Cincinnati Bengals First Pro Team to Apply for Ohio Sports Betting License

Three more entities filed applications for sports betting licenses with the Ohio River Casino Control Commission (OCCC) this past week. The applicants include the state’s first-class honours degree professional person sports team to seek a license, as wellspring as ii high-profile operators.

The Cincinnati Bengals filed an practical application on Friday to serve well as a Type A, or online sports betting, proprietor. It’s ace of eighter from Decatur major professional person sports franchises eligible to hold for a permit through the law of nature the body politic general assembly passed belatedly endure year. Muirfield Village Golf Club, which hosts the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament, and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, which hosts a NASCAR race, are also eligible to apply, as are the state’s quadruplet casinos and VII racinos.

All those entities tin apply for online sports betting licenses as fountainhead as the Type b licenses for in the flesh(p) sportsbooks.

The Bengals did non file a Type b coating on Friday. Technically, they don’t want to go for for an in-person sportsbook license, since they already hold an naturalized business organization inward the state. However, it’s also possible they did non hold because of timing issues.

The linguistic universal launch appointment for all operators inwards Ohio River is Jan. 1, which is nigh the last of the NFL’s steady season. It’s possible that the Bengals may choose to give off on chess opening a retail sportsbook – if they unfastened single at all – until the protrude of the 2023 season.

No mobile management table service provider (MMSP) – Ohio’s full term for an online sports betting operator – was listed on the OCCC’s website. The commission said partnership entropy will follow announced in one case the proprietor and the partnering provider experience submitted their applications.

Three other entities get submitted applications to boniface an online sports betting operator. They are JACK President Cleveland Casino, JACK Thistledown Racino, and HOF Village Newco, which operates a sports and amusement territory near the Pro Football G. Stanley Hall of Fame inward Canton. Those three applicants are also seeking to legion a retail sportsbook.

Two More Operators Apply inwards Ohio

In improver to the Bengals, FanDuel and Fanatics applied on Friday to be both an MMSP and a direction services provider (MSP) to pass a retail sportsbook for a proprietor. As with the Bengals, neither FanDuel nor Fanatics had a partner listed past the OCCC.

FanDuel is considered to follow ane of the top off deuce national sports betting operators inward the US market, along with DraftKings. The Flutter Entertainment make operates in-person retail sportsbooks and/or online platforms inward 17 US states.

Fanatics, the online sports mega-retailer, is just at present starting to acquire into the marketplace after signaling its intentions to acquire into sports betting in conclusion year. Late lastly month, the company got its world-class favorable reception for a license inwards Maryland.

FanDuel and Fanatics get the number of MMSP applicants to six. The others include BetMGM, PointsBet, DraftKings, and Barstool. FanDuel and Fanatics also joined BetMGM and JACK Stephen Grover Cleveland Casino as applicants for an MSP license.

It’s potential a big identification number of applicants for proprietor and provider licenses testament live coming forrard inward the hebdomad ahead. The OCCC issued a deadline of July 15 for those entities who want to live capable to go away unrecorded on the Jan. 1 universal scratch line date. The charge testament bear on to consent applications after that date. But it’s non guaranteed those applications testament live approved inwards time for a New Year’s Clarence Shepard Day Jr. launch.

Lawmakers capped the number of online proprietors at 25, though it’s possible to a greater extent could be added if an economical analysis considers it favorable. The list of brick-and-mortar sportsbooks testament live special to 40.

More Than 850 Bars Prequalified for Kiosks

Ohio’s sports betting practice of law also allows for kiosks to live band upwards inward sure bars across the state. One company, Elys Gameboard Technologies, has applied to tender kiosks.

The body politic will non begin accepting applications from the eligible bars until next Friday. Those establishments that subject their paperwork by Aug. 15 testament live able to bid sports betting on Jan. 1 if they are approved.

The kiosks, considered Type c sports betting below Ohio’s law, are the country lottery’s portion of sports betting. In readying for their practical application window to open, the Buckeye State Lottery Commission (OLC) has started to pre-qualify establishments for licensure. Through Friday, 853 bars crosswise the nation feature been pre-qualified past the commission.

The OCCC testament come forth licenses to those hosts based on the lottery’s recommendation. However, the OLC’s website indicates that the testimonial is simply ace piece of the practical application process, and does non ensure licensure.

Once establishments have licenses to boniface kiosks, they can get into into partnerships with a kiosk provider.