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State Senator Sean O'Brien believes it has a 50/50 chance of getting passed

by: Stan Boney

(WKBN) People in Ohio who bet on sports are still waiting for the state legislature to make it legal, and theres a chance it could get done before the end of the year.

Ask Trumbull County State Senator Sean OBrien what the chances are of legalizing sports gambling before the end of year, and hell start his answer with a laugh.

I would say 50/50, he laughed.

OBrien was one of the architects of Senate Bill 111 to legalize sports gambling in Ohio. The bill has been around for nearly two years.

We are on dash-17 on that bill, substituting and changing things. So its gone through a lot of changes, OBrien said.

According to OBrien, sports gambling in Ohio would be run by the casino commission, and only the 15 existing casinos and racinos will be eligible for licenses.

The initial fee would be $100,000 for five years. Net revenues would be taxed at between 8 and 10%.

Each casino would have what are known as two skins, meaning locations where bets could be placed. One skin would likely be the actual casino or racino. The other skin would likely be used for an online betting site that could be used only within Ohio itself.

I talked with the president of the Senate today. He seems optimistic well be able to get something moving and back over to the House. So its looking promising but time is of the essence. Were almost at the end of our legislative calendar so its going to be a close one, OBrien said.

A bill to legalize gambling already passed in the House in May. The vote was 83 to 10.

It was one of my first votes as a recently sworn-in state representative, said Mahoning County State Rep. Al Cutrona.

Cutrona voted for it, and though he speculates on what the final bill would look like, he still thinks legalized sports betting is a good idea.

I think its a great opportunity to stimulate growth, make us very relevant considering that theres other states all surrounding us actually that currently have sports betting, Cutrona said.

Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Michigan have made it legal. Only Kentucky has not.

If the sports betting bill does not pass before years end, it will have to be reintroduced. But the work has already been done so it may be just a matter of voting.

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Three events on consecutive mid-November days show farmers, ranchers, and all Americans where U.S. agriculture now is.

Event One: On Nov. 18, the Iowa Capital Dispatch, a not-for-profit news website, detailed allegations on how managers at Tyson Foods hog-killing plant in Waterloo, IA, literally gambled on employee lives as the coronavirus took root last April.

In mid-April, related the Dispatch from information contained in a recently disclosed lawsuit, Waterloos plant manager Tom Hart organized a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many plant employees would test positive for COVID-19 as he continued its 19,500-hog, daily kill.

What empowers a plant manager to, allegedly, run a betting pool on how many of his employees will become infected with a sickening, sometimes fatal, virus during the rise of a global pandemic?

Equally important, what do you call a company that harbors such an employee?

A day after the news broke, the Associated Press called Tyson Foods a coronavirus super spreader. The betting pool, it explained, operated as the virus spread through the Waterloo plant, ultimately infecting more than 1,000 of its 2,900 workers, killing at least six and sending many others to the hospital. The outbreak eventually tore through the broader Waterloo community.

Event Two: On Nov. 19, one of Tysons key competitors, Smithfield Foods, settled several federal lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who had sued the company over the stench, flies, buzzards, and truck traffic coming from its industrial swine farms in North Carolina, noted the Food & Environment Reporting Network, or FERN.

In the opinion that led to the settlements, one of the appellate judges who denied Smithfield a retrial, asked a simple question: How did it come to this?

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson IIIs answer, based on the facts he had heard in the case, was as succinct as his question: ... The decades-long transition to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) lays bare this connection ... (between) animal welfare and human welfare ...

In short, The dangers endemic to such appalling conditions [are] always manifested first in animal suffering and, afterwards ... the ripples of dysfunction would reach farm workers and, at last, members of the surrounding community.

Every farmer and rancher knows what the judge meant; its a small step from mistreating your animals or land to mistreating your employees, neighbors or, worse, family.

Thats the slippery slope seen both in the Tyson allegations and the Smithfield settlement: The more power given to corporations by lax government or local communities desperate for jobs, the more power the corporations take.

This power underlies the dysfunction that Judge Wilkinson warns will, soon or later, reach ... members of the surrounding community you, me and Smithfields long-suffering neighbors and, allegedly, Tysons Waterloo employees.

Event Three: New research proves it.

According to research made public Nov. 19, the day of the Smithfield settlement, corporate ags increasing power has resulted in numerous negative impacts on farmers, workers and their communities as well as consumers, who have experienced higher prices and less innovation.

