Ever since Governor Hogan signed sports betting into law, things have really heated up!īut the process to bring legalized and locally-based sportsbooks to Maryland bettors is much longer. Most of the intense action happened over just a few months between May 2021 and December of that same year.
Here is a compressed version of the history of the legalization of sports betting in Maryland. Maryland and the remainder of the DMV is a professional and collegiate sports hotbed, so the Maryland betting market is expected to be vast when it goes live.
Maryland is home to the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL, who are always contenders in the National Football League, as well as a huge community partaking in daily fantasy sports contests. Every state that recently passed sports betting legislation has this goal to take advantage of the profits that come from football season. Maryland’s goal for retail sports betting is to launch by week one of the NFL season, which is a realistic possibility.
