The New Hampshire legislature passed a sports betting legalization bill this week. Gov. Chris Sununu is expected to sign the bill.
“I look at it as three groups are winning,” Lang said. “The citizens are winning in that they will now be able to place a bet and have consumer protections behind it, businesses are winning because they’ll have the opportunity to grow, and lastly the State of New Hampshire is winning because it gets revenue that will go toward education.”
The St. Louis Blues fan who bet $400 on a 250-to-1 futures ticket for his favorite team to win the Stanley Cup won $100,000 last night as the Blues beat the Bruins in Game 7.
“I wanted this for me, but I wanted this for the city,” Berry said. “Once I put the bet down, I had this sixth sense kind of feeling that it was gonna happen and if I hedged I thought it would suggest that I didn’t believe.”
The bet was placed at the Caesars sportsbook in Las Vegas.
“You want to offer a good future book and you want to offer a good product and fair price on all the teams,” Caesars director of trading Jeff Davis told ESPN. “Those are bets you want to take. This one happens to get there. Yeah, it’s going to hurt, but it doesn’t change our philosophy going forward.”
It goes beyond Berry’s ticket. Tallying its 18 properties over four states, Caesars finished with a red number on its entire NHL future book.
“The Blues were just a popular team at the window. It was one of those weird things,” Davis said. “They were a public team and the money never really stopped. It’s weird. It’s just a one-off.”
The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission said they believe they’ll be ready to allow sports betting before football season.
“The industry is requesting a pretty aggressive timetable to have things implemented by August,” he told the commission at its meeting Thursday at Diamond Job Worth Casino near Northwood. “We’re doing everything we can to do that, but making sure that we’re doing it the right way.”
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