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Missouri voters authorized legal mobile and retail sports betting wagering, permitting managed books to take bets next year.

The sports betting tally measure gone by a slim majority early Wednesday morning after more than 2.9 million votes were counted.

Seven of the eight states surrounding Missouri allow mobile or retail sportsbooks. That includes Kansas and Illinois, which divided the Kansas City and St. Louis metro locations with Missouri, respectively.

Missouri is the 39th state to approve legal sportsbooks and the 31st to green light statewide mobile wagering. It is the only state to approve sports betting this year.

" Missouri has a few of the very best sports betting fans on the planet and they appeared big for their preferred groups on Election Day," Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, said in a declaration. "On behalf of all 6 of Missouri's professional sports betting franchises, we wish to thank the Missouri voters who made their voices heard by approving Amendment 2. This historical vote makes Missouri the 39th state to legalize sports betting wagering and guarantees we no longer lose important tax earnings to our neighboring states. Most significantly, the passage of Amendment 2 implies a brand-new, devoted, long-term funding stream for Missouri classrooms."

Missouri sports betting next actions

Voter approval indicates approximately 14 mobile sportsbooks could start accepting bets next year. It is not likely all 14 available licenses are utilized.

DraftKings and FanDuel financed almost every dollar of the "yes" project and will unquestionably apply to take bets in the Show Me State. They will likely each pursue the two "untethered" licenses offered without needing to partner with a Missouri brick-and-mortar casino or sports betting group (and pay an accompanying fee).

Six licenses are readily available to each Missouri casino operator, respectively. Caesars, regardless of opposing the tally procedure, will likely use its license to introduce the Caesars mobile sportsbook. Penn Entertainment, which handles ESPN Bet, and Bally's (Bally Bet) will also likely their particular books.

The other three operators are Boyd Gaming, Century Casino, and Affinity Interactive. It stays uncertain if they will launch mobile sportsbooks.

The remaining six licenses are reserved for each of the significant expert sports betting teams that play home games in Missouri: MLB's Kansas City Royals and Cardinals, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, NHL's St. Louis Blues, MLS' St. Louis City SC and the NWSL's Kansas City Current. The sports betting companies were among the most popular advocates of the tally measure.

In addition to DraftKings, FanDuel and Caesars, Missouri bettors ought to expect other prominent national brand names consisting of BetMGM, bet365, BetRivers and Fanatics to seek market access.

Launch likelihood tiers IF Missouri citizens authorize sports betting wagering:

Guarantees: FanDuel, DraftKings
Locks: BetMGM, Bally Bet
Very likely: Fanatics, bet365, ESPN BET
Are Already Live In Illinois, So Yeah(?): BetRivers, Hard Rock, Circa
Opposed Referendum But Still Might: Caesars

Missouri's tally procedure enables every Missouri casino to open retail sportsbooks on their respective residential or commercial properties. Most if not all 13 casinos managed by the 6 gambling establishment operators are expected to open in-person wagering alternatives such as wagering kiosks and possibly committed, full-service sportsbooks.

The 6 sports betting groups can also open in-person sportsbooks within or surrounding to their respective home playing places. Missouri will sign up with Illinois, Maryland, Arizona, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. among jurisdictions that permit in-stadium retail sportsbooks.

The language around the ballot measure needs the first certified sportsbooks to start accepting wagers by Dec. 1, 2025. Operators will likely deal with regulators to go live before kick-off of the fall 2025 football season, continually books' most rewarding time of the sports betting calendar.

Missouri sports betting background

The successful Missouri sports betting campaign comes despite millions in funding opposing the procedure from among the state's biggest gambling stakeholders.

Caesars spent millions of dollars to defeat the procedure. In a lot of other states that connect online sports betting with a state's brick-and-mortar gambling establishments, an operator is granted a minimum of one license per managed residential or commercial property.

In that circumstance in Missouri, Caesars would be managed at least three potential licenses, one for each casino it manages. Instead, Caesars just has one. In states with the license-per-property design, companies can either open extra in-house books or, more commonly, subcontract the license to a competitor that pays an accompanying fee in exchange.

FanDuel and DraftKings, which have roughly two-thirds of U.S. across the country sports betting wagering manage market share, could potentially have a leg up on their rivals by making the pair of untethered licenses. It remains to be seen which two books will earn these slots, however the language around the ballot step would appear to prefer the two nationwide market leaders.

Polling previously in the year showed the "yes" vote with a slight lead. Support efforts were boosted by tens of millions invested by DraftKings and FanDuel.

A series of television and radio ads concentrated on the revenue legal sportsbooks would generate for Missouri public education. Opponents, moneyed largely by Caesars, argued the fans' ads were deceptive and the tens of countless predicted dollars raised would have a negligible effect in a state that already spends billions on education every year.