The OH Casino Control Commission (OCCC) gave conditional favourable reception to 10 to a greater extent proprietors seeking sports betting licenses during its group meeting on Wednesday.
Those entities were the Cincinnati Bengals, FC Cincinnati, MGM Northfield Park, Scioto Downs inwards Columbus, the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Stephen Grover Cleveland Cavaliers, Hollywood Columbus Casino, the Grover Cleveland Guardians, Hollywood Dayton Raceway, and Belterra Mungo Park inward Cincinnati.
All except for the Bengals applied to host both online and retail sports betting operators. The Bengals and Betfred, the team’s gaming partner, experience applied simply for an online permit at this point. As I of the state’s major professional teams, the Bengals are considered a preferred applier for both an online and a retail license, which led OCCC Vice Chair St. John the Apostle Steinhauer to head the team’s decision.
As it currently stands, the NFL does not tolerate in the flesh(p) sports betting at any stadium, so Betfred and the team chose not to pursue a typecast type B certify because of this,” Bengals In-House Counsel Emma Compton explained during the meeting, adding that wandering betting would be allowed in Paycor Stadium.
BetMGM has a sportsbook close State Farm Stadium, nursing home of the NFL’s AZ Cardinals, but that edifice is not physically attached to the Glendale facility.
Majority of Hosts Now Conditionally Approved
With the proprietors approved on Wednesday, the OCCC has presumption preliminary commendation to 18 of the 22 that applied to innkeeper peregrine direction table service providers, or online sports betting operators, and 17 of the 26 that are seeking to legion direction serving providers, or brick-and-mortar sportsbooks.
Those that get yet to be approved include the Pro Football Asaph Hall of Fame Village in Canton, Hard Rock Cincinnati Casino, the SPIRE Institute inwards Geneva, and Miami Valley Gaming and Racing in Lebanon. Those quatern seek to partner with both an online and retail sportsbook.
Others noneffervescent seeking commendation to legion a retail rule book include Harry Buffalo, a Stephen Grover Cleveland sports bar; Phantom Fireworks, which seeks a sportsbook inwards Youngstown’s multipurpose arena; Ravencrest Partners, which seeks to innkeeper a sportsbook on the President Cleveland waterfront; Cedar Downs off-track betting parlour inwards Sandusky; and Lori’s Roadhouse; an entertainment locale in Occident Chester.
Ohio’s sports betting natural law gives preferences to casinos, racinos, and professional person sports teams for proprietor licenses, but it does non shut out other entities from seeking them. In all, the commonwealth testament reserve up to 25 proprietors to partner with online operators. It also caps the list of retail sportsbooks at 40, with all but 1 location limited to the state’s 28 to the highest degree populous counties. The exception is for a county with at least a population of 50,000 and that draws 5 1000000 tourists annually.
A name of all proprietor applicants and their gaming partners put up be found here.
The next OCCC meeting will read localize on Oct. 5 in Columbus.
More Kiosk Hosts Approved
OCCC Executive Director Matt Schuler applicants allay demand to posit tonality personnel and holding companion forms past Oct. 5 and hold commission-accepted compliance materials turned inward past Nov. 2 in tell for them to bulge out trading operations on Jan. 1.
Regulators experience also approved to a greater extent than 800 qualified Ohio Lottery retailers to serve as hosts for sports betting kiosks. However, Schuler noted that 550 retailers experience received the lottery’s recommendation but have non yet submitted their applications.
In prescribe to characterize to host kiosks, lottery retailers must live for-profit and take hold ane of ternion pot likker licenses. Currently, the lottery has recommended 1,376 retailers for approval. While most are bars and restaurants, the lottery also has sanctioned bowling alleys, golf courses, and grocery stores for kiosks.
Sports betting kiosks testament control otherwise from mobile sports betting apps and retail sportsbooks. Bettors testament be special to wagering no more to a greater extent than $700 inward a calendar calendar week through and through the machines. The kiosks also testament only when extend gunpoint spreads, moneyline, and totals. The machines also will limit point parlays to just quaternity legs.