Sports Wagering Licenses For Horseshoe, Live! And MGM National Harbor Forwarded To Commission

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Applications for sports wagering licenses from Maryland’s 3 largest casinos person been forwarded to a authorities committee for last approval, the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission said Wednesday.

Horseshoe Casino successful Baltimore, Live! Casino and Hotel successful Hanover and MGM National Harbor successful Oxon Hill volition present question the ceremonial support of the Sports Wagering Application Review Commission (SWARC) astatine its Oct. 14 meeting.

“We’re pleased to person these 3 applicants approved and determination them on to the SWARC,” said Maryland Lottery and Gaming Director John Martin. “Our squad is diligently implementing the sports wagering law, and we’re 1 measurement person to the archetypal in-person wagers, which we anticipation volition instrumentality spot by precocious fall.”

The casinos are 3 of 17 businesses that were named successful the instrumentality to legalize sports wagering arsenic imaginable sites for sports books, pending a reappraisal of their qualifications, the gaming committee said.

In August, SWARC voted unanimously that the gaming commission’s qualification standards are capable for determining however to grant sports wagering licenses. The gaming committee determined the 3 casinos conscionable the criteria.

Maryland’s six casinos brought successful $165.4 cardinal successful gross past month, according to the astir caller information from the gaming commission. MGM National Harbor led the mode with astir $69.5 million, followed by Live! Casino and Hotel astatine astir $56.5 million.

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Horseshoe Casino was a distant 3rd astatine a small much than $17.5 million. The remaining 3 casinos successful the authorities did not surpass $10 million.