A new study from the American Gaming Association finds that nearly 40 million Americans betting on NFL games this year! And with new states like Indiana regulating the activity all the time, that number will only increase over the next several years. We’re also covering online gambling news out of Pennsylvania, were multiple progressive jackpots were hit over a four day period! Plus, one man in South Dakota was left hanging in a casino.
Hello friends! What a time to be alive! The NFL season is off and running, fantasy leagues are up and running, and sports betting? Well that’s still this week’s big story! According to a study from the American Gaming Association nearly 40 million Americans will be betting on NFL games this year… that’s 15 percent of the entire population of the country! And 75 percent of those bettors say they’re more likely to watch an NFL game if they’ve got money on it. How’s that for a bump in the ratings?
Also, on our last program I told you that Rhode Island was planning to have mobile sports betting up and running before the start of the NFL season, and guess what? True to their word that’s exactly what they did! Additionally I told you about six states where sports betting was about to launch soon, and that when one of them went live I would come out here and update you, so here I am! Welcoming Indiana to the party!
If all of that wasn’t enough, Caesar’s and William Hill continue to open new sports books and expand into new states. Right now Caesars is operating in seven American states and, not to be outdone, William Hill is operating in eight! So, week one is done! We’ve got 16 more to look forward to, plus the playoffs! All is right with the world! Unless of course Antonio Brown jacked up your fantasy league… Not that that’s what happened to me!!!
Many people in this industry, including myself, believe that sports betting regulation will open the door for online gambling expansion across America. And with that in mind, did you hear what happened in Pennsylvania? Not one… not two.. but three progressive jackpots were hit in the state over a four-day window! And what’s really weird is they were all hit on the same game! The big wins all came on the Divine Fortune online slot from Net Entertainment, and all told the lucky players took home collectively over two hundred and eighty thousand dollars!
Finally this week, a man in a South Dakota casino thought police were looking for him recently. So when he saw officers walk into the casino, he high stepped it to the bathroom… but he didn’t hide, he went up into the ceiling! True story! Things came to a crashing end shortly thereafter when the ceiling he was hiding in gave way over the casino floor… where he was left hanging… in front of officers… entangled in wires… who then arrested him… and that’s not even the funny part!
You see, he was arrested for causing two thousand dollars worth of damages to the casino ceiling and for nothing else! Turns out he was not the man police were looking for! And you thought you were having a bad week!
