Regional casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. laid off roughly 25 percent of its workforce Monday due to “significant restrictions” on the company’s business, which had been closed for up to three months due to the coronavirus pandemic
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The rapid legalization of sports wagering across the United States has not relented, which has fueled continued prosperity for gambling operators and related companies. This is in spite of the absence of American sports (and relative absence of most other sports) to fuel those businesses’ revenues.
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A look at the favorites to hoist championship trophies in the NBA, the NHL and Major League Baseball.
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The news that the Big Ten and the Pac 12 will play no non-conference football games this fall, with other conferences likely to follow suit, will likely result in no sportsbooks offering over/under win total bets in 2020.
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Sportsbooks in at least two states stopped taking bets on Ukrainian table tennis events after an integrity association alerted regulators of potential match fixing last week.
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On Thursday, the Broncos announced the signing of a “multi-year sports betting partnership” with BetMGM, the brand name of the Roar Digital online gambling joint venture from UK-licensed gambling firm GVC Holdings and casino operator MGM Resorts.
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The daily fantasy provider turned multi-vertical gambling operator, DraftKings, and the land-based casino operator, Twin River Worldwide Holdings, have announced the opening of a temporary land-based sportsbook at the Mardi Gras Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado.
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With Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes signing a record, 10-year, $503-million contract extension, sportsbooks are putting up some interesting prop bets. Several facilities are posting lines on everything from how many Super Bowls he’ll win to over/under lines on his passing yards and touchdowns this season.
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The Ivy League announced yesterday that it is canceling all sports for the fall – including football. That means nothing coming out of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton or Harvard until sometime next year.This is potentially setting a precedent that could be followed by other leagues, such as the NCAA. At schools like Clemson and Alabama, several players have already been diagnosed with COVID-19, and the thought of canceling sports has to be on the universities’ radars.
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Ohio’s casino and racino industry got off to a solid start in its return to business in mid-June, but three months of closings tied to the coronavirus has left the industry nearly $500 million in gambling revenue behind where it was at the same point last year, reports released Tuesday showed.
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The cancellation of this year’s Global Gaming Expo (G2E), at least as an ‘in-person’ event, has been confirmed in an official statement circulated by the American Gaming Association (AGA) and partner Reed Exhibitions.
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Leading the way among the leagues with the most bets was golf. The Rocket Mortgage Classic was the target for 14.98% of Bodog’s users, followed by a constant favorite, NFL. The NFL 2020 Sims games accounted for 14.62% of the action as the alternative to live football continues to draw a huge crowd. As popular as both of these were, though, they couldn’t beat the collective power of soccer waters. Between the different leagues in the U.K, Spain and Italy, soccer wagers made up 37.35% of the total, and even eSports soccer, with the GT G-26 League, was in the mix with another 9%.
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