Win enough bets against your friends, meanwhile, and they'll probably stop taking the odds you offer.
And you probably know enough to know that you never want to fall into debt with your bookie.
On Thursday, the state House of Representatives took a small first step toward removing that friction.
The House approved by a narrow margin House Joint Resolution 102, which would give voters the opportunity to amend the Texas constitution to join the 22 other states that allow mobile sports betting.
That's a fairly confusing hodgepodge of arguments-the largest gambling business in the United States, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, has 69 registered lobbyists in Texas, and is owned by the GOP megadonor Adelson family.
) The word "woke" doesn't really have a fixed meaning, but tying it to a major part of the Adelsons' business is a bold and innovative stretch on just about every previous definition of "woke.
North Texas representative Jeff Leach, who introduced the resolution, described various scenarios for which Texans might place a bet-tossing ten bucks into a March Madness pool, or putting fifty dollars on José Altuve hitting a home run in game four of the World Series-and then explaining that, right now, our friends and neighbors who do such things are criminals under Texas law, and our children deserve better.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick told conservative radio host Mark Davis in April that he "couldn't find one senator" in his caucus who supports it, and that he wouldn't bring a bill that has more Democrats than Republicans backing it to the floor.
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