Two years ago I approached several State Regulators offering to provide our educational content to state Sportsbook operators and customers for free. The message was strongly rejected for two reasons: 1. A more educated customer means less profits for operators - which is what really matters. (They actually said this.) 2. Regulators do not want bettors to “think they can win” because it will cause an increase in problem gambling. The proposal was intended for responsible gaming. It would teach customers basic concepts- like hold percentage, how to read odds, how to calculate hold for parlays. The material would prevent problem gambling by allowing bettors to know they are getting ripped off by SGPs and similar products at sportsbooks. That’s why regulators don’t want bettors education. As a last ditch backdoor effort, I mentioned how educating bettors doesn’t necessarily mean less profits for operators. When card counting became popular, blackjack became the most popular game in the casino and casino profits increased. How? Not because the players learned how to count cards but because they thought they had learned how to count cards. The difference between theory and practice. This gave one regulator a “brilliant” idea. She suggested: Sports betting is 90%+ male dominated so we’re missing half the market. If we can market the education to women so they start to think they could win at betting, then we’ll double the market size and generate more profits and tax revenue. At that point I realized how corrupted and compromised (knowingly or unknowingly) many of the regulators are. Glad to work with @bettorsvoice to improve the industry for all bettors.