The study, completed by Mary Hendrickson of the University of Missouri, Philip Howard of Michigan State University, Emily Miller of Family Farm Action Alliance, and Douglas Constance of Sam Houston State University, has a singular, inescapable point:

Todays concentration of ownership, wealth and power ... (is) directly related to who ... make(s) decisions in food and agriculture ...

And, We observe that these decisions have increasingly migrated from a more community or public arena into the realm of ... those within the biggest firms ... (who) have their eye on increasing their power ... and although this may increase their profits, it does not usually align with enhancing the public good.

In short, the more power we give corporate ag, the more it takes and the more it takes, the more it gambles on the people and communities who grow and deliver everyones food.

And, as recent events have shown again, thats a bad bet for rural America.

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Gambling.com Group has received approval to provide its marketing services to Illinois and Tennessee.

Digital marketing services giant Gambling.com Group announced on November 24 that its US subsidiary KAX Media America has secured a 3-year license from the Sports Wagering Committee of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation to operate in the Volunteer State.

The vendor registration license is valid for an initial period of three years, effective immediately.

Tennessee is home to three professional sports teams and more than six million citizens. The Volunteer State has the potential to become a future leader in the regulated US market, Gambling.com Group said in a statement.

Additionally, Gambling.com Group acquired a license in Illinois, and will provide the Prairie State with sports betting coverage via Gambling.com and Bookies.com.

Bookies.com features news, odds, live score, and statistics, as well as independent reviews of sports betting sites in the US and the UK.

Gambling.com Group can now provide services to betting operators in both states, while it is already registered in Indiana, New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

We are excited to begin offering our services in the Volunteer State, which has the potential to be a leader in mobile sports betting, while Illinois represents the sheer scale the US market offers the gaming industry.

Gaming regulators from Illinois and Tennessee approved the group shortly after it had reported $3.3 million in net profit for the third quarter. Revenue went up 52.2% year on year, thanks to a boost of its organic traffic sources which led to a strong performance.

Revenue generated from locally regulated markets comprised 68% of total revenue for Q3.

We are now in a position to scale investment in product and marketing with a particular focus on the fast-growing US markets and the expansion of our sports offering, Charles Gillespie, Gambling.com Group CEO, said in the companys third quarter report.

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Yang Hyun-suk, the founder and former CEO of K-pop powerhouse YG Entertainment, arrives at the Seoul Western District Court to attend his sentencing trial on Friday. (Yonhap)

The Seoul Western District Court found him guilty of gambling at Las Vegas casinos in the United States over the past several years and ordered him to pay a fine of 15 million won ($13,600).

The court said his behavior could "have a bad influence on the public, especially young people," but that it considered Yang showed remorse and had no criminal gambling record.

Yang faced criminal charges that he had gambled at Las Vegas casinos on some 20 occasions between July 2015 and January 2019. He and three others, including two co-CEOs of YG's affiliated music label YGX, allegedly played baccarat and blackjack there, with combined gambling money of some 400 million won ($336,785) at stake.

The prosecution in May pressed a summary indictment for him on gambling charges, but the court later requested he be put to trial.

His trial began in September. The prosecution had demanded a fine of 10 million won.

Yang stepped down as the CEO and the chief producer of the K-pop powerhouse in June 2019 over drug allegations against B.I., former leader of boy group iKON, one of YG's acts. (Yonhap)

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(editors note: this article was written before Curtis Blaydes tested positive for COVID-19, causing the main event to be cancelled)

Im digging myself quite the hole here with my UFC predictions for 2020. But Im just doing it to drum up some suspense and sympathy. Everyone likes to root for the underdog, and thats the position Ive put myself in.

However, the year is quickly coming to a close, so its probably time I stop playing around and start making winning UFC predictions. So, here are all the winning picks for this Saturdays UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs Lewis (aka UFC Vegas 15).

All odds courtesy ofMyBookie

Two big boys and knockout machines (29 KOs between them) square off in the main event. Razor Blaydes is the obvious choice due to his dominant wrestling, but he also has all my key stats in his favor striking and grappling statistical advantage, one inch of reach, six years younger. Hes also on a four-fight win streak lets make it five after Saturday.

