I just said this same thing to my brother! I think it would be very easy to get addicted to these betting sites.
I don’t know why there are so many now. Maybe the laws changed and they are now allowed to advertise.

I know, they are on TV and my phone and everywhere it seems. dang!

I know that here in Maryland, I think some aspect of online betting just became legal, so I just figured that’s why I was seeing so many of the ads.

Huh! I haven’t seen one.

Great question. Everyone knows gambling is a lucrative industry (for the casino) and they put rules in place to curb internet gambling, but there was a loophole carved out to allow for people to bet on things like fantasy football. Which makes sense if you want to have a game going with your friends or have a march madness office tournament for fun. The thing is, they’ve managed to turn the sports rules inside-out and basically use sports as a mechanism for multi-billion dollar sports betting. The ads are because they know the more people play, the more the company will make.

Advertising makes money. It’s obviously in certain people’s interest to have more and more every day citizens slowly siphoning their paychecks into an industry.

If you read the fine print on the app ads, it says they don’t pay out in money, they pay out in credit, which just makes you gamble more.

Luckily for me, I don’t gamble and so I ahve zero interest in a gambling app.

They’re just a way to get money out of people since casinos are not so popular now.

The Super Bowl is in a few weeks.

There have been changes to the gambling laws which allow sports betting in many states. New Jersey just legalized it, and so did Ohio.

Pete Rose made the first legal sports bet in Ohio just after midnight on January 1.

Gambling companies have noticed for years how much money has been bet through illegal bookies and wanted a piece of the action. When one sees the betting line in the daily newspaper (starting back in the 1980s) it isn’t just for the local office pool.

It’s a booming business because governments in the US are loosening up and allowing sports betting. SCOTUS knocked down a federal law banning it in 2018, so now state politicians are deciding how much to allow, where, and under what conditions.

It should level off at some point, but right now there’s likely a certain population of cave dwellers that still aren’t aware that it’s legal, and they might be brought into the fold. But ultimately, advertising will become like tobacco advertising – it’s less about bringing people in than convincing them to change vendors.

Ye, it’s football season, they want everyone to get hyped up and win money.