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Derek Stevens went from selling car parts to becoming the well-outfitted carnival barker of Las Vegas. His affinity for old Vegas charm and building big shiny things culminated in the opening of the Circa Resort and Casino in October, 2020.
Read more at PlayUSA:
https://www.playusa.com/circa-las-vegas-visionary-derek-stevens-interview/
https://www.playusa.com/derek-stevens-circa-las-vegas-resort-casino-sportsbook-expansion/

Sports bettors are so eager to have something to throw a few bucks at that they've been wagering on Ukraine ping pong and that's apparently fixed.
But what about the daily fantasy players? Can those Madden sims tide them over forever.
Adam Wexler, CEO of PrizePicks surveys the landscape and drafts an assessment, from a pizza joint in Asheville, N.C. You can almost smell the pie.
Also, does his company want to offer sports bets one day like DraftKings and FanDuel?
SPOILER: Yes. Listen anyway.

Jacob Pomrenke of the Society for American Baseball Research lends his considerable knowledge and passion to the topics of how baseball coped with previous national dilemmas, the Tigers adding a sportsbook as a corporate partner - shattering a centuries-long taboo - and the need to re-name the Atlanta and Cleveland franchises.
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Story at PlayUSA.
https://www.playusa.com/bookmaker-odds-on-sports-novelties-during-pandemic/
The shutdown of traditional sports by COVID-19 has made oddities like Ukranian table tennis and Belarussian soccer mainstream. How do the major sportsbook get up to speed to offer smart lines?
Johnny Avello (DraftKings), Nick Bogdanovich (William Hill) Jeffrey Benson (Circa Sports) and Andrew Mannino (PointsBet) tell you.

The NBA is going to Disney World before anyone even wins a championship, the NFL and NHL are going forward with plans to return to a new normal and even with Major League Baseball going about destroying itself, eSports’ cameo as a major sports betting option in North America figures to soon be over.
That doesn’t mean that the wildly popular, much-hyped next-greatest-thing-of-the-future will have failed when COVID-19 shutdowns end and eSports likely recedes as a betting market as compared to traditional sports. Because eSports’ time may not even have arrived yet.
Mark Balch, head of product and partnerships at Bayes Esports Solutions, a joint venture of Sportradar and Bayes Holding, sees tangible progress for the billion-dollar industry that can be accounted for in dollars and participation figures.
Read more at https://www.playusa.com/new-esports-betting-popularity-establishes-foundation-for-future/

Cal Spears of RotoGrinders and Daniel Kustelski of Chalkine Sports lay out the past, present and future of Tennessee's complicated odyssey in legalizing sports betting.

Reading material:
https://www.gambling.com/news/tennessee-sports-betting-sees-delay-as-rules-vote-postponed-2211600

https://www.gambling.com/news/tennessee-needs-to-turn-to-experts-to-fix-proposed-rules-2184600

https://www.gambling.com/news/tennessee-sports-betting-market-positioned-for-payoff-1927500

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