Anthony Smith has had a precipitous fall from the top. Since challenging Jon Jones for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, he has gone 1-2, dropping his last two, and doesnt seem to have much left in the tank. His opponent this weekend, Devin Clark, is the younger fighter on a two fight win streak. He also has the ever-important striking and grappling stats in his favor. Sounds like easy plus money to me (but there is no such thing as easy money when it comes to UFC predictions).

Parisian makes his UFC debut on the wave of six-straight (T)KOs. Hes also much bigger and much younger than journeyman Parker Porter (who, with that name, very well could be Spider-Man in his spare time). Considering hes finished 12 of his 13 pro wins, and Porter has been stopped five times in his career, a (T)KO prop bet might be worth your time.

This should be a fun one. Both men are knockout artists, and both have had success in the UFC. Im counting on Caramel Thunder to move to 10-0 as a pro on Saturday due to his size and superior striking skills.

This could be a fun slugfest as well. Algeo showed plenty of fight in his UFC debut against Ricardo Lamas, but ended up losing. I think the Alpha Ginger will use his superior size and youth, not to mention his powerful striking, to push his UFC record to 2-1.

The battle of the women with three names headlines the prelim portion of Saturdays card. Im going with veteran Rebel Girl due to her superior striking ability. Many bettors seem to agree with my UFC prediction here, as the line on her has moved from -110 to -145 over the course of a few days.

This is more than likely a good old fashioned loser leaves town match, as Day is 0-3 in the UFC and Anderson dos Santos (which, if you were creating a Brazilian fighter, would be the name youd give him) is 0-2. Im betting on Day staying gainfully employed after this weekend hes bigger, younger, and has superior striking stats.

Mazany will be coming down from featherweight for this flyweight battle, so shell be much bigger than Ostovich. I also think shes way better, so she should be able to halt her three-fight losing skid on Saturday night.

I made this pick earlier in the week before the lines were posted, so I didnt know I was riding with such a big underdog. But ride with him I will. Hes much bigger than Kamaka, wholl be taking this fight on short notice, which hasnt bode well for fighters this year. Lets get that big plus money!

Going to the other extreme with this pick and taking a big betting favorite. Mudaerji is too good and too young for Gordon to handle (you can read more about the Chinese fighter here).

This fight has moved from a pick em to Maness being a dog, with is fine by me. Hes much bigger and much younger than Sanders, so look for him to go 13-1 as a pro.

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Two residents at a Cottonville address were recently arrested on multiple gambling charges.

Patrick and Patinesia Davis of 12845 Cottonville Road were arrested by the Stanly County Sheriffs Office for the states Department of Public Safety, specifically the Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) division.

Both defendants were charged with four felony counts of operating five or more gaming machines along with four misdemeanor counts each of operating/possessing a slot machine, operating an electronic sweepstakes, operating video gaming machines, the manufacture/sale of slot machines and gambling.

According to Erin Bean, a special agent and public information officer with ALE, the suspects were allegedly operating a gambling establishment out of a residential property at the Cottonville address and at David Scrap Metal LLC, also on the same property.

Charles Curcio was the sports editor of the Stanly News & Press from 1999-2001 and has currently served in the same capacity since 2008. He was awarded the NCHSAA Tim Stevens Media Representative of the Year and named CNHI Sports Editor of the Year in 2014. He has also been honored twice by the North Carolina Press Association.

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Gamblers is a podcast about men and women who live by their wits and wagers. People who bet big on themselves, and won. From a road-hustling pool shark to a punk-rock horse handicapper to a sports bettor who could move lines, the six-part anthology series focuses on the fascinating lives of professional underground gamblers and how they make their money.

Michael Sall is a living legend among gin players and professional gamblers. Hes the best money gin player in New York City since the 1980s. The square public, if they know him at all, know him as the guy who was arrested and lost over a million dollars during the infamous Mollys Game indictments they made a movie about. But hes no poker player. Hes the man who literally wrote the book on high-stakes gin rummya book that sells for hundreds of dollars a copy, a book that changed the way gamblers all over the world play gin.

Back in the 1970s, Sall was winning so much money playing in the gin game at his club in Philadelphia that he decided to branch out. At the time, outside of Las Vegas, there was perhaps no higher concentration of gamblers in America than in New York City. In New York, you could find any game that you could name for any amount that you could count.

