Legal Gambling on NFL Games May Reach $35 Billion This Season
- Legal gambling on NFL games may reach $35 billion this season.
- Virginia seeks to have gambling sites pay into problem gambling fund.
- More raids of North Carolina fish arcades.
- Republicans secretly want Donald Trump to lose?
Gambling News
Legal Gambling on NFL Games May Reach $35 Billion This Season
The American Gaming Association estimates that $35 billion will be bet legally on the NFL this season, according to CNBC. That would be a 30 percent increase over last season, thanks to three more states legalizing sports gambling (bringing the total to 38 states where it’s legal to bet on the NFL) and the proliferation of betting options leading more people to bet more money.
More than 95 percent of that betting will be done online, as apps make it easier than ever to gamble from home, and while watching games.
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Gambling News
Virginia Sportsbooks Will Soon Be Paying Into Problem Gambling Fund
A committee is set to vote in November on the creation of a new independent state agency in the commonwealth of Virginia — dubbed the Virginia Gaming Commission — to consolidate the regulatory powers over online gambling, charity gaming, bingo, live horse racing, fantasy contests, the state’s five licensed casinos, and 10 licenses for Rosie’s Gaming Emporium.
They'll also be looking to have gambling companies pay into a problem gambling fund.
Markus Schmidt of the Virginia Mercury delves into the problem gambling situation in the commonwealth:
Because there are currently no federal funds designated for problem gambling treatment or research — unlike the billions of dollars in funding for alcohol, tobacco and drug addiction — the General Assembly last year passed legislation creating a new Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Advisory Committee within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to address and mitigate gambling addiction in Virginia.
The legislature previously created a Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund to help pay for “counseling and other support services for compulsive and problem gamblers, developing and implementing compulsive and problem gambling treatment and prevention programs, and providing grants to support organizations that provide assistance to compulsive and problem gamblers.”
Gambling Crime
More Fish Arcade Raids in NC Question Whether Dave & Busters Will Ever Offer Gambling
A CMPD SWAT Team was on the scene of a gambling investigation at a north Charlotte arcade.
Law enforcement agents including a CMPD Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team and Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Unit were present Tuesday around 8 a.m. at Shark Tank Arcade on Freedom Drive in north Charlotte.
Officials later confirmed that they carried out a warrant for an illegal fish arcade. Several firearms, a ‘significant amount of money’, and illicit gaming equipment were seized.
These raids come at a time in which the restaurant and entertainment chain Dave & Busters is considering offering gambling on games in its establishments. One of the games they offer is similar to a fish arcade.
Politics
Report: Republicans Secretly Want Trump to Lose
WHAT IF TRUMP LOSES? — A few days ago, conservative commentator ERICK ERICKSON raised eyebrows in GOP circles when he spilled a dirty little secret on X: Some Republicans are privately OK with a DONALD TRUMP loss on Election Day.
But there’s another part to that secret: It’s not just the Never Trumpers. Some of the Republicans wishing for a Trump loss include long-standing GOP figures throughout the nation who bleed red and wouldn’t dare to say this publicly but who are more than ready to move on from the Trump era.
This morning, these Republicans get their perspective aired by our own Jonathan Martin, who argues in a new column that “the best possible outcome in November for the future of the Republican Party is for Donald Trump to lose and lose soundly.”
Source: Politico
Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were in a dead heat at -110 apiece at the online gambling websites.
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