Kirk said the state really just needed to dust off existing technology and re-train employees on how to handle sports bets. Legal Delaware sports betting information: DE sportsbooks, betting sites and moreĭelaware, which has long offered pro-football parlay betting, didn’t waste any time in becoming the first post-PASPA state to allow legal sports betting.Īccording to the director of the state lottery, Vernon Kirk, Delaware was uniquely prepared to offer sports betting as the state was ready to do so in 2009 before a court decision blocked the effort.
Delaware was one of four states, along with Montana, Nevada and Oregon that already had sports betting laws on the books. All three of the state’s “racinos” are open for sports betting.
Governor John Carney placed the First State’s first sports bet on Jat Delaware Park.
