The first two days of legal online sports gambling in New York saw 2½ times the number of wagers as the previous highest state launch, Pennsylvania, geoComply’s Chad Kornett told Sports Handle‘s Mark Saxon.

“Anyone that is trying to use any such a tool is going to be very disappointed. “We have a large team of people dedicated to researching and being on top of the latest spoofing risks, fake location apps, that type of thing one may try to use to circumvent our systems.” said GeoComply Managing Director of Gaming Lindsay Slader. In total, NY saw over 17M checks for their first weekend.Ĭheck out this video of #geolocation volume! /FylPc2BpUQ The first 36 hours of #SportsBetting in New York was LEGENDARY. In the video below, red pin marks indicate attempts to bet outside the borders of New York State. GeoComply was able to track all of the wagers to uphold geographic compliance within the state, and it provided some staggering statistics. 8 in New York state, which shares a border and waterways with Ontario. GeoComply and New York’s launchįour sportsbooks - FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars, and BetRivers - were authorized to begin taking mobile sports wagers Jan. The company’s software is installed on over 400 million devices worldwide and analyzes over three billion transactions a year. Its services are already being used by such gaming industry companies in the United States as FanDuel, BetMGM, DraftKings, and Caesars in order to comply with state regulations and to ensure players are located within the designated geographic borders.įor example, in order to fully access DraftKings Sportsbook on a personal computer in a legal state, you need to enable location services and the GeoComply plugin must be installed and then run in the background to continue playing without interruption. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company is a third-party location service provider that provides cybersecurity solutions to detect location fraud and verify a user’s true identity. So how will private industry leaders meet this requirement? Enter GeoComply. One of those key requirements is to ensure that only users in the province in Ontario can access online gaming options, once the market goes live.

In the meantime, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, in conjunction with iGaming Ontario, continues to review gaming applications from private operators to ensure they’re meeting all the necessary requirements.

All the eyes and ears in the North American online gaming world are focused on Ontario, as private operators wait to hear when the province will launch its open online gaming market.

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