North Carolina Sports Betting Almost Reality As Bill Passes Legislature
North Carolina is now extremely close to having legal sports betting after the legislature passed a bill on Monday. The House voted to authorize North Carolina sports betting at two Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian casinos by a vote of 90-27. The bill to add sports betting to Class III games offered by the Cherokee now heads to Gov. Roy Cooper‘s desk. Another […]
Finally, You can use a PA Online Casino and Sportsbook on iPhones, thanks to Sugarhouse
The Apple solution online casinos have promised for Pennsylvania online casinos is here. It may not be exactly what you expected, though. Essentially, the solution is an app produced by GeoComply, the company responsible for most geolocation solutions in the regulated US market. You can find it in the Apple app store under “GeoGuard Location Validator.” […]
Legal sports betting officially underway in New York
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — New York joined the growing list of states allowing wagering on sports after an upstate casino cut the ribbon on a new betting lounge Tuesday and took its first bet — $20 on the Seattle Mariners. The state’s entry comes more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the ban […]
GeoGuard Is The iPhone Solution PA Bettors Were Waiting For
GeoGuard allows players to access browser-based games Online gambling has finally arrived on the iPhone. The FanDuel app went live this week, ready to download from the app store. And last week, SugarHouse’s online casino launched with a supported featured that gave users access via their Apple devices. In June, Apple changed its app store policies and required apps that utilize monetary transactions […]
DraftKings DFS Deal With The PGA Tour Is Really About Sports Betting
The DraftKings dry run with perhaps the only interesting official data product on the market begins now. DraftKings announced this week a “content and marketing relationship” with the PGA Tour that went live Monday. The deal will brand the operator’s daily fantasy golf product as the tour’s official offering. This represents an enormous step forward from just two years ago when the tour hesitated to get […]
Atlantic City benefits from early wager on legal sports betting
New Jersey legalized sports betting in June of 2018, following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to strike down a law that largely banned sports betting outside of Nevada. The practice quickly took off: in May, New Jersey sports books took in the most bets of any state in the country. In Atlantic City, overall casino gaming revenue […]
Tar Heel Born: North Carolina Sports Betting Becomes Law
Sports betting is officially legal in North Carolina. Gov. Roy Cooper signed S 154 into law on Friday, making his state the seventh to pass a sports betting bill this year. The new NC sports betting law allows the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indiansto operate retail sportsbooks at two casinos in the Appalachian Mountains. A separate bill aimed at studying a […]
Sports Betting The Talk Of Washington State
Tuesday’s informational hearing one of a handful of recent discussions on the topic From Olympia in the west to the Northern Quest tribal casino in the east, legal sports gambling has become a hot topic in Washington State. In the three weeks since the start of the year, tribal interests have met to negotiate their position on sports betting, […]
California could become America’s sports betting capital as rival groups eye November ballot
Last week, a coalition of 18 Native American tribes was given state approval to begin circulating petitions for a statewide ballot initiative that would allow sports betting at tribal casinos and horse racing tracks, but not at rival card clubs or on the internet. “This is an important step in helping ensure sports wagering is […]
What Are the Odds Verizon Becomes the New King of Sports Betting?
The acquisition of Yahoo! by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) hasn’t paid off quite the way the telecom giant likely hoped it would, but it may yet fuel some of its biggest growth opportunities. In November, Verizon announced it was going to expand on the Yahoo Sports brand by making it a center for sports betting. When it debuted, only […]
