If the first 20 days of regulated sports betting in the state of Delaware are any indication, sports betting in America is going to be a very lucrative enterprise. In less than three weeks, the state’s three casinos have already taken more than $7 million in wagers and pocketed over $1 million in profits from the venture.
According to a report on LegalSportsReport.com, the total revenue from the state’s first three weeks of legal betting was $1,000,247.
Of that final take $125,000 went to Scientific Games, William Hill and StadiumTech for providing the technology that runs the local sportsbooks. That’s the result of their original deal with the state, which provides them with 12.5percent of the gross revenue.
An additional 40 percent, or about