FanDuel and Boyd Gaming to launch mobile sportsbook in Louisiana

FanDuel Group and Boyd Gaming Corporation will launch a mobile sportsbook in Louisiana, when online sports betting officially goes live across the state on 28 January

FanDuel Group and Boyd Gaming Corporation will set in motion a nomadic sportsbook inward Louisiana, when online sports betting officially goes live crossways the res publica on 28 January.

Legislation to approve online sports betting inwards Louisiana was passed inward Nov 2020, with betting companies able-bodied to operate inwards 55 of the state’s 64 parishes crosswise professional person and college-level sporting events.

FanDuel and Boyd Gaming have partnered to offering retail sportsbooks at v physical locations crossways Louisiana. The unexampled online sportsbook testament control below the licence of unity of these locations – the Treasure Chest Casino.

With the increase of its Louisiana sportsbook, FanDuel has unrecorded online sports betting trading operations across 14 states, including in latterly launched New York. WY is expected to fall out now that it has also legalised the betting format.

Overall, FanDuel has trading operations across all 50 US states with o'er 12 trillion customers. The FanDuel Group, which is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, owns a portfolio of brands crossways the betting, media and broadcasting industries, including Stardust and TVG.

Earlier this month, the operator signed young partnership deals with the PGA Tour and Buffalo Bills respectively.

Boyd Gaming launched in 1975 and currently has 28 casinos and entertainment properties crosswise 10 US states. The companionship also owns a 5% equity bet inward FanDuel.

In other tidings related to to the launch of online sports betting inwards Louisiana, affiliate Gambling Group also received approval to run inwards the Pelican State, with the society granted a waiver to supply marketing services to operators.