Supreme Court Rules Sports Betting Legal (1 Viewer)

[Caesar]

My state is definitely legal

I live in a tri-state area.  All three states have a bill proposed, but it seems the Ohio one is still just a placeholder.  Looks like Kentucky and Indiana might be closer, which is close enough for me as a casual wager-er.

 

[ghostguy123]

Any word on Pennsylvania?

 

[Caesar]

Any word on Pennsylvania?

I read it is legal there now. 

ETA:  Maybe it is a casino nearby to the stadium in Pittsburg that I saw had approval.   

 

[Caesar]

http://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/19740480/gambling-sports-betting-bill-tracker-all-50-states 

According to this, PA is GTG.  

7. Pennsylvania

The Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course booked the first legal sports bets in Pennsylvania in mid-November 2018. The move came just over a year after Gov. Tom Wolf signed a new sports betting bill as part of a broad legislation push that included online poker and DFS. The October 2017 bill became effective after the Supreme Court's May 2018 ruling upending the federal ban on single-game betting outside of Nevada. A number of other sportsbooks have also obtained a license to operate in Pennsylvania. In a June 15, 2018 letter to Pennsylvania officials, the NFL expressed concerns about consumer protections, data, enforcement issues under the bill.

 

[roadkill1292]

Excuse the nearly three-year-old bump but my home state of Maryland just issued a live betting license to a medium-sized restaurant in my home county. 

Maryland is fairly late to the game here but is separating itself from its neighbors already offering sports betting - PA, DE, WV - by licensing non-casino licenses around the state. A bunch of them, too.

The plan is also to have betting operations in the state's three professional stadiums. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Excuse the nearly three-year-old bump but my home state of Maryland just issued a live betting license to a medium-sized restaurant in my home county. 

Maryland is fairly late to the game here but is separating itself from its neighbors already offering sports betting - PA, DE, WV - by licensing non-casino licenses around the state. A bunch of them, too.

The plan is also to have betting operations in the state's three professional stadiums. 

Which restaurant? I'm sure I'll be hungry next time I'm back home.

 

[roadkill1292]

Which restaurant? I'm sure I'll be hungry next time I'm back home.

Greenmount Station in Hampstead. They've been a licensed OTB for a while already. Seafood there is fairly decent, too.

My post should have read "licensing non-casino establishments."

Howya been?

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Greenmount Station in Hampstead. They've been a licensed OTB for a while already. Seafood there is fairly decent, too.

My post should have read "licensing non-casino establishments."

Howya been?

Doing ok, my friend. Hope you are as well.

Greenmount Station is on Rte 30, right? Just south of Rte 27? I'd been by it a bunch when I was living in Hanover PA, but never stopped in.

 

[eoMMan]

Excuse the nearly three-year-old bump but my home state of Maryland just issued a live betting license to a medium-sized restaurant in my home county. 

Maryland is fairly late to the game here but is separating itself from its neighbors already offering sports betting - PA, DE, WV - by licensing non-casino licenses around the state. A bunch of them, too.

The plan is also to have betting operations in the state's three professional stadiums. 

Seems kind of odd to give it to a restaurant, no? 

Do they have multiple locations?

Will there be a mobile option to place bets via an app?

How much money did the restaurant have to give to the various politicians?

 

[roadkill1292]

Doing ok, my friend. Hope you are as well.

Greenmount Station is on Rte 30, right? Just south of Rte 27? I'd been by it a bunch when I was living in Hanover PA, but never stopped in.

Just north of downtown (giggle) Hampstead, right next to the bowling alley!

Seems kind of odd to give it to a restaurant, no? 

Do they have multiple locations?

Will there be a mobile option to place bets via an app?

How much money did the restaurant have to give to the various politicians?

Maryland has something like 60 licenses available for retail sports betting locations so I don't think this will eventually be an outlier here. In fact, one could see Maryland moving closer to the British model, where many punt shops are small standalone stores in small and medium sized towns.

This particular restaurant is locally owned, single location.

The state is also going to license up to 30 mobile apps.

I'm not insider enough to know who's getting greased but they're giving out an average of more than two retail licenses per county and this particular restaurant was a very reasonable candidate for one, e.g., the existing OTB license.

 

[roadkill1292]

Big news today for Ohio bettors. In addition to the standard licensing of casinos and racinos and whatnot, the state will make available 40 Type B licenses to other brick and mortar businesses. Up to five each in Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton counties.

And further, there will be 20 licenses granted to companies to place kiosks in an unlimited number of bars and restaurants around the state. Those machines are pretty convenient if you're not using an app. But I think most punters are gonna gravitate towards apps in the end.

 

[rockaction]

Hey @roadkill1292, any reason why you're up on this? I'm curious about your normative position on gambling and the legality thereof. Thanks, I'll hang up and listen if you have the time. 

 

[roadkill1292]

I simply enjoy spending an afternoon with friends in a book, watching multiple games, placing minuscule bets and drinking beer.

 

[rockaction]

I simply enjoy spending an afternoon with friends in a book, watching multiple games, placing minuscule bets and drinking beer.

Cool. Just curious whether it was a theoretical/justice stance or whether it was less abstract. I'm sure they go hand-in-hand, but this answer certainly explains why you'd keep tabs. Just from your comments in the NCAA thread and participation in the political sub-forum, I thought it might be more sociopolitical.