Less than a year after launching two retail sports books, Rhode Island mobile sports betting is ready to launch. Governor Gina Raimondo signed into law S 37, a bill adding mobile Rhode Island sports betting to the state’s lottery-run operation. Raimondo also spurred the start of Rhode Island’s sports book operations last year by including sports betting revenue in her budget. Rhode Island sports betting is legal at the state’s two casinos: Twin River Lincoln and Twin River Tiverton. Those casinos both opened their sports gambling operations in 2018 and plan to expand into permanent space this year. Twin River…

It’s been a big week for MGM Resorts as they prepare to launch mobile sports betting in New Jersey! They’ve also struck a deal with the National Basketball Association to become the leagues “official sponsor”, which is in stark contrast to the NBA’s years of opposition. Plus, MGM has successfully taken the first ever legal sports bets in the state of Mississippi! This week’s sponsor is from the BetRally Casino!

This week is turning out to belong to MGM. First, it announces a big joint venture with GVC. Then it announced a deal with old partner Boyd Gaming. What followed this morning was news of its deal to be the NBA official gaming partner. Now MGM is bringing mobile sports betting to New Jersey. The imminent arrival of sports betting at playMGM has been signaled by a page on its website saying that mobile sports betting would be available on the playMGM.com Sports betting app. MGM CEO Jim Murren, speaking after the NBA announcement in New York, let the cat…

The impact of mobile sports betting is being considered by many states.Betting on smartphones could increase total U.S. sports gambling revenue by an estimated $9 billion, but some worry about impact on casinos. Now that states are free to craft laws legalizing sports betting, the latest question is whether to enter the potential $9 billion mobile-betting market. Americans legally gambling on this weekend’s World Cup final and other athletic competitions primarily are doing so in person at a limited number of casinos. Increasingly, though, gamblers in other countries are placing wagers from their smartphones. In the U.K., the world’s largest…

Operator CG Technologies has launched an upgrade to its mobile sports betting app that developers said increases the opportunities for customers to bet on games. CG Technologies CEO Lee Amaitis said the company, which operates race and sports books at eight Las Vegas resorts, generates roughly 60 percent of its wagers from its mobile wagering application. The company has operated mobile sports wagering since 2012 and has some 20,000 registered users. Last year, more than $3.5 billion was wagered in Nevada sports books. Amaitis expects the upgraded application, which was softly launched last week, to grow the company’s percentage of…