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Efforts to Legalize Sports Betting in California Heat Up
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4/4/2025
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Meanwhile, we're trying to push things going here in the state of California to get sports betting
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legal. We know that this is going to be a major issue in the next few years, Sam, because again,
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you also have the tribes involved. I'm still optimistic eventually this will happen and
00:11
they'll get it together. I mean, if Florida can get their act together, Sam, with the tribes,
00:15
I believe that California can too. Any progress there?
00:19
Yeah, it's, California has been one of those states that everyone's been waiting on and hoping
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for forever. A couple years ago, you had the failed ballot initiatives where both sides spent
00:28
over $400 million on a campaign that got about 16% of the vote, which was just, just embarrassing,
00:34
frankly, if you have the industry. So since then, they've been, the sports books have been trying
00:37
to negotiate with these tribes. And it's, California is a really interesting case because
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there's over a hundred tribes in the state and they don't often come together and agree on
00:46
things. So not only do you need to get to agree with the tribes, you need to get them all to agree
00:51
with each other. But there was some significant progress made this week at a Indian gaming trade
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show in San Diego, where representatives from the Sports Betting Alliance Tribal Advisory Council,
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which is comprised of some key tribal members in the state, representing sports books like
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FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM, and Fanatics. They met with tribal leaders to discuss a framework
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of a plan that would legalize sports betting in California. It would be fully and totally
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tribally owned, which is a big, big component here. The tribes have control of gaming. So they
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have basically been the roadblock to letting it happen. They won't let sports betting happen
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unless they have full control. So that's a big part of it. And it would also be fully commercially
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funded. So the $400 million that the sports books forked over on their failed ballot campaign,
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they would be funding all the money in this case as well, trying to get this back on the ballot,
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this time under an agreement with the tribes that doesn't cut them out. This was only the first step
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was kind of floating this plan out there to them, but I'm told that the tribes were receptive, but
01:54
the tribes are very much wanting to maintain that they want to go at their own pace. We will move
01:59
when we move, we act differently. So one of the components here could be that accelerates
02:04
things is prediction markets, which we've talked about a bunch. If those are in California and
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essentially sports betting is happening there anyway, the tribes kind of lose some leverage
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there unless something happens federally, unless the state takes action, which I don't think is
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likely. So that could be the case of where it's pushing them more in this direction, where they
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then have to work with the sports books, but it would bring a lot of money to the tribes, which is
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also something they really care about. It's an $8 billion market conservatively, it could be even
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more when it legalizes. The sports books would be sharing revenue with the tribes, essentially doing
02:36
all their operations and forking over a percentage directly to the tribes, which could be life
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changing for some smaller ones that get about $1 million in federal payments right now that could
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balloon to $10 million a year, which, and for the larger tribes, even way more money we're talking
02:51
about here.
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