The Sports Betting Alliance, whose members include DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics and BetMGM, said Thursday that Rhode Island accounts placed more than 4 million bets in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York over a year, as the group prepares a new push to open the state’s single-app mobile market.
The bets came from nearly 103,000 Rhode Island accounts from July 2025 to July 2026, the alliance said, according to WJAR. Bettors must be physically located in a state to place an online bet there.
“Every one of the 4.23 million bets Rhode Islanders placed in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York is revenue that could have stayed in Rhode Island,” alliance President and CEO Joe Maloney said in a statement. “Expanding the state’s regulated market would keep those bettors, and the revenue and protections that come with them, here at home.”
The alliance claims Rhode Island could collect an additional $50 million over the next decade under the expansion proposal lawmakers considered this year.
