Gov. Brian Kemp cut the ribbon for a fantasy sports company on Thursday, which is expanding its Atlanta headquarters. It happened in a state where sports gambling is technically still illegal – despite the best efforts of some of its backers at the Capitol.
To the governor – who likes to celebrate newly created jobs – this expansion was an economic development victory.
The ribbon-cutting was for a company called PrizePicks, which lets folks wager electronically on the performances of individual players in team sports.
Although sports betting is technically illegal in Georgia, PrizePicks says its platform legally bypasses those games-of-chance prohibitions by classifying theirs as skill-based games.
