Our licensees monitor the lines everywhere. Then we pull the game off the board and notify authorities. College officials take a jaundiced view of Sandoval's position. Pendergast started placing bets out of curiosity until it became common for him to drop a few hundred dollars on a weekend until he found himself hugely in debt. Nevada gaming officials changed their rules as a result of the Pendergast case.
Office workers take wagers on pools with a national wink and a nudge to their illegality.
Congress and the NCAA seem powerless to stop legal wagering in Las Vegas. The only difference was in one case we covered the point spread, in the other we did not.