{"id":102272,"date":"2019-04-07T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=102272"},"modified":"2019-04-07T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:55:44","slug":"las-vegas-sportsbooks-taking-bets-on-minor-league-baseball-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-sportsbooks-taking-bets-on-minor-league-baseball-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Sportsbooks Taking Bets on Minor League Baseball Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Aviators started their baseball season on Thursday against the El Paso Chihuahuas. However, not all of the action for the Minor League club took place on the diamond.<\/p>\n

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Las Vegas Aviators shortstop Jorge Mateo fields a groundball in a Saturday evening game against the El Paso Chihuahuas. Last month, the Nevada Gaming Commission opened the door for local sportsbooks to accept bets on Aviators games this season. (Image: El Paso Chihuahuas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to the Aviators starting its season, the Nevada Gaming Commission agreed to throw out a 34-year-old order that precluded sportsbooks in the state from taking bets on professional baseball games played in the state.<\/p>\n

On March 28, during its monthly meeting, the Nevada commission officially removed that provision. The board needed to take the action after making other changes to the regulation in February because of a special order tied specifically to baseball.<\/p>\n

So, when Opening Day hit a week later Station Casinos announced its facilities would take bets on the team\u2019s games.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will have lines for every #Aviators game this season, including tonight’s game,\u201d Station Casinos posted on its Twitter account. The company added it would accept bets at any of its retail sportsbooks in the Las Vegas area or through its online application.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jeff Sherman, the vice president for risk management at Westgate Resorts SuperBook also confirmed on social media that they will offer betting lines on the Aviators games as well.<\/p>\n

Baseball Betting Not Big<\/h2>\n

According to data from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas\u2019 Center for Gaming Research, it’s unlikely betting on Minor League Baseball (MiLB) will give the state\u2019s sportsbooks much of a boost.<\/p>\n

David Schwartz, the director of the UNLV center, reported Nevada bettors wagered $16.3 billion on baseball<\/a>\u00a0since 1992. During the same amount of time, gamblers put down $31.9 billion on football.<\/p>\n

The nearly 2-to-1 edge for football occurs even though Major League Baseball teams play more games. There are 2,430 MLB games in a regular season. The National Football league plays 256 regular season\u00a0games annually. While there are roughly 715 regular season games pitting two college football bowl subdivision teams.<\/p>\n

However, the NGC Chairman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>\u00a0the move allows sportsbooks to\u00a0decide whether to offer MiLB games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no appetite to ever say to any professional team we\u2019re not going to book your bets,\u201d Tony Alamo said.<\/p>\n

Minor League\u2019s Concerns<\/h2>\n

Last month, the president of Minor League Baseball expressed his sports betting concerns<\/a> to the Boston Herald<\/em>. Those concerns, though, focused more on the expansion of sports betting across the country.<\/p>\n

Pat O\u2019Conner noted that MiLB would take proactive measures to ensure that its games would not be affected. He said his concerns not only were about the players, who make just a fraction of what major leaguers earn. Umpires and scorekeepers also could be affected by the sports betting’s expansion, too, he said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, an MiLB spokesman told Casino.org<\/em> the league it is concerned about the Nevada actions.<\/p>\n

Minor League Baseball believes that there should not be betting on Minor League games because the Minor Leagues are focused on development of both players and umpires, and we do not believe that betting creates a healthy environment for player and umpire development,\u201d said Jeff Lantz, the league\u2019s senior director of communications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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