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Circa Survivor team reaches Week 10 among 609 entries competing for $25 million
Mike Davis and seven partners bought one $1,000 entry in the Las Vegas NFL contest. The remaining entries will split the prize pool if they survive all 20 weeks.
An eight-person team led by professional handicapper Mike Davis has reached Week 10 of the Circa Survivor NFL contest in Las Vegas, holding one of 609 entries still competing for a $25,017,000 prize pool.
The group, called Turn 'Em, bought a single $1,000 entry. Its stake was worth more than $41,000 heading into Week 10, Covers reported.
Contestants pick one NFL team to win each week over 20 weeks and cannot reuse a team. The schedule includes separate selections for Thanksgiving and Christmas games. Entries that survive the full contest split the prize pool.
Davis told Covers that luck had played a part in the group's progress. “We've gotten lucky,” he said. “I feel like everybody that has advanced this far has dodged some bullets. Hopefully we can dodge bullets the rest of the way.”
Davis, who lives in Georgia, recruited five followers from his Turn 'Em Discord group, along with his brother and a hometown friend. He owns 23% of the entry, while each of the other seven members owns 11%.
The group's entry survived a close call in Week 8, when its selection, the Cincinnati Bengals, tied the Tennessee Titans with 1:17 left before winning in overtime. Quarterback Joe Burrow threw the tying touchdown and ran for the winner.
Davis told Covers that this is his first year participating in a survivor contest. Last year, five of more than 18,000 entries finished the Circa contest and split $18.7 million.