Which sites have already started offering legal online poker games in PA? As far as I can tell, they haven't yet started yet.

Edit: OK, just noticed I repeated "have both". My mistake. The point still stands.

Exactly. Gzesh, let it go.

Just an update, the first day of betting was 2 days ago and the state already has 16,500 people registered. One guy said he made 9 bets after only having the app for 2 days.

Another domino has fallen. Is poker next?

https://katu.com/news/local/thousand...-on-first-week

You posting publicly as "Bobo", or as "Bobo, the mod" ? Curious ,,,

Here's a post by Dhubermex from the Pennsylvania thread in this forum that will give you some info about that.

The former. Or Bobo the friend, trying to help you.

Well, the legal betting has started:

Lol, here is what you can bet on from your phone or pc.

Sports
Football
Basketball
Ice Hockey
Baseball
Soccer
Tennis
Golf
Motor Racing
Boxing
MMA
Rugby Union
Rugby League
Cricket
Snooker & Pool
Darts
Handball
Volleyball
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Korea, South
________

I can't wait to bet on Korean Volleyball; not to mention Darts, Pool and Snooker.

Anybody got any pointers on Korean volleyball?

Wouldn't be surprised if they posted odds on the WSOP in the future.

https://sports.oregonlottery.org/sports/

Just an update on the over the phone/computer sports betting in Oregon:

"Lottery officials say Scoreboard is exceeding expectations: More than 30,000 players signed up in the first month, betting more than $13 million. The largest single bet so far is $10,000, and one player bet a total of $234,015, losing $12,750."

https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/...ts-betting-app

The way I see, if you can afford to bet 234,000, what's 12,000. The guy gets entertainment and the state gets some much needed money.

LOL, what?

Someone could bet $234,000 with only $5,000 to their name (or $1,000, but that would take a while). And if this doesn't make sense to you for some reason, this should help:

I'm not saying I have an issue with this, but you know nothing about the guy who has bet $234,000. He might be a billionaire, or he might be gambling with rent money.

I will not be pawed at, thank you very much.

https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/112f37b1-1...2-c99ec77b0e37

Not sure if you are aware that you can only bet money that you pre-deposited with the Lottery. If you only pre-deposited $200 you can only bet $200. That guy could bet $234,000 because he had at least 234,000 already deposited in his Lottery account.

The Lottery doesn't have to take a bet. They probably wouldn't take a single bet of 234,000 on one event (except maybe the Super Bowl) but they would take it if was spread out over many games which was probably the case.

So if I deposited $5,000, I can only bet it once, and if I win, they pay me out and I have to redeposit?

I believe they would put your winnings in your account minus the vig. So let say you won 4900 on your 5000 bet. Then your account now has 9900 which you could then bet.

Also if you put 5000 in your account. you could bet 50 games at 100 a game. Not sure what the minimum bet is. It might be $10.

Right. So what stops someone from making $234,000 in bets over a month, never having redeposited after their initial $5,000 deposit?

Or in the case of the player in question, having deposited just $12,750?

If your initial deposit is 5000 you can only bet a maximum of 5000.
You also could bet less than the 5000 if you wanted.

If your initial deposit is 12750 the most you can bet is 12750. You can't bet more than the total money that is in your account.

Sigh.

I deposit $12,750 on Tuesday, and make 12 $1,000 wagers, and come out ahead. I now have $15,000.

On Wednesday, I make 15 $1,000 wagers, and come out behind. I now have $10,000.

On Thursday, I make 10 $1,000 wagers, and break even. I still have $10,000.

I've deposited only $12,750, but I've wagered $37,000 in 3 days.

But like I said, you were never able to make a bet more than the total you had in your account.

If I only pay for goods in cash, I might spend 2000 a year at 7-11, but if I only use cash, I can never buy more then the cash I have in my wallet.

Simple, you can never make a bet more than what you currently have in your lottery account.

I'm not sure what your point is any more. No, of course you can't make a single bet of more than you have in your account, and I'm not sure why you think you need to explain that. It has nothing to do with the original point.

You suggested that the guy who had bet $234,000 must have a lot of money; you've since suggested he had to have $234,000 in his account. But we know that no one has ever wagered more than $10,000 in a single bet, so to have bet $234,000, it has to have consisted of multiple bets. Therefore, he needn't have deposited more than $12,750 in total.

Are you making some kind of assumption that he wagered that much all in one day? Because the article says no such thing, and I see no reason to believe that he did. Neither does the article's author:

There are a lot of billionaires and multi-billionaires for whom 234,000 is pocket change. They said the maximum bet so far was 10,000. For all we know the guy could have bet 23 games at 10,000 each which would total 230,000 dollars bet. He might have won 11 bets and lost 12 thus having a total loss of 10,000 + the vig. which could possibly total a 12,750 loss on his 23 bets.

The wealthy bettor gets a big time adrenaline rush watching his games and the state gets some much needed money in the process.

Of course he could have. And he also could have made 234 bets of $1,000 each from deposits of $12,750, and lost his rent money and more. As I said originally:

In other words, you have zero idea if this is actually true:

Good God you lack reading comprehension skills.

-BD

Lol at no explanation.

One guy in the Oregon Lottery bet $5 on a 15 game parlay bet and won $82,000. He bet on games in the European Women's Basketball league.

Also they have a "Bet Back" feature. One guy bet 10,000 on Kansas City to win the Super Bowl. The article says the guy got cold feet but was able to cancel the bet. His price for canceling the bet was 1,000 so he got 9,000 back.

https://www.kgw.com/article/sports/f...d-77754ae646a8

WRT.... if this one guy:

a) deposited only $5 initially

b) bet the entire $5 on the parlay

c) won $82K off the parlay

my question is.....

Is this one guy still only allowed to bet a maximum $5 on his future bets?

Here are some of the features of the system:

"The mobile application will also force users to select a deposit limit, which can be changed by the user. For example, the limit could be set at $50,000 and then changed later that day to $100,000 if the gambler blew $50,000 on a game and wants to try again. However, it isn’t that simple. Any change requires a 24-hour cool-down period between deposits and two or more adjustments in a given week will trigger a notice to the user from the Lottery. The gambler will also be able to self-exclude through the app, as well as configure pauses that will keep them from gambling for certain periods of time.

https://www.osga.com/online_gaming_a...-caveats-24561