And you wouldnt just find action in the fancy private social clubs. Some of the wildest gambling in New York went on in dimly lit basement cardrooms like Manhattans storied Mayfair Club, where the surroundings may have been unimpressive but the stakes were eye-popping. When Michael Sall first arrived, he didnt find a lot of gin. In those days, the game that was all the rage was backgammon.

I used to come to New York to learn. They were playing, in those days, $25 a point at the Mayfair. For them, it was all the money in the world.

In backgammon, games often finish with scores in the single digits, so each game could end up costing anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand dollars at those stakes.

We were playing a peculiar structure, but it was the equivalent of $500, or maybe $1,000 a point at my club, Michael recalls. So, while these guys were there, trying to squeeze every nickel out of it. But here, although there were occasional backgammon games where guys would lose $100,000 or $200,000, the games I was playing in, in the beginning, if you won or lost $4,000 or $5,000, it was a lot. So, if you had a bankroll of $75,000 or $100,000, you were well protected against any bad streak.

Michael had heard that New York gamblers were the cream of the crop. This was the stomping ground of legends like Stu Ungar. Gamblers in New York were supposed to be the toughest to beat. But Michael quickly found they werent as good as they thought they were.

Well, they suffer from the illusion that all wisdom resides between the East River and the Hudson, Michael says. All the good food does in the country; Im not sure all the wisdom does. Theres no egos in the world like New York egos. I must have won nine out of ten weeksat least six out of sevenfor a year, before anyone figured out, Hey, you know what? He must be a better player than us.

In other words, they couldnt believe that this local yokel from Philadelphia came up and was actually a better player.

Michael found games to gamble on all over the city. Backgammon, poker, whatever he could find. There were regular gin games at the Town Club on 86th Street, or at the famous Friars Club, a private club for celebrities and people who worked in the entertainment industry.

I like to say you can make more money in New York by accident than you can make on purpose anywhere else, Michael says. They have boatloads of money here.

Michael spent the next decade dominating the gin games of New York City. During that stretch, he kept refining his craft, and although gin had been around for much longer than he had even been alive, he was able to unlock secrets of the game perhaps unknown to any player before him. He built up his bankroll into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, played regularly in the highest stakes games in town, and invested his winnings in businesses and the stock market. It wasnt too long before he found that he didnt have to rely on his gambling winnings to make a living, so gin became less a job and more an intellectual pursuit for him. He started to think that he should write down all he knew about ginthat he should write a book.

I always get comments. People tell me, You should write a book about this, about that, your life, your stories from the poolroom, but I never pay attention, Michael says. In a sense, it was almost an easy book to write, because I didnt do any research. Granted, I thought through a lot, but I was basically just writing down stuff I already knew.

The funny thing was, at the beginning of the book, I didnt understand nearly as much as I did by the end of the book Not to say its the great literature achievement of our time.

It may not have been the great literature achievement of our time, but it sure looked a lot like the Holy Bible. Bound in fine leather with gold lettering on the cover and spine, he called his magnum opus Gin Rummy: A Predators Guide, and the price of the book said a lot about how much the author valued the wisdom within its pages. It sold for $200 a copy.

I had a publisher willing to publish my book, Michael says. I forgot what he was going to give me; $5 a copy, sell it for $25, something like that. I decided that a book of this nature, nobodys going to read unless they gamble. So, I priced it at $200.

At first, its funny. Howard Schwartz used to own the Gamblers Book Club. He told me people would come around. Theyd see $200, and theyd say, Thats ridiculous. Then theyd open it, and theyd start browsing it and so forth. He said most of the time, theyd wind up buying it.

According to John Schultz, a young poker player from New York, the Predators Guide is worth every penny.

I bought Michael Salls book back before I even played gin for money, and I was like, Im just going to spend 200 bucks on this book, Schultz says. I have, basically, every single gin book ever written, at least that Im aware of. There are some books that have okay advice, theres some with just terrible advice. Michael Salls book is the only one that I think is truly high level.

The Predators Guide doesnt just look beautiful, it has some awfully romantic prose for a book about a card game. When warning the reader against putting too much value on a single card he says beware of falling in love. When writing about reading opponents he talks about their pain, anguish, or joy. He calls some poor decisions bureaucratic disease.

Theres plenty of technical writing, and concepts that are over my head, but theres also a personality that shines through. Read this from the books opening:

I am often asked how much luck is involved in gin. I do not want to sound simplistic but luck is not an issue very weak players can win in any given session, or even for a month straight. But as folks in North Carolina say, the sun dont shine on the same dogs ass every day. The weaker player will eventually lose.

