Sports gambling will not be available in New York before NFL season

The NFL season starts in just a few days. But there will not be any options for legal betting on these games in New York. But the wait may not be long.

When the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the federal ban on legalised sports betting in May, some few states, including New Jersey, initiated steps to offer sports gambling almost immediately.

News10NBC went to check out one of the first legal sports books to open at the Meadowlands in New Jersey just outside of New York City. While sports betting is legal across the state border, lawmakers in Albany punted on the issue last session.

Many Democrats and Republicans still look at this as an issue of “when,” not “if” sports betting will come to New York.

“I support it under the right places, under the right conditions, and that’s something that has to be looked at and done intelligently, so there are not abuses,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo during last week’s debate with Cynthia Nixon.

To be able to gamble on games anywhere in the state, lawmakers in Albany need to take action.

“I suspect when we go into the new session after the first of the year we’ll take it up and likely pass some form of legislation that would allow for sports betting across the state,” said Republican State Sen. Patrick Gallivan.

There is still a chance the state’s Gaming Commission will soon allow sports betting at four state-licensed casinos which include del Lago in Seneca County. The commission is still working on those guidelines.

Source:whec.com