Delaware Launches Public Gambling
Skills Enhancement Program
To Support New Sports Betting Law

PENNY HILL, DE – With its recently enacted legislation allowing sports betting in the state, Delaware now faces a need for both willing gamblers and knowledgeable bookies in order to successfully implement the program. In this vein, the bill also mandated an educational outreach effort to elevate First State citizens into highly informed and skilled gamblers and odds-makers, and even added a sports betting theme to its public schools’ math curriculum.

Due to the havoc wreaked on the state budget by the 2008-2009 severe recession, Delaware authorities embraced state-sponsored legalized sports betting as a way to increase revenues without raising taxes. After minor political skirmishes, the initiative passed and the sports gambling doors are swinging open throughout the Blue Hen state.

The new sports gambling authorities recognized that attracting plentiful gamblers requires ensuring a large supply of people who think they can win. The just launched public educational skills outreach program aims to achieve just that, by teaching Delawareans the ins and outs of sports betting, from point spreads to over/unders to predicting MVPs and the like. ‘Successful Sports Wagering’ education columns are due to appear daily in the statewide News Journal newspaper right beside the comics, along with a series of 30-second “Keys to Winning’ sports gambling tip ads on local TV and radio stations. Blue Hen leaders expect this enhanced knowledge to instill greater wagering confidence and lead to throngs of eager bettors at its casino windows.

Looking ahead to the younger generation, Delaware schools will enhance their math curriculum with a sports gambling slant. From an early age, DE students will learn to calculate betting odds in their heads, maximize betting strategies, and analyze sports statistics to evaluate point spreads, for example. DE math teachers are thrilled to focus on real world examples of math and statistics and apply them to winning big money, an approach certain to capture and maintain student interest. These educators predict that First State student math scores will skyrocket by making the subject so much more compelling and potentially highly profitable.

The Delaware Department of Revenue expects a rapid rise in both state income and the general public’s standard of living as a result of this educational program. “Because our local sports gamblers will be so much better informed than those from other states, we expect Delawareans to make a killing,” said spokesman Buck Rogers.

With justifiably lofty sports wagering expectations, Delaware politicians have eagerly and boldly announced, “Let the games begin.”

06.18.09

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