TheMobyDicks t1_iza7fnv wrote on December 7, 2022 at 4:54 PM

Live in NH now and bet all the time online via DraftKings. DraftKings has the exclusive rights to provide sports gaming in the state. You just visit a casino that hosts sports gaming (I did it through The Brook in Seabrook) and show them your license and then you can do it on your phone/computer as long as you're in the state. Learned that last item when I was visiting my folks in VT and tried to make a bet.

When I lived and worked in Vermont, I had a bookie that would meet me at (not going to name the place but it was in downtown Burlington) every week or so. His vig was high (don't blame him, of course), so I'm happy to do it through DK now.

You're not going to stop sports gambling, sorry, you're just not. Why not profit off it?

ElDub73 t1_izcud3u wrote on December 8, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Why do we have to stop it? Can’t we just say we don’t want to endorse it?

ArkeryStarkery t1_izai12k wrote on December 7, 2022 at 6:03 PM

Who owns DraftKings?

wontonsoop78 t1_izanipj wrote on December 7, 2022 at 6:38 PM

Draftkings is publicly traded.

ArkeryStarkery t1_izapkcd wrote on December 7, 2022 at 6:52 PM

Not quite what I'm asking, but that's certainly an answer. Let me try again: when you put money into DraftKings, where does it go? Looks like the CEO is a billionaire in Boston. Since one of the main objections in this post is that gambling drains money from a poor state and sticks it in rich people's pockets, it seems like "just bring in DK" isn't a great counter-argument.

Just like I'd rather have a shady weed dealer than a corporate dispensary run by some asshole pharma executive, I'd rather have the bookie in Burlington than the online monopoly run out of Boston.

TheMobyDicks t1_izjgsb9 wrote on December 9, 2022 at 3:44 PM

Through June of 2022 - at that point DraftKings had been operational for 19 months - NH raked in $44.2 million from the company.

Ummm...yeah. So there's that.

ArkeryStarkery t1_izk5s6i wrote on December 9, 2022 at 6:23 PM

Sure, and the big pharma companies pay some taxes to the states they sell weed in, too. Or rather, they charge sales tax, so their customers are really the ones paying taxes to the state.

Still rather have the shady indie.

lantonas t1_izbfe0q wrote on December 7, 2022 at 9:43 PM

Bernie can use his humble little summer camp's guest house to open a sports gambling hall. He can use all of the proceeds to build houses (instead of pods) for the homeless