{"id":779556,"date":"2026-09-23T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779556\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:18:11","slug":"more-than-half-of-u-s-sports-bettors-wager-to-pay-bills-survey-finds-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779556\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of U.S. sports bettors wager to pay bills, survey finds \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nTuesday, September 22, 2026 7:51 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/paying-bills-debt-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/covers.com.jpg\"\/>Brad Senkiw, Covers\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. News survey found that 51% of 1,200 sports bettors wager to pay off bills.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which ran between Aug. 31 and Sept. 3, found that 57% bet weekly, nearly matching last year\u2019s study.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20% planned to use betting to cover rent or mortgage payments, while 18% used it to pay credit card debt. Another 18% used wagering for unexpected costs. More than 5% said they used betting to pay student loans, while another 2% used wagering to pay tuition.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri is the only new jurisdiction to launch legal sports betting in the U.S. since last year\u2019s survey. There are currently 39 states and Washington, D.C., with legal online sports betting, retail sports betting, or both.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.covers.com\/industry\/more-than-half-of-us-sports-bettors-wager-to-pay-bills-survey-finds-sept-22-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on Covers\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.covers.com\/industry\/more-than-half-of-us-sports-bettors-wager-to-pay-bills-survey-finds-sept-22-2026\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Tuesday, September 22, 2026 7:51 PM Brad Senkiw, Covers Email, LinkedIn, and more A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1294,102,1906,6623,547,198695,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-economy","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-research","tag-responsible-gaming","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}