This Week in Gambling

While Maryland voters likely will have to wait at least two years to decide whether to legalized sports betting  is for them, a narrow majority of the state’s voters approve of adding betting on sports today, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. The poll found 53 percent of registered voters are in favor of legal professional sports gambling, with 37 percent opposed, and 10 percent of voters having no opinion. Those with strong opinions on the issue were about evenly divided, with 26 percent strongly disapproving of legal sports betting, and 24 percent strongly approving. Since a Supreme…

The Tennessee Sports Gaming Act was introduced on November 7th by State Rep. Rick Staples. The bill would authorize sports betting in the Volunteer State. This bill would allow adults 21 years or older who are physically located within a jurisdiction that has approved sports wagering by referendum to place sports bets in Tennessee. The Act would tax sports betting at a 10 percent rate. It would create a Tennessee gaming commission consisting of nine members to “supervise compliance with laws and rules relating to the regulation and control of wagering on sporting events in this state” and applicants would…

The first DraftKings betting shop will open in Mississippi this week. DraftKings at Scarlet Pearl Sportsbook will debut at the D’Iberville-located casino on Friday following the receipt of a licence from the Mississippi Gaming Commission. The 300-room Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort has 1,170 slots, including 80 video poker machines, and 37 table games. Sports betting in Mississippi launched in August but is currently only allowed at licensed venues, with mobile and online wagering not permissible off the grounds. DraftKings is still awaiting regulatory approval to incorporate on-site kiosks and an on-premises mobile app. DraftKings at Scarlet Pearl Sportsbook will offer customers…

The floodgates have opened for a sports betting gold rush in America! This time it’s the states, the gambling companies and the sports leagues that are all racing for their share of the market! There is also news to cover from Arkansas and Florida. This week’s special offer is from the BetRally casino.

Sports betting all is all over the New York area — on the airwaves, billboards, train station ads and publications. But in order to actually place a legal sports bet, gamblers have to be within New Jersey’s borders. It’s the only game in, or rather near, town right now for people in New York and Pennsylvania who want to bet for the Philadelphia Eagles, against the New York Giants, or a thousand other options. So they travel, where betting on sports in New Jersey is legal. Some drive across bridges, or through tunnels. Some take a PATH train under the…

Arkansas sports betting was passed by voters in the only mid-term election ballot initiative in the country dealing directly with betting on sports. The initiative appeared on the ballot as Issue 4, a measure to amend the state constitution to license casinos and also to allow sports betting. As of 7 am ET on Wednesday, with 99 percent of votes counted, 54.1 percent of voters voted “yes” and 45.9 percent “no” to authorizing casinos to operate in four counties — and offer sports betting. Arkansas becomes the second state in its region to legalize sports betting after Mississippi did so…