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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Bally’s Corp. has purchased a sports betting technology company for $125 million and has finalized the purchase of a casino in Atlantic City.
The transactions, both announced Wednesday night, give the Rhode Island company formerly known as Twin River Worldwide Holdings a solid place in the sports betting and physical casino markets as it rapidly expands across the U.S.
Bally’s bought Bet.Works, a sports betting platform provider to operators in New Jersey, Iowa, Indiana and Colorado.
“This is the next step in our company’s evolution,” said Soo Kim, chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. “By combining our expanding national footprint of casinos, the recently acquired Bally’s brand, and Bet.Works’ proprietary technology stack, we have evolved in just a few short years from a regional casino operator into the first U.S. gaming company committed to serving our customers with an omni-channel approach, combining the best of our physical properties with a superior online experience.”
Over the past two years, Bally’s has been on a buying spree with the goal of transforming from a small regional casino company to a national player in the gambling industry. It will have 14 casinos in 10 states once all pending transactions are completed.
The company also recently bought the Bally’s brand and renamed itself.
It finalized its purchase of Bally’s casino in Atlantic City from Caesars Entertainment and a related entity, VICI Properties, for $25 million.
In a research note issued shortly before the latest transactions were announced, the Macquarie Group said sports betting and internet gambling will be key strengths for Bally’s.
“A two-property company less than 5 years ago, the $900 million market cap Bally’s Corp. has completely transformed the portfolio to 14 assets through $950 million of spending in the last two years,” the firm wrote. “We believe online gaming is the hidden treasure of the company.”
Bally’s plans to split itself into two divisions: “Bally’s Casinos,” comprising physical gambling and entertainment properties, and “Bally’s Interactive,” which will include new and existing contracts for sports betting and internet gambling, including all of Bet.Works’ sports betting operations.
The Bet.Works purchase should close in the first quarter of 2021.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Legalized sports betting in Maryland could start in the summer of next year after voters approved it on Election Day, but lawmakers still need to work out the details of how it will be implemented in the upcoming legislative session.
A separate constitutional amendment passed by voters to give the legislature more power in the state budget process won’t take effect until after Gov. Larry Hogan leaves office in 2023.
While all eight of Maryland’s U.S. House incumbents won reelection Tuesday, and Democrat Joe Biden won the heavily Democratic state’s 10 electoral votes in the presidential race, the results of the two statewide ballot questions have considerable fiscal ramifications for future years.
A comprehensive framework for sports betting passed unanimously earlier this year, but the coronavirus pandemic shortened the legislative session, and lawmakers asked voters to give the gambling expansion an up or down vote. That left the details on implementation to be worked out later.
Most of the state’s proceeds from sports betting — estimated to range between $20 million and $40 million — would go toward education, as required by legislation approved by the General Assembly to put sports betting on the ballot.
“It’s very important in this age of COVID, where the economy is still suffering, that any additional revenue we can get from sports betting will be helpful to helping to closing the budget gap around education,” said Sen. Craig Zucker, a Montgomery County Democrat who sponsored sports betting legislation.
Sports betting likely will be allowed at the state’s six casinos and at horse racing tracks. Zucker said online wagering probably will be authorized as well.
“I can’t imagine a scenario where the state wouldn’t allow it online,” he said.
Zucker said he believes wagering will at least be allowed on professional sports.
“What else is included and how those bets are made, that’s to be determined,” Zucker said. “I think the biggest obstacle that we were facing was: Do Marylanders approve it or not? And I think there was a resounding yes.”
Gordon Medenica, Maryland’s lottery director, said two years of consideration in the legislature has created a strong sense of how sports betting will be structured in the state.
“That’s given us an ability to get a head start on crafting the regulations, which is a pretty extensive legal-intensive thing about basically all of the rules of how these games and the sports betting will take place,” Medenica said Wednesday.
He said casinos and horse racing tracks are prepared to launch sports betting as soon as possible, because they mostly have contractual relationships with many of the largest sports betting providers.
South Dakota and Louisiana also approved sports betting Tuesday. That means more than half the nation could have sports betting by the end of next year, less than three years after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for all 50 states to adopt it if they chose.
Meanwhile, Maryland voters also approved a constitutional amendment to enable the legislature to increase, decrease or add items to the budget, as long as the changes don’t exceed the total proposed by the governor.
Under Maryland’s constitution, the governor has unusually strong budget powers. When the governor submits the state budget to the General Assembly each January, lawmakers can only cut from the proposal.
Maryland is the only state that endows its governor with such authority over the state budget. It dates to a 1916 constitutional amendment that voters approved after the state racked up big deficits.
Sen. James Rosapepe, a Democrat who sponsored legislation to put the issue on the ballot, said it will give locally elected officials more of a say in the state’s budget process.
“It’s going to change the ongoing dynamics of the annual budget process,” Rosapepe said.
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