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Hi everybody, Cheryl Eckerson here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, a look at legalized sports betting, possibly already in your state, or coming soon.

This coming Sunday, that's November 21st, I take on the topic of legal sports betting.

Much like legalized marijuana, which we've also looked at, there is a major concerted lobbying effort

going on state to state to try to make this formerly illegal thing or activity legal.

And the effort is quite successful. As always, there are differences of opinions on the benefits and harms a lot to consider.

I'll be reporting from one of the country's most robust and fairly new sports betting markets, the state of Colorado.

Sports betting became legal in Colorado on May 1st, 2020, as it happens, just about the time the

COVID shutdowns arrived, which was not great news for that industry. The casinos shut their doors.

The casinos are where the sports betting has to take place under the lawn, Colorado, and most sports stopped.

Well, I said it has to take place in the casinos unless you're doing mobile sports betting on mobile apps.

And there are a lot of those making these for almost anybody in Colorado to place bets using their phones.

Interestingly, I asked some of the experts who I interviewed, how do you know someone's really in Colorado

when they're making their bets on the phone, because they may be in another state where it's not legal?

And they have a geofencing way to figure out if people really are in the state boundaries.

One of the regulators told me they can even tell if someone's flying in a plane over Colorado,

trying to place a bet, they're not allowed to do that, but they said they can tell.

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