She added, 'I don't think it needs to hold this up today.

'I'm not 100% convinced one way or the other on whether the gaming floor should be expanded to include that,' Commissioner Eileen O'Brien said. Because that request would have to be approved on its own before Encore could take bets in its parking garage, commissioners decided they could get into their questions about security at a later meeting.

The casino said it would be filing a petition to expand its official gaming floor to include the parking garage sportsbook and other new gaming areas. For one thing, the Gaming Commission realized halfway through Thursday's meeting that Encore had not submitted a specific section of their application and the regulators had to vote to agree to accept the late submission.Ĭommissioners also raised concerns about Encore's plan to put sports betting kiosks in an area of its parking garage for 'express' betting. While the Encore application did not spark as many administrative or policy concerns in commissioners as the other applications did, its hearing Thursday was not without some hiccups. On Tuesday, the commission deferred its vote on the application from Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville and on Wednesday put off a vote on MGM Springfield's application. I know we took the vote saying that, but I do think it's great for the commonwealth,' Commissioner Jordan Maynard said, referring to the commission's determination and vote that awarding Encore a sports betting license would 'benefit the commonwealth.'Įncore was the only of the three so-called Category 1 applicants that secured license approval on the same day that the commission first considered its application. 'I think that this is great for the commonwealth. Mobile betting could follow by 'early March' unless the commission runs into complications. The commission is targeting 'late January' for the start of in-person betting at Encore as well as at the other two gambling centers it already regulates, Plainridge Park Casino and MGM Springfield. The commission's unanimous vote put the Everett casino owned by Wynn Resorts a big step closer to accepting in-person wagers on professional and most college sports, though it cannot accept bets just yet. Gaming Commission as its regulators voted Thursday to award the state's first sports betting license to Encore Boston Harbor after deferring similar votes for other outlets earlier in the week.

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