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BOSTON (May 1, 2020) – DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) today debuted its digital sportsbook in Colorado, providing sports fans ages 21 and over in the Centennial State with the nation’s top-rated sports betting platform to wager on their favorite leagues, players, and sporting events. Colorado marks the seventh state to offer DraftKings’ mobile and online product. As a leader in the sports betting space, DraftKings Sportsbook offers a plethora of innovative and engaging content through traditional wagering opportunities on sports games and events as well as free-to-play Pools contests around pop-culture, eSports and trivia games with thousands of dollars in prizing up for grabs daily.
“We are thrilled to introduce Colorado’s passionate sports fans to DraftKings Sportsbook, the nation’s favorite mobile and online sports betting platform,” said Matt Kalish, co-founder and president, DraftKings North America. “Boasting a wide array of distinct sports categories and daily free-to-play games, customers across the state will always have a number of year-round, skin-in-the-game opportunities to engage with the premier sports betting experience DraftKings prides itself on.”
DraftKings has remained dynamic with new product launches across non-traditional offerings such as eSports, simulations, popular culture and more. Free-to-play pools and parlay competitions, in which participants choose sides from a set menu of outcomes, have been especially adaptive as fans look for fun diversions with topical contests ranging from Shark Tank and Survivor to Chopped along with weather predictions, popularity pools and more. DraftKings has seen almost 1-million entries across all these Pools, and a complete list of current offers can be accessed here.
Rep. Alec Garnett, Rep. Patrick Neville, Sen. Kerry Donovan and Sen. John Cooke were instrumental in bringing sports betting to Colorado.
DraftKings has broadened its partnership with Twin River Worldwide Holdings, Inc. at recently acquired Mardi Gras Casino in Blackhawk and will be launching a state-of-the-art retail sportsbook in the future. The newest DraftKings Sportsbook will stand as the company’s seventh retail location across the country, with locations in Iowa (Wild Rose – three locations), Mississippi (Scarlet Pearl), New Jersey (Resorts) and New York (del Lago).
DraftKings’ sportsbook and daily fantasy products are available via iOS and Android here.
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DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company created to fuel the competitive spirits of sports fans with products that range across daily fantasy, regulated gaming and digital media. Headquartered in Boston, and launched in 2012 by Jason Robins, Matt Kalish and Paul Liberman, DraftKings is the only U.S.-based vertically integrated sports betting operator. DraftKings is a multi-channel provider of sports betting and gaming technologies, powering sports and gaming entertainment for 50+ operators across more than 15 regulated U.S. and global markets, including Arkansas and Oregon in the U.S. DraftKings’ Sportsbook offers mobile and retail betting for major U.S. and international sports and operates in the United States pursuant to regulations in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. DraftKings’ daily fantasy sports product is available in 8 countries internationally with 15 distinct sports categories. DraftKings is the official daily fantasy partner of the NFL as well as an authorized gaming operator of the MLB and NBA.
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Legal Iowa sports betting is here.
The state legalized wagering as of May 2019 and went live with retail and online betting in August 2019. As of January 2021, you can sign up for online sportsbooks from anywhere in the state.
Read on for more about the present and future of Iowa sports betting.
Online sports betting launched in Iowa in August 2019. And partnerships between Iowa casinos and sportsbooks have resulted in a continually growing number of apps in the state.
You can register your account without having to visit a casino and complete the entire process at home, or anywhere within the state of Iowa. Up until Jan. 1, 2021, patrons were required to visit one of the casinos attached to the sports betting app to register for mobile Iowa sports betting accounts in-person.
App/Website | Launch date |
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BetMGM Sportsbook | January 2021 |
DraftKings Sportsbook | February 2020 |
PointsBet | November 2019 |
Hard Rock Sioux City sportsbook | December 2019 |
Q Casino sportsbook | November 2019 |
Elite sportsbook | August 2019 |
William Hill | August 2019 |
After launching a daily fantasy sports app in Iowa in October 2019, DraftKings became the sixth sports betting app in Iowa in February. Accounts can be funded by methods that include credit/debit cards and PayPal.
An Australian company that broke into the US market in New Jersey early in 2019, PointsBet launched an app in Iowa in November.
In addition to traditional wagers, PointsBet offers a unique feature called PointsBetting wagers, a high-risk type of wager that gives players the opportunity to win more depending on how “right” they are.
The first sports betting app to open in Iowa in August 2019, William Hill has done well in the state. William Hill operates with four casino partners in the state: Prairie Meadows Racetrack & Casino, Lakeside Casino, Isle Casino Waterloo and Isle Casino Bettendorf.
The US market leader has a retail sports betting presence at Diamond Jo Casino and went live with its app in September of 2020.
The fifth mobile app to open in Iowa, Hard Rock’s betting platform is operated by Gaming Innovation Group (GIG).
Q Casino is self-operating its sports betting app on an IGT’s platform.
The second sports betting app up in Iowa in late August 2019, Elite operates on a Bet.Works platform. Elite Casino Sportsbook is partnered with three casinos: Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, Rhythm City Casino in Davenport or Grand Falls Casino in Larchwood.