Gambling on Sports When Sports Are Shut Down

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ukrainian table tennis. League of Legends. Madden computer simulations. These were not the options you were expecting to see on your gambling apps come springtime. But since all major sports were shut down in mid-March, sportsbooks in the U.S. and offshore are seeing a wide array of unconventional betting lines serve their starved clientele. "Daily Wager" host Doug Kezirian joins the show to tell us about the stranger sports gambling options being offered, as well as the heightened interest in the NFL Draft, and the impact of a live sports hiatus on the industry as a whole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sports league suffering a big blow with cancellations across the board.
0:05.0	It's also a problem for all the sports gambling companies that have turned into big business over the past two or three years.
0:12.0	Just a few months ago, the sports gambling industry was riding high, with more and more legal places to bet and money
0:21.3	pouring in from companies hoping to capitalize in the growing market.
0:25.4	Now, with live games on pause, so too is activity for sports books around the world.
0:31.9	But amidst the shutdown, betters have gotten creative, looking for action on everything
0:36.4	from Taiwanese hoops to Russian
0:38.7	table tennis. Today, we explore how the sharps are getting by and whether the industry's
0:44.6	luck will ever return. I'm Minikheims. It's Tuesday, April 14th. This is ESPN Daily.
0:54.5	Doug, I got a hot tip for you.
0:56.6	I live in Los Angeles.
0:58.1	It's going to be between 65 and 75 degrees over the next few months.
1:03.5	Take it to the bank.
1:04.8	Yeah, just go throw down on it.
1:07.0	It'll be sunny.
1:07.8	Kind of like, what was that L.A. story?
1:09.3	It was the old movie with Steve Martin.
1:10.7	Yeah. He's a weatherman. He was like the what was that L.A. story? Was the old movie with Steve Martin? Yeah.
1:11.2	He's a weatherman.
1:12.5	He was like the automatic's just on the same wall every day.
1:15.4	I think the odds makers are on to that one, you know,
1:17.7	but we'll try to find some vulnerabilities in the betting market.
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