$2.5 BILLION

PUBLISHED: March 24, 2000 at 1:00 AM CST | UPDATED: August 20, 2021 at 9:42 PM CDT

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FBI estimate of illegal wagers–including office pools–on the NCAA basketball tournament. Legal wagers in Las Vegas total about $60 million.

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