sports betting

New Jersey’s red-hot sports betting industry smashed its own national record in October for the highest amount of bets taken in a single month, topping $1.3 billion. That figure easily surpassed the $1.01 billion worth of bets that Atlantic City’s nine casinos and the three horse tracks that offer sports betting took in September. And it also emphasizes just how…

New York’s gaming commission has picked 9 operators to offer mobile sports betting, opening up what is anticipated to be a highly lucrative market

Gamblers in New Jersey still won’t be able to bet on Rutgers, Seton Hall, Princeton and other college sports teams as a result of voters rejecting a ballot measure that would have allowed such bets.

New Jersey’s sports betting industry became the first in the United States to take in more than a billion dollars’ worth of bets in a single month, in September, as football season sent more gamblers to sports books and, crucially, their phones, according to figures released Monday. Figures from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show Atlantic City’s...

A seven-day soft launch of online sports betting and gaming in Connecticut is starting today. The Department of Consumer Protection said Friday that the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, Mohegan Tribe and Mashantucket Pequot Tribe could begin a soft launch Tuesday for online wagering programs. Once the soft launch is complete, online gaming can open statewide. There will be some restrictions during…

The state has announced that a seven-day soft launch of online sports betting and gaming in the state will begin tomorrow.

The launch of statewide online and retail sports betting has been delayed, the Department of Consumer Protection confirmed Wednesday.

As the number of states offering legalized sports betting continues to rise, so does the number of people who say they plan to bet on football games.

When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys kick off the NFL season Thursday night, people in more than half the states in America will be able to bet on football legally.

DraftKings will acquire Golden Nugget Online in an all-stock deal worth $1.56 billion.

Watching New Jersey’s legal sports betting market set national records last year, state lawmakers wanted to expand it to allow wagering on New Jersey college teams in time for the football and basketball championships. Both those events have come and gone, and the bill that would have allowed it languished in the state Legislature. On Wednesday, a state Assembly...

New Jersey’s voters could be asked this fall whether to allow betting on the state’s college sports teams.

States around the country are realizing that future of sports betting — and tax money to be made from it — is online

Fewer Americans expect to fill out brackets for the NCAA’s college basketball tournament this year, but the overall number of people making bets on March Madness is likely to remain about the same as the last time the tournament was held, in 2019.

A sports gambler faces up to five years in federal prison for threatening social media messages sent to players with the Tampa Bay Rays.

 A gambling industry group wants to teach consumers how to tell if a particular sports betting or online casino site is legal or not. Conscious Gaming, a nonprofit group associated with an online gambling technology firm, launched its Bettor Safe campaign this week to promote the advantages of licensed gambling sites, including consumer practices, and highlight the risks of...

New Jersey took nearly $1 billion worth of sports bets in December, an encouraging finish to a year in which coronavirus closures and restrictions sent overall gambling revenue down nearly 17%

A resolution is at hand in a lawsuit over millions of dollars stemming from New Jersey’s years-long battle to overturn a federal ban on sports betting. According to a judge’s order entered Monday in Trenton, the major pro sports leagues and the NCAA have reached an agreement with the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, the group that sought to...

Another month, another sports betting record in New Jersey.

Another month, another sports betting record in New Jersey