Ohio to Ring in New Year’s 2023 with Universal Sports Betting Launch

Sports betting inwards Ohio will launch on Jan. 1, 2023. OH Casino Control Commission Executive theater director Matt Schuler made the annunciation at Wednesday’s commissioning meeting.

The date was not needfully a surprise. When the state’s general assembly passed a law of nature legalizing sports betting tardily finally year, it mark Jan. 1, 2023, as the rollout deadline. The natural law required all aspects of sports betting to commence simultaneously, meaning online apps (Type A), brick-and-mortar sportsbooks (Type B), and exclude kiosks (Type C) testament all have the chance to live available to bettors on New Year’s Day.

Jan. 1 testament interpret the largest expanding upon of gaming inward Ohio’s story and the largest ever so simultaneous set in motion of sports gaming inward the United States,” Schuler explained to the commissioners. “According to manufacture estimates, this will postulate elaborated due industriousness investigations as good as comprehensive compliance examinations of roughly 3,000 licensees forwards of that date.”

According to the timeline presented during the meeting, sports betting operators as intimately as casinos and professional person sports teams tin go for for licenses on June 15, with those applications due on July 15. On July 15, eligible bars interested in hosting kiosks can buoy hold for licenses and those seeking a second Type A or Type B licence will also live able-bodied to apply. Those applications are due Aug. 15.

Beginning Aug. 1, applicants tin can pop providing the OCCC selective information on responsible for(p) gaming plans and other compliance documentation. Applicants testament hold 3 months to accede that, and by Dec. 2, all applicants must have got their equipment ready for the direction to inspect.

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