With mobile sports betting on track to begin in Massachusetts on March 10, the Gaming Commission recently got its legal team, lawyers from another firm and an expert on tribal law together to determine exactly where the boundaries of Massachusetts are so they can tell sportsbooks precisely where mobile bettors are allowed to wager from.
State law requires that all sports bets be placed by someone (or from a device) physically located in Massachusetts. With mobile betting on the horizon, Executive Director Karen Wells said this week that the Gaming Commission had been getting questions from operators about the official bounds of the Bay State so they can put up geofences to block out-of-state bets.
