Connecticut to legalise sports betting
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy suggested sports betting would be legalised sooner or later in the state.
US.- The Supreme Court of the US has recently opened the sports betting game all across the country and is now up to each state’s lawmakers to decide whether they want to regulate it or not. Connecticut’s annual session has recently ended, but Gov. Dannel Malloy suggested that the segment will eventually get legalised, even as he’s not a gambling supporter.
“I need to know whether it’s the intention to include in-state, online gaming, because it would make sense to negotiate those things in one negotiation as opposed to two negotiations,” Malloy said after he met with legislative leaders to discuss how to negotiate new gambling agreements with the tribes and to organise a special session. “And I think, quite frankly, doing them together makes it more likely we would reach agreements with the two tribal nations.”
The potential regulation presents a problem for Gov. Malloy as it would need an agreement with the tribes, which may end up in a claim over exclusive rights to offer sports gambling or even the end of the revenue sharing agreement, which had the state receiving about US$270 million last year. However, it is expected that a deal will be completed as the tribes need to keep the revenue sharing as leverage to fight MGM Resorts International’s casino project in Bridgeport and Gov. Malloy is unwilling to end the revenue sharing in exchange for sports betting.
