Sports betting launches in Ohio in 2023: Here’s how companies are preparing

Sunday, November 20, 2022 5:29 AM
  • Mike Dardis, WLWT

Sports gambling, it used to be legal in Las Vegas only. Indiana starting rolling in the fall of 2019 and now sports gambling goes live in Ohio starting Jan. 1.

A total of $58 billion was legally bet on sports in America last year, that’s up from only $22 billion in 2020, and those are just the legal wagers

As a business, sports gambling is growing like a summer weed. The president of Hard Rock Cincinnati, George Goldoff, is happy to be bringing a slice of sin city to Cincinnati.

“I think it’s going to be one of the premier jurisdictions. All of the predictions say so. We’re going to have something I call a ‘man cave in the sky.’ Which is in our mezzanine level of the Hard Rock Café,” Goldoff said.