Indiana sportsbooks shattered the state record for betting volume for the second consecutive month by handling more than $460 million in October.
The surge in betting brought on in part by the year’s first full month of football also made Indiana just the fifth state to reach $5 billion in lifetime sports wagers, according to PlayIndiana, which tracks the state’s gaming industry.
The agency credits five full weekends of the NFL and college football, the opening of the NBA season, and baseball’s postseason gave sportsbooks a rare convergence of betting inventory in October.
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I’m mostly glad that sports betting is legal now. It should have never been illegal in the first place.
My one complaint is that there are a TON of advertisements for it, and they are all painfully stupid. Judging by those ads, the people actually betting on sports have to be some of the biggest morons in existence.
You can tell they must be rakeing in the cash the more they advertise and they aren’t cheap ads the more thee make.
Las Vegas doesn’t keep the lights on because everyone is walking away a winner…despite the lies they keep telling themselves.
It’s a voluntary tax paid by the people who can probably least afford to pay it. But if they thought about it they wouldn’t be paying attention to a group of adults playing with a ball and think it makes a difference in their lives.