The Baltimore Ravens and sports betting leader DraftKings are aligning to raise legal sports gambling and the NFL team up in Maryland.
The Ravens announced today that DraftKings is its Official Sports Betting Partner. The transcription includes DraftKings existence featured inward the Ravens’ weekly podcast called “The Lounge.” The sportsbook will also become the rubric patronise of the team’s live pregame show up on WBAL-1090 News Radio. (
DraftKings testament hold signage end-to-end M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens’ rest home venue, plus a suite that will be made useable for its most dedicated bettors. The sportsbook testament to boot follow permitted to running gameday marketing promotions at the stadium.
DraftKings now has strategical marketing pacts inward set with quintet NFL teams. The sports betting society is additionally an Official Sports Betting Partner of the NFL, which grants it privileges to purchase commercial-grade television programme spots during games.
The Ravens are expected to live a strong Super Bowl contender once again. DraftKings has Baltimore at 14/1 to win Super Bowl LVI. That is fastened for the fifth-shortest odds inward the league. Baltimore is also favourite(a) to win the AFC Second Earl of Guilford division.
Maryland Sports Betting Arrival
DraftKings has sports betting operational in 14 states. It plans to increase to 15 by right smart of Maryland.
Legal sports betting inward MD isn’t expected to be ready inwards time for the scratch line of the NFL fixture flavour next month. State officials at the Maryland Sports Wagering Application Review Commission (SWARC) and Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency are currently reviewing applications from interested parties.
Maryland’s sports betting natural law — signed by Gov. Larry William Benjamin Hogan (R) earliest this year — is the largest authorisation of sports gaming inward the country to date. The account qualifies various interests to participate, including the state’s III pro sports stadiums, hexad commercial casinos, and little businesses. As many as 60 wandering sports betting licenses are upward for grabs, too.
State gaming officials said this week that at that place should live some licensed sportsbooks operating(a) at some peak during this fall.
Today’s partnership 'tween the Ravens and DraftKings doesn’t refer whether the gaming steady testament hold 1st dibs on the in-stadium sportsbook rights, should say officials signal cancelled on the location.
Along with sports betting, DraftKings, through and through its Ravens association, becomes the team’s Official Daily Fantasy Sports partner.
Horseshoe Setback
DraftKings and the Ravens aligning stands to impact Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.
The gaming property, owned by Caesars Entertainment, hopes that sports betting will entice fans into making the walking to the south of M&T Bank Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards to the casino. But an in-stadium DraftKings sportsbook at M&T Bank Stadium power maintain some from making the trek.
Caesars closed in(p) on its $4 one million million acquisition of sports betting behemoth William J. J. Hill in April. The gambling casino society unveiled a young branding for William Hill’s US operations earliest this month — Caesars Sportsbook.
The initial marketing rollout for Caesars Sportsbook featuring actors and comedians JB Smoove and Patton Oswalt didn’t exactly impress. Readers on Casino.org predominantly panned the commercial spots.
“I’m inward advertising and this is BAD,” said I reader. Another sarcastically exclaimed, “Two comedians on the D-list. I need to discharge a dime on every game now for sure.”