Golden Nugget Lake Charles Opening New DraftKings Sportsbook
DraftKings is getting a permanent retail sportsbook location at the Golden Nugget Lake Charles II that’s slated to unresolved on Thursday, Sep 1.
The unexampled sportsbook, which testament be the largest in Louisiana, replaces a temporary locale rolling out at the casino-hotel last November.
The retail DraftKings Sportsbook will extend a premiere sports betting have crossways to a greater extent than 12,000 foursquare feet, including o'er 3,200 foursquare feet of LED TV screens to bask unrecorded games; around 300 waiting room seats including VIP areas for easy viewing,” according to a financial statement issued past DraftKings and Golden Nugget.
The unexampled DraftKings sportsbook at Golden Nugget Lake Prince Charles testament also characteristic five fine windows, 3 vingt-et-un tables, and 16 video salamander machines. There will also live 30 self-service sports wagering kiosks overspread throughout the property.
DraftKings/Golden Nugget Relationship
The partnership between DraftKings and Golden Nugget land-based casinos comes by right smart of the sportsbook operator getting Tilman Fertitta’s Golden Nugget Online Gaming (GNOG) — a dealings that was completed inward May.
DraftKings proclaimed a $1.56 1000000000000 all-stock offer up for GNOG lowest August when the target was trading at around $12. The target’s shares nearly doubled over the next several weeks. But the roll came come out of the sales of online casinos and sports betting equities soon thereafter, sparking occupy over the fate of the deal. Underscoring the lengthy weakness for digital gaming stocks, GNOG shares unsympathetic at $5.78 on May 4, the stock’s net trading day.
In add-on to the Lake Charles property, Fertitta’s Golden Nugget owns quartet other brick-and-mortar casinos — unity inwards Atlantic City, NJ, one inward Las Vegas, one inwards Laughlin, Nevada, and another inwards Biloxi, Miss. The manipulator is inwards the treat of getting a CO casino and is building a unexampled gaming venue inward Illinois.
There’s some prattle that DraftKings’ acquisition of GNOG could trail to the buyer’s identify eventually being applied to Golden Nugget sportsbooks in Las Vegas and Laughlin, potentially pavage the way for the companionship to go into Nevada.
Louisiana Allure
Louisiana is a militant and late sports wagering market that rapidly climbed the ranks inward terms of hold and revenue following legalization. And that was without the benefit of the 2021 football season.
This year, it’s likely the tell testament easily trounce noneffervescent young sports wagering records because it will bewitch all of the 2022 LSU Tigers and New siege of Orleans Saints campaigns. Louisiana further benefits because neighboring Land of Opportunity and Mississippi River don’t in time offer up peregrine wagering, and Texas has no more casinos and doesn’t Trachinotus falcatus sports betting.
“The DraftKings Sportsbook will also offer up a full-service restaurant, the DraftKings Sportsbook Bar & Grill, with a variety of dining options during breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including a ‘quick grab’ menu,” according to the statement. “The eatery testament dish up pop gameday favorites from burgers to wings and a change of items inwards between, as considerably as a widely selection of beer, cocktails, and frozen drinks at its full-service bar.”