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California Sports Betting Delayed Until at Least 2026
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1/27/2025
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This this first story here is a big bummer, man.
00:02
Like we have a lot of viewers that are streaming the show in California.
00:06
And look, I think that most people understand that the tribes are going to
00:10
have a major factor as to whether or not sports betting inevitably gets passed in
00:15
California. And we knew that 2025, it was going to have a hard time happening.
00:19
But now we're even pushing this back beyond 2026.
00:23
Pat, that's a lot.
00:24
I feel like other states are going to get ahead of them now because of this.
00:28
Yeah, I mean, this really all goes back to 2022.
00:30
And there was a giant ballot proposal from both the tribes for in-person only
00:36
sportsbooks at the tribal casinos and then a mobile in, you know, a whole
00:41
legalization ballot proposal from multiple sportsbook companies.
00:47
And basically what happened was the tribe said, wait a second, if the companies
00:52
want to do this and go online and not involve us, we're going to put a ton of
00:55
money into it. I think it was 300 million plus dollars that went into this just to
00:59
basically stop that ballot proposal.
01:02
And it failed miserably.
01:04
I think it was less than 20 percent of votes for the online.
01:09
And so that that kind of said to the companies like, oh, OK, we need to work with
01:13
the tribes. We need to make this happen.
01:15
If we're going to get into California, we need to work with the tribes.
01:18
So basically, California is, yes, to the tribal kind of mercy.
01:24
And what happened was this week or last week in Spain, there was a conference at the
01:29
panel of tribal leaders in California said, listen, we want to get this.
01:33
We're excited about it.
01:34
We know it's coming.
01:37
We need to get it right.
01:39
And they said, you know, it could be on the ballot in 2026, but we're not going to put
01:43
it on the ballot in 2026 because we need to get this ready.
01:46
A quote from Catalina Chacon, a board member of the Pachanga Band of Michigan Indians
01:51
said the data is telling us the time is not right.
01:55
Definitely not 2026.
01:56
We're looking more like 2028, but it has to include all the tribal communities.
02:01
And there's more than 100 in California.
02:03
And so the big ones seem to be on board.
02:05
They want to get it right. But with 100 tribes, there's a lot of non-gaming tribes that
02:09
are part of a revenue sharing kind of ecosystem from the gaming.
02:14
They all need to get on board.
02:15
That's what the tribal leaders are basically trying to do right now is get everybody on
02:18
board, say, hey, let's do this.
02:20
Let's do it the right way.
02:21
They also recognize that this is going to have huge implications for any potential online
02:25
casino movements in California.
02:29
So they're kind of weighing that, too.
02:31
They just don't want to legalize sports betting and say, oops, we forgot about that
02:34
component that's coming down the pipeline at who knows when.
02:38
So, yeah, just California is a very kind of lengthy process.
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Clearly, it might be, you know, it's not going to be Utah.
02:47
I don't think Utah is ever going to legalize, but it'll be probably one of the last, if
02:51
not the last state that is kind of up for grabs, for lack of a better term, to legalize
02:57
because of just the tribal community wanting to make sure they get it right and make sure
03:01
they're getting the best that they can.
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