes the live bet and returns a payout of $50 (including stake).

You can view live betting odds on several pages, including the live sports betting page and event-, league-, and sport-specific pages.

Live Betting Parlays

BetMGM is the King of Sportsbooks and the King of Parlays. And parlays are available with live betting.

Instead of placing a single bet, aka straight bet, during the first quarter of a football game, you can combine multiple bets from multiple games to create a parlay, which changes your odds and increases your potential payout.

Visit the sportsbook today to check updated live odds, sportsbook promos, and more!