Illinois Becomes Top Four State for Sports Betting Generating $350M

Illinois Becomes Top Four State for Sports Betting Generating $350M

Illinois sports betting’s presence made known in an instant. Wherein the state’s gaming board releases its wagering totals for September, generating a handle of $305.2. It also establishes as the top four state for sports betting in the country. Wherein it is behind New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

The handle also sets a high bar for how global gambling for sports wagering will likely proceed in the state. Although several states have already released its October numbers, and October handles in New Jersey and Indiana have topped with were record-breakers in September. It seems almost sure that Illinois will follow suit.

Illinois Becomes Top Four State for Sports Betting

Illinois Becomes Top Four State for Sports Betting Generating $350M Online gambling Korea also notes that the bettors in Illinois did wagering in a big way and mainly through online sports betting. Therefore, Illinois becomes the top four state for sports betting with a $305.2 million wagered. Whereas the $283.1 million or 97.2 percent was done online.

Nearly all of those bets came from three sportsbooks. BetRivers, having opened its retail sportsbook in March and launch its online sportsbook in June, took $112.7 million in wagers, $98.6 million of that online. DraftKings, which went online in early August, got $95.9 million of its $98.3 million handles online. While FanDuel, which launched at the end of August, had a $78.6 million handle with about $200,000 wagered online.

Mobile Sports Betting in Illinois

With the overwhelming success of mobiles, sports betting where players can bet on football in Illinois can easily forget that online apps would not necessarily enjoy this kind of dominance this early.

Upon legalization of sports betting in Illinois, lawmakers did so with the internet requiring in-person registration for mobile accounts. That means, if customers want to use a particular app online, they would first have to go to the casino itself physically.

 

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