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| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 48 | 24 | 3:45 PM | 12:45 PM | PDT | |||
| LS | LONE STAR PARK | 72 | 0 | 3:35 PM | 2:35 PM | CDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 0 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | |||
| WO | WOODBINE | 72 | 48 |
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A man looks at betting lines for the day's sporting events before placing his bet in a parking lot just off the Bayonne Bridge, which divides New York and New Jersey.AP
Going mobile appears to be a sure bet for local wagering — and that includes New Yorkers looking for a little action.
In January, mobile sports betting in New Jersey outpaced land-based betting by about 4-1, according to New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement numbers.
“The vast majority of our bets in New Jersey are mobile,” said James Chisholm, a DraftKings spokesman. “We are a mobile-first company there and in other places.”
In New York, sports betting isn’t legal yet. As a result, Chisholm said, New York bettors download all the DraftKings information to wager, and then go to a border town like Fort Lee and bet.
Others, he added, use illegal operations — but possibly not for much longer. New York state, Chisholm said, is well aware of the lost tax revenue from sports betting.
As long as GPS identifies the bettors as being physically in Jersey, they are allowed to place their bets.
Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
DraftKings, in a report, said 90 percent of gambling activity is coming through its sportsbook app. It is averaging 53,000 bets per day, beating company projections by 300 percent.
Betting on games is a large part of this growing market. Legal sports betting generated some $270 million in the United States in 2017. Still, states have a long way to go. Revenue generated by illegal operators is estimated at $3 billion a year, according to Eilers & Krejcik Gaming research.
Using mobile platforms, Eilers & Krejcik added, is critical to cutting into the illegal market. In its recent survey, 71 percent of bettors said they would not move their bets to a legal market if restricted to only a land-based operation.
Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
In January, the New York State Gaming Commission approved sports betting regulations that will allow four casinos to build sports wagering books that become effective this spring.
A bill is also pending in the state legislature that would create a task force to study mobile sports betting.
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