West Virginia ready to launch sports betting

The state will have its first sports wagers placed next Saturday at the Hollywood Casino in Charles Town.

US.- The sports betting segment is starting to get rolled out in the US, and West Virginia is set to be among the first states to host it. The West Virginia Lottery Commission is ready for the first sports bets to be placed Saturday at Hollywood Casino in Charles Town as the state is all set to launch the segment

“Our plan was to keep working on this, as we might have to add to it,” legal counsel for the Lottery Danielle Boyd said. “At some point we’ll get a final document and go through the steps like we do now for table games where the casinos will request an individual change as needed or as desired. Right now, we’re working on the universal document that all the casinos will abide by,” she added.

David Bradley, deputy director of table games, also said that sports betting internal controls would operate similarly to how table games are regulated and told commissioners: “What we’ve done so far is send this document out to the casinos and asked them for their internal controls. We’ve been reviewing all their internal controls to see if they meet the standard we’ve set forth. As we’re getting them up and running, there may be something that we have to type up or something we have to take a second look at.”

The sports betting segment will still be land-based as it begins to operate but the phone app is set to be launched in the next 90 days.

“The commission is tasked with approving the internal control standards,” said Kenneth Greear, chairman of the Lottery Commission. “As we see the opportunity to modify those once we have approved them, then logic would tell you that there would be some flexibility that the Lottery would have to implement those until such time the as the Lottery goes through the approval process in the final stage.”