Hurricane Ida Delays Sports Betting’s Start in Louisiana
Any go for of placing a sound sports play in Pelican State in time for Thursday’s NFL opener was washed away during Hurricane Ida, according to an manufacture executive.
Wade Duty, the Louisiana Casino Association’s executive director director, said the hurricane delayed the issuing of temporary licenses to athletics betting operators, according to KTAL-TV.
The Louisiana Gaming Control get on utmost month allowed the state’s casinos and racetracks to data file an coating for a sports betting license. This created an expectation among sports betting advocates that sound wagering power follow authorised inward clip for the bulge of football season.
Collegiate football is already underway. The NFL opens spiel this night in a televised mettlesome 'tween the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and visiting Dallas Cowboys. Tampa Bay is the defending Super Bowl champion. The team up is led past 44-year-old quarterback Uncle Tom Brady, the Super Bowl MVP.
Duty told the TV send the hurricane has pushed the sports-betting commendation operation rearward near 10 byplay days. He said temporary licenses could live issued by the last of September.
Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 force with 150 mph sustained winds, struck Louisiana on Aug. 29, knocking come out electrical power in New siege of Orleans and throughout the region. The tempest left a route of death and wipeout as it plowed through and through the Mid-South and made its path to heavily populated states in the Northeast, including New island of Jersey and New York.
The hurricane forced the New Orleans Saints to relocation their scheduled nursing home mettlesome on Lord's Day against the Green Bay Packers to Florida.
Casinos inwards New Orleans and South Pelican State began reopening this week.
Control Board Working on Rules
Former Louisiana Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Jones is to a lesser extent optimistic that sports betting testament be upward and running this month. Bobby Jones served as the regulatory agency’s chairman from 2013 until the summer of 2020.
In August, John Luther Jones told KEEL radio the outgrowth to license sports betting operators could accept several months. Before any sound sports betting tin make place, the nine-member Control Board also must base the rules to regularise and task the industry.
Jones said he thinks sports betting testament be in operation(p) inwards Pelican State by the last of the football game season.
This summer, Gov. Saint John the Apostle Bel Edward VII (D) signed legislating allowing legal sports betting inwards the 55 of 64 parishes that approved it lastly twelvemonth inward a statewide election.
Under the new law, wagering will be allowed on mobile devices, such as smartphones, and in the flesh(p) at casino sportsbooks. Sports betting testament also be permitted on kiosks inside bars and at restaurants that dish out alcohol.
Sports Betting’s Popularity
Louisiana is single of vi states where sports betting has been legalized, but is not in time operational.
In 26 states, bettors are legally allowed to wager on unrecorded sporting events, according to the American Gaming Association website. Smartphone wagering, which, by far, is the most popular shape of sports betting, does not come inwards any body politic that borders Louisiana.
The NFL is the most intemperately wagered athletics inwards the country. This year, 45.2 meg people, or 18 percent percent of US adults, are expected to wager on professional person football games. That is upwards 36 percent from lastly year.
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