Circa Sports Boosts UFC Betting Limits

Circa Sports is lifting its limits on UFC wagering, including a run to accepting upwardly to $50,000 bets on briny events on the solar day those fights are scheduled.

Circa Sports Sportsbook Director Matt Metcalf made the announcement inwards a Wed tweet. Prior to the twenty-four hours of an event, the sportsbook manipulator testament have $10,000 bets on UFC prelims, $20,000 wagers on the briny card, and $30,000 bets on the main event. On the day of scheduled UFC fights, those limits rear to $20,000, $30,000, and $50,000, respectively.

The displace is inwards keeping with Circa’s report of not shying away from accepting prominent wagering or limiting or still blackball pro bettors — something challenger sportsbooks are often accused of doing.

Currently, UFC resides inward the “other” category in terms of sports betting handle with the likes of golf, NASCAR and tennis. But there’s opportunity with the combat summercater for sportsbook operators. UFC is unity of the fastest-growing sports associations inwards the world, and has more than 625 million fans and 188 trillion societal media followers. The sportsman is underdeveloped a reputation for luring some big-time bets, indicating Circa’s make a motion to upwardly its UFC limits could show fortuitous.

Circa Sports Taking Flight

News of Circa upping UFC betting limits extends a busy geological period of tidings flow for the gaming company.

With football game season nearing, the famed Circa Millions and Circa Survivor football game contests are generating significant bombination and are slated to hold at to the lowest degree $12 million in combined award pools this year.

Additionally, the sportsbook operator is nearing its debut inward Northern Nevada. Legends Bay Casino inward Sparks is scheduled to unresolved on Aug. 30. That locus testament include a plush, young Circa Sportsbook – the operator’s first off remote of the Las Vegas area.

The Circa Sportsbook at the namesake casino-hotel inwards downtown Las Vegas is the world’s largest. Its other Las Vegas sportsbooks are set at the D and Golden Gate casinos, also in downtown, as good as at the Tuscany Suites & Casino and the Pass Casino inward Henderson. Circa also operates nomadic sports wagering in Colorado and Iowa, and in May announced it is entering Illinois via an organisation with Full House Resorts.

UFC Betting Ties

UFC is a social unit of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:EDR), which is growing its footprint inwards the sports wagering arena. It lately grew via the acquisition of the OpenBet engineering political platform from Light & Wonder.

Although UFC is pop among bettors, possible conflicts of interest group by adding OpenBet should live non-existent. That’s because OpenBet isn’t a consumer-facing sportsbook. Rather, it’s a political platform and engineering provider that counts gaming operators among its clients. Those include DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, and WynnBet.

UFC’s human relationship with ESPN coupled with to a greater extent states permitting regulated sports wagering, could growth the sport’s betting handle over time.