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50% of all men below 50 have an online sports betting account. Hmmm .. you might have to back that stat up. I am guessing there are men who have several accoun

50% of all men below 50 have an online sports betting account. Hmmm .. you might have to back that stat up. I am guessing there are men who have several accounts and over counting is happening. Or that was just made up like 62% of all statistics.

moelf 1y ago
https://sri.siena.edu/2025/02/18/22-of-all-americans-half-of-men-18-49-have-active-online-sports-betting-account/ https://sri.siena.edu/2025/02/18/22-of-all-americans-half-of...
- anfilt 1y ago
  Even with that link I have trouble believing it myself. Like how was this data/survey gathered/administrated? Sample size ect... Also I don't understand how sports seem to get so much attention. Like they are just games why? Another post I was reading a bit ago was how Spain what basically suffering internet outages to stop pirate streams of games on the weekend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856 Like why is a game considered so important that even internet traffic has to suffer. It boggles my mind.
  - missingdays 1y ago
    > Like they are just games why? Because they are fun.
  - mschuster91 1y ago
    > Like why is a game considered so important that even internet traffic has to suffer. It boggles my mind. Because that game makes 1.8 billion dollars a year in TV licensing rights [1], and pirates undercut the pay-TV stations' ability to recoup these expenses. Add in a ... questionable legal system, club and league presidents with friends with very very deep pockets, cloud providers that don't care what they host as long as the legal system of their host country absolves them of liabilities and that's how you get inane rulings like this. [1] https://www.salaryleaks.com/prize-money/spanish-la-liga https://www.salaryleaks.com/prize-money/spanish-la-liga
  - gruez 1y ago
    >Like how was this data/survey gathered/administrated? Sample size ect... If you read to the bottom they explain their methodology.
tokioyoyo 1y ago
To be fair, at some point I registered in one of those sites because a bar had 50% discount on the tab or something similar for first time account registration. I don't even live in the states, was just visiting.
- guappa 1y ago
  I'd have just gone to a different bar.
  - potato3732842 1y ago
    50% off for punching a lewd name, some bigco support phone number, a made up birthday and your spam catchall email into a web form seems like a pretty good deal.
    - squigz 1y ago
      Sure, but then suddenly "50% of all men under 50 have a betting account", which they use to justify more ads, more lobbying, more gambling. I'd rather not contribute to this as well.
      - Ylpertnodi 1y ago
        As well as...what?
        squigz 1y ago
        As well as GP
- qingcharles 1y ago
  Yeah, I registered with every single one I could find when they all had $300 bonuses, just took the bonuses, made 99% sure bets on everything (bet $300, win $300.01) and cashed out about $3000 and never touched them again.
xienze 1y ago
I'm definitely skeptical of this. When my state legalized sports betting there was around 6 or 7 books that came online and they ALL had pretty juicy sign up bonuses, like "bet $5 and get $250 in free bets." Damn right I signed up for all those books to get the free bets and converted those into cash by doing safe moneyline bets.
ryukoposting 1y ago
I don't find it hard to believe at all. Here's an incredibly unscientific way of looking at it: I'm 27. Among me and a hastily-assembled list of 14 of my male friends, 7 of us definitely have at least one sports betting account, 4 definitely don't, and I'm not sure about the other 4. I'd bet (heh) at least one of them has an account. It might be more informative to see how many men actually use their sports betting accounts. Technically I have an account, but I haven't used it in over 2 years. Won a bet that the Heat would beat the Celtics in the conference finals, realized I was now net-positive by several hundred dollars, cashed out, and uninstalled the app. Never looked back.
- gruez 1y ago
  >It might be more informative to see how many men actually use their sports betting accounts. A sibling poster posted a link to Siena survey that has related betting statistics. For males the percentage that "have accounts" vs those who "had accounts" is 30% and 6% respectively. You see similar ratios in the age breakdowns. Therefore it's safe to say that around 40% of males below 50 "have" betting accounts.
  - bombcar 1y ago
    Then you have people like me barely qualify as below 50 and somewhat male, who didn’t even know sports betting was now legal.
    - goosejuice 1y ago
      It would be difficult to loosely follow any major league sport and not know it was legal, regardless of age. The ads have been everywhere. These companies have user acquisition costs well over $100. If you didn't know it was legal, you're probably well outside the target audience.
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LightBug1 1y ago
Off the bat - I wouldn't be surprised. I don't bet at all (excluding the financial markets), but I'm often surprised at how many of my relatives and people from all walks of life pull out their phone and fire up an online betting app. All men.
- Yeul 1y ago
  I hate betting but even I can't avoid taking a chance on the big new year's lottery. Chance of winning is virtually nil of course.
gwbas1c 1y ago
There's a difference between having an account and actually using it. I suspect the amount of US men who regularly bet on sports is much, much lower. That being said: I find sports extremely boring. If I had a lot of social pressure to watch sports, I'd probably gamble, just to keep the game interesting.
myvoiceismypass 1y ago
Wonder if this counts Robinhood's "predictive markets" for sporting events that somehow gets around California's ban on online sports betting.

