The BetMGM Sportsbook at Nationals Park features 40 big-screen TVs with live odds boards. Customers can place bets with cashiers at six betting windows or use self-service kiosks.
“We’re constantly pushing the boundaries to deliver sports fans unique experiences, and that’s just what we’ve done with the new BetMGM Sportsbook at Nationals Park,” said Adam Greenblatt, CEO of BetMGM.
NorthStar will offer a Kambi-powered sportsbook to customers when online single-event wagering launches in Canada, starting in the province of Ontario, which will launch on 4 April.
“Kambi’s data-driven sportsbook and flexible technology, along with our proprietary UX approach, will give us access to the market’s most innovative and differentiated sportsbook experience,” Michael Moskowitz, chief executive officer and founding partner of NorthStar Gaming, said. “With valued partners like Kambi, our best-in-class online casino and local sportsbook brand will provide consumers with an engaging and frictionless experience.”
Kambi chief executive officer and co-founder Kristian Nylén said agreeing a deal to enter Canada was a key milestone for the supplier.
“Our partnership with NorthStar Gaming marks an important strategic milestone for Kambi as we expand into Canada’s sports betting market,” said Kristian Nylén, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Kambi.
“NorthStar Gaming is on a mission to create the most engaging online gaming and sports betting product in Canada. Thanks to our premium technology and service offering, NorthStar Gaming will be able to deliver a bespoke online sports betting experience to Canadian players and we are excited about the pending launch in Ontario and additional provinces.”
Earlier this year, NorthStar announced that igaming technology giant Playtech would provide its igaming and sports betting platform to the operator when it launches.
In an editorial, the organisation offered its opinion in anticipation of the Gambling Act Review, the next stage of which, a white paper outlining plans for reform, is expected to be published in the spring of 2022.
BMJ put forth the idea that allowing the gambling industry to be involved in decisions regarding the prevention of gambling harms represents a conflict of interest.
BMJ criticised the industry’s “downstream” approach to harm prevention, centred around providing support to those at risk rather than targeting the root causes of the issue.
BMJ said: “We do not allow tobacco companies to design tobacco control policies, yet the gambling industry, through the organisations it funds, shapes our responses to the harms.
“A public health approach would learn from the growing research on commercial determinants of health and how concepts such as corporate social responsibility are often abused.”
The BMJ’s editorial also suggested that the law should examine gambling harm in the broader context of gambling as a whole, rather than seeing gambling as a recreational activity which only becomes a problem to those who gamble “after the fun stops”.
The report added: “With a looming cost of living crisis, is it really acceptable for many families to contribute substantial amounts of their diminishing disposable income to gambling companies, exploited by pervasive advertising holding out illusory prospects of winnings?
“As accounts emerge of families forced to choose between heating their homes and feeding themselves, we cannot stand back while their hopes are exploited to benefit the industry through the “coercion of circumstance.”
BMJ also called on lawmakers to ensure that the gambling industry is responsible for proving lack of harm, as there is sufficient evidence to suggest that gambling is damaging to health.
