Colorado players bet $12.10bn on sports in first three years
| By Robert Fletcher
Consumers in Colorado wagered $12.10bn on sports during the first full three years of legal betting in the US state.
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Colorado launched its regulated market in May 2020, with the total amount spent covering player bets through to the end of April this year.
Of this figure, $11.95bn was wagered online and $146.9m at retail sportsbooks.
Gross gaming revenue for the three-year period amounted to $817.0m. Some $808.9m of this came from online betting, while $8.1m was attributed to land-based wagering.