Joe Horn, a Louisiana fan favorite when he played for the NFL’s New siege of Orleans Saints, placed the 1st effectual sports bet in tell chronicle on Wed at the Paragon Casino Resort, according to the USA Today Network.
Paragon Casino Resort began accepting bets on Wed at 3 pm. The gambling casino is on tribal solid ground in Marksville, nigh 90 miles NW of Baton Rouge, the capital letter city.
Horn’s wager was a seven-team parlay, according to a tweet from USA Today Network reporter Greg Hilburn.
On his Twitter feed, Hilburn noted that Paragon, the world-class cassino to open up a sound sportsbook inward Louisiana, does non shine below tell jurisdiction.
Paragon is an American Indian casino. Thus, it’s non regulated past the Louisiana Gaming Commission and the body politic collects no revenue,” Hilburn tweeted.
The sportsbook at Paragon, called The Draft Room, is being operated in partnership with Betfred Sports.
The Draft Room features theater seating, a restaurant, and bar, 112 TV screens. and threesome VIP “fan caves” for buck private groups, according to nola.com.
Marshall Pieritem, chairman of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, said he is “thrilled to facilitate guide inwards sports betting to our state.” The tribe owns the Paragon hotel-casino.
Other Sportsbooks Opening Soon
The LA Gaming Control Board is expected to assignment sports-betting licenses shortly to commercial-grade properties that it regulates.
Louisiana is place to 13 riverboat casinos, unity land-based cassino inward New Orleans, and quaternary racinos — gymnastic horse tracks with slots.
Gov. Saint John Bel Jonathan Edwards (D) this summertime signed legislating legalizing sports betting in the state. It will take burden at commercial gambling halls erstwhile the Control Board sets the rules to regularize and taxation the industry. The new law of nature allows sports betting in the 55 of 64 parishes that approved it during last year’s election.
The Control Board has targeted the settle football game flavour to launch sports betting. type A hoped-for scratch appointment inward September was delayed past Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 violent storm that made landfall S of New siege of Orleans in tardily August. The lethal hurricane knocked out powerfulness crossways the region, forcing casinos on the Gulf Coast to come together temporarily.
Once sports betting is upwards and running at commercial message casinos inward Louisiana, bettors will live allowed to place wagers in person at cassino sportsbooks. Smartphones and other nomadic devices also will follow allowed in betting on unrecorded athletic events. Kiosks will live useable inward placing bets inner bars and restaurants that help alcohol.
Bordering States Mull Mobile Betting
Louisiana will live the only when nation inwards its quick vicinity allowing bettors to enjoyment their smartphones to position bets. Nationwide, the majority of sports bets are made on roving devices, such as smartphones.
In Arkansas, Gov. Asa Anne Hutchinson (R) recently told Casino.org he would be supportive of nomadic sports betting if the AR Racing Commission puts appropriate rules inward place, including geofencing, which restricts betting to a defined geographic area. Arkansas’ trinity commercial-grade casinos get sportsbooks with betting windows and kiosks that allow for on-site wagering.
Jay McDaniel, the freshly named say MS Gaming Commission executive director director, lately said he expects the commonwealth Legislature next year to read up the issue of peregrine sports betting. Magnolia State is rest home to 26 commercial-grade casinos. On-site sports betting is allowed interior the casinos.