Ned Lamont struck a deal with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes in May 2021, authorizing the two, and the state lottery, to run online sports betting. Home to a dozen plus online sportsbooks, Iowa has some of the cheapest licensing fees in the land - $45,000 for the first year and a $10,000 every year after that.

It's not a big-money game. It's just that we're playing a game based on the concept of the big-money.