Sports betting in DC

[Anonymous]

Sorry if this has been covered but the WaPo has had a few good stories recently about what a mess the DC sports betting contract is. For example, today it comes out that the “house” lost money in June.

I assume this was another sweet deal for the Mayor but does anyone have any other insights than that? I just hope when this expires, DC let’s in more normal books like in VA and MD.

[Anonymous]

Incompetent crony insiders were gifted the contract and bungled it exactly as you would expect. What else is new in DC?

[Anonymous]

the DC app sucks and now that maryland is up and running it has become, irrelevant

[Anonymous]

DC thought a contractor with only his mom as an employee working with a lottery provider could do a better job of creating an app than multi billion dollar companies already operating across the country and in cut throat competition with one another

[Anonymous]

My experience with the DC app is that it didn’t always work where it was supposed to, the interface was lousy, and the odds offered were bad. I briefly used it a few years ago. A recent Post story showed that there are regular inefficiencies in the odds that a knowledgeable bettor paying close attention could exploit. An example is odds for both teams in a game such that if you bet on both sides you automatically end up making money.