The joys (and perils) of gambling on surf contests comes to America!
If you live in America, you might have looked wanly at all the surf gambling ads buttressing this website. The offers have been almost too good to be true: free money to get you going (up to $500) and odds generous enough to make it worth your while having a swing.
But Australia only. The land of the free etc.
This damn stupid rule changed last night when the US Supreme Court made a decision that will allow the individual States to legalise sports gambling. The court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 that barred state-authorised sports gambling… with Nevada as the exception. Sports betting is worth over $199 billion per year in the US.
New Jersey wants to be the first (this actually came about from the major sports leagues suing the Govener of NJ), and Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and West Virginia are expected to quickly jump on the legal bookmaking wagon.
Not good news for Nevada as they took $4.8 billion worth of sports bets in 2017 and had the US monopoly for 26 years.
So what’s going to happen now is that States will have to work with professional sports leagues like the NBA and MLB on their demands for an “integrity fee” to be paid from all bets to the leagues. This fee is around 0.5% – 1% of the bet. The NBA and other leagues have defended their reasoning for the fee as a need to police the game from criminals looking to fix games, and implement compliance systems across their leagues.
Our friends at William Hill wants to be the first bookmaker to mine this lucrative vein of gold. They intend to offer sports betting in New Jersey locations as “soon as responsibly possible,” according to CEO Joe Asher. “We’re thinking in the realm of weeks.” They’re targeting the NBA Finals.
Soon, BeachGrit’s US audience will be able to join up to William Hill and receive our lovely bonus bet offer.
MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren told CNBC on Monday that it will be able to offer sports betting around the country “very quickly.”
“We have already established the architecture to deploy sports betting as soon as the states allow us to do that,” Murren said. “We have already the software. We have our mobile app called PlayMGM that is already activated in Nevada.”
Will the WSL, finally be able to take a seat alongside Adam Silver from the NBA and then NFL’s Roger Gooddell, NFL, to negotiate an integrity fee that will protect surfing from the perils of gambling?
Is this the river of gold that might save the WSL’s thirty million dollar investment? Internal sources tell us the WSL has already been in talks with at least one of Australia’s biggest gambling houses.
Get fucked Jordy Smith! Where was your wavepool high I was sure would carry over!?
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“But Don Carleone! I donna looka goooda inna budjee sah-muggugguh-lah.!! Howam I gonna learna sooorfa coachin inna weeeka?!? Anna mya gunna notta wattah proofah! Da hoawsez headaz justa gonna attracta da shahhks.”
Sounds like my uncle Mario
Is he super?
Ahh…haa….. he makes the pizza … my fartha is the plumber .
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… I fucken love Brazil..
You are a long way from retiring to Lemoore!
Yeah but I said I love Brazil. Surely I could obtain a nice studio or loft in a quaint and rustic favela…
Just shoot someone and move on in!
Automatic weapons are OK but god forbid you drop your life savings on Felipe only to have him get an interference on Kanoa.
Happened to me with Felipe at bell’s when zeke got up on the buzzer.. I actually had the winnings and they took em back.. sickening.
nothing better than losing money to some ridiculous Richie Porta era scoring. so many great underdog multis ruined by the judges getting caught up in the moment and giving the buzzer beater THE SCORE instead of whatever it / my bet actually deserved
I imagine Ahrendt is gonna have some rather sleepless nights between now and the WSL Surf Ranch event September 6-9*. How can the judges possibly escape the appearance of impropriety with US sanctioned betting for a WSL event, especially the only one in the continental US, when the event is held in such a controlled environment? It stands to reason that Lemoore is the only WSL event that could fall prey to “fixing”. I can’t wait for the brilliance that will spill forth from Beach Grit as the event rears it’s ugly head on the world stage of professional surfing.
*you think they chose these dates in particular as some inside joke of turning professional surfing on its own head?
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Welcome to the new world order. Leaving your kids in the car with the windows up and dying from morbid obesity on the stool of a brickies laptop is no longer just an Australian thing! God bless Americastan.
I wonder if I could get odds on Ziffy pulling completely out of surfing in 2 years?
After watching the Brazil comp , and the Waco pool , Kelly’s pool looks doomed , the WSL is trying to create an artificial tour and artificial waves ….and Kelly living at Point Doom……well the writing is on the wall…