Legal sports betting opens in Ohio as clocks turn to 2023

Sports betting is underway!

As the clocks struck midnight and 2022 turned over to 2023, the first legal sports bet was made in Ohio.

New sportsbooks at popular Northeast Ohio gambling sites like JACK Cleveland Casino and MGM Northfield Park have been preparing for this reality for more than a year.

House Bill 29, signed into law by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, made sports betting legal in Ohio, and Ohioans wasted no time exercising that right as the new year opened.

"Tonight’s a very monumental moment for us. Not just for us, but for the state of Ohio. This means a lot for us, we’ve been surrounded by states that have been taking sports betting for quite some time now, so to be able to keep that money here in Ohio and for our state, which can do so much for us, it means a lot.” said JACK Cleveland Casino's Director of PR and Communications Aleksandra Breault.

Matt Buckley, President and COO of Midwest Group for MGM Resorts, sang a similar tune when talking about the opening of sports betting in Ohio, “It’s been exciting. We’ve seen it with MGM just across the border in Michigan, we’ve seen the new types of players that are coming in. We’ve got a younger group of customers that comes in. You can hear the energy, you can feel the energy, there’s a lot of excitement, so we’re looking forward to having that right here in Northeast Ohio.”


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