Missouri voters approved legal mobile and retail sports betting wagering, allowing controlled books to take bets next year.
The sports betting wagering ballot step gone by a slim bulk early Wednesday early morning after more than 2.9 million votes were counted.
Seven of the eight states bordering Missouri permit mobile or retail sportsbooks. That consists of Kansas and Illinois, which split the Kansas City and St. Louis city areas with Missouri, respectively.
Missouri is the 39th state to approve legal sportsbooks and the 31st to green light statewide mobile wagering. It is the only state to approve sports betting this year.
" Missouri has a few of the very best sports betting fans worldwide and they showed up huge for their favorite groups on Election Day," Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, said in a statement. "On behalf of all 6 of Missouri's expert sports betting franchises, we desire to thank the Missouri citizens who made their voices heard by approving Amendment 2. This historic vote makes Missouri the 39th state to legislate sports betting wagering and guarantees we no longer lose important tax income to our neighboring states. Most significantly, the passage of Amendment 2 indicates a new, dedicated, permanent financing stream for Missouri class."
Missouri sports betting next steps
Voter approval indicates as much as 14 mobile sportsbooks might begin accepting bets next year. It is unlikely all 14 readily available licenses are used.
DraftKings and FanDuel financed nearly every dollar of the "yes" project and will undoubtedly apply to take bets in the Show Me State. They will likely each pursue the 2 "untethered" licenses offered without needing to partner with a Missouri brick-and-mortar casino or sports betting team (and pay an accompanying fee).
Six licenses are readily available to each Missouri casino operator, respectively. Caesars, in spite of opposing the tally procedure, will likely use its license to launch the Caesars mobile sportsbook. Penn Entertainment, which manages ESPN Bet, and Bally's (Bally Bet) will likewise likely launch their particular books.
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The other 3 operators are Boyd Gaming, Century Casino, and Affinity Interactive. It remains uncertain if they will introduce mobile sportsbooks.
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The remaining 6 licenses are scheduled for each of the significant expert sports betting teams that play home games in Missouri: MLB's Kansas City Royals and Cardinals, the City Chiefs, NHL's St. Louis Blues, MLS' St. Louis City SC and the NWSL's Kansas City Current. The sports betting organizations were among the most prominent proponents of the ballot measure.
Along with DraftKings, FanDuel and Caesars, Missouri gamblers need to expect other prominent national brands consisting of BetMGM, bet365, BetRivers and Fanatics to seek market gain access to.
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Launch probability tiers IF Missouri voters authorize sports betting:
Guarantees: FanDuel, DraftKings
Locks: BetMGM, Bally Bet
Likely: Fanatics, bet365, ESPN BET
Are Already Live In Illinois, So Yeah(?): BetRivers, Hard Rock, Circa
Opposed Referendum But Still Might: Caesars
Missouri's ballot step allows every Missouri casino to open retail sportsbooks on their particular properties. Most if not all 13 gambling establishments handled by the 6 casino operators are expected to open in-person sports betting options such as wagering kiosks and potentially committed, full-service sportsbooks.
The 6 sports betting groups can also open in-person sportsbooks within or nearby to their particular home playing locations. Missouri will join Illinois, Maryland, Arizona, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. amongst jurisdictions that permit in-stadium retail sportsbooks.
The language around the tally procedure needs the very first certified sportsbooks to start accepting wagers by Dec. 1, 2025. Operators will likely work with regulators to go live before kick-off of the fall 2025 football season, continually books' most profitable time of the sports betting calendar.
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Missouri sports betting wagering background
The successful Missouri sports betting wagering campaign comes in spite of millions in funding opposing the step from one of the state's largest sports betting stakeholders.
Caesars invested millions of dollars to beat the measure. In many other states that connect online sports betting wagering with a state's brick-and-mortar gambling establishments, an operator is given at least one license per handled residential or commercial property.
In that situation in Missouri, Caesars would be afforded at least three possible licenses, one for each casino it manages. Instead, Caesars only has one. In states with the license-per-property model, business can either open extra in-house books or, more frequently, farm out the license to a rival that pays an accompanying charge in exchange.
FanDuel and DraftKings, which have roughly two-thirds of U.S. across the country sports betting deal with market share, might potentially have a leg up on their competitors by making the set of untethered licenses. It stays to be seen which 2 books will make these slots, but the language around the ballot measure would appear to favor the two nationwide market leaders.
Polling earlier in the year revealed the "yes" vote with a slight lead. Support efforts were bolstered by tens of millions invested by DraftKings and FanDuel.
A series of television and radio advertisements focused on the earnings legal sportsbooks would produce for Missouri public education. Opponents, funded largely by Caesars, argued the supporters' advertisements were misleading and the 10s of millions of forecasted dollars raised would have a minimal impact in a state that currently spends billions on education every year.
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Missouri Sports Betting Ballot Measure Approved By Voters
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