As mobile gaming apps started coming online, it was obvious to almost everyone the days of flying to Las Vegas and standing in line in a smoky sportsbook somewhere along the Strip would soon be a thing of the past.

To see Sacco’s name surface on the latest list of sports gamblers scheduled to be honored in August at the Circa Resort & Casino’s Sports Gambling Hall of Fame ceremony is at once head-spinning and spot-on appropriate.

Everyone knows the casinos have plenty of illegal bookmakers in the house. Bookmakers historically are an integral part of the American gambling story, and outside of Nevada most of them were considered outlaws.