Before approving sports betting last August, it took Massachusetts politicians more than 4½ years to map out a plan.
It took the Massachusetts Gaming Commission a little under half a year (174 days) to review, engineer, assemble, and test all that was needed before legal wagers on the Super Bowl and other sports events could start pouring in at the state’s three casinos beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
MGC chair Cathy Judd-Stein said she and the four other commissioners, along with the 100-plus members of the MGC staff, encountered no insurmountable curveballs over the course of reviewing thousands of pages of licensee applications and supplemental material as they hammered out more than 250 regulations and held more than 75 public meetings.
