At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a distinguished panel of sports gambling experts peered into a crystal ball during a session on the future of sports betting.
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While legislators in Frankfort don't appear to be going all in on expanded gambling, the odds that sports betting passes the General Assembly may be good. A House committee is poised to take up HB 137, which would legalize sports wagering in the commonwealth. The bill has more than 20 bipartisan co-sponsors and appears to have support in the state Senate.
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The ongoing issue of mobile sports betting in New York is set to enter its next crucial phase this week with Governor Andrew Cuomo preparing to unveil his executive state budget proposal on Thursday. Question is, will it include Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr’s sports betting bill – S17 – that’s been languishing untouched since it was approved by the Senate last June?
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Britons will no longer be able to use credit cards to place bets under the latest move by the government to tackle problem gambling, hurting the owner of PaddyPower Betfair and its takeover partner Canada's Stars Group.
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New Jersey’s sportsbooks and online casinos performed in December in much the same way they spent the rest of 2019: With new records and more growth. With a strong closing month, which included a near-record monthly sports betting handle, retail and online sportsbooks combined with online casinos and poker to generate nearly $800 million in revenue in 2019
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Professional sports handicapper Ross Benjamin shares some insightful betting tidbits from last weekend’s NFL Divisional Round.
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The Houston Astros are still one of the favorites to win the 2020 World Series, just not the favorite. Houston's World Series odds are now sitting at 7/1 after Major League Baseball punished the franchise for electronically stealing signs in the 2017 season. Astros manager A.J. Hinch and GM Jeff Luhnow were suspended and then fired, but no players were penalized by the league.
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Sports betting is booming, so Penn National is looking at the sports publisher.
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Several states have already authorized bets on the second incarnation of the upstart football league, which begins its season in February, shortly after the NFL season concludes with the Super Bowl. Others are considering doing so, and bookmakers say they have requested that regulators add the league to lists of approved betting events.
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Players and fans weren’t the only ones celebrating the Tennessee Titan’s surprise win over the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday. Sportsbook operators were claiming one of the biggest victories of the year after the AFC Divisional Playoff game. Several oddsmakers boasted on Twitter that Tennessee’s 28-12 upset over Baltimore gave them a six-figure win.
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