Bally’s Lands Kansas Sports Betting Access in Boot Hill Casino & Resort Deal
Bally’s (NYSE:BALY) has a pes inwards the door for sports wagering inwards Kansas, assuming the body politic gets around to legalizing the activity.
On Monday, the gaming accompany said it inked an grant with Boot Benny Hill Casino & Resort inwards Dodge City to get the Bally Bet wandering sportsbook app to the province if and when regulated sports wagering is sanctioned there. The correspondence brings Bally’s access code to a 14th state. The figure is increasing because of the operator’s penchant for acquisitions.
If sports betting goes unrecorded inward the state, Boot James Jerome Hill will implement Bally Bet and do the app usable to Sunflower State bettors.
All gaming inward KS is owned and operated past the KS Lottery. The arrangement, as required by law, would license, transfer, or let the necessary Bally’s nomadic sportsbook elements to the Lottery to offer Kaw River sports fans a premium sports betting platform,” according to a statement.
Rhode Island-based Bally’s already operates inward markets close-fitting to Kansas, including Ioway and Missouri, and neighboring CO is the state where the companionship is beta testing Bally Bet.
Waiting on KS Legalization
Currently, sports wagering is live and effectual inward 21 states and Washington, DC, with another niner states inwards the legal, but non in time operational camp.
Conversely, in that location are 17 states where minuscule movement on the number is expected this year. Six get no more related pending statute law at all, and 11 where sports betting initiatives died. Kaw River is inwards the latter category.
With the reinforcement of gaming companies, such as BetMGM, DraftKings, and FanDuel, Senate Bill 84 (SB 84) moved through and through that chamber inwards March. But a citizens committee inwards the Kansas body politic House of Representatives rejected it inwards April.
The note would earmark the state’s quartet brick-and-mortar casinos to opened retail sportsbooks and partner with operators inwards that space. Additionally, it would countenance venues such as Sunflower State Speedway — place to a brace of annual NASCAR events — to squad upwards with a local gambling casino to surface roving sports betting areas.
For now, sports betting isn’t dead inwards Kansas, per se. But it faces long betting odds of existence passed this year.
Allure of Kansas for Bally’s
Kansas has simply 2.91 gazillion residents and no professional sports teams, so it’s non likely to live sports betting hotbed on par with New Jersey, Nevada, or Pennsylvania, to public figure a few. However, thither are other reasons wherefore Bally’s is keen to move into the state.
For now, Colorado is the only if state bordering Kaw River that’s inwards the live and effectual sports betting camp. Plus, the plains commonwealth is another opportunity for Bally’s to purchase its human relationship with Sinclair Broadcast Group.
“Bally’s expects that its media partnership with Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides it with memory access to incorporate cognitive content into Sinclair’s portfolio of 19 regional sports networks, testament also draw in sports fans in neighboring states to the Kansas River roving sportsbook,” according to the statement.