{"id":12605,"date":"2015-06-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2015-06-05T07:13:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T11:13:01","slug":"the-coming-gamblification-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-coming-gamblification-of-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Gamblification of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/060515_1110_TheComingGa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas, Nevada, is finally building a stadium that will allow it to have a professional sports team. This heralds a wider era of the gamblification of sports writes Joseph Stromberg:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to previous match fixing scandals betting on sports has been banned in the United States \u2013 though loopholes exist.<\/li>\n<li>However the craze for things like fantasy sports shows that people enjoy predicting the outcomes of sports matches \u2013 and would likely wager money on their predictions.<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy Duel, a site that essentially allows people to bet on individual players made $57 billion in revenues last year.<\/li>\n<li>Teams will want a piece of the action. They could do so by, for example, offering in-seat betting.<\/li>\n<li>The stadium in Nevada may well be the first place where experiments such as this are set up.<\/li>\n<li>As for match-fixing, proponents of legalization argue that it&#8217;ll be easier to monitor anomalous betting patterns if gambling is done on official exchanges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/4\/14\/8411035\/sports-gambling-betting-las-vegas\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/4\/14\/8411035\/sports-gambling-betting-las-vegas\">Vox<\/a><span style=\"color: #4c4e4d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas, Nevada, is finally building a stadium that will allow it to have a professional sports team. This heralds a wider era of the gamblification of sports writes Joseph Stromberg: Due to previous match fixing scandals betting on sports has been banned in the United States \u2013 though loopholes exist. However the craze for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/060515_1110_TheComingGa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12608,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/12608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}