Astros World Series Title Cost Nevada Bookies $11M In November

HOUSTON, TX — Las Vegas never took a hit during one month of baseball like the one that the Houston Astros delivered this November. The Vegas books collectively lost $11.4 million in World Series baseball bets when the Astros took the Fall Classic in seven games over the favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

According to the Nevada Gaming Control Board, November was the largest baseball loss in a month for the state's regulated books. That means lots of Astros believers cashed in just in time for the holiday season.

In addition to Houston's 5-1 in Game 7 on Nov. 1 that sent seventh-game betters in the green, futures bets on the Astros to win the World Series that were placed throughout the year and got cashed last month added to the record baseball loss.

Prior to the Astros taking the title, the largest loss on baseball came in November 1999 when the New York Yankees defeated the Atlanta Braves in the World Series — losing only $6.2 million on baseball that November.

Not to be upset, though, the books more than made up for their losses in a successful month in other sports — mostly football and basketball — that brought in about $9.8 million overall and was the 52nd-consecitive month the books finished in the black, a streak dating back to July 2013. Vegas wasn't built by everybody winning their bets, right?

This calendar year is even one of the better ones for history as they've collectively already won $213.6 million with December yet to be calculated. The best year of the books was 2015, when the books won $231.7 million.

Image: Houston Astros' George Springer (4) holds up the World Series trophy during a timeout during the half of an NFL football game between the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)