![]() ![]() This time the pretzel-twisting exercise was rooted in the fiction that people weren’t actually gambling in Brooklyn or the Bronx, where their bodies and hands and smartphones were located, but at one of the four upstate casinos where sportsbooks is legal, because that’s where the computer servers processing the transactions happen to sit. Then the same lawmakers who’d disingenuously allowed one form of gambling, claiming it wasn’t a slippery slope to others, happily slid down that very slippery slope to permit full-fledged sports gambling - picking winners, betting against the spread, and every other traditional and newfangled kind of bet-making you can imagine - from the convenience of a smartphone. First the Legislature and the courts twisted themselves into pretzels to declare that daily fantasy gambling (putting down real money on imaginary rosters) was more about skill than chance, and therefore the prohibition didn’t apply. ![]() The only difference between playing online versus playing in person is that your money is transferred to your bank account digitally and directly instead of in cash. Never mind that our state Constitution bars gambling with the exception of state-run lotteries, pari-mutuel betting on horse races, and at up to seven casinos. The money you can win at online casinos for New York gamblers is as real as ever. Because everyone else - or at least our neighbors in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut - was doing it, New York opened the floodgates to sports gambling. ![]()
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