While sports betting is no magic bullet, supporters believe it would attract more people to Deadwood\u2019s casinos and hotels and keep others from leaving to place wagers elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting at the bar at the Ramkota in Pierre and the guy next to me picked up his phone and made a bet on a football game,\u201d Larry Eliason, executive secretary of the South Dakota Commission on Gaming, told The Grand Forks Herald last month. \u201cOf course, he didn\u2019t know who I was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cSo, we know people in South Dakota bet on sports through bookies now,\u201d he added. \u201cHow much they bet and how many bookies there are, we don\u2019t know. It\u2019s difficult to accurately gauge the extent of any activity that\u2019s illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commercial casino gaming in South Dakota is limited to Deadwood, but there are also 11 tribal casinos situated throughout the state, operated by seven federally recognized tribes. The amendment would also indirectly authorize the tribes to launch sports betting because they are permitted to offer any form of gambling provided its legal anywhere else in the state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A bipartisan group of South Dakota lawmakers introduced a resolution this week that would let voters decide whether to legalize sports betting in a bid to give Deadwood\u2019s gaming sector a much needed shot in the arm. SJR 2 would ask voters next November whether the state constitution should be amended to allow the casinos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":97430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,1074,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
South Dakota Resolution Would Put Sports Betting Question on Ballot<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n