Losing Big (eBook)

America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling

Jonathan D. Cohen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
145 Seiten
Columbia Global Reports (Verlag)
9798987053713 (ISBN)

Infos

Inside Americas preventable sports-gambling debacleIn 2018, the United States Supreme Court opened the floodgates for states to legalize betting on sports. Eager for revenue, almost forty states have done so. The result is the explosive growth of an industry dominated by companies like FanDuel and DraftKings. One out of every five American adults gambled on sports in 2023, amounting to $121 billion, more than they spent on movies and video games combined.The rise of online sports gamblingthe immediacy of betting with your phone, the ability of the companies to target users, the dynamic pricing and offers based on how good or bad of a gambler you arehas produced a public health crisis marked by addiction and far too many people, particularly young men, gambling more than they can afford to lose. Under intense lobbying from the gaming industry, states have created a system built around profit for sportsbooks, not the well-being of players.In Losing Big, historian Jonathan D. Cohen lays out the astonishing emergence of online sports gambling, from sportsbook executives drafting legislation to an addicted gambler confessing their $300,000 losses. Sports gambling is here to stay, and the stakes could not be higher. Losing Big explains how this brewing crisis came to be, and how it can be addressed before new generations get hooked.Losing Big demonstrates how legalized sports betting became a gigantic business, a ceaselessly annoying marketing presence, and a genuine danger to hundreds of thousands of people. Daniel Okrent, author and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: addiction • best fantasy football gambling sites • betting odds • betting online • commission • draftkings • fanduel • fantasy football • fantasy football and gambling • fantasy football gambling laws • gambling problem • gambling sites • Game • how can i win fantasy football • how do you gamble on fantasy football • is fantasy football gambling • is fantasy football gambling illegal • league • Legalization • Legislation • March Madness • online gambling • Sports • sports gambling • TIPS • what is fantasy football • where do you bet on fantasy football • where is fantasy football gambling legal • why do people like fantasy sports
• ISBN-13: 9798987053713 / 9798987053713