Study: Illegal Super Bowl bets will total $3.8 bil.
By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun
Americans will illegally wager 38 times more money on this year’s Super Bowl than they will legally in Nevada, the only state with full-fledged sports betting, according to a projection from a casino industry trade group.
American Gaming Association President Geoff Freeman told a gathering of mayors in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that his organization expects the Super Bowl to elicit $3.8 billion in illegal wagers compared with Nevada’s legal $100 million.
Freeman said the estimate on those illegal bets was a first for his organization, but his prepared remarks didn’t specify how they determined that number.