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CT Sports Betting - No UConn!

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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.
 

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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.
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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.
 
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Waquoit said:
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.
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Dont hold your breath.
 
August_West said:
Dont hold your breath.
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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.
 
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.
 
Waquoit said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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Deepster said:
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?
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But how do you think those four got changed?
 
Waquoit said:
Legal betting makes a point-shaving scandal less likely.
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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?
 
August_West said:
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?
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Yes, it’s called OxyContin, Oxycodone, morphine, etc.
 
Waquoit said:
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.
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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.
 
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WingU-Conn said:
Are they that naïve that they think someone looking to fix games won't/can't cross state lines?
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They are thinking that people around the program are much more likely to be in state
 
SubbaBub said:
They are thinking that people around the program are much more likely to be in state
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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?
 
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.
 
Deepster said:
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?
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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.
 
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Matt1010 said:
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.
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www.espn.com

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 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.
 
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Waquoit said:
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.
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And another just south in Sheffield. When you drive by any of them, the majority of plates are CT and NY
 
August_West said:
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?
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No, yet I never thought I'd see gay marriage. And now it's like it always existed just 13 years later.
 
I don't like betting on sports teams I like anyways, so no problem w/ me.

I joined DraftKings yesterday and won my two bets. Jumped in Rangers +1.5 once the Senators scored (who said I don't like betting on teams I like?) and then have a player prop parlay w/ Rubio 9.5 points and Bane 11.5 points, which was an easy get. Today, I have Ricky Seals-Jones in for +3.5 receptions.

Moving forward, NBA player props are what I am mostly going to focus on, especially since starting lineups are so fickle, so I'll jump on surprise starters.
 

College sports betting and bingo money: What's on NJ's ballot and what your vote means

New Jersey voters will be asked next month a pair of questions about changing the constitution. Here's what they are and what they mean.
www.northjersey.com www.northjersey.com

-> Already the new leader in sports betting, New Jersey may soon expand its gambling options to include Rutgers, Seton Hall and other college games.

It will be up to voters to decide on Nov. 2, along with another change to the state constitution that would allow nonprofits to use money collected from raffles and bingo to support their operations.

The sports betting question is the more consequential and potentially profitable for the state. It would expand the state’s current sports betting law at casinos and racetracks to allow wagers on “any college sport of athletic event,” according to the ballot language.

College betting was excluded from the 2011 referendum measure voters approved to allow sports betting in New Jersey because of concerns over game-fixing.

Legal challenges delayed betting until the U.S. Supreme Court allowed it in 2018. Since then, it's been a boon for the state. <-
 
Any one who uses any of the “legal” sports wagering places aren’t real bettors anyway. You get better lines and tax free wagering with no government oversight from your local bookie anyway
 
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