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Missouri voters approved legal mobile and retail sports betting, allowing regulated books to take bets next year.

The sports betting ballot step passed by a slim bulk early Wednesday morning after more than 2.9 million votes were counted.

Seven of the 8 states surrounding Missouri permit mobile or retail sportsbooks. That includes Kansas and Illinois, which divided the Kansas City and St. Louis city locations with Missouri, respectively.

Missouri is the 39th state to authorize legal sportsbooks and the 31st to green light statewide mobile sports betting. It is the only state to authorize sports betting wagering this year.

" Missouri has some of the very best sports betting fans worldwide and they revealed up big for their preferred teams on Election Day," Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, said in a declaration. "On behalf of all 6 of Missouri's professional sports betting franchises, we desire to thank the Missouri voters who made their voices heard by approving Amendment 2. This historic vote makes Missouri the 39th state to legalize sports betting wagering and guarantees we no longer lose valuable tax profits to our neighboring states. Most importantly, the passage of Amendment 2 means a brand-new, devoted, irreversible funding stream for Missouri class."

Missouri sports betting wagering next steps

Voter approval implies up to 14 mobile sportsbooks might begin accepting bets next year. It is unlikely all 14 offered licenses are utilized.

DraftKings and FanDuel financed almost every dollar of the "yes" campaign and will certainly apply to take bets in the Show Me State. They will likely each pursue the 2 "untethered" licenses readily available without needing to partner with a Missouri brick-and-mortar casino or sports betting team (and pay an accompanying cost).

Six licenses are offered to each Missouri casino operator, respectively. Caesars, in spite of opposing the ballot step, will likely use its license to introduce the Caesars mobile sportsbook. Penn Entertainment, which manages ESPN Bet, and Bally's (Bally Bet) will likewise likely release their particular books.

The other 3 operators are Boyd Gaming, Century Casino, and Affinity Interactive. It remains unclear if they will introduce mobile sportsbooks.

The remaining six licenses are scheduled for each of the major professional sports betting teams that play home games in Missouri: MLB's Kansas City Royals and Cardinals, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, NHL's St. Louis Blues, MLS' St. Louis City SC and the NWSL's Kansas City Current. The sports betting companies were among the most prominent advocates of the tally measure.

Together with DraftKings, FanDuel and Caesars, Missouri wagerers should expect other leading nationwide brands including BetMGM, bet365, BetRivers and Fanatics to seek market access.

Launch likelihood tiers IF Missouri voters authorize sports betting wagering:

Guarantees: FanDuel, DraftKings
Locks: BetMGM, Bally Bet
Likely: Fanatics, bet365, ESPN BET
Are Already Reside In Illinois, So Yeah(?): BetRivers, Acid Rock, Circa
Opposed Referendum But Still Might: Caesars

Missouri's ballot measure enables every Missouri gambling establishment to open retail sportsbooks on their particular properties. Most if not all 13 gambling establishments handled by the six casino operators are anticipated to open in-person sports betting alternatives such as wagering kiosks and potentially devoted, full-service sportsbooks.

The six sports betting teams can also open in-person sportsbooks within or adjacent to their particular home playing locations. Missouri will sign up with Illinois, Maryland, Arizona, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. among jurisdictions that allow in-stadium retail sportsbooks.

The language around the ballot procedure requires the first licensed sportsbooks to begin accepting wagers by Dec. 1, 2025. Operators will likely deal with regulators to go live before kick-off of the fall 2025 football season, perennially books' most rewarding time of the sports betting calendar.

Missouri sports betting background

The successful Missouri sports betting wagering project comes in spite of millions in financing opposing the measure from among the state's biggest sports betting stakeholders.

Caesars spent countless dollars to defeat the measure. In the majority of other states that connect online sports betting with a state's brick-and-mortar gambling establishments, an operator is given a minimum of one license per managed home.

Because situation in Missouri, Caesars would be paid for at least 3 possible licenses, one for each gambling establishment it handles. Instead, Caesars just has one. In states with the license-per-property model, companies can either open additional in-house books or, more frequently, subcontract the license to a competitor that pays an accompanying cost in exchange.

FanDuel and DraftKings, which have approximately two-thirds of U.S. across the country sports betting market share, could possibly have an upper hand on their rivals by making the pair of untethered licenses. It remains to be seen which two books will make these slots, but the language around the tally step would appear to favor the 2 national market leaders.

Polling earlier in the year revealed the "yes" vote with a slight lead. Support efforts were bolstered by 10s of millions spent by DraftKings and FanDuel.

A series of tv and radio advertisements concentrated on the profits legal sportsbooks would create for Missouri public education. Opponents, funded mostly by Caesars, argued the supporters' ads were deceptive and the tens of countless projected dollars raised would have a minimal effect in a state that already spends billions on education each year.