Competition Will Be Fierce<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe striking down of PASPA would give individual states the right to choose whether to legalize and regulate sports betting or not. Those that do are likely to give first dibs to their existing licensed operators, which means DFS would probably have to partner with land-based casinos within each individual state.<\/p>\n
But the competition for those partnerships is likely to be fierce. As ESPN suggested in an article in May, the companies that come to dominate a future sports betting market may not be the ones traditionally associated with gambling in the US. Verizon is a case in point.<\/p>\n
A disparate array of companies including Microsoft, Sony, Reuters and Wall Street financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, all have sports betting-related patents pending, ESPN noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s official: a DraftKings’ sports betting platform will happen if the US Supreme Court strikes down the federal ban later this year. CEO Jason Robins dropped the highly anticipated bombshell to the Associated Press on Thursday. DraftKings would \u201ccertainly be going after it,\u201d he said. I think the Supreme Court \u2013 I’m hopeful \u2013 will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":69064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,14007,60,13592,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
DraftKings' Sports Betting is on the cards says CEO, Jason Robins<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n