Legal Online Slots Come to Nevada; USFantasy Enters Colorado

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Our options for legal real money gambling are slowly but surely growing across the United States. Two states, in particular, have pinged the regulatory radar in recent weeks. Both Nevada and Colorado have authorized new wagering products.

In Nevada, a certain form of legal online slots just achieved statewide approved status for the first time ever. This is big news and indicative of things to come in Nevada. Meanwhile in Colorado, a form of daily fantasy sports that dances all over the line between fantasy and actual, full-fledged sports betting just go the go-ahead.

The key story in both states is this: the operators of the new gambling products did their legal legwork before going live.

Online Slots Tournaments Come to Nevada

People 21 or older can now participate in real money slots and video poker tournaments from anywhere inside Nevada with the easyPLAY mobile-friendly website. To participate, all you have to do point your mobile device’s browser to www.easyplay.vegas from anywhere inside Nevada and then sign up for an account.

Once you have an account, you can fund it with your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, debit card or PayPal account. Purchase entry credits, check the easyplay.vegas website for slot tournaments and then join the action. Currently, easyPLAY only offers multi-person slots tournaments for real money and practice. Individual real money slots games played against the house remain unavailable for now.

easyPLAY slots tournaments are offered at a wide range of buyins and come with prize pools of various sizes. The largest prize pool we were able to identify at a glance was a $2 tournament with a $10,000 winner-take-all prize. On the lower end, we found several $5 video poker and slots tournaments with $25 prize pools.

MGM first introduced easyPLAY mobile in July and made it available to customers saying at MGM properties in Nevada. After a successful rollout on a smaller scale, easyPLAY’s operators decided it was time to expand across Nevada with the full blessing of the state.

USFantasy Expands to Colorado

Fantasy betting operator USFantasy received its first state license from Nevada back in June and has now gained approval to go live in Colorado. Like easyPLAY in Nevada, USFAntasy is taking the slow approach and slowly gaining approval on a state-by-state basis rather than pulling the old “do now, apologize later” gag like so many daily fantasy sites.

Speaking of which, USFantasy is not a traditional daily fantasy site. In fact, it isn’t even available online at all. USFantasy games are only offered at real-world casinos and sportsbooks. If that sounds a little deflating, just wait – it gets better.

What makes USFantasy so appealing and newsworthy is the way the games work. This is probably the closest thing to actual sports betting we will ever get without changing the laws at the federal level. USFantasy does use a fantasy points scoring system, but the games are much simpler and closely resemble traditional sports bets.

Each “contest” or bet in USFantasy revolves around one position for that day’s slate of games. For example, NFL contests can be based on all quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers or tight ends slated to play on a particular Sunday.

Your goal as the player is simple; you will try to pick the highest-performing player or players in that position. As the games are played in the real world, each player in that position accumulate fantasy points just like they would in a regular DFS contest.

For example, let’s say you decide to play in a contest revolving around that day’s quarterbacks and you choose Tom Brady. As he and all the other quarterbacks throw for yards, throw for touchdowns and so on, they all accumulate fantasy points. At the end of the contest, all quarterbacks are ranked according to the number of fantasy points each one earned during his outing.

If Tom Brady ends up having the best game of the day and racks up the most fantasy points, you win the bet. Payouts are determined pari-mutuel style just like horse racing. So in our example, you would most likely earn a modest payout due to Tom Brady being a popular pick and you therefore splitting the prize pool with a larger number of other people who also drafted Brady.

Less popular quarterbacks in this example would offer higher payouts due to the prize pool being split among fewer contestants. Other contests based on running backs, wide receivers and so on would work in a similar manner.

If you’re totally lost at this point, the following video does an excellent job explaining the concept in simple terms:

YouTube video

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