Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale made a $2 million bet to win $9 million on the Astros to win the World Series at Caesars Sportsbook.
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After William Hill paid $548,000 last year to cover an overlay in its College Pick’em football contest, the book lowered the guaranteed cash prizes from $1 million to $500,000.
A Circa Sports retail sportsbook will be a part of Full House Resorts’ American Place resort being built in Waukegan, Illinois, and a temporary location also is planned.
Blue Wire, the producer of 175 podcasts — most of them featuring sports content — has begun working from a studio housed at Wynn Las Vegas.
Caesars Entertainment announced it has reached a $3 billion deal to sell the non-U.S. assets of William Hill to 888 Holdings PLC.
DraftKings reached a $1.56 billion deal to buy Golden Nugget Online Gaming, a move that will further expand the fantasy sports giant’s footprint into the growing market of online casinos.
The state’s sportsbooks won $12.6 million on $136.1 million in wagers on Super Bowl LV, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
William Hill and CBS Sports are rolling out new digital content and offerings ahead of the fall fantasy football season.
The decline comes as 29 million more American adults have access to legal sports betting in their home state, 54 percent more than at the start of last season.
Shark migrations. The winner of the 2020 presidential election. The color of Gatorade dumped on the winning Super Bowl coach. All are fun, unique betting opportunities — none of which is legal in Nevada.
Sports fans will get the chance to test their knowledge at the Bleacher Report’s new live interactive game show, the B/R Betting Game Show, starting Thursday.
The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement recently sponsored a panel on whether the criminal element could infiltrate the gamingindustry’s new toy: nationwide sports wagering.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., the owner of popular cable stations and sports broadcasting rights, says its plans to cash in on the forthcoming sports wagering boom.
Advocates for responsible gaming are worried that addictive gambling behavior could balloon with the arrival of nationwide sports wagering.
New Jersey’s latest shot at legalized sports betting suffered a significant setback Tuesday, when the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the prohibition of sports gambling in that state by a 10-2 vote.
