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If you wanted to bet on sports when I was in college you needed a bookie. Now, you have access to all the legal bookies in the world in your pocket. It's hard
by jgalt212 1y ago
If you wanted to bet on sports when I was in college you needed a bookie. Now, you have access to all the legal bookies in the world in your pocket. It's hard to make an argument that something that is now legal and much easier than before is not much more popular than before.
- coffeefirst 1y agoAnd the bookie was a guy you’d call up, shoot the shit, and he was basically everyone’s buddy. There were inherent constraints. He could not advertise. He could not send you push notifications or run AB tests on millions of users.
- decimalenough 1y agoAnd I'm not claiming that, but I also don't think the amount actually gambled has increased by 30x, as the headline $5B to $150B figures imply.