Beyond prediction markets: the US gambling issues that matter, with Dustin Gouker

Eric Raskin of Casino Reports' Low Rollers podcast set out to avoid prediction markets for this episode. He spoke with Dustin Gouker, who writes The Closing Line and The Event Horizon newsletters, about G2E, trading card pack ripping, online casino legalization and Brazil's online gambling ban.

In this episode

• Gouker says pack ripping of trading cards was something he talked about at G2E as much as, if not more than, prediction markets, and he is launching a newsletter about it (10:44).

• He says buying a pack of cards is not legally gambling, but he asks whether higher velocity and online play make it gambling, and says he does not know (11:48).

• On online casino legalization, Gouker says he is taking the under on 0.5 states next year (15:07).

• He thinks putting a roulette stream on prediction markets is unlikely because the CFTC would shut it down, though gamified products may still appear (16:56).

• Asked about rolling back sports betting, Gouker says Ohio has a bill, but a ban would be hard because of lobbying and because bettors could move to prediction markets (20:54).

• Raskin also discusses a Casino Reports piece on Bally's going concern warning and its Bronx, Chicago and Las Vegas projects (3:42).

Episode from Low Rollers by Casino Reports, published on YouTube.