#Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling

Mobile sports betting has arrived in Maryland. On November 23rd - just in time for the Thanksgiving onslaught of football and the World Cup - Marylanders were allowed to place wagers on their phones. In these early weeks of legalized mobile betting, from TV to Twitter, we have been bombarded with ads trying to entice us to register with one or more…

It sure didn't look like a winning lineup, but maybe that was the point. If the bettor at Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland had picked basketball teams with less dismal prospects, he wouldn't have gotten such steep odds - about 141-to-1. But that's what enabled him to collect $714000 on a $5000 wager when his three "huge underdogs" pulled upsets - two…