Yet, they’re making very minute decisions about the industry that are really complex, and for any of us who have been in the industry for a little bit of time, you look at them and you go, why are you even wasting your time on a ‘21+’ ad on this or what’s the appropriate distance from a college campus to hold a pregame show, and what type of celebrity can say what thing? Why are we getting into this type of minutia when we can just look at what’s working and just build off of that?” Gaming regulators are not the most experienced when it comes to gambling. So, I’ll just point to my home state of Massachusetts as one of the bigger offenders of this. … The states that have gone completely off the rails are the ones that are constantly in the news. New Jersey is a state you really don’t hear too much about. “Any state that you don’t hear about ever, it’s probably on the right path. So which states, specifically, are doing sports betting right, and which aren’t? But instead, what we have is everybody pretty much trying to reinvent the wheel.” “I would have thought that people would have seen the success stories and followed in those footsteps.

Interview guest Steve Ruddock, a veteran gambling journalist and the author of the Straight to the Point newsletter, joined the podcast to cover an assortment of topics, including the biggest surprises of how sports betting has been regulated post-PASPA:

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