With a limited amount of sports to bet on and brick-and-mortar casinos shutting their doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, BetOnline Brand Manager Dave Mason says that the site's "casino and poker [internet] room numbers’ are through the roof. They are breaking records . . . people who want action and bet on sports are struggling a little bit, but there is poker on gaming.”

From a McClatchy News article:

“We are doing stuff we have never done before,” said Dave Mason, the brand manager for BetOnline.ag SportsBook. “Over/under on stocks. People are betting on video games. We got our creative juices flowing.”

And we wonder why reading is dead.

While the rest of the economy crumbles, the gambling industry is rebuilding itself. People stuck inside are gambling to entertain themselves, and — the bigger priority — avoid their families.
There are now consecutive days on the sportsbook calendar with nothing.

If those obscure games don’t do it for you, the best play in the U.S. are UFC fights, or futures.

“Stock market prices. Where certain players are going to sign in the NFL. The NFL draft,” Mason said. “You can bet on Tom Brady’s stats. You can bet on the over/under of American Airlines stock at the close of trading on March 31 ($15). You can bet on what character in the HBO show “Westworld” will die next.

You can bet on WrestleMania 36, which will proceed on April 5 and 6 for a television audience only.

You could have bet on the National Spelling Bee, but that’s now canceled, too.

If the only thing you know how to bet is football, you can bet on who will be the first wide receiver selected in next month’s draft, the offensive linemen off the board or the total number of players selected from the national champion LSU Tigers during the first round.

“This has forced us to put out so much original content,” Mason said. “People want action and we are giving them action. Or as much as we can think of.”
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