Hawaii Senator, Will Espero, creates a new online casino bill proposing to legalise and regulate the pastime on the tiny island, leaving Utah as the only state without any form of legal gambling.

When your family comes back from a trip to Hawaii, and they wax lyrical about standing in line for hours for the opportunity to eat flavoured ice from a store called Matsumoto’s you know the island needs a casino.

If gambling isn’t your thing and you think it’s the spawn of Satan, then you are probably best off living on the sun-drenched land of Hawaii. Along with that other idyllic state known as Utah, Hawaii is one of two states that offer zero forms of regulated gambling.

And yet despite this ban, it turns out in a study operated by Wallethub, that Hawaii is the 27th most gambling addicted state in the land of the free and the home of the brave.