- North Carolina is preparing to launch mobile sports betting, with seven operators applying for licenses.
- A bill to legalize online casino and poker is being drafted in Maryland.
- Pennsylvania may join the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement in 2024.
- Online poker could return to Delaware, following its suspension in the final days of 2023.
The first month of the new year is only half over, but there’s already been a healthy supply of igaming storylines.
So far in January, North Carolina entered the final stages of preparing to launch mobile sports betting — with seven operators formally applying for licenses.
A draft version of a bill to legalize online casino and poker is starting to take shape in Maryland. Up the coast in Maine, lawmakers are debating whether four tribes in the state should be given a monopoly for online casino and poker — the idea is controversial since two commercial casinos were already shut out from mobile sports betting.
In New York, a coalition of four online sportsbooks launched a campaign to win support for expanded igaming. Days later, one of the biggest supporters of expansion introduced a new bill in the state Senate.
And despite a corruption scandal in Indiana involving a former lawmaker, Spectrum Gaming Group released a bullish report on online casino and poker — Spectrum said the Hoosier State could make an additional $2 billion in revenue from the first three years of expanded igaming.
But what about the remaining 11½ months? Poker Industry PRO thinks the following events — both good and bad — will happen between now and when the ball drops in NYC’s Times Square to usher in 2025.
