Sports Gambling Became Legal Because Of A Horse Track (HBO)

For a generation, Nevada was the only place in the country where people could legally bet on sports. But thanks to a May Supreme Court decision, many fans won't have to travel or break the law to bet on their favorite teams this year.
Four states have joined Nevada in taking bets, and a handful of others are rushing to do the same as the race begins to convert bettors in the illegal market, which, even by conservative estimates, takes in at least $50 billion in bets every year.
To see what the fight looks like on the ground, VICE News traveled to New Jersey, where business owners and politicians have been fighting to legalize sports betting for almost a decade before the lawsuit filed by Monmouth Park, a New Jersey racetrack, made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
We also sat down with Ted Leonsis, the owner of four Washington sports teams, including the NBA's Wizards and NHL's Capitals, to see what he thinks legal sports betting will mean for the major sports leagues.
“Everything will become a competition,” Leonsis told VICE News. “It will become as mainstream and as one-touch and as baked into the way we do things as buying a book or getting a car on Uber.”
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[@mikkyd9989]

In Australia we have been able to bet and drink at 18 aren't you guys meant to be the land of the free

[@TheOwenMajor]

Because the constitution doesn't protect gambling. Sorta like how your constituion doesn't protect anything.

[@pandaboogie7369]

How does drinking alcohol and gambling symbolize freedom?

[@InteractiveIdea]

You don't have our problems

[@kiker0909]

@@pandaboogie7369 freedom equals doing what you want.. Meaning drinking and gambling.

[@InteractiveIdea]

@@pandaboogie7369 it doesn't symbolize it. It just adds to more things people are allowed to do freely without repocations.

[@candymr2]

This doesnt stimulate the economy. It drains money from working people

[@100Mmore]

*stupid, working people. nothing wrong with that

[@crolomyers2516]

We must legalize marijuana, prostitution, and gambling.

[@JewTube001]

Libertarian Capitalist. Well they don't, and that's why your system doesn't work.

[@oljimeagle6779]

candymr2 working people should be free to do what they want with their money.

[@RebornLegacy]

+Daniel I'm sorry, what kind of shitty moral system do you subscribe to where it's okay to take advantage of people because they might by ignorant or have a gambling addiction? Why exactly does someone's intelligence mean you get to run roughshod over them?

[@ET-ix9vo]

“Free country”can’t even gamble your own money

[@c.t9-180]

Look up a few documentaries on what this can do to poor people I think if you want to bet you should have a license and qualify like another actions.

[@johnspinelli9396]

Yeah but its good for places like Las Vegas and AC if only limited amount of places have gambling

[@ReubenSempleJones]

@@c.t9-180 By that logic alcohol should be illegal then 😂. I'm from the UK and I was in shock when I found out that for many Americans it's illegal to bet in sports.

[@FourthObelisk]

This is addiction on steroids.

This is not what most people think it is. Most people think this is just placing a wager on a game. This is going so far beyond that. They are gonna have people losing their lives on smart phones. This is insane.

[@LegendNinja41]

didn't even knew sports betting is illegal in the usa as a german. was quite confused when i read the title lol.

[@mitchellquartero]

It was iliegal For other states except Nevada until The supreme court overturned it

[@abisz007007]

Gambling...the tax for the poor

[@andrewl5201]

because only dumb poor people are dumb enough to invest their money and time in something so idiotic. They say it's a tax as a joke like it's a given that they will pay it/ gamble.

[@todoldtrafford]

Scratch off tickets specifically

[@MyDoodad]

The government has no right to tell us what we can and can't do with our money. Legalize weed and prostitution as well.

[@BxbyRxmbo]

Sounds like something a sex trafficker would want...

[@matthewwelsh294]

@@BxbyRxmbo Okay Karen, I bet you want the government to control people lives. You must be a Republican

[@caryccharlson]

"The governor said" my ass.

[@GM-tw4el]

Betting like this is pretty normal in the uk and doesn’t really seem to be a big issue. People who already make illegal bets just now have a safer regulated to do it in the USA. People worrying about corruption shouldn’t get too worked up, sure there was a high profile case in top level Italian football around 10 years ago, but it’s pretty hard to buy off top level athletes who are making millions a year in football (soccer), the NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB, horse and dog racing, which have always been legal are the sports where corruption for gambling is most prevalent. Don’t get me wrong it’s not to say that fixing doesn’t happen, but it’s usually done by Eastern European or Chinese crime syndicates who are paying off athletes who don’t make a lot of money, and i assume that America will take the same regulations as Europe and players won’t be allowed to place bets on the sport that they are involved in regardless of the teams playing, or face lengthy bans and huge fines. The last well known case of a soccer player placing bets on games was a guy named joey Barton who’d been placing bets on games he had no involvement in whatsoever and he received a 24 month ban effectively ending his playing career. Sure gambling is addictive and can ruin lives, but the majority of people do it for a little bit of interest and nothing more.

[@jaylovesu4718]

They say "it helps the states economy" where's the money come from?? They dont talk about all the families that are DESTROYED.. MOSTLY poor people! Ppl that are ADDICTED to gambling. Someone just JUMPED OFF THE TOP FLOOR AT MY LOCAL CASINO. you don't ever hear about that. And the families that are DESTROYED FROM IT. SMH TOTAL BS

[@Claptonisgod33]

Just because some people waste their life savings away doesn't mean freedom for everyone should be taken away.

[@CroatianMinecrafter]

People make the choice to bet or not to bet. Nobody is, or should be forced to do it just as much nobody should be forced not to bed or worse do it trough illegal means.

[@breadman32398]

So we're going to send the police to forcefully stop this consensual and victimless betting with the threat of violence and kidnapping. Does that sound like protecting and serving?

[@johnspinelli9396]

Yeah but people make the decisions themselves to gamble. Its not fair to everybody else

[@footballguy263]

so your telling me you put stu the source feiner in but didn't interview him

[@harrisonbooth6129]

This could be a slippery slope. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@billhh2619]

If idiots want to waist their money on gambling so be it. it's a free country and it's their money to spend how they see fit.

[@dontbetonit]

stu feiner lmaooooo

[@Mullet-ZubazPants]

Legal bookies are best equipped to suss out fixes. The most well know case was the 1994 ASU point shaving scandal. Vegas bookies, in particular Jimmy Vaccaro of The Mirage alerted the Nevada Gaming Control Board and the FBI. The "integrity", or rather lack thereof, of sports, hurts bookies just as much as the leagues... maybe more

[@WeylandLabs]

I honestly still dont like it, there will come a time when corruption influences the game. Once that happens and caught, people will turn away from the game. Nevada protected the games, with not having any major sports teams there. But now corps and political influences moved in and took over. Good luck !

[@PeterGodmez]

Cronyism in a nutshell.

[@allanarango1047]

if you dont know what ur doing dont gamble or sports bet I want it to be legal in california so I can make some money

[@InteractiveIdea]

Let the time dead beat fathers begin.

[@ATR-Sound]

Why should the NBA or any other sports league be entitled to even a penny of gambling revenue? Greedy snakes.

[@ahmadfadzel7089]

Easy money

[@cutthroat5000]

MONEY BAGGS

[@HIYENZ.Fashion]

this is not a step forward for the economy! This is how middle class people go even broker

[@DUBSTEP_KUSH305]

First

[@budg7525]

Kenny, I beat you by 1 minute!

[@RuskiArtem]

This is a terrible idea

[@c.t9-180]

I agree because that money is then killed it dies ... it doesn't stay in the state... if its lost .

[@budg7525]

First in India, First like! First comment!

[@c.t9-180]

One more distraction from God for people seriously people get with it.

[@oljimeagle6779]

IMPORTANT NOTICE And here we have the odds on favorite "Kiddy Diddler" to give their condescending and irrellevent, religious opinion.

[@foxxrider250r]

Machete Joe Quit talking about yourself like that.

[@c.t9-180]

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