Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile sports betting market gain access to through a partnership with Boyd Gaming, the 2 groups announced Monday.

Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile betting access through a partnership with Boyd Gaming, getting rights for both online and retail sportsbooks.

- The deal makes Fanatics the eighth operator with Missouri market gain access to, signing up with DraftKings, Circa, FanDuel, bet365, BetMGM, Caesars, and PENN/ESPN BET.

- Fanatics, now a top-five U.S. sportsbook after acquiring PointsBet in 2024, continues to broaden nationwide while taking on FanDuel and DraftKings.

The deal offers Fanatics a course to statewide mobile betting in Missouri. It ends up being the 8th book to protect a license or announce a market access partner. Missouri needs all but two of its sportsbooks to partner with either a state expert sports team or a brick-and-mortar casino before it can make a mobile betting license.

Fanatics will also brand name retail sportsbooks at Boyd's 2 Missouri residential or commercial properties, Ameristar Kansas City and Ameristar St. Charles, near St. Louis.

The collaboration comes a month after Boyd offered its 5% ownership stake in FanDuel back to the sportsbook's moms and dad business, Flutter Entertainment. Boyd had actually previously partnered with FanDuel in several states for retail and online sports betting access.

Financial regards to the deal were not revealed. Boyd had actually received several million dollars annually in past collaboration handle FanDuel.

Boyd operates a mobile sportsbook in its home state of Nevada. It does not appear it prepares to open the book in Missouri.

Fanatics' mobile sportsbook is reside in 22 states and Washington D.C., and the company also handles retail books in eight states.

Fanatics has become among the country's five highest-grossing sportsbooks across the country considering that it got PointsBet in 2024. Though it tracks U.S. market share leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, state profits reports reveal Fanatics is earning higher market share than other leading books such as BetMGM and Caesars.

More Missouri sports betting alternatives

Fanatics will sign up with a congested field of sportsbooks that collectively accept more than 99% of all legal bets positioned nationwide.

DraftKings secured one of Missouri's 2 "untethered" mobile sports betting licenses, which allow it market access without partnering with a sports team or gambling establishment. Circa Sportsbook protected the other untethered license.

FanDuel, the U.S. national leader by gross gaming income and deal with, revealed market access plans with MLS club St. Louis CITY soon after it lost out on the untethered license to Circa. Previously, bