On June 21, 2021, Bovada will stop serving the New York state market, giving members a month to prepare for their exit from the region. The recent state of legal sports betting in New York state has caused for Bovada, what many on our staff to be the #1 online sportsbook offering their services to … Read more
The early legislative season of 2021 has been ripe with newly drafted bills with the specific intent of either establishing legal sports betting within a given state, or expanding the options that are already present. The onset of COVID-19 in 2020 combined with the aftereffects of the 2018 repeal of PASPA by the Supreme Court … Read more
The state of New York is currently facing a $15 billion dollar budget deficit, and as is the case in many other territories, sports betting has been tapped as the best hope to quickly make up such a massive shortfall. Of course, legal sports betting in New York can already occur at the region’s four … Read more
Remember the newly legalized sports betting-like service making its debut to the United States a few years back? How could you forget? You saw it show up on the television screen an average of once every 90 seconds back in 2015 when the new corporate-invested startups placed their first big bet—totaling approximately $750 million in … Read more
After surviving the annual 7-month pro football drought, sports fans and handicappers from all over the country got to wet their whistle Thursday night and wager on NFL action. The 2019 season for college football and NFL has officially kicked off, and with it, the betting season for America’s most popular sport is also underway. … Read more
We hope everyone had a leisurely Labor Day weekend filled with betting on the first full weekend of college football action (and a personal thank you from me goes out to Stanford -6.5 and Auburn -3.5 for covering in the spread in the final minute of their games). Now, the big boys get ready to … Read more
With students heading back to campus in the coming days and college football starting in less than a fortnight, it’s time to hit the books and take a seat on the legal sports betting bus. So buckle up because I’m about to take all of you to school with this week’s breakdown of the latest … Read more
Rookie and veteran players in the NFL begin reporting to training camp this week, which means the biggest sports betting season of the year is nearly upon us. And you can bet several states will push hard for their sportsbooks to launch before September 5 — the start of the 2019 NFL season. The gaming commission … Read more
And you bet, baby: If sports betting can make it there, you know, sportsbooks are gonna make it just about anywhere. Come on, come through New York, New York! The wait is finally over: sports betting has arrived in New York. Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady opened the state’s first sportsbook Tuesday morning after … Read more
While many Americans are taking advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day deals this week, state lawmakers are rushing to legalize sports betting and launch sportsbooks before the prime betting season gets underway — otherwise known as the NFL season. Indiana recently announced plans to launch on September 1, which also happens to coincide with the first … Read more
We hope everyone got their fill of franks — Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo certainly did — fireworks, and Fourth of July festivities over the weekend! Now, it’s time to get back to business with our weekly US sports betting breakdown. Arkansas made history last week, becoming the 9th state to launch legalized sports betting … Read more
The Fourth of July is almost here, and several states have either lit the fuses, had bills turn out to be duds, or begun their own legal sports betting fireworks show before Independence Day. Arkansas officially opened its first-ever sportsbook on July 1, becoming the 9th state to legalize and launch sports betting. Oaklawn Race … Read more