Earlier this year Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law sports betting legislation that went fully into effect July 1.
This comes in the wake of sports betting becoming one of the largest revenue-driven industries in both the sports and gambling spheres as well as other states legalizing sports betting of their own.
The law allows retail and online sports betting. About 80% of proceeds from the new revenue source will be deposited into a fund to “attract” another major sports team in Kansas City.
“Quite honestly, the amount of money that this bill would generate and put into that fund would not come close to being what you would need to be able to attract a major league team,” Kelly is quoted in an interview with the Kansas Reflector.
In June, it was also announced that regulators were going to share draft guidelines with the four casinos in the statey. The four casinos are in Dodge City, Kansas City, Mulvane and Pittsburg.
Currently, the only option for sports betting in Kansas is in person at casinos. It is hoped online betting will be available when the football season kicks off this fall.
Kansas was slow to join the sports betting scene.
Some of the first states to allow sports betting were Nevada and New Jersey — the gambling capitals of the country — as well as Delaware and Mississippi.
Each state’s laws also come with limitations. For example, Delaware and Mississippi require bettors to place their bets in person, whereas Nevada and New Jersey allow bettors to use their mobile devices.
“Legalizing sports betting is a common-sense solution that will keep Kansas’ money in Kansas. It’s one more way my administration is working to make Kansas the most pro-business, pro-growth state in the country,” Gov. Kelly posted on her official website.
These sports betting apps have been very popular around the country and the most successful of the apps have included the DraftKings and FanDuel Sportsbooks. Inside these apps, users have different options of what they’d like to bet on and includes different categories like over/under of total score, player points, parlay of different scenarios in a game and even head-to-head game winners.
