I’m sort of surprised you know this, given what was aired on Channel 39 at 10:30. Perhaps “rasslin” was one of your guilty pleasures.
They claimed he placed a moneyline wager on the outcome of game, Bengals at +170. If that counts as “insurance”, I’m not sure how well regulated either the insurance business or the casino business really is.
I was looking for the nightly repeat of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. I used to get all those weird channels confused pre-cable.
Come for Jim Lehrer, stay for the Junkyard Dog.
Or Ultraman. But that was more a 10:30 in the morning kind of vibe.
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I hadn’t seen that. Still don’t understand how it’s legal for him to place sports wagers in Texas when it’s illegal for the rest of us.
He just flies to Vegas to place the wager.
This time he drove to Louisiana, where sportsbook have just become legal. Apparently he placed it from his car, just as he drove across the border.
According to this, it was $9.5M. That’s a lot of tempur-pedics. Mattress Mack vows to keep going after $9.5 million Super Bowl loss
Thus showing how absolutely asinine it is for Texas to keep sticking their heads in the sand. (See also: marijuana)
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At least a few dozen.
Can he just openly do that and get wired the proceeds?
This is more or less the reason pari-mutuel betting was (re)legalized in Texas. Everyone was simply driving across the border to Lousiana, and the state finally got tired of losing all that money.
I’m not sure how that works. But if it takes driving to Lake Charles to collect $16MM, I’m sure he could muster up the motivation.
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The same happened with New York State legalizing sports betting. People were just walking across the bridge to NJ to place their bets.
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It’s like WhatsApp was never invented.
You still can’t bet the ponies legally online in Texas. Another asinine state law.
You forget that the state runs the only legal betting in the state: the lottery. Introduce other gambling, and the lottery proceeds likely plummet.
Pari-mutuel gambling is legal, which is essentially what the lottery is. There’s even a horse track in Houston.
Although there are four bridges connecting New York and New Jersey, I suspect they draw very little foot traffic. Empire State bettors would be more likely to reach New Jersey via the PATH train, which offers outstanding service at a reasonable sum from various points in lower Manhattan. I suppose you could always drive across the George Washington Bridge and gamble on its being open.