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Prize money for 2025 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest: how much does the winner earn?

Prize money for 2025 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest: how much does the winner earn?

DraftKings Network DraftKings Sportsbook Insights

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By: Ryan Wohl

The legendary Joey Chestnut will make his highly anticipated return to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest today at 12:00 p.m. ET on ESPN2. This event takes place at Nathan’s Famous Corporation in Brooklyn, New York.

The total purse for the 2025 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest is $40,000, but the winners of the men’s and women’s contests earn $10,000. In these contests, second place gets $5,000 while the third place finisher takes home $2,500.

On DraftKings Sportsbook, Joey Chestnut is a huge -2000 favorite to win his 17th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut’s total for hot dogs eaten is 71.5, with the over being -125. The record in this event is 76, which is +215 to be broken in this year’s competition.

Here are the rest of the betting markets for this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Ryan Wohl

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