Fanatics Announces Missouri Sports Betting Access Deal
Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile sports wagering market gain access to through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, the 2 groups revealed Monday.
Fanatics Sportsbook secured Missouri mobile wagering access through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, getting rights for both online and retail sportsbooks.
- The deal makes Fanatics the eighth operator with Missouri market gain access to, signing up with DraftKings, Circa, FanDuel, bet365, BetMGM, Caesars, and PENN/ESPN BET.
- Fanatics, now a top-five U.S. sportsbook after getting PointsBet in 2024, continues to broaden nationwide while contending with FanDuel and DraftKings.
The offer offers Fanatics a course to statewide mobile betting in Missouri. It ends up being the 8th book to protect a license or announce a market gain access to partner. Missouri requires all however two of its sportsbooks to partner with either a state professional sports team or a brick-and-mortar gambling establishment before it can earn a mobile betting license.
Fanatics will also brand retail sportsbooks at Boyd's 2 Missouri properties, Ameristar Kansas City and Ameristar St. Charles, near St. Louis.
The partnership comes a month after Boyd offered its 5% ownership stake in FanDuel back to the sportsbook's parent business, Flutter Entertainment. Boyd had actually previously partnered with FanDuel in multiple states for retail and online sports wagering gain access to.
Financial regards to the deal were not announced. Boyd had gotten several million dollars yearly in previous partnership handle FanDuel.
Boyd runs a mobile sportsbook in its home state of Nevada. It does not appear it prepares to open the book in Missouri.
Fanatics' mobile sportsbook is live in 22 states and Washington D.C., and the business also handles retail books in 8 states.
Fanatics has actually emerged as among the nation's 5 highest-grossing sportsbooks across the country because it acquired PointsBet in 2024. Though it tracks U.S. market share leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, state profits reports reveal Fanatics is earning greater market share than other leading books such as BetMGM and Caesars.
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Fanatics will sign up with a congested field of sportsbooks that more than 99% of all legal bets positioned nationwide.
DraftKings secured among Missouri's 2 "untethered" mobile sports wagering licenses, which enable it market access without partnering with a sports team or gambling establishment. Circa Sportsbook protected the other untethered license.
FanDuel, the U.S. national leader by gross video gaming profits and handle, revealed market access prepares with MLS club St. Louis CITY soon after it lost out on the untethered license to Circa. Previously, bet365 revealed a market gain access to handle MLB's St. Louis Cardinals.
Four other teams might partner with a sportsbook: the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, MLB's Kansas City Royals, the NHL's St. Louis Blues, and the NWSL's Kansas City Current.
BetMGM revealed an online and retail market access handle Century Casinos. BetMGM parent operator MGM Resorts does not handle a gambling establishment in Missouri.
Missouri sportsbooks that have actually received, used or announced plans to acquire a Missouri mobile sports wagering license:
bet365.
BetMGM.
Caesars.
Circa.
DraftKings.
ESPN BET.
Fanatics.
FanDuel.
Underdog
Caesars and PENN Entertainment, which both handle 3 Missouri casinos, announced strategies to release their respective mobile sportsbooks in the state. Both Caesars and ESPN BET have market access due to their associations with state gambling establishments.
Underdog is the just other sportsbook operator to look for a Missouri sports wagering license since Aug. 25. The company has not revealed its market access partner.
BetRivers, based in neighboring Illinois, is amongst the other leading prospects for a Missouri license. Hard Rock, which manages an Illinois gambling establishment and has released its mobile sportsbook in the state, might also seek a license.
Bally's is the only other Missouri casino operator that manages a mobile sportsbook. The business has not openly revealed launch plans in the state.