Ultimately, it looks as though Andrade's plan to bet on himself won't end up in the big payday that he had hoped for, but it appears he came closer to success than many initially suspected. Perez wrote that one bettor who said he had no prior knowledge of the stunt had already had his account shut down by Bovada.
"We will continue to make sure that any publicity stunts or ill-intended behavior cannot adversely affect the outcome of a player's wager."Īccording to Perez, Bovada is refunding those that wagered there would not be a fan on the field during the game and paying out winning bets for accounts that were not linked to early knowledge of Andrade's plan. "Our players have always trusted us to ensure the integrity of all props offered in our sportsbook," a Bovada spokesman told Perez. Perez at Front Office Sports, Bovada was working to identify accounts that knew of Andrade's planned stunt. Super Bowl Streaker Yuri Andrade says he has already been paid a large portion of his 375,000 (270,000) winnings from a bet he placed on himself - despite bookie Bovada releasing a. By making several smaller wagers rather than one big $50,000, it's more conceivable that Andrade could have gotten a healthy wager down on his run.Īccording to a report from A.J. "The defendant was placed under arrest on the field for trespassing upon the field.Andrade told a Tampa radio station that he had gotten friends to place wagers from different accounts on the gambling site Bovada, betting that there would be a fan on the field at +750 odds. "During the 4th quarter of the game, the defendant unlawfully jumped the fencing in the stands on the north side of the stadium and began to run across the field," police wrote in the arrest affidavit. According to an affidavit obtained by USA Today, Andrade was placed under arrest after being taken down on the field at Raymond James Stadium. The streaker, Yuri Andrade, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor trespassing. A 31-year-old Florida man who stormed the field, half-nude, at Raymond James Stadium Sunday night said he turned 50,000 into 375,000 via a prop bet regarding whether or not someone will run onto the field during the Big Game. He said that the founder of the site, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, is a friend of his and paid for his tickets to the game. The Super Bowl streaker has his story and he’s sticking to it. While running across the field, Andrade was sporting a bathing suit with the name of an adult website written across it. "It wasn't nothing crazy like I was trying to harm anyone." "It was just a joke between friends, pretty much," Andrade told USA Today. In a statement to that outlet, he simply said it was a joke between friends. That is a little more detailed than what Andrade told USA Today about the incident. I immediately started calling every single person I know, and asked them to set up an account with Bovada and place those bets for me.” “We started searching Bovada, and the Bovada prop bet was +750 for a fan to run on the field. Once we came up with the plan, I called my friend, and he said, ‘I wonder if there’s a prop bet for that.’ One as a distraction so that all the security runs to him, and I could rush the field.
“Before we even started the bet part, we wanted to do this for Vitaly Uncensored, which is my friend’s website … Vitaly has been trying to do this for five years and couldn’t do it, so I came up with a plan to do two people. “About $370,000,” Andrade said of how much he made by streaking. While the plan started out as a way to promote his friend’s website, Andrade quickly realized that he could make some cash off the stunt as well, and he cleared a significant amount of money.
On Tuesday, Andrade called into Wild 94.1 in Tampa to reveal that there was some money in it for him. Security immediately restrained the scantily-clad streaker and escorted him off the field. The fan, whose name is Yuri Andrade, was actually able to elude a couple of security personnel before taking a hard hit at the goal line. Everyone watching at home quickly figured out that a streaker had taken the field. Yuri Andrade, 31, from Bacon Raton, has spent most of the week bragging on his personal Instagram about the viral stunt. With about five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, the players began pointing to something on the field. The ‘Super Bowl 55 Streaker’ went on WiLD 94.1 Monday morning and confirmed that he indeed made upwards of 370,000 on a 50,000, +750 ‘Will a fan run onto the field’ Super Bowl prop bet. According to him, he was in it to earn some money. Apparently, the streaker that took center stage in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LV wasn’t just doing it because he had a wild hare.