The Rhode Island Lottery released figures Friday for bets placed at Twin River Casino in Lincoln in November. The casino became the first in New England to accept bets on professional sports Nov. 26, so the figures only encompass five days of betting. The casino paid nearly $610,000 on winning bets. That leaves about $73,000…
A pair of U.S. senators from opposing parties is proposing that the federal government take back control of sports gambling in America, the first formal move by Congress after a Supreme Court ruling reopened a complex debate over fans betting on games and who controls the action. Several states have begun offering sports betting after…
Pennsylvania is in the midst of launching its sports betting industry–becoming part of the first wave of states to do so. After a slow–and snowy–start, officials say things are going smoothly. Sports betting only officially became legal after a US Supreme Court decision in May. Pennsylvania lawmakers were ready. In their search for revenue, they’d…
The D.C. Council on Tuesday cast a first vote in favor of bringing legal sports betting to the nation’s capital, pushing the city one step closer to becoming the first place in the Washington region to capitalize on the increasingly lucrative market…[ read full story ]
Professional sports leagues, which once vehemently fought the prospect of legal sports betting, are now scrambling to get in on it. In a pact announced Wednesday morning, the National Basketball Association is partnering with Sportradar and Genius Sports to distribute NBA betting data to sports betting providers in the U.S. It came a day after…
Sports betting is live in Pennsylvania, making it the seventh state where it’s allowed. Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course near Hershey is in its first week of taking bets after getting the green light from Pennsylvania regulators. A spokesman says Hollywood Casino is taking just about every kind of bet that’s offered…
ISI Race and Sports Book – https://youtu.be/cGvS6fNNQFs AC Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City and DraftKings announced on Monday that “construction is near completion” on a land-based sportsbook. The news: It will be called the “DraftKings Sportsbook at Resorts,” a detail that was not known previously…[ read full story ] More Draftking related news: DraftKings Announces It Will Handle Casino Sportsbook For…
Arkansas voters on Tuesday legalized sports betting in the only mid-term election ballot initiative in the country dealing directly with sports betting. The initiative appeared on the ballot as Issue 4, a measure to amend the state constitution to license casinos and also to allow sports betting… [ read full story ]
Overall casino revenue rose sharply in August as sports betting started in Mississippi. State revenue department figures show gamblers lost $181 million statewide last month, up 8 percent from $168 million in August 2017. Only $645,000 of the amount lost was on sports wagers, though, with $7.7 million in bets placed in the first month…
ISI Race and Sports – https://youtu.be/iNW1tSEYYsA Sports betting is legal in the United States! But not everywhere, yet. Here is where you legally place a wager in the US right now and later this year, beyond Nevada. Before this year, you could only place legal wagers on single sporting events in the United States in…
ISI Race and Sports YouTube – https://youtu.be/jRmlX6fjtUI Welcome to the new world of legal sports betting in the United States. The Supreme Court in May struck down PASPA, the federal law banning single-game wagering. Each state now can set its own rules for online sports betting unless Congress passes a new law. That appears unlikely at…
ISI Race and Sports Book – https://youtu.be/w3EjNYwH8E8 Sports betting is now legal in several states. Many others are watching from the sidelines. Three months after the Supreme Court overturned a law prohibiting states from legalizing sports betting, a few states have begun accepting wagers. See which states are open for bets. Three months after the…