To borrow a phrase from the Grateful Dead, Maryland’s efforts to launch legal mobile sports betting apps have been a long, strange trip. Fortunately, the journey, which began in November 2020, is coming to an end, as the state has its sights set on a late-2022 launch date. The final timeline was put forth in…
Massachusetts was an on-again-off-again contender to legalize sports betting in 2022. After months of seesawing back and forth, a conference committee pulled a rabbit out of the hat in late July, and Massachusetts joined the ranks of legal sports betting states. There was a sliver of hope that Massachusetts would be able to get its…
A common saying in online gambling circles is, “you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.” In sports betting, this is generally applied to the spread of legal betting and the near-insurmountable hurdles an anti-sports betting crusade would face. With so many states now in the legalized sports betting column (and reaping the financial…
According to recent polling from UC Berkeley, both California sports betting ballot referendums appearing on the November ballot (Prop 26 and Prop 27) are severely underwater with voters. Prop 26, a tribal-backed initiative that would legalize in-person sports betting at tribal casinos and racetracks, fared slightly better than Prop 27, which seeks to legalize online…
The Global Gaming Expo (G2E) is less than a week away, which means 20,000 people from across the gambling universe will assemble at the Sands Expo for four days of business and pleasure. G2E can be pretty overwhelming for first-time attendees, and even people with a couple of G2Es under their belt find the experience…
Ohio Anticipated launch date: January 1, 2023 Ohio’s strength is in its numbers, as the Buckeye State ranks seventh in population, with nearly 12 million residents. Also, working in the state’s favor is a thriving sports culture that includes two NFL franchises (Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals), the Cleveland Guardians of the MLB, The NBA’s…
Hopes of a speedy sports betting rollout in Massachusetts are all but dashed. In its first hearing following the passage of Massachusetts’ sports betting law, regulators immediately pumped the brakes on an accelerated launch. With each subsequent Massachusetts Gaming Commission hearing, a 2022 launch looks less likely, and a 2023 launch looks more and more…
Twitch has announced a new policy concerning gambling streams for the second time in just over a year. Both updates have addressed the advertising of offshore online gambling sites by streamers on the popular site. In August 2021, Twitch restricted gambling links and affiliate codes on the platform. The hope was this would rein in…
The sports betting world is abuzz with the news that the long-awaited launch of the MD sports betting industry is finally drawing near. Pundits are pointing to a late-2022 launch, which would be two years to the month after the state legalized sports betting. The abnormally slow rollout has been chalked up to two factors.…
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 19% of US adults placed a wager on sports in the past year. While this is an exciting number, the breakdowns contained in the Pew survey are far more enlightening. There is a lot of conflation between what I’ll call a friendly bet and gambling. The simplest way…
Last week a District Court in Rhode Island gave online gambling supporters the latest in a string of Wire Act victories. The case, International Game Technology PLC et al. v. Merrick B Garland & The United States Department of Justice, gave the industry more cover against potential prosecution. Still, the implications of the decision do…
If you dig through my voluminous archives of gambling articles, you’ll come across several thousand words on millennials. From 2014ish to 2017ish, millennials were the proverbial talk of the gambling town. Conferences were overflowing with presentations explaining the “Millennial Problem” and how such-and-such product or service could solve it. The funny thing is, the Millennial…
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