SPORTS BETTING
Puerto Rico – Casino del Mar de La Concha gets approval for Super Bowl betting
By Phil - 11 February 2022
Puerto Rico’s Gaming Commission has granted a temporary license to the Casino del Mar de La Concha Resort so that its customers can bet on the Super Bowl this Sunday. The announcement was made by the Commission’s executive director, Orlando Rivera Carrión.
“Today we are granting the first sports betting operator license in Puerto Rico to Casino del Mar and the Condado Hotel Service Group, Condado La Concha. It is temporary, but it is a license that allows sports betting with the Super Bowl on Sunday,” Rivera Carrion said.
Initially, players will only be able to bet on the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams at the Casino facilities. Online betting will be enabled later. The Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams meet on Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, for Super Bowl LVI.
The director of the board said that sports betting could generate as much as US$60m annually for the Government of Puerto Rico. In September 2021 MGM and Casino del Mar at La Concha Resort announced that they had agreed to a deal that would see BetMGM open a sportsbook at the resort’s casino as well as offer online sports wagering across the island. BetMGM said it would expand its retail and mobile sports betting offerings to Puerto Rico. In November Puerto Rico’s Gaming Commission announced that it had submitted Sports Betting Regulation Number 9316 and Fantasy Contest Regulation Number 9317 to the State Department. The new regulations are part of Law 81 2019 The Betting Committee Act. Both bills went into effect in November. As a result of the two new regulations the commission announced that it would be authorized to begin the evaluation processes for those wanting to offer sportsbetting and fantasy sports on November 22.
