In a couple of weeks, Las Vegas, Nevada will play host to the Super Bowl for the first time. It wasn’t all that long ago that Nevada was the only state in the country where you could legally bet on the outcome of sports contests like the Super Bowl. But that changed nearly six years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for all states to legalize sports gambling.
Since then, 38 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, have done so. Most of them allow betting through mobile apps, including saturation advertisers DraftKings and FanDuel.
Those apps allow gamblers to bet not just on the outcome of a game, but on individual players’ performances and specific events within a game, on all…
