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Rolling the dice
Colorado gets $6.6M from its first year of sports betting
The crowd goes wild for the Denver Nuggets during a playoff watch party at The DNVR Bar on East Colfax Ave. on May 29. Legal sports betting brought in $6.6 million in tax revenue last year./ Photo by Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Corey H. Jones/Colorado Public Radio - 06/03/2021
After closing the books on its first year of legalized sports betting, Colorado collected more than $6.6 million in tax revenue. The programs set to receive that money will start to do so this fall.
Voters passed Proposition DD by a slim margin in 2019. But by the time legal betting launched in May of last year, the state didn’t know what to expect because of the pandemic, Colorado’s director of gaming Dan Hartman said.