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New bill could inadvertently ban betting apps in Vegas

WinslowWinslow Junior Member
edited May 2015 in Sports Betting
LOL, what a possible disaster. There's a few Strip books that have plans to add mobile apps, including MGM, Caesars and Wynn. Have to wonder if this will force them to pump the brakes a bit.
A bill in Congress that would ban Internet gambling would inadvertently criminalize Nevada’s booming mobile sports wagering business, which has been credited with turning the Silver State’s sports books into a $3.9 billion-a-year industry.

The measure, backed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson, is aimed at reversing changes made in 2011 to the 1961 Federal Wire Act.

If approved, the bill would end most forms of online betting, including interactive poker in Nevada.

Because the bill would stop transmission of gambling information through wire communications across state lines, mobile sports wagering in Nevada would also be halted, crippling sports book operations in the state.

“While we don’t think this is the intent of the bill, we are concerned it could be an unintended consequence,” said William Hill U.S. CEO Joe Asher. The company, which operates race and sports books for Nevada casinos, operates a healthy mobile wagering business.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/analysis-net-gambling-bill-accidentally-criminalizes-some-nevada-sports-bets

Comments

  • Old-TimerOld-Timer Senior Member
    edited May 2015
    Have to admit we live in this:laugh: great country with some of the greatest minds in the world and the rest of the world just laughs at us.. What is wrong with the minds of people that think they know what's best for others while getting other counties rich beyond their wildest dreams. What one man with help of course has done to this country in the past 8 years is something that I'll never live long enough to see fixed. Not saying it wasn't really fucked up before him but he's just call me gasoline man



    If you haven't seen the movie "The Mouse That Roared" with Peter Sellers it's a classic and great for a slow sports night.
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