DraftKings is heading to Mississippi next as it prepares to open its first ever retail sportsbook at the Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort in D’Iberville near the Gulf Coast on Friday. DraftKings has made moves of this sort in other states, but DraftKings Sportsbook in Mississippi will be its first retail location to actually go live.
Two amendments were approved in yesterday’s Florida elections that have set the stage to significantly slow or curtail gambling across the state. One has changed the way Florida may authorize new forms of gambling and the other has put a firm expiration date on greyhound racing.
Arkansas is set to become the next state with legal sports betting after the public approved a ballot measure seeking to authorize four casinos with sports betting across the state.
FanDuel announced two new sports partnerships on Monday, including one with the NHL as a whole and another with the New Jersey Devils specifically. Advertising features heavily in both partnerships as FanDuel races to pick up market share in the legal sports betting and fantasy sports markets in the United States.
Golden Nugget is making a run at the online gambling market in Pennsylvania. Just as the deadline for additional operators to apply for unclaimed Pennsylvania online gambling licenses was about to this past Wednesday, Golden Nugget submitted its request to offer online slots and table games.
The New Mexico Lottery is set to launch a new game based on the results of real-world sporting events. State lottery officials describe a game that sounds like parlay sports betting in which players predict the outcomes of multiple games and receive payouts for getting all their picks correct.
Caesars Entertainment announced this morning it has reached an “unprecedented” 15-year partnership with the NFL team that will be known as the Las Vegas Raiders starting in 2020.
The New York Jets have wasted little time in securing gambling partnerships since the NFL relaxed its rules regarding such agreements. Over the last week, the Jets have signed deals with not just one, but two online gaming companies.
The NHL has named MGM Resorts as its official betting partner. Financial terms behind the deal have not been released, but the NHL announced this morning that the agreement involves cross-promotional advertising and proprietary data rights to be used for sports betting.
On Thursday, Tropicana opened its brand-new sportsbook to become the seventh Atlantic City Casino with sports betting and the ninth sportsbook in all of New Jersey. Local media had been reporting in recent days that a Tropicana Sportsbook was imminent, and that news turned out to be right on the money.
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