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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Thats where I disagree.
At a Vegas Casino or the like there are a myriad of regulations in place to ensure the gaming is fair.
At a dog-fight there is no such oversight.
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I think part of the reason that pro sports are so leary of their players becoming involved in any sort of illegal gambling, even if not on their own sport, is because of the willingness of that industry to compromise the integrity of any sport: some guy involved in a pro sport (let's say, hypothetically, an NBA referee) makes a bet with an illegal gambling organization. He loses some money. He bets more, trying to get himself out of debt, but continues to lose. Pretty soon, he's owing an incredible amount, and the organization approaches him with a scenario to get out of debt: influence the scores on a couple games. It could easily happen in dog-fighting that Vick ends up losing a huge amount of money to someone else in the industry. While Vick doesn't bet on the NFL, maybe his creditors do, and they offer to let him work his debt off. That's the worst case scenario that pro-sports leagues are afraid of.