The action network podcast. I'm just about that action boss. Welcome into the action network podcast

We are presented by the fan dual sports book your host today, Brendan Glassine

We are here to provide a sports betting legalization update for you folks

We'd like to do this once or twice a year and give folks a lay of the land

Where the landscape is as it pertains to legal sports betting? We've come a long way in five years

Maybe if you're listening your state has become legal in recent months in the last year or so

But enough for me. I'd like to welcome in two guests that can help dive into this topic and give us a sense of where we're at

First, we have Eric Raskin managing editor media director at usbets.com

Jeff Edelstein senior analyst at sports handle and these guys also work together

They co-host a podcast gamble on gamble on podcast where they break down the the nuts and bolts of what we're going to talk about

Today the legalization of sports betting so gentlemen. Thank you for coming on. We appreciate it

Looking forward to this conversation and giving folks an understanding of where we're at

At this point in early 2023 Eric. I'll start with you

We'll start with an online perspective where are we at in terms of fully online

Sports betting and where it's available? So we are very rapidly nearing the halfway point

I guess if we we're not just 50 states were 52 territories if we count DC

and Puerto Rico. So sports betting is fully online in

25 of those 52 24 states plus DC

Then there are some additional ones

Kentucky main and Puerto Rico have all legalized online sports betting

But it's not yet up and running in any of those places yet

So whichever the next one is it's going to take us to the halfway point 26 out of 52 which is

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