I feel like there ought to be some way to do betting-with-extra-steps-that’s-technically-not-betting, but I don’t know what the legal definition of betting is under CA law or whether the law is vague enough that any trickery could be punished regardless of whether it meets a strict definition.
There are various tricks that rich people use to find loopholes in tax laws that allow them to pay less in tax money. That doesn’t mean that all such loopholes get automatically filled.
I feel like there ought to be some way to do betting-with-extra-steps-that’s-technically-not-betting, but I don’t know what the legal definition of betting is under CA law or whether the law is vague enough that any trickery could be punished regardless of whether it meets a strict definition.
https://xkcd.com/1494/
Your cool hack that gets around a loophole in the law is probably something that someone has noticed.
There are various tricks that rich people use to find loopholes in tax laws that allow them to pay less in tax money. That doesn’t mean that all such loopholes get automatically filled.