OPINION: Idaho isn’t planning to legalize sports betting soon – and it stinks

OPINION: Idaho isn’t planning to legalize sports betting soon – and it stinks

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  • Jordan Kaye, Idaho Press
May 16, 2022 9:42 PM
  • Jordan Kaye, Idaho Press

Everything free in life has strings attached – except, apparently, at a Phoenix sportsbook at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday.

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My girlfriend and I were in Arizona last week visiting some family and decided to kill our final afternoon in the desert meandering around downtown Phoenix… Which led us to the FanDuel Sportsbook.

I planned to place a couple $5 first-inning baseball bets and hang out for an hour or so, hopefully cashing enough to pay for a drink. Then we took two steps past the metal detector and some FanDuel employee gave us each a $20 voucher. He was handing these things out like candy on Halloween.