The Meadowlands Racetrack says its net online sports betting skin is likely to go away to the SuperBook, the iconic sportsbook firebrand of the Westgate Las Vegas.
Meadowlands owner Jeff Gural holds the rights to ternary online mobile sports betting skins — or online licensing rights to partner with sportsbook operators.
The Meadowlands already has deals inwards place with FanDuel and PointsBet. FanDuel to boot operates the retail sportsbook within the Meadowlands. Speaking this hebdomad with NJ Online Gambling, Gural says it’s his intentions to take the SuperBook firebrand to New Jersey.
It’s a honest addition for us, granted what a magnanimous make they are inwards Las Vegas,” Gural explained.
The SuperBook at the Westgate Las Vegas is single of the largest sportsbooks in the world. The LED digital covert measures more than 4,250 foursquare feet, and features 63.2 trillion pixels.
In 2018, the SuperBook announced its plans to expand the sportsbook brand to unexampled sports betting states. But it has only when since entered into Colorado.
Along with the Meadowlands, Gural owns II cassino racetracks in upstate New York. Tioga Downs is a commercial message cassino with o'er 900 expansion slot machines and more than II dozen tabularise games, positive a FanDuel sportsbook lounge. Vernon Downs is a racino with 200 picture gaming machines, but no more tabular array games or sportsbook.
New Jersey Market
New island of Jersey has emerged as the nation’s sports betting leader, and the outstanding majority of the process is being wagered online.
Oddsmakers accepted to a greater extent than $6 one thousand million inward wagers inwards 2020, and roughly $5.53 1000000000000 — or 92 percent — was facilitated remotely. That’s simply fine with the state, as mobile sportsbooks divvy up 13 percent of their receipts gaming revenue inwards the strain of taxes. Land-based retail sportsbooks are taxed lour at 8.5 percent.
The Meadowlands is the dominant participant inwards the New island of Jersey sports betting scene. The racetrack’s two sportsbook partners won $206.4 million of gamblers’ bets last-place year. The Meadowlands held a nearly 52 percent marketplace portion of sports betting inwards 2020.
“We’re on a live run lately, but that could change,” Gural explained.
MLB Opening Day
Gural says the first and quaternary quarter of the twelvemonth hold been the strongest for Meadowlands’ sports betting business. That’s mostly due to NFL and college football game existence played during those periods.
But today, MLB begins its 2021 season, and both of New York’s teams are favorites for a late postseason run. FanDuel has the Yankees at +550 and Mets at +1000 to win the World Series. The only if teams with shorter odds are the Los Angeles Dodgers (+350), San Diego Padres (+800), and Chicago Edward Douglas White Jr. Sox (+850).
The Mets are paying Francisco Lindor heavily after getting the superstar shortstop from the Grover Cleveland Indians inward the offseason. Lindor and the Mets announced today a 10-year, $341 million contract. It’s the 3rd largest contract in the history of John R. Major League Baseball.
Lindor is at +1200 to win the National League MVP.