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A gambling addict who robbed escorts and raped a woman in a hotel room has been jailed for 19 years.

AARON Gardner, 29, of Airedale Walk in Wollaton, committed the robberies to get cash to feed his gambling habit, stealing hundreds of pounds from a number of escorts across the country.

At Nottingham Crown Court on November 27, he was sentenced for five counts of robbery, one count of rape and one count of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit one of the robberies.

The charges relate to incidents in hotels in Nottingham, Birmingham and London against five woman over a period of three months in 2019.

On one of the occasions, he met a woman at a hotel in Birmingham in July 2019.He immediately attacked her as soon as he entered the room and threatened her that if she did not do as he say, he would kill her.

The victim screamed out for help, so Gardner stuffed newspaper in her mouth to shut her up. He went on to rape her.

He told her not follow him or he would stab her and come for her family.

Detective Constable Raj Johal, of Nottinghamshire Police, led the investigation. She said: This was an appalling catalogue of offences that had it not been for the bravery and determination of the victim would have gone unresolved and unpunished.

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proposal by commercial racetracks and casinos to open New Mexico to Las Vegas-style gambling is raising concerns among Native American leaders who believe it would compromise the ability to bring in money for their communities.

"This proposed legislation presents not only a renewed challenge to our economic security but a reckless attempt to expand private wealth at the expense of our ability to provide essential government services," Sandia Pueblo Gov. Stuart Paisano said.

They testified during a legislative meeting Monday that allowing unlimited slot machines, table games, online gambling, and sports wagering at the horse tracks and casinos would shift the market and violate exclusivity provisions outlined in existing revenue-sharing compacts that tribes have with the state, the Associated Press reports.

The pueblos resort and casino on the northern edge of Albuquerque have been closed for months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Calling the gambling operation the backbone of the pueblos economy, Paisano said theres considerable uncertainty about how tribal operations will be affected going forward.

Mondays meeting marked the first time tribal leaders have spoken publicly aboutthe proposal to expand gambling.

They said they were not approached about the plan until days before representatives of the non-tribal tracks and casinos testified before another legislative panel earlier this month.

Track executives predict that expanded gambling would boost tourism and ensure the survival of the horse racing industry in New Mexico. They also have said that under the proposal, tribes would benefit by no longer having to share revenues with the state and could instead invest that money in tribal programs.

The tracks and casinos also known as racinos and tribal gambling operations all have revenues shrink in recent years, even before the pandemic. A 2019 report by legislative analysts showed a 10% decline from 2012-2018 in annual revenues shared by tribal casinos with the state, shrinking to $62.8 million.

The legislative analysts noted at the time that the online gambling industry, which is not authorized in the state, may be drawing a share of the market away from New Mexico casinos.

Scott Scanland, a lobbyist for Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino in southern New Mexico, reiterated Monday that the proposal is simply an idea and that track executives are interested in starting a conversation about how to grow the industry into something that would attract a wider demographic and benefit restaurants and other venues.

He presented a 2019studythat looked at the potential of tapping into online gambling and sports betting.

Some lawmakers said more analysis would have to be done because the pandemic has upended casinos in New Mexico and elsewhere and that the most favorable revenue figures included in the report hinge on opening a sixth racino in the state a proposal that already has been mired by numerous political and legal challenges.

At least a dozen tribes have voiced their reservations about overhauling New Mexicos gambling rules. Santa Clara Pueblo Gov. J. Michael Chavarria said Monday his tribe is among those that have outlined their concerns to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state legislative leaders.

Nora Meyers Sackett, a spokeswoman for Lujan Grisham, said Monday that the governors office thoroughly reviews legislation as it makes its way through the Legislature and that would be the case if any measure related to gambling is introduced during the upcoming session in January.

The governor has a very deep respect for the tribal gaming compacts and their importance to the sovereign nations within our state, she told The Associated Press.

Lawmakers acknowledged the proposal could have significant effects on tax revenues and that more data is needed to better understand the implications for the state budget as well as tribal communities.

Democratic Rep. Antonio Maestas of Albuquerque, chair of the legislative economic and rural development committee, said the pandemic has forced the states hand with regard to tackling difficult issues and that gambling, tourism and the need to to boost revenues are among them.

This is definitely a topic that is deserving of a conversation, he said.

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