With FanDuel, all 9 Atlantic City casinos have sports books
By WAYNE PARRYDecember 22, 2020 GMT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) FanDuel, whose northern New Jersey outlet has about half of New Jersey’s rapidly growing sports betting market, has opened its first retail betting space in Atlantic City.
The company, which started as a daily fantasy sports provider but has quickly found success as a real-money bookmaker, opened a temporary sports book Tuesday inside Bally’s casino on the Boardwalk.
With that move, all nine of Atlantic City’s casinos now offer retail sports betting. “It is the first of many planned capital improvement projects at Bally’s Atlantic City and a testament to our commitment to reinvest in our physical property portfolio,” said George Papanier, president and CEO of Bally’s Corp.
But the team s new broadcasting partner wants them to do more than just watch and worry.
Imagine longtime play-by-play voice Dick Bremer saying something like: Rogers has converted seven consecutive save opportunities. Can he make it eight? If you d like to place a bet on it, just go to your Bally s Sports app and click on In-game wagers.
Fox Sports North, which has televised Twins games on cable under a variety of names almost continuously since 1989, will be rebranded as Bally s Sports Network (or something similar) this spring, perhaps as soon as baseball s scheduled Opening Day on April 1. And along with a new look will come a new facet of broadcasts of Twins, Timberwolves, Wild and Minnesota United FC games: gambling.
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