EDITORIAL
to value the US gaming marketplace. Since sports betting legalization started in May 2018 with a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the size of the legal market has been tracked and reported. Its growth has been impressive but has to be seen in the context of a large and persistent rump of offshore operations. Sizing this market is inevitably about extrapolation. Yet, a new approach seems to reveal a more complete picture. The results are startling with the licensed gaming and betting markets dwarfed by offshore operators. Size really does matter here: this is the size of the market that is going untaxed and at the same time the size of the opportunity for licensed operators to attack. Having put some numbers to the challenge, it is up to regulators and operators together to work out how to tackle it.
Yours sincerely, Simon planzer@planzer-law.com
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