Alaska Considers Legalizing Sports Gambling: A New Hope

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00:00Surprise, surprise, maybe a state that we don't discuss a lot is getting ready to legalize

00:06sports gambling.

00:07It certainly seems like a possibility, some momentum, and boy, I mean, I don't want to

00:13use any puns here, but if you go on a cold streak in this state, it's not going to be

00:18pretty.

00:19Oh, bad joke, bad joke, bad joke.

00:22Yeah, so I did actually think about you as I was writing this story, because I go, you

00:27know what?

00:28I never bring new states to Craig.

00:29Maybe I should bring a new one.

00:30So we're going to talk about Alaska today, because so many of these stories that I bring

00:35up, it's just talking more sadness around Texas or Missouri or whatever.

00:40So Alaska does have a sports betting bill introduced, and it's not totally unusual.

00:46We've seen bills introduced to legalize sports betting in Alaska, but they've never really

00:51gone anywhere, and who knows what's going to happen.

00:54That's why they're introduced.

00:55It's why we follow it.

00:56It certainly could do something, and I'll kind of talk about that in a second, but this

01:00would legalize 10 sportsbooks, which I think if you look at kind of similar states, I don't

01:06know, Wyoming, even though that's even smaller than Alaska, there's not many sportsbooks.

01:10So 10 is a lot of licenses for this, but yeah, it's never made very much noise.

01:16Any other sports betting bill has never gone far in Alaska, and I don't know if it will

01:21this year.

01:22It's not a big gaming state.

01:23It's one of five states without a lottery, things like that, so we'll see what happens,

01:28but kind of the same thing that happened in Hawaii this year, which we're still following

01:33because it surprisingly passed the House and now through two Senate committees.

01:38Anything can happen.

01:39I mean, Hawaii has been a huge surprise to the industry this year to have that much movement,

01:44so who knows?

01:45I mean, Alaska being not part of the Continental 48, we don't think about it often and don't

01:51talk about it often here, but hey, it's a bill.

01:53Anything can happen.

01:55So I'll be watching it pretty closely just like I do all the other states.