Mobile sports betting license review hearings to kick off in January - MassLive.com

Bettors volition person to hold until the extremity of January to larn which businesses volition person the authoritative greenish airy from authorities regulators to connection mobile sports betting successful Massachusetts, according to a caller timeline presented Thursday.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission plans to footwear disconnected adjacent week a reappraisal of applications for what are known arsenic class 3 untethered sports betting licenses, fundamentally the businesses that privation to connection digital- oregon mobile-only wagering not connected to a casino, equine racetrack, oregon simulcasting facility.

Six companies person applied to connection mobile sports betting not tied to a brick-and-mortar cognition successful Massachusetts, including FanDuel, BetR, Bally’s Interactive, DraftKings, PointsBet, and Betway.

State instrumentality allows regulators to grant up to 7 untethered licenses aft a competitory reappraisal process, that will, successful immoderate ways, reflector the bid of hearings the committee conscionable finished up for Encore Boston Harbor, MGM Springfield, Plainridge Park Casino, BetMGM, WynnBET, and Caesars Sportsbook.

The hearings connected the untethered mobile applicants volition commencement connected Jan. 6, erstwhile officials volition invitation representatives from each six companies to attend.

At that meeting, Commission Chair Cathy Judd-Stein is expected to supply an overview of the process, caput Attorney Todd Grossman volition little the businesses connected the ineligible framework, and past regulators volition leap into the exertion from Bally’s Interactive.

A proceeding connected FanDuel is scheduled for Jan. 9, BetR connected Jan 10, DraftKings connected Jan. 11, Betway connected Jan. 13, and Pointsbet connected Jan. 17. It volition not beryllium until Jan. 19 and 20 that commissioners volition marque a last determination connected awarding immoderate of the applicants a license.

At their respective hearings, the businesses volition person a half-hour to contiguous to the committee and different half-hour to show their mobile level earlier regulators dive into a section-by-section reappraisal of the applications, according to a memo from Commission Executive Director Karen Wells.

At a Thursday hearing, regulators did not sermon a circumstantial motorboat day for mobile wagering, but person said successful the past they anticipation to person it up and moving successful aboriginal March 2023.

“It’s important for america to reiterate that the motorboat by immoderate relation is inactive strictly contingent connected regulatory support of operational readiness, and the operators indispensable walk verification and investigating processes, a rigorous investigating process, earlier immoderate bets connected their level tin beryllium placed,” Judd-Stein said.

At a proceeding past week, commissioners said in-person betting astatine Massachusetts’ 3 casinos will motorboat connected Jan. 31 aft a “soft launch” connected Jan. 30.