Offshore Sportsbook Fact Blog

Editor's note: this is a guest column from Scientific Games. Ahead of his appearance at Betting on Sports America, Benjie Cherniak, Managing Director of Don Best Sports, Scientific Games’ U.S. managed trading service, outlines the steps required to ensure a safe environment for college sports betting: Even in the months leading up to the repeal of PASPA in May 2018, we saw a flurry…

Tennessee sports betting narrowly escaped the House Finance Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday after a tense discussion of H 1. The shape-shifting bill now featuring hefty license fees and revenue taxes passed on a 10-9 vote, hours after clearing a related subcommittee. It will head to the House floor Monday and if passed, could be taken up in the Senate as early as…

A little while ago, we wrote about potential tips and betting strategies that you might employ to make money in the NBA playoffs. One of those tips was that you should play a team that lost as a betting favorite in their previous game, especially if that loss came on home court. That little nugget has played out quite nicely in this postseason, including…

While we spend a lot of time talking about win/loss records and stats as we navigate the NBA regular season, we also have to understand that those records are all wiped out once the playoffs begin. Some teams just seem to be built for the postseason, while others will always struggle, no matter how good they were in the regular season. Where the regular…

An effort to expand sports betting statewide through the lottery could doom efforts in North Carolina, warns the Senate sponsor. Sen. Jim Davis got S 154 passed in the Senate last week. It's an NC sports betting bill that authorizes wagering at two casinos on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians reservation in his district. The bill now moves to the House, where Davis sees a…

Over the course of a 7-game playoff series, we can very often see several different momentum shifts, but it’s also fair to suggest that the opening two games can set the tone for the rest of the series. The higher seed gets the privilege of playing the first two games of the series on home court. If they can win both, they end up…

The Portland Trail Blazers are the No. 3 seed in the West, but many experts liked the chances of the No. 6 Oklahoma City Thunder in their first-round playoff series because the Blazers had lost 10 straight playoff games. Well, that skid is over and Portland is favored on the NBA Lines to take a 2-0 lead on Tuesday night. Thunder vs Blazers 2019…

There is no such thing as an easy playoff series to predict, and you need only look at the current state of play in the NHL postseason to see that we are talking the truth. Series that we expected to be longer or more one-sided are heading in the opposite directions, with the #1 seeds in both conferences currently in trouble in their…

It's been nearly a year since Colorado lawmakers first discussed the possibility of legal sports betting in public, and the time for action has come. This week, casino operators had the chance to offer feedback on preliminary language for a new CO sports betting bill. Reviewed by Legal Sports Report, the draft being circulated includes provisions for both physical sportsbooks and statewide mobile betting under a manageable…

PA sports betting performed well last month as March Madness betting buoyed bookmakers throughout the nation. Keystone State bettors put up more than $44.5 million in March and PA sportsbooks held better than $5.5 million. That hold of nearly 12.5 percent triples the $1.9 million in revenue Pennsylvania operators made in February. Cutting into that robust hold is the heavy tax rate on PA…