Analysis: New York sportsbook operator landscape ahead of Saturday’s launch
New York, the nation’s fourth-most populated state and home to the center of its largest metropolitan area, is set to launch legal statewide mobile sports wagering Jan. 8. If projections hold, it could be America’s highest-grossing sports betting market by handle and tax revenue. First New York sportsbook wave begins BetRivers, Caesars, DraftKings and FanDuel were […]
Caesars grabs share of Arizona sports betting limelight
The data from sports betting in Arizona in September and October gave a good picture of what a new state looks like when all the major operators are there from the start. Out of the gate, we can see that both DraftKings and FanDuel no longer appear to need the head start of an existing […]
Penn’s Gibraltar trading hub move criticized
The news came in a LinkedIn posting from Patrick Jay, previously hired by theScore to head up its sports trading division and now apparently changed with the same gig for Penn National. Jay said the company was looking to build “the best North American Sports Betting Risk and Trading Team in the business” from a […]
Analysis: Breaking down minor European players’ US impact
When looking at market share charts for the bigger states, particularly New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Colorado, the ‘others’ slice of the pie often contains a multitude of operator names that have failed to make their mark on the wider punting public. Foremost among the names – if that’s the right word to use for brands […]
Arkansas mobile sports betting advances – without sportsbook support
Arkansas regulators advanced statewide mobile sports betting rules Thursday despite opposition from the nation’s leading sportsbook operators. The rules, which would make Arkansas the first southern state with both retail casinos and statewide mobile sportsbooks, also require online operators to give 51 percent of gaming revenues to their brick-and-mortar partners, the first such requirement among […]