Scientific Games, an American company that provides gambling products and services to lottery, gambling, social and digital organizations all over the world, has announced that it has entered into a deal with Delaware Lottery in terms of which it will have the group provide the state’s sports betting platform after the state legalized the activity last week.
Delaware’s launch of a full sports betting offering under the SportsPick brand will be powered by Scientific Games.
Scientific Games has been supplying the Delaware Lottery with technology for its parlay betting offering since 2009 and has helped it grow revenue from $10m to $46m across a network of land-based casinos and lottery retailers. The company also provides the Delaware Lottery with instant games, draw-based games such as Keno, iGaming products and video lottery content.
Vernon Kirk, Delaware Lottery Director, commented that in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s ruling on PASPA, they have been working with Scientific Games, their longtime sports betting provider, as well as training their lottery and casino staff, so that they were ready to launch full-scale, head-to-head betting on single games.
Pat McHugh, Senior Vice President of Global Lottery Systems at Scientific Games, said that since Delaware is known as ‘The First State’, it is appropriate they were first in the nation to expand regulated sports betting after the PASPA ruling.
McHugh went on to say that they are proud to support the Delaware Lottery’s long history of industry firsts, and thrilled to be their trusted provider of an integrated sports betting program serving both casinos and lottery retailers across the state.