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Licensed sportsbooks in two states are ready to take wagers on the 2020 Oscars after receiving the approval of their respective gaming regulators.

This year at ICE 2020, Europe’s premier gaming exhibition, it felt like, for the first time, all the action was taking place elsewhere. In days gone by, Europeans saw the Super Bowl as merely an aperitif for the biggest exhibition on the gambling industry calendar: ICE.

Once confined to Nevada, legal sports betting is now a reality in 14 states and counting. However, the rapid spread hasn’t been without complications.

Unsurprisingly for a sports-betting market which is far further down the road of regulation, the relationship between sports bodies, betting operators, and data suppliers in Europe is more advanced than the US.

The legal US sports betting landscape has changed a lot since last year’s Super Bowl. Bettors in no less than 14 states will have the opportunity to place legal wagers on next week’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.

If you’ve spent any time following the coverage of legal sports betting, you know there’s no shortage of debate when it comes to the rollout of sports betting across the country.

European sportsbooks and online gambling operators have the experience and proven technology to make a big splash in the US. But to date, those advantages haven’t translated into success in the market. The missing piece of the puzzle is branding.

There is a constant debate about whether Nevada should ban smoking in casinos. Many arguments for it are reasonable, while others ignore what happened in other jurisdictions that tried this public policy.

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang scored some points with the poker community when he tweeted support for federal action on online poker. Yang’s heart seems to be in the right place, but his message is about a decade out of date.

In-person registration is an extinct legal mandate in the US sports betting industry outside of Nevada. The first states to legalize sports betting after the Supreme Court overturned PASPA in 2018 did so without much legal precedent to guide them. The repeal of PASPA thrust sports betting legislation onto the desks of state legislators across the country….