Gambling
Flutter boss ‘disappointed’ over California vote rejecting legal sports betting
Jonathan Hill was speaking after Flutter upgraded its full-year outlook in a third quarter update on the back of a 31 per cent increase in overall revenue
Irish gambling giant Flutter has said it is “disappointed” that citizens in California have voted against proposals to legalise sports betting in what would’ve represented a huge commercial opportunity for the company had the votes last night passed.
Voters in the US state, the largest in the country, opted to maintain a ban on both in-person and online sports betting by a wide margin on two separate votes, according to estimates from the Associated Press ...