A lot can happen in a year. And this past year, a lot occurred in the legal sports betting wagering and iGaming market - and then some.

A referendum in Missouri, high-profile betting scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college gamer prop wagering are just a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.
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So, to revitalize our readers' memories (along with our own), Covers chosen as soon as again to assemble the leading stories of the year. The sluggish news days were scarce, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

Any state authorizing legal sports betting wagering is a huge deal. How Missouri did it - and what comes next - makes it among the year's most important stories.

Missouri authorized retail and mobile sportsbooks by roughly 3,000 votes out of almost three million cast. This was not just the closest margin of any gaming-related measure this election cycle however the closest in any state because the Supreme Court overruled the federal sports betting ban in 2018.

After reviewing the last main outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can state - formally - that the sports betting wagering ballot procedure has actually maintained enough assistance from Election Day tallies to pass