Legal Developments

Connecticut and Massachusetts are among the best candidates to legalize sports betting in 2021. Depending on who you talk to, either of the two neighboring states could be the odds-on favorite. Both states have plenty of reasons to pass legislation, but both also possess many potential stumbling blocks.

Sports betting has had two small victories in New England: New Hampshire and Rhode Island. It now looks like it’s ready to take over the region, with Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine all serious contenders to pass sports betting bills in 2021.

Retail and mobile sports betting supplier Kambi will host “a new week-long content series where it will share insight and expertise on some of the most pressing sports betting industry topics,” according to a company announcement.  Dubbed the Kambi Festival of Sportsbook, the event is an interesting addition to the usual conference calendar, as it’s…

A long-awaited gaming market study by Spectrum Gaming Group has been published on the New York Gaming Commission website. The 358-page report is comprehensive and outlines the current gaming landscape in the Empire State and several potential paths New York could explore as it considers expanding gambling.

Don’t look now, but Texas might move from a non-gambling state to a gambling state in 2021. And even more surprisingly, it might jump directly into online gambling. Texas is one of the gambling industry’s white whales. The Lone Star State currently offers very little in the way of legal gambling, but significant cracks are…

Today is the day. Michigan online sports betting apps and gambling sites are expected to go live at noon. After pushing up its proposed launch date from Q1 2021 to Q4 2020, only to set a firm date of mid-January, the first Michigan mobile betting apps (see our full list below) will be available to…

The Wire Act has long been a thorn in the side of legal, regulated online gambling advocates. That thorn may have finally been removed by the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld a lower court’s decision that the Wire Act only applies to sports betting, not other forms of online gambling.

Rep. Ron Stephens is the primary sponsor of the Georgia Lottery Mobile Sports Wagering Integrity Act (HB 86), a bill that could pave the way for legal sports betting in Georgia.  The bill has bipartisan support in the legislature and the support of Atlanta’s four professional sports teams.

Indiana is one of two frontrunners (Connecticut being the other) to legalize online casino and online poker in 2021. One factor working in the Hoosier State’s favor is its positive experience with online gambling products, as it legalized and launched online sports betting in 2019.

At the start of 2021, online lottery tickets are available in 19 states and the District of Columbia. That’s an astonishing number, considering how under the radar the spread of online lottery has been compared to online sports betting (legal in more than a dozen states) or even online casino and poker (legal in just…