Sports Betting in Vegas just isn’t the Same

According to old school oddsmaker turned novelist, Paul Czuchra, the industry of sports gambling is barely surviving.

From the Las Vegas Sun:

“The industry is really hanging by a thread,” Czuchra said of Nevada-style legal sports betting.

Some major casinos “are not really enamored of sports betting,” Czuchra said. “They figure they have to have it available, but the only reason some places have a sports book is because they know if they don’t, their casino customers will walk across the street to make their bets there.”

You might say Big Gaming views sports betting as a necessary evil. Czuchra has a more colorful phrase for it.

“Sports betting is the unwanted stepchild of the gaming business,” Czuchra said.