In a Vox article, Jack Meserve argues that table tennis, the third most-bet sport among Colorado's online gamblers in May 2026, has been engineered into a by-the-second slot machine, wagered not on the sport itself but on a simulacrum built for betting. He suspects the ranking holds in every legal sports-gambling state, and that gambling is heading somewhere stranger and more destructive than a $100 bet on the Yankees.