New Jersey Train Stations Become Draw for New York Gamblers
- Sports betting in the Garden State already tops $4 billion
- Airports and train stations ‘light up’ during football season
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Julio Carrasco, general manager of a sports bar near the train station in Hoboken, New Jersey, has welcomed a new sort of clientele in the past few months.
Some are reps for sports-betting websites, like DraftKings or PointsBet, there to promote online wagering via events in the bar. The others are New York gamblers, typically single men, who come in by train just to bet.