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Kansas Gaming Official Discusses Missourians Interest In Sports Betting

May 19, 2023 6:11AM CDT
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Kansas Gaming Official Discusses Missourians Interest In Sports Betting
FILE – Fans sit inside Arrowhead Stadium before an NFL football game on Dec. 12, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas legislators were close Wednesday, April 27, 2022, to approving a measure authorizing sports betting and wanted most of the state’s revenues from it to go to efforts to lure professional football’s Kansas City, Missouri-based Chiefs to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel File)

(MISSOURINET) – Sports betting in Kansas is a few months shy of its one-year anniversary, while Missouri lawmakers failed again to legalize it. Randy Evans is government relations manager with the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission. He says there’s definitely a strong interest among Missourians, based on how many have attempted to place bets through Kansas-based sites:

The Missouri House passed a sports betting bill in March, but it died in the Senate because a handful of senators insisted that the bill also include taxing video lottery terminals.

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