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Over the last two years, the Kentucky state legislature has attempted to push through sports betting legislation. To date, every attempt has been shot down. This is a problem for the residents of Kentucky who have been waiting their entire lives for a chance to legally wager on the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team from home.
Currently, Kentucky is surrounded by three states (Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee) that have already legalized some version of sports betting, be it retail, online, or both. Additionally, it is now looking very likely that neighboring Ohio will also be taking the sports betting plunge in the near future. That leaves Kentucky sports bettors with a lot of out-of-state options if they really want to legally bet on sports. That's of no benefit to the state because it is losing out on hundreds of millions in tax revenue every year.
There is one overriding issue that seems to be stalling attempts to pass sports betting legislation in Kentucky. This is a state that is dominated by the horse racing industry. Everyone on the planet has heard of the historic Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville. That's where the best three-year-old colts and fillies gather each May for the running of the Kentucky Derby. It turns out the horse racing industry is not too fond of splitting revenue with bookmakers.
There is currently some legislation going through the legislature that looks like it might have a chance of passing, maybe by February of 2022.
Online Gambling News in Kentucky
Circa Sports Joins the Kentucky Sports Betting Community
October 3, 2023 – September 28, 2023, will go down in Kentucky history as the day it all finally came into being. That's the day the first legal sports bet was accepted in the state. This is a historical moment in th...
BetMGM Joins the Kentucky Sports Betting Community
September 1, 2023 – When word went earlier this summer that the Kentucky legislature had passed sports betting legislation, the excitement in the state was electric. It was enough to pique the interest of America's top...
Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Announces Sports Betting Launch Dates
July 25, 2023 – In June 2023, the Kentucky State Senate passed the state's new sports betting legislation by a final vote of 25-12. Twenty-three (23) votes were needed for passage. Without pause, Governor Andy Besh...
Kentucky Inching Closer to Sports Betting Launch
July 12, 2023 – There was great joy in the state of Kentucky when Governor Andy Beshear signed HB 551 into law in March 2023. HB 551 is the state's robust sports betting legislation, something that Kentucky residen...
How the Kentucky Sports Betting Bill Almost Didn't Pass
April 25, 2023 – It was five years in the making. In anticipation of SCOTUS removing the U.S. sports betting ban in 2018, the Kentucky legislature went to work on sports betting legislation in 2017. Due to a lot of lo...
Kentucky Governor Beshear Sees Sports Betting Launching by September
April 18, 2023 – Residents in Kentucky have every reason to be excited by the recent passing of sports betting legislation. It was more than two years in the making and long overdue as surrounding states like Indiana,...
It's Official: Kentucky Passes Sports Betting Legislation
April 7, 2023 – The Senate took discussions related to HB 551 right down to the wire. On the final day of the current legislative session, state Senators finally gave a big thumbs up to the sports betting legislation...
DraftKings to Add Horse Race Wagering Platform
April 5, 2023 – DraftKings is one of the few U.S. online gambling operators to have their hands in pretty much every online wagering market. That includes having the world's premier Daily Fantasy Sports platform to g...
Sports Betting News From Kentucky and Georgia
March 11, 2023 – This past week, major news related to the legalization of sports betting in Kentucky and Georgia was delivered to the public. For the residents in one state, it was good news. For residents in the o...
Kentucky and North Dakota are Teeing Up Sports Betting Legislation
January 17, 2023 – With the start of a new year, there promises to be even more states looking to join the ranks of states that have legalized sports betting for their residents. Among the states that are on the brink o...
Sports Gambling Bill Fails in Kentucky
April 19, 2022 – When House Bill 606 passed the Kentucky House of Representatives, there was a glimmer of hope that online poker and sports betting would become a reality for residents of the state. Unfortunately, t...
Kentucky Online Gambling Legislation Passes House and Moves to Senate
March 25, 2022 – By a vote of 58-30, the Kentucky House passed House Bill 606. By the passage of this bill, various forms of online gambling moved one step closer to becoming a reality for the residents of the state...
Kentucky Inches Closer to Sports Betting Legislation / Super Bowl Data Coming Out
February 18, 2022 – Over the past couple of years, the Kentucky legislature has made several attempts to pass sports betting legislation. At every turn to date, those efforts fail because of opposition in the House. Th...
Kentucky Will Try Once Again for Online Poker in 2020
March 13, 2020 – Kentucky is a state that has been slow to jump on the bandwagon of legalized online betting. In 2019 a measure was introduced in the state legislature that would have made allowances for online spor...
Kentucky Governor Waking Up to Reality About Sports and Online Gambling
January 23, 2020 – With each passing state that passes legislation to legalize sports betting and online gambling for its residents, a new state steps forward to capture the spotlight. In recent weeks, the state of...
Kentucky Delays the Legalization of Online Poker and Sports Betting
April 3, 2019 – It appears that residents of Kentucky will have to wait until 2020 to play poker and bet sports online for real money. The Blue Grass State was poised to become the fifth state to fully legalize mul...
Kentucky Moves to Legalize Online Poker and Sports Betting
February 13, 2019 – A US state with a long history of gambling opposition has taken steps to legalize online poker and sports betting. Legislators in Kentucky have introduced HB 175. The bill would make it legal for Ke...
The First Online Poker Legalization Opportunity Of 2019?
December 4, 2018 – We are not quite done with 2018 just yet, but online poker advocates are already looking forward to the new year. They are primarily concerned with trying to figure out which states may be in play f...
WatchandWager Enters the Stretch in Kentucky
February 17, 2017 – The online horse racing industry has a new player in town, that's towns all over the Bluegrass state of Kentucky. The "WatchandWager" online horse racing site has finally announced it is "open for b...
Amaya will appeal Kentucky penalty
December 27, 2015 – The number 1 online poker provider, Amaya, is being forced to deal with Kentucky’s law. The company is now facing the penalty that Kentucky has brought up once again, a consequence from the B...
Kentucky receives bill to ban Internet cafes from offering sweepstakes games
February 16, 2015 – Republican Senator Mike Wilson does not seem to like what is going on inside of the Internet Cafes. The senator has started a fight against Java Cafes, but only against those that offer some so...
Kentucky receives anti online gambling bill from its State Senator
December 29, 2014 – KY State Senator Mike Wilson does not seem to be very happy with the idea of legalizing the online gambling market although, this time, the State Senator seems to have different reasons to propose...
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