moelf 1y ago

https://sri.siena.edu/2025/02/18/22-of-all-americans-half-of-men-18-49-have-active-online-sports-betting-account/ https://sri.siena.edu/2025/02/18/22-of-all-americans-half-of...

anfilt 1y ago
Even with that link I have trouble believing it myself. Like how was this data/survey gathered/administrated? Sample size ect... Also I don't understand how sports seem to get so much attention. Like they are just games why? Another post I was reading a bit ago was how Spain what basically suffering internet outages to stop pirate streams of games on the weekend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856 Like why is a game considered so important that even internet traffic has to suffer. It boggles my mind.
- missingdays 1y ago
  > Like they are just games why? Because they are fun.
- mschuster91 1y ago
  > Like why is a game considered so important that even internet traffic has to suffer. It boggles my mind. Because that game makes 1.8 billion dollars a year in TV licensing rights [1], and pirates undercut the pay-TV stations' ability to recoup these expenses. Add in a ... questionable legal system, club and league presidents with friends with very very deep pockets, cloud providers that don't care what they host as long as the legal system of their host country absolves them of liabilities and that's how you get inane rulings like this. [1] https://www.salaryleaks.com/prize-money/spanish-la-liga https://www.salaryleaks.com/prize-money/spanish-la-liga
- gruez 1y ago
  >Like how was this data/survey gathered/administrated? Sample size ect... If you read to the bottom they explain their methodology.

tokioyoyo 1y ago

To be fair, at some point I registered in one of those sites because a bar had 50% discount on the tab or something similar for first time account registration. I don't even live in the states, was just visiting.

guappa 1y ago
I'd have just gone to a different bar.
- potato3732842 1y ago
  50% off for punching a lewd name, some bigco support phone number, a made up birthday and your spam catchall email into a web form seems like a pretty good deal.
  - squigz 1y ago
    Sure, but then suddenly "50% of all men under 50 have a betting account", which they use to justify more ads, more lobbying, more gambling. I'd rather not contribute to this as well.
    - Ylpertnodi 1y ago
      As well as...what?
      - squigz 1y ago
        As well as GP
qingcharles 1y ago
Yeah, I registered with every single one I could find when they all had $300 bonuses, just took the bonuses, made 99% sure bets on everything (bet $300, win $300.01) and cashed out about $3000 and never touched them again.

xienze 1y ago

I'm definitely skeptical of this. When my state legalized sports betting there was around 6 or 7 books that came online and they ALL had pretty juicy sign up bonuses, like "bet $5 and get $250 in free bets." Damn right I signed up for all those books to get the free bets and converted those into cash by doing safe moneyline bets.

ryukoposting 1y ago

I don't find it hard to believe at all. Here's an incredibly unscientific way of looking at it: I'm 27. Among me and a hastily-assembled list of 14 of my male friends, 7 of us definitely have at least one sports betting account, 4 definitely don't, and I'm not sure about the other 4. I'd bet (heh) at least one of them has an account. It might be more informative to see how many men actually use their sports betting accounts. Technically I have an account, but I haven't used it in over 2 years. Won a bet that the Heat would beat the Celtics in the conference finals, realized I was now net-positive by several hundred dollars, cashed out, and uninstalled the app. Never looked back.

gruez 1y ago
>It might be more informative to see how many men actually use their sports betting accounts. A sibling poster posted a link to Siena survey that has related betting statistics. For males the percentage that "have accounts" vs those who "had accounts" is 30% and 6% respectively. You see similar ratios in the age breakdowns. Therefore it's safe to say that around 40% of males below 50 "have" betting accounts.
- bombcar 1y ago
  Then you have people like me barely qualify as below 50 and somewhat male, who didn’t even know sports betting was now legal.
  - goosejuice 1y ago
    It would be difficult to loosely follow any major league sport and not know it was legal, regardless of age. The ads have been everywhere. These companies have user acquisition costs well over $100. If you didn't know it was legal, you're probably well outside the target audience.
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LightBug1 1y ago

Off the bat - I wouldn't be surprised. I don't bet at all (excluding the financial markets), but I'm often surprised at how many of my relatives and people from all walks of life pull out their phone and fire up an online betting app. All men.

Yeul 1y ago
I hate betting but even I can't avoid taking a chance on the big new year's lottery. Chance of winning is virtually nil of course.

gwbas1c 1y ago

There's a difference between having an account and actually using it. I suspect the amount of US men who regularly bet on sports is much, much lower. That being said: I find sports extremely boring. If I had a lot of social pressure to watch sports, I'd probably gamble, just to keep the game interesting.

myvoiceismypass 1y ago

Wonder if this counts Robinhood's "predictive markets" for sporting events that somehow gets around California's ban on online sports betting.