Sports Betting to Best Gambling Sites in AC
Posted on December 6, 2007
The best gambling sites in Atlantic City offer customers the chance to play a huge variety of casino games, from roulette to poker to pai gow. However, something that even the best gambling sites cannot offer, as much as they would love to, is sports betting.
Now, local lawmaker Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew has decided to introduce a bill to allow the best gambling sites to offer betting on college and professional sports. Van Drew argued that, since sports betting will always exist, it will be better to the state to bring it under the rubric of the state’s best gambling sites in order to regulate and tax it. He said that the recent NHL gambling scandal reinforces his point.
“It is a living, breathing example of why we should legalize this activity,” he said. “Let’s keep it open, honest, clean, fair and ensure that if this activity is going to exist and it does and it always will, that some of the revenue goes to medical care, prescription drugs and tax relief.”
However, a potential obstacle is the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which bans sports betting in all states except Nevada, Delaware, Montana, and Oregon.
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