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Mississippi's Struggle to Adopt Online Sports Betting
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1/13/2025
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Since sports betting was legalized, we have talked about this state quite a bit because
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they were really one of the first ones to get sports betting going back in 2018.
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That of course is Mississippi.
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But something is, as I want to say, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, must be in the water
00:15
there because how they can get in-person betting and six years later, still not have online
00:22
sports betting tells me there's something going on in a backroom somewhere, Pat, with
00:28
The Beau Ravage.
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I mean, no offense, Beau Ravage.
00:30
I know you guys have a sports bet.
00:32
Are they blocking this?
00:34
What exactly is going on here?
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Are they afraid that they're going to lose money here?
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And I understand that notion, but I mean, this has gone on way too long, Pat, without
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an explanation.
00:43
I know.
00:44
It is kind of crazy to think about because when we look at the landscape and so much
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of what we're talking about now is other states in the Southeast expanding.
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I mean, Alabama doesn't even have a lottery.
00:53
We're talking about building a lottery or passing a lottery this year, potentially with
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sports betting.
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But again, I think we've talked about in the past that Alabama's going to maybe skirt that
01:03
for a little bit and just get lottery done.
01:05
Georgia again, South Carolina, all these states have this little fundamentalist side of them
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that is pushing back on gambling and sports betting.
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And I don't think that's any different in Mississippi.
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Mississippi, of course, does have that just vibrant casino culture, which I think helped
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that 2018 passage of in-person sports betting.
01:25
And since then, they've tried a lot to get mobile sports betting passed, and it just
01:30
hasn't moved.
01:31
And I think to your point, it is a lot of cannibalization concerns by a lot of the locally
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owned operators.
01:38
Of course, they've got big casino companies, national and regional casino companies that
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are for expansion online.
01:44
But I don't think you can discount the effect that local ownership has politically at state
01:52
level governments.
01:53
And I think that's kind of what's been holding it back, is those cannibalization concerns
01:56
from the local casinos that don't have the weight of these giant casino conglomerates
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behind them.
02:02
And then so then we get to this year, and I mean, we've talked about it quite a bit
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over the last couple of weeks as we head into this new legislative session.
02:10
The sales of sports betting and even online gambling as a whole kind of momentum, the
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sales are kind of getting slack.
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There's not a lot of...
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The headwinds are growing, as we've talked about the US congressional hearings, the big
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media articles talking about problem gambling, just kind of the backlash of all the ads and
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frequent stuff.
02:33
I was just reading an article about how the DraftKings partnership with Delta Airlines
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is just another kind of step of how annoyingly prevalent sports betting now is to people
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who don't sports bet.
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And that's where this kind of backlash is coming from.
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And I think that might be why we might not see a bill.
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The senator who leads the gambling committee in Mississippi said he doesn't plan to file
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a bill unless the gambling commission tells him to.
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And the gambling commission has come out and said, you know what, we don't weigh in on
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any bills or laws.
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That's to them.
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We just regulate it.
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So he's not going to file it.
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He said, you know, there's certainly other people who could file it.
03:12
And so I wouldn't be surprised if we see a bill in Mississippi.
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But you know, it doesn't seem like it's going to have a ton of momentum.
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But again, anything can happen in the political world and in these legislative sessions.
03:23
So something could move.
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But again, we're not seeing anything right now in Mississippi.
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