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Sports Betting Was The Big Winner Of The Night

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Off-year elections don’t typically create a lot of headlines, but if you’re a supporter of legal Sports Betting, Tuesday night was must-see TV. And if you tuned in, you weren’t disappointed.

Sports Betting scored big wins in New Hampshire, Colorado, and Kentucky during Tuesday night’s elections, and gaming expansions were also approved in Texas, Virginia, and Indiana.

Here’s a recap of what happened in each locale.

Five New Hampshire Cities Say Yes to Sports Betting
Nine New Hampshire cities went to the ballot box to vote on Sports Betting on Tuesday night.

Voting was close across much of the state, and at the end of the night, Sports Betting scored victories in five of the nine cities,
including the heavily populated (by New Hampshire standards) Manchester, which also sits just across the Massachusetts border.

Here is the full list of cities that approved Sports Betting:

  1. Berlin
  2. Claremont
  3. Franklin (approved Sports Betting during city elections held on October 1)
  4. Laconia
  5. Manchester
  6. Somersworth
A seventh city, Seabrook, is expected to vote in March.

That’s the good news. The bad news is voters in the cities of Concord, Dover, and Nashua said no to Sports Betting, as did voters in Rochester.

The state is still working out the logistics, but the plan is to open ten retail Sportsbooks and five online/mobile Sportsbooks. Contracts have been tentatively awarded to DraftKings and Intralot, with a rollout expected in early 2020.

Kentucky Gets a Pro-Gaming Governor
In the Kentucky governor’s race, Democrat Martin Beshear came out on top of Republican incumbent Matt Bevin in a very close race.

What makes this result fascinating from a gambling standpoint was an attempt by Bevin to highlight Beshear’s support for expanded gambling as a major policy difference between the two candidates.

In a recent debate, Beshear defended his support of expanded gambling on economic grounds:
 

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