Category: Legal Sports Betting

Rhode Island sports betting had a strong September showing as the start of the NFL season helped to more than double August’s handle. Total handle for the state was $22.2 million, up 120.6% over August. The total was the second-highest ever for RI sports betting after the sportsbooks took bets totaling $23.6 million in March. The breakdown, however, tells us more about Rhode Island’s…

Use of official league data for in-game wagers switches from a regulatory option to a legislative mandate in the latest draft of the Michigan sports betting bill. Draft four of a planned substitute for H 4916 permits sports governing bodies headquartered in the United States to notify the Michigan Gaming Control Board that they desire the use of official league data for Tier 2 wagers.…

Unibet’s online sportsbook and casino operations will begin next month in Pennsylvania, its Stockholm-listed parent company Kindred said. Unibet has an agreement with Mohegan Sun to operate both retail and online sports betting as well as iGaming at Mohegan Sun Pocono. The retail sportsbook launched last month. Results from the retail launch have been encouraging so far, CEO Henrik Tjärnström said. There are already…

Further delays in legalizing sports betting in New York will see millions of dollars in lost tax revenues leak across the border into New Jersey, NY state Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. said in a recent interview for Legal Sports Report. The state senator, who is the driving force behind legislation to allow mobile wagers in New York, believes legalizing online sportsbooks would unlock at…

Sports fans finally will be able to put together the team of their dreams from the fields of Iowa. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission issued authorization Thursday for DraftKings to conduct daily fantasy sports contests in the state. “We are happy to confirm we have received our license to offer daily fantasy sports in Iowa after working collaboratively with the IRGC on this…

Major League Baseball‘s vision for what sports betting in Washington state might look like if a genie granted wishes played out earlier this month. The public meeting of the state of Washington’s gambling commission is a sign of hope for those in the Evergreen State. MLB’s presentation might not be the same though. Who was at the hearing? The meeting featured testimony from three…

For the past several decades, professional and amateur sports leagues in the United States have told Americans and policymakers that the biggest potential threat to the integrity of their competitions is sports betting. That rhetoric from the leagues has only ramped up in the past year and a half since the fall of the federal sports betting ban and the proliferation of legal gambling…

So, just how many people are betting on sports in legal markets? We know how much money people are betting; it’s a lot of betting in states like New Jersey. But we don’t know much about how many people are betting. One company that is in a position to see and now that is GeoComply, which provides geolocation services for many legal online sportsbooks…

Early Monday morning, PropSwap unveiled a fresh new look powered by a four-year partnership with BetX. The old logo is gone, and so is the old website. The innovative resale marketplace for live betting slips, first launched in 2015, has garnered its fair share of attention over the last 18 months or so. This new venture with BetX underscores its effort to carve out…

Happy Monday, lads and ladies, and welcome back for another rundown of the week’s sports betting news. A busy week yields a thick summary. When last we spoke, Indiana and Oregon were both on the cusp of graduating from retail-only operations into mobile sports betting. “If everything goes to plan,” we wrote, “news of a successful mobile launch in Indiana should lead this recap…