Bettors Welcome Launch Of Sports Betting In Maryland

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Grab your jerseys, your wallet and cheque your stats earlier you caput retired to the casino—sports betting is unrecorded successful Maryland.

MGM National Harbor, Maryland Live! and Horseshoe Casino are present each offering sports betting successful person. At Horseshoe, determination are 14 sports wager kiosks and 7 stations wherever radical tin stake astatine the counter.

Casino guests playing the slots astatine Horseshoe connected Friday were excited for this time to yet arrive.

“I deliberation it’s fantastic, thing to assistance the authorities of Maryland I deliberation is great,” Sadie Hannah told WJZ.

Angelo Boer said helium plans connected placing wagers connected his favourite section sports teams.

“Ravens and Orioles!” Boer said. “I americium a lifelong Baltimorean, and I emotion my teams.”

In May, Gov. Larry Hogan signed a measure into instrumentality allowing sportsbooks to run successful Maryland. Then the state’s six casinos went to enactment getting their ducks successful a enactment to bring sports betting to their clientele.

Hogan was among those connected manus Friday for the motorboat of Caesars Sportsbook astatine Horseshoe Casino.

“Horseshoe opened successful 2014, bringing 1,000 jobs to Baltimore,” the politician said. “They’ve generated astir $740 cardinal successful gross for our authorities these 7 years. Now with the summation of 15,000 quadrate feet of sportsbook amenities, they’ve taken the adjacent large measurement forward.”

Sportsbooks person agreed to lend 15% of their gross to enactment acquisition programs successful Maryland.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, who was besides successful attendance, said the extremity is to physique much caller schoolhouse buildings successful the city.

“We opened our sixth marque caller schoolhouse gathering this year, which is simply a grounds for the city,” Scott said. “And this is the benignant of happening we volition beryllium supporting erstwhile we bash this.”

Boer was thrilled to perceive that immoderate of the proceeds would spell toward education.

“I’m excited to spot wagers, but I’m excited astir however they’ll usage the money,” helium said.

Boer wasn’t alone. Vonda Floyd said she excessively was blessed with however immoderate of the wealth would beryllium spent.

“I deliberation it’s a bully happening arsenic agelong arsenic it goes backmost to the schools for the children,” Floyd told WJZ.

Ocean Downs, Hollywood Casino, Longshots and Riverboat were besides each awarded sports betting licenses, but person yet to motorboat sports betting. Ocean Downs and Hollywood anticipation to person theirs up and moving aboriginal this month.

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The authorities volition unfastened applications for mobile betting licenses sometime adjacent year.