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Costa Rican online bookmaker ****** is among the leading offshore bet takers, and spokesperson Scott Cooley acknowledges that the company may soon be in troubled
waters: “We are going to be exposed. That’s something that, again, we’re concerned with and we’ve been concerned with. Certainly as more of these local sports books start popping up, the bettors are going to gravitate to those eventually.”“Exposed” is quite the understatement: A whopping 97% of ******’s total action is from the United States.
Cooley argues that there will always be a place for offshore bookmakers, given the anonymity they offer, and Schwartz suggests that it remains to be seen just how disastrous the new sports gambling landscape is for those outside the States: “If [legal gambling] is taxed at such a ruinous level that the sports books that are legal can’t really compete … then it might not impact [offshore books] as much.” But ****** has also been hedging its position by “acquiring properties and building brands outside the sports betting industry,” and Cooley even floats the idea of licensing the company name to a Stateside operation.