CT Sports Betting - No UConn!

[MDeL04]

Someone has to explain this ridiculous rule to me. Why would we not be able to place regular season wagers on games with CT universities? But tournament games are fine?? What/who does this protect? Struggling to see the point of this.

 

[auror]

From a random website about Illinois sports gambling

Proponents of such limits include legislators and officials in the college sports industry. Their rallying cry has two arguments:

• Expanded gambling on college sports is a threat to the integrity of the events.
• Excluding college sports from legal markets protects college athletes from gambling interests.

The argument is that because athletes in these events are poorly compensated for their labor in comparison to major league athletes, they are more vulnerable to match-fixing schemes. Also, the idea of limiting wagering on these events would mean that college athletes are less likely to be bullied in person or on social media by belligerent bettors who lost money.

 

[Stinger92860]

BCU Betting Scandal

 

[BlueMAB]

Are they that naïve that they think someone looking to fix games won't/can't cross state lines?

 

[gampelcrazies]

Are they that naïve that they think someone looking to fix games won't/can't cross state lines?

I know. All a player would have to do is go to RI or just find a big time bookie.

 

[Waquoit]

It's nonsense, eye-wash. Legal betting makes a point-shaving scandal less likely. It's going to take time for the born prohibitionists to come to terms with legal betting and legal weed.

 

[August_West]

It's nonsense, eye-wash. Legal betting makes a point-shaving scandal less likely. It's going to take time for the born prohibitionists to come to terms with legal betting and legal weed.

Dont hold your breath.

 

[Waquoit]

Dont hold your breath.

It's nuts. I read how East Hartford is "wrangling" with legal weed. One town councilor worried out loud about marijuana "infection". Meanwhile last week, we drove through charming Great Barrington during a foliage drive and they have at least 5 weed stores on Main Street.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Sports betting has been illegal for so long that peole don’t even know why it was illegal in the first place.

Can’t bet UConn? No one can really explain why not, but there is some kind of default feeling that gambling is a sin.

I can bet the game in Rhode Island but not in Stamford, CT? That makes no sense at all.

Bizarre.

 

[JohnFSilver]

It's nuts. I read how East Hartford is "wrangling" with legal weed. One town councilor worried out loud about marijuana "infection". Meanwhile last week, we drove through charming Great Barrington during a foliage drive and they have at least 5 weed stores on Main Street.

CT is notorious for not even considering what happens elsewhere.

We don’t copy good ideas; we just do it our way and ignore what everyone else is trying, even when someone else solved the problem at hand.

 

[Chuck]

This has been prohibited in NJ as well. There is a referendum on the NJ ballot to "allow wagering on postseason college sport competitions held in NJ and competitions in which an NJ based college team participates."

Per the referendum, of the 30 states that now have sports betting, 17 allow betting on in-state college sports.

 

[Deepster]

In the last decade in CT, you can now:

1) Buy liquor on Sundays
2) Drink at Gampel
3) Bet on sports
4) Buy weed

And there's an uproar you can't bet UConn on a sports app or in a casino?

 

[Waquoit]

In the last decade in CT, you can now:

1) Buy liquor on Sundays
2) Drink at Gampel
3) Bet on sports
4) Buy weed

And there's an uproar you can't bet UConn on a sports app or in a casino?

But how do you think those four got changed?

 

[cohenzone]

Easy solution. Don’t bet on sports. Play poker.

 

[August_West]

Legal betting makes a point-shaving scandal less likely.

Legal Heroin makes accidental Overdose deaths less likely. WAY less likely. It seems to me that saving lives is more important than a point shaving scandal, yet do you think you will see Heroin legal in your lifetime?

 

[MDeL04]

Legal Heroin makes accidental Overdose deaths less likely. WAY less likely. It seems to me that saving lives is more important than a point shaving scandal, yet do you think you will see Heroin legal in your lifetime?

Yes, it’s called OxyContin, Oxycodone, morphine, etc.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

 

[TheChamps990411]

It's nuts. I read how East Hartford is "wrangling" with legal weed. One town councilor worried out loud about marijuana "infection". Meanwhile last week, we drove through charming Great Barrington during a foliage drive and they have at least 5 weed stores on Main Street.

Im 45 years old and while i dont smoke weed and havent for 20 years i can never recall a time when weed was difficult to get. Weed was never more than a phone call or two away even when i was in my teens. Its laughable to think these legislatures think theyre protecting anyone with their idiotic laws.

 

[SubbaBub]

BCU Betting Scandal

Impressed this the third post.

 

[SubbaBub]

Are they that naïve that they think someone looking to fix games won't/can't cross state lines?

They are thinking that people around the program are much more likely to be in state

 

[BlueMAB]

They are thinking that people around the program are much more likely to be in state

And those people can try to fix games, and then go to RI and place their bets. Or New Hampshire. Or New Jersey. Soon, probably Massachusetts too.

So again, do they think people are unable to cross state lines?

 

[Matt1010]

I don't have a good explanation for why this is the case, but it's not uncommon. Unfortunately multiple other states have the same rules in place so I'm sure CT took the easy route and followed suit.

 

[BlueMAB]

In the last decade in CT, you can now:

1) Buy liquor on Sundays
2) Drink at Gampel
3) Bet on sports
4) Buy weed

And there's an uproar you can't bet UConn on a sports app or in a casino?

No.

There's an uproar that you can't bet UConn on a sports app or in a casino in Connecticut because our legislature thinks Nutmeggers will decide that a drive to Rhode Island is just too much work when it comes to fixing games.

It's not going to solve the issue they are attempting to solve. When conspiring to fix games, the easiest part, is driving to RI to place the actual bets.

 

[BlueMAB]

I don't have a good explanation for why this is the case, but it's not uncommon. Unfortunately multiple other states have the same rules in place so I'm sure CT took the easy route and followed suit.

United States of sports betting: An updated map of where every state stands

Any U.S. state that wishes can now offer legalized sports betting. Here is an update on where all 50 states (and Washington, D.C.) stand.

www.espn.com

By my quick count, 16 states allow betting on in-state college teams (with 2 of them prohibiting prop-bets), while only12 don't.

Notably, both RI and CT don't allow betting on in-state college teams. The legislature apparently couldn't imagine how someone in RI could connect with someone in CT and arrange to work together to fix games in one state and place bets in another.

 

[Huskyhoops25]

It's nuts. I read how East Hartford is "wrangling" with legal weed. One town councilor worried out loud about marijuana "infection". Meanwhile last week, we drove through charming Great Barrington during a foliage drive and they have at least 5 weed stores on Main Street.

And another just south in Sheffield. When you drive by any of them, the majority of plates are CT and NY