Category: Legal Sports Betting

The legislative calendar has slowed to a crawl, a relief amid the busiest year of sports betting bills yet. The big batch of new policy is fairly well-conceived as a whole. Legislators are increasingly keen on including online/mobile betting in their framework, and they’ve shunned the sports leagues’ demand for an integrity fee across the board. These two trends alone represent a certain understanding…

Fox Bet’s online sportsbook is now live in New Jersey. The launch marks a watershed moment in the emerging market for legal U.S. sports betting, representing the first time an American sports media company has lent their brand to serve as the face of a real-money sportsbook. Technically, this is more of a rebranding than a true launch, as Fox Bet is taking over…

Indiana sports betting officially will begin Sunday, the first day allowable under state law. The Indiana Gaming Commission issued its initial round of go-live authorizations Wednesday to five casinos. Three of them will open the doors to their retail Indiana sports betting Sunday: Ameristar East Chicago Hollywood Casino Indiana Grand Also receiving approval were another Horseshoe Hammond for Sept. 4 and French Lick Casino for…

Thirteen casinos and three off-track betting parlors are gearing up for the start of Indiana sports betting starting in September. Four casinos have announced plans to launch retail sportsbooks by the Sept. 5 kickoff to the NFL season, with the majority of operators aiming to open by Week 2. “We have received some proposed launch dates from a few operators that, conceptually, we’re agreeable…

Happy football season, guys and gals! College football kicked off with a flourish this past weekend, ushering in the annual busy stretch for sports betting. Regulated sportsbooks in 11 US states are taking bets as the season begins, up from five last year (and, of course, just one a year prior.) That list will continue to grow in 2019, as a few more jurisdictions…

At long last, online sports betting has arrived in West Virginia. Again. FanDuel Sportsbook rolled out its mobile platform on Monday, bringing WV online sports betting back from the brink of extinction. It’s been almost six months since the failure of BetLucky opened up a gap in the betting market and punched a hole in the state budget. The Mountain State is officially on the…

Kambi announced early Thursday an extension of its New Jersey sports betting contract with DraftKings Sportsbook, as well as a major expansion. The UK-based back-end operator provided little detail about the arrangement, declining to disclose either term or financial commitment. The new setup clearly solidifies Kambi's position in the DraftKings Sportsbook universe though. The most important piece of information, however, resides with DraftKings: what…

Barely a year after the fall of PASPA, a small corner of US sports betting is staring down its first major failure. It’s not match-fixing, nor is it point-shaving or insider-information leaking. It's a “who-done-it” to answer the question: who killed West Virginia sports betting? This is a high-tech, white-collar tale involving three companies once aligned to provide sports betting in West Virginia. Now they're…

If you're running an online sports betting app in Pennsylvania or planning to start one, you're hoping to avoid history repeating itself. Unless you're FanDuel Sportsbook, of course. FanDuel accounts for a huge percentage of the total revenue and wagers in the New Jersey sports betting industry in its first year — around 50% of all retail and online sports wagering in the state. And…

Hello again, ladies and gents, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled recap of last week's sports betting news. There's not a ton to touch on, so we should be able to keep it brief this week. As always, the LSR Podcast serves as an appropriate audio accompaniment for this recap — listen while you read: Listen to “LSR Podcast Ep.20 – Iowa Enters…