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October 11, 2024

State of the Union: Missouri campaign donations approach $50m, Florida opportunity?

Welcome to iGB's State of the Union, a look at the biggest North American sports betting stories we've covered over the week and briefs on others we found interesting.
More money in Missouri
Casino and online gambling companies continue to pour money into campaigns for and against Amendment 2 in Missouri. The proposal, which will be on the November ballot, would legalise statewide mobile and retail sports betting.

Caesars Entertainment, which operates three casinos in the state, added another $3.3m (£2.5m/€3m) to Missourians Against the Deceptive Online Gambling Amendment on Monday (7 October). So far, the company is the only one funding the campaign and has staked it with with $14.2m to date. The Monday donation came via Caesars’ Tropicana St Louis property.

Under Amendment 2, Missouri casino companies would be entitled to one digital skin. When the issue was being considered in the state legislature, casino companies would have been able to get one skin per physical loc..

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September 27, 2024

ESPN Bet now live in New York

Penn Entertainment launched ESPN Bet in its biggest market yet on Friday (27 September) when it went live in New York state. The platform is now available in 19 US jurisdictions.
The platform, a partnership between the casino company and ESPN, went live in 17 US jurisdictions in November 2023. Prior to Friday’s New York launch, Pennsylvania was the biggest state in which the platform was live.

The New York launch was later than Penn executives had pointed to, as CEO Jay Snowden said he was hoping for a late August launch during the company’s second-quarter earnings call in early August. But the New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) didn’t have a meeting at which to approve the application until 23 September.

Penn was able to get into New York because WynnBet left earlier this year. The state has a cap of nine platforms, and all licences were accounted for at the beginning of the year. But Wynn Resorts has been unwinding its digital betting business and exited New York over the ..

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