Any go for of placing a legal sports wager inwards Pelican State inward clip for Thursday’s NFL opener was water-washed off 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 feature betting operators, according to KTAL-TV.
The Pelican State Gaming Control table utmost month allowed the state’s casinos and racetracks to filing cabinet an coating for a sports betting license. This created an prospect among sports betting advocates that effectual wagering power live authorized in time for the starting of football game season.
Collegiate football game is already underway. The NFL opens frolic this night inwards a televised mettlesome between 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 video station the hurricane has pushed the sports-betting favorable reception mental process back almost 10 stage business days. He said temporary licenses could follow issued past the terminate of September.
Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 tempest with 150 mph sustained winds, struck Pelican State on Aug. 29, knocking out electrical power in New siege of Orleans and throughout the region. The surprise left hand a route of demise and demolition as it ploughed through the Mid-South and made its right smart to hard populated states in the Northeast, including New island of Jersey and New York.
The hurricane forced the New siege of Orleans Saints to run their scheduled home gamey on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers to Florida.
Casinos inward New Orleans and South LA 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 live upward and running this month. Jones served as the regulatory agency’s chairman from 2013 until the summertime of 2020.
In August, John Paul Jones told KEEL radio the cognitive process to permit sports betting operators could occupy several months. Before any sound sports betting tin can take place, the nine-member Control Board also must establish the rules to regularize and tax the industry.
Jones said he thinks sports betting testament be in operation(p) in Pelican State past the final stage of the football game season.
This summer, Gov. Saint John B Edward VI (D) signed legislating allowing legal sports betting inwards the 55 of 64 parishes that approved it last twelvemonth in a statewide election.
Under the young law, wagering will follow allowed on mobile devices, such as smartphones, and in-person at casino sportsbooks. Sports betting testament also live permitted on kiosks inside bars and at restaurants that service alcohol.
Sports Betting’s Popularity
Louisiana is one of sise states where sports betting has been legalized but is not 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, past far, is the to the highest degree popular cast of sports betting, does non come inward any say that borders Louisiana.
The NFL is the to the highest degree intemperately wagered boast inwards the country. This year, 45.2 jillion people, or 18 percent percent of US adults, are expected to wager on professional football games. That is up 36 percent from endure year.