Posted on Feb 11, 2023
Ahead of the Super Bowl, Missouri lawmakers try again to legalize sports betting
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Oh, there will be betting...
..."There were more than 1,500 disappointed people at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 29, not including visitors from Ohio.
On the day the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Cincinnati Bengals to earn their third trip to the Super Bowl in the past four years, 1,550 people tried and failed 4,571 times to place a bet on the game.
Across Missouri, more than 136,000 transactions were blocked on game day.
That is just a small fraction of the 8.7 million attempts from 221,000 Missouri accounts to access legal sports books operating in other states during the NFL season, according to data from GeoComply, which provides geofencing services for legal Kansas sports books.
Within Kansas, legal bets were placed from almost 532,000 unique accounts since wagering began on Sept. 1. The number of accounts is equal to one-fourth of that state’s over-21 population.
On the day of the AFC Championship game, bets from 236 Missouri accounts were accepted from people who crossed over into Kansas."...
..."There were more than 1,500 disappointed people at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 29, not including visitors from Ohio.
On the day the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Cincinnati Bengals to earn their third trip to the Super Bowl in the past four years, 1,550 people tried and failed 4,571 times to place a bet on the game.
Across Missouri, more than 136,000 transactions were blocked on game day.
That is just a small fraction of the 8.7 million attempts from 221,000 Missouri accounts to access legal sports books operating in other states during the NFL season, according to data from GeoComply, which provides geofencing services for legal Kansas sports books.
Within Kansas, legal bets were placed from almost 532,000 unique accounts since wagering began on Sept. 1. The number of accounts is equal to one-fourth of that state’s over-21 population.
On the day of the AFC Championship game, bets from 236 Missouri accounts were accepted from people who crossed over into Kansas."...
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