Senator Orrin Hatch
From what I'm reading it looks as though Hatch is going to try and make sports betting difficult for the states to implement. Whispers are already popping up that his new bill will block ANY use of mobile devices or computers to place wagers.
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It'll be tough to do; the SCOTUS just gave the states a huge degree of autonomy to control sports betting. That will most surely extend to mobile wagering.Comment -
The federal government has 2 options in essence. 1. Ban ALL states from sports wagering (won't happen because of Nevada) or 2. Make it extremely difficult for states to implement and run sports books.
Hatch could easily introduce a bill that prohibits all SPORTS betting wagers unless you place the wager in person.
FYI...even though it is legal now to have U.S. sports books it is still illegal for banks to knowingly pass your transactions through to off shore accounts for the purpose of betting. That law was not struck down.Comment -
Tax Money <--- say that 10x
Hatch's attempt is futileComment -
Orrin Hatch is being a little b!tch because he was one of PASPA's founders.Comment -
Hatch waited to late he never thought it would fly thru the SC. It’s going to be impossible to take it away from states who will already have in place before Congress even gets around to discussing it
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Hatch is an 80-some year old mormon from Utah that is out of touch with reality and today's world.
Who names their son "Orrin" anyways?Comment -
the Bill will not get out of committee -- if he even submits oneComment -
Orrin Hatch is retiring in 7 months. It is too late at this point to get anything like this up and running.
There are so many states that want sports gambling that all their reps and senators can just stall and stall and make these bills never go anywhere.Comment -
Courts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will be playing offshoreComment -
Any state that doesn't want gambling can still make it legal and will just tax the proceeds at a ridiculous percent and charge an application fee in the 10's of millions.
Books can't operated with a 40% tax rate without charging prohibitive vig.
Unless the state is very friendly, I think the business model of a book will fail in the public domain.Comment -
this guy 82 years old and retiring , too many old farts in congress need to be checked yearly for dementiaComment -
This. This this this. This.
It is easy to forbid something from being implemented. It is far, far more difficult to take something away. Even PASPA was smart enough to be written in a manner whereby it didn't take anything away from the states which already allowed sports gambling.Comment -
Well Congress is sure to create uniform rules of some type that streamlines oversight and protects college sports...
That said, beyond banning mobile, wire or telephone betting I'm not sure what- absent a ban- they can do
With 30 plus states set to implement, every citizen is likely to have a betting option within a 3 hour drive nowComment -
limits on individual bettors - so they can't be couriers aka "runners"
no mobile betting, no internet - IN HOUSE at CASINO in CASH ONLY.Comment -
yeah I dont get the excitement for most people. We wont have gambling any time soon in florida.
It has to be approved by the state Legislature which doesnt meet until next year, a constitutional amendment, and deal with the Seminole Tribe
Supreme Court ruling doesn't mean sports betting will come to Florida quickly — or at all
Driving to biloxi to lay terrible numbers and juice and taxes on sports wagers? I just want pinnacle and good books back in the market and good poker sitesComment -
Fukkin Americans.
Always last to the table.Comment -
id be happy w that too bet365 would be niceyeah I dont get the excitement for most people. We wont have gambling any time soon in florida.
It has to be approved by the state Legislature which doesnt meet until next year, a constitutional amendment, and deal with the Seminole Tribe
Supreme Court ruling doesn't mean sports betting will come to Florida quickly — or at all
Driving to biloxi to lay terrible numbers and juice and taxes on sports wagers? I just want pinnacle and good books back in the market and good poker sitesComment -
He’s an old white guy from Utah. I’d expect nothing less from his kind.Comment -
Offshore laughing at all the chaos
Vegas laughing tooComment -
This is why we all should be concerned. You let people get involved who have no freakin' idea what they're doing and we're all left to deal with the mess.Comment -
Standard GOP "limited government"
Ummmm... No. That's not how that works. Stay out of my business.Comment -
Hatch could ruin it allComment
