Hurricane Ida Delays Sports Betting’s Start in Louisiana
Any desire of placing a effectual sports play in Pelican State in time for Thursday’s NFL opener was washed out during Hurricane Ida, according to an manufacture executive.
Wade Duty, the LA Casino Association’s executive director, said the hurricane delayed the issuing of temporary licenses to sportsman betting operators, according to KTAL-TV.
The LA Gaming Control gameboard finally month allowed the state’s casinos and racetracks to register an covering for a sports betting license. This created an expectation among sports betting advocates that effectual wagering might live authorised inwards time for the pop of football season.
Collegiate football game is already underway. The NFL opens spiel this night in a televised gamy 'tween the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and visiting Dallas Cowboys. Tampa Bay is the defending Super Bowl champion. The squad is led by 44-year-old quarterback Uncle Tom Brady, the Super Bowl MVP.
Duty told the telecasting post the hurricane has pushed the sports-betting approval cognitive operation dorsum nearly 10 concern days. He said temporary licenses could live issued by the last of September.
Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm with 150 mph sustained winds, struck Louisiana on Aug. 29, knocking come out electrical power in New siege of Orleans and end-to-end the region. The tempest left wing a path of last and destruction as it ploughed through the Mid-South and made its way to to a great extent populated states in the Northeast, including New Jersey and New York.
The hurricane forced the New Orleans Saints to run their scheduled home gritty on Sun against the Green Bay Packers to Florida.
Casinos inward New Orleans and South Pelican State began reopening this week.
Control Board Working on Rules
Former LA Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Robert Tyre Jones is less optimistic that sports betting testament follow upwardly and running this month. Mary Harris Jones served as the regulatory agency’s chairman from 2013 until the summer of 2020.
In August, Mary Harris Jones told KEEL radiocommunication the appendage to license sports betting operators could occupy several months. Before any sound sports betting put up accept place, the nine-member Control Board also must institute the rules to order and tax the industry.
Jones said he thinks sports betting testament follow operating(a) inward Louisiana past the remnant of the football game season.
This summer, Gov. Gospel According to John B Prince Edward (D) signed statute law allowing sound sports betting in the 55 of 64 parishes that sanctioned it utmost yr inwards a statewide election.
Under the unexampled law, wagering will follow allowed on peregrine devices, such as smartphones, and in the flesh(p) at casino sportsbooks. Sports betting testament also be permitted on kiosks indoors bars and at restaurants that dish up alcohol.
Sports Betting’s Popularity
Louisiana is i of sestet states where sports betting has been legalized but is non in time operational.
In 26 states, bettors are de jure allowed to wager on live sporting events, according to the American Gaming Association website. Smartphone wagering, which, by far, is the most pop shape of sports betting, does not come in any commonwealth that borders Louisiana.
The NFL is the most to a great extent wagered feature inward the country. This year, 45.2 trillion people, or 18 percent percent of US adults, are expected to bet on professional football games. That is upwardly 36 percent from lowest year.