and if the lottery is maybe not your sort of thing maybe sports betting is in just a few short days the Spectrum Center in uptown Charlotte will be the center of the college basketball Universe Queen City news reporter Sydney hyberger is live outside at the Spectrum center now in Sydney we saw sports betting come online last week how will this play into the tournament this year NY good morning simply put more people than ever can cast those online bets for the March mad Madness Tournament the Am
erican gaming Association actually predicts people will bet $2.7 billion between the men and women's tournament now when North Carolina opened up sports betting last week they became the 39th state to do so and the roll out coming just days before the ACC and naac tournaments was no coincidence meanwhile just six years ago sports betting was only legal in one state Nevada now in North Carolina Geo complies says they've done 5.3 million location checks between Monday and Wednesday last week just
those two days among 370,000 new accounts still as we move into tournament week the experts urge people to only use the approved sites as scammers will be out in force looking to make a buck of course enter your information enter your credit card you make a bet you never hear from them again you never get your money back and now now your identity could potentially be stolen because they have all of your information as well now the Queen City will host four of those first round games on Thursday
and two second round games on Saturday who's playing well I'll tell you coming up in our next half hour [Music] guys
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