Admin December 23, 2024
Wyoming sports betting updates
Wyoming marshaled its resources quickly and efficiently on its way to legalizing sports betting. State lawmakers, in conjunction with the WGC, introduced sports wagering legislation, approved mobile betting, set rules, and launched its program all within the same calendar year.
Wyoming’s path toward legalized sports betting is illustrated here:
Nov. 25, 2024: Wyoming will crack down on athlete harassment with new punishment, which will place people on the state’s involuntary exclusion list. This comes after concerns over increased harassment by bettors losing prop bets.
Oct. 1, 2024: Wyoming regulators launch a gaming feasibility study.
July 12, 2024: Wyoming delays its decision on banning college player props.
May 29, 2024: Fanatics Sportsbook launches in Wyoming, increasing the number of legal operators in the state to five. This is the 21st state that Fanatics Sportsbook is now live in.
May 9, 2024: Wyoming takes a step toward banning college player prop betting, largely due to the harassment of student-athletes.
Jan. 25, 2024: PrizePicks adds new peer-to-peer game in Wyoming and three other U.S. states — PrizePicks Arena.
March 29, 2023: Wyoming sports betting adds DK Horse, the recently launched DraftKings horse racing app, ahead of the Kentucky Derby.
Feb. 21, 2023: Amendments to the state’s sports betting law require vendor licenses for server hosts and sports integrity monitoring services. Changes are also made to the language around the deduction of promos from taxable revenue and operators’ ability to carry over losses to offset taxes.
Aug. 2, 2022: Caesars Sportsbook goes live in Wyoming, making it the state’s fourth active legal sportsbook.
May 31, 2022: The Wyoming Gaming Commission reports $9.9 million in total betting handle for April 2022.
March 10, 2022: FanDuel debuts in the state, becoming Wyoming’s third legal online sportsbook.
Feb. 3, 2022: PointsBet is approved as the fourth sports betting operator in Wyoming. The operator expects to launch in Spring 2022.
Nov. 22, 2021: Wyoming gaming regulators approved FanDuel to launch sports betting operations, but no go-to-market date was shared. It’s likely that FanDuel’s mobile app will go live within a few weeks.
Oct. 21, 2021: The Cowboy State’s gaming commission expects to add a third sports betting operator within the next month.
Sept. 1, 2021: Legal Wyoming sports betting arrives as two sportsbooks go live online.
August 2021: The Wyoming Gaming Commission approves a set of online sports betting rules, paving the way for the launch of mobile sports betting across Wyoming.
July 2021: Officials made applications available for online Wyoming sports betting operators and corresponding vendors.
June 9, 2021: The Wyoming Gaming Commission finalized the rules for online sports wagering. Gov. Mark Gordon submitted the rules, which required a 45-day public comment period. The measures were put into place to accommodate a September 2021 launch date.
April 5, 2021: Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon (R) signs the state’s mobile-only sports betting bill (HB 133) into law. Wyoming earned the distinction of being the first state to implement legalized sports betting in 2021.
March 2021: The Wyoming Senate passes HB133, the state’s online sports betting bill, by a margin of 24-5. Gov. Mark Gordon had to put his signature on the bill for sports betting legalization to come into effect.
February 2020: Wyoming Rep. Tom Walters introduces HB225, a bill to recognize online Wyoming sports betting. The bill is defeated by a vote of 32-27 in the Wyoming House of Representatives. HB225 centered around an online-only system with unlimited sportsbook operators.
May 2018: SCOTUS overturns the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which opened the door for states to set their own sports betting laws.
