re: Supreme Court strikes down ban on sports betting

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“Not only are we not going to get anything out of it, we’re going to lose money,” Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Metairie, said about the impact of Monday’s high court decision and legislature’s failure to back bills that would prepare for legalized sports betting. He predicts more New Orleans customers will now travel about an hour east to Biloxi casinos to place some bets, watch the games, and likely have dinner and some drinks while there.

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Mississippi, whose legislators earlier approved preparatory language, should have its sports betting operations up and going in about 45 days, said Ronnie Jones, who heads the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. Jones attended a Las Vegas conference for regulators last week. “Everybody in the room, their legislatures had conditionally authorized it, except us,” he said.

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Brb investing in pawn shops.

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Rep. Major Thibaut

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I see that guy more often than not asking the questions that need to be asked and taking a pragmatic approach to things on the floor. He looks a little like a doofus, but he's definitely earned my respect from what I've seen of him in session. Of course, he may go full doofus when he knows TigerstuckinMS isn't keeping an eye on him.

Martiny's right, too. If I want to get out of the city and play cards this fall, I'm not going to New Orleans. I'm driving an extra hour and going to the state that wants me to spend my money in their sports books. In addition, We do our fantasy football draft the opening weekend of college football because we can all get together, watch football on Saturday and draft on Sunday then head home. I can 100% guarantee you that New Orleans has lost 3 days of 14 degenerates drinking, eating, and paying their outrageous hotel taxes. We booked rooms in Biloxi and New Orleans just in case Mississippi could get their shite together for sportsbooks before then. We are now in the process of cancelling our New Orleans reservations. Piss on this state.

On this matter, both houses of the legislature punted and sent it to committees where they knew it would die. They could kill it without having to go on record and risk angering either the bible thumpers or the people with brains.

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Louisiana should seriously consider taking advantage of sports betting and while they are at it, make prostitution and marijuana legal.

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Not that I'm advocating any of those vice's, but the country is headed in that direction. Why not get in fr ont? Oh wait, LA

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Is this to open the door for fan duel and draft kings to come back?

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Not as it stands. The SCOTUS ruled that a federal law prohibiting sports betting in any state other than Nevada was unconstitutional because it didn't treat all states equally. In other words, if your state wants sports betting, there is now no federal law prohibiting it while giving Nevada a pass. The SCOTUS decision had nothing to do with the federal Wire Act that makes it a federal crime to place bets using wired communication that crosses state lines. While your state may now allow sports betting, it will still be illegal for a sports book in your state to take a bet from another state. Many (most?) legal sports books won't take a bet over the phone period to avoid any possibility of running afoul of the federal law altogether.

All the online betting websites still face the same problem as a brick and mortar sports book: it's illegal to place bets over wires across state lines. Remember: even if you use a cell phone, the first thing the call does after it gets sent from your phone to the tower is get converted and start travelling over copper or fiber, and that's subject to the Wire Act.