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Wayne Root is a telemarketer. He is licensed as a telemarketer not a handicapper or an oddsmaker.
His telemarketing profits derive from the "weak" people he despises. They buy his products and should be millionaires if Root's assumption that a winning percentage of 55% is enough to reap that level of profit.
If it is enough why does Root even bother to telemarket? Perhaps he isn't even good enough to hit 55%.
Close to three decades ago Senator Bill Bradley held hearings on sports and gambling before the Senate Patent Rights Subcommittee.
The testimony made clear that opposition to sports betting came from the NCAA and Professional Sports Leagues who argued that sports betting violated their patent rights. There was little mention of the morality of gambling or the integrity of the game.
How many illegal bookmakers, offshore sportsbooks and legal sportsbooks in Nevada would be willing to pay the NCAA and professional leagues for the privilige of doing what their businesses can do now for free?
Unless the Feds see a way they can profit from a tax on sports betting there won't be any change in the status quo.
As in most cases economics rules not morality or integrity.
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