It’s a familiar story. Alabama has some of the most restrictive gambling laws in the country, and past efforts to open up gaming have stalled in the Legislature.
That’s the first time ever, as gambling expands across the country.
“We’re at a standoff like we were last year,” he said. “You know, I brought the comprehensive bill and Chip Brown dropped the lottery in the House. And neither one of them passed. Everybody was waiting for somebody else to take the first step.” “Wind Creek Hospitality has always supported a comprehensive gaming bill which would include table games, sports betting, and lottery,” the company said in a statement.
“Alabama has always had one of the highest per capita sports betting, and that’s been shown in study after study,” said former Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran, who served on the state’s gambling study group. “Somebody gets ripped off, there’s no enforcement on to go file a complaint with,” he said. “And it happens to a lot of people where they may hit a payoff, and then the person running it refuses to pay it. And there’s nothing we can do, because we can’t enforce an illegal act to make somebody pay somebody money for something that they’ve done illegally.”
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