I was in Las Vegas this past weekend, in the heart of the action, right where you’d have wanted to be in years past if you were itching to place a wager on a major boxing match. The Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch for the middleweight championship was taking place at the sold-out T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night, and every sports book in town was offer odds and taking bets.
And the best place to be if you wanted to make money on the fight was New Jersey.
This is the strange, but entirely logical, reality of life in 2018. Since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed PASPA and, a couple of months later, Jersey became the first state to offer mobile sports betting without requiring bettors to register in person at casinos, the whole approach to line shopping has changed.