Betting

The numbers from the Olympics at DraftKings Sportsbook show that betting on women’s sports is a growing market, as interest in wagering on women’s sport continues to increase. Four of the most bet-on sports at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were women’s teams from America, with women’s basketball second, women’s football third, women’s tennis sixth, and women’s volleyball […]

West Virginia is the seventh state where PointsBet is live for online sports betting. The operator has previously launched in the New Jersey, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado and Michigan sports betting markets. PointsBet also operates iGaming in New Jersey and Michigan. The company gained access to the state’s market through an agreement with Penn National Gaming, announced in July 2019. “Launching

This partnership will allow DraftKings’ customers to engage further with wagering, play-by-play, throw-by-throw and pitch-by-pitch. With the development of its micro-betting products, Simplebet plans to engage experiences in real time with its automated operations platform. DraftKings will offer Simplebet’s micro-betting products for the NFL, MLB and NBA alongside a new suite of college football products –

Its last two annual reports list turnover of HK$218.7bn for 2020 and HK$247.5bn for 2019. According to its report, out of the HK$279.7bn, HK$136.1bn came from horse betting, HK$140.2bn came from football betting and HK$3.4bn from Mark Six Lottery. In total, 85% of the amounts bet locally are returned as dividends, rebates and lottery prizes

According to data released by The Virginia Lottery, records for July show a decrease of 31% in wagers from June; the betting pace was the lowest ever, too, dropping from $7.8m in wagers per day in June to $5.2m daily in July. Despite this slow month, Virginia is considered a well-performing sports betting market. Since

The focus is to power data and trading solutions on its new Sports Illustrated (SI) sportsbook, launched in Colorado. The sports betting site will power a full suite of US sports data, including official NBA, NCAA, NASCAR and NFL sports data feeds. In addition to this, it will hold a range of dynamic content and

The betting giant, which owns Paddy Power, Betfair, FanDuel, Pokerstars, Sky Betting & Gaming and many other brands, has now chosen to join the association, placing particular emphasis on “fostering a stronger culture of safer gambling in Europe.” While plenty of Flutter’s revenue now comes from the likes of the US and Australia, it remains

  Most US states do permit gambling in some capacity, but less than half the states have legalised sports wagering and even fewer states have “a full online sports betting set-up.”   While Massachusetts, California, and Texas have introduced bills that propose to authorise mobile and in-person sports gambling, some other states (such as Arizona,

They had even backed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act of 2006 and had fought New Jersey’s efforts to allow casinos and horse tracks to accept bets on football games. The reason behind the fight against betting was explained in 2008 by NFL spokesman, Joe Browne: “We’re trying to do whatever we can

Online sportsbooks took in $192.3m in bets, up 2.3% from $188m in July, while retail wagering in August accounted for $16.3m, proving bettors prefer iGaming. Lead Analyst for PlayMichigan, Matt Schoch, explained one of the reasons: “The promotional offerings and seemingly wall-to-wall advertising that we’ve already seen shows how aggressive Michigan’s operators are and will