Ohio has officially joined the list of US states that now accept legal online sports betting nearly a year after the bill legalizing the practice was signed – agreed back in December of 2021, the state has taken time to establish protocols and regulations whilst also considering licensing. With regulated sportsbooks expected to launch in January 2023, one of the first operators have been announced with Caesars launching their online sportsbook
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Maryland has been one of a small but significant group of states which in recent years has passed betting legislation but then taken longer than most to get everything in place. People have been betting on sports since the start of the year, but the online sportsbook platforms promised by the state have taken longer to get fixed up. A further incentive to get the last details ironed out and launch online betting came in the last week, with the re
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Among the states to pass some form of legislation regulating betting on sports, the collection that makes up New England have been some of the most ready and willing in recent times. One state that has bucked that trend has been Vermont. The largely bucolic Green Mountain State is not against sports betting, as the existence of the Vermont Sports Betting Study Committee demonstrates. But the VSBSC has been moving somewhat slowly when it comes to
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A few weeks ago, the first credible polling emerged ahead of the November 8 vote on sports betting in California. It was, at the time, blanket bad news for anyone hoping to bet in the state, as it showed both Propositions 26 and 27 being solidly rejected by the voters. However, new polling by SurveyUSA indicates that all may not be lost for sports bettors in the Golden State, with one of the bills standing a fighting chance of passing in November
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The passage of a sports betting bill in a US state is never quite the end of the story, even allowing for the fact that such a bill will always need to be signed off by the governor. Indeed, even the first sports bets being placed don’t represent the whole story. That’s because both the advocates of legal betting and its opponents then face a wait for the first numbers to come through. Has the addition of legal sports betting caused the state
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Missourians who want to bet on sports may finally see some light coming through the clouds, after state Governor Mike Parsons finally answered the question on whether there would be action to make wagering legal. Parsons remained notably non-committal on when this might happen, and on whether he would sign a sports betting bill into law, but there was enough information in his answers to suggest that he would be reluctant to stand in the way if a
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A special session of the Missouri legislature may discuss a bill to legalize sports betting in the state, but spokespeople confirmed this weekend that there would be no vote on the bill just yet. This ended the possibility that sports betting could be legalized in the Show Me State this side of 2023, but it does demonstrate that there is intent to offer sportsbook services before too long. State representative Dan Houx advanced his bill for consi
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Just days after Massachusetts Gaming Commission chair Cathy Judd-Stein expressed frustration over the speed of movement on sports betting in the state, there was good news for betting advocates on Friday 7th October. A timetable was announced for the launch with the headline news being that in-person betting at public facilities would be in operation by the time of Super Bowl 57 on February 12th. Various potential timelines had been discussed
Read MoreiGaming growth across the US continues as record numbers of states are introducing new legislation around different iGaming services with sports betting being the most common – over 30 states have now legalized at least one form of iGaming or another, with another half dozen currently working to get legislation over the finish line. The latest success can be seen in Read More
Much of the US still remains limited in its iGaming market as sports betting has been the target for most legislation so far, the launch of online casinos and legislation to support this has been few and far between with a very limited number of states having passed any bill for the online casino market – the biggest news has leaned towards New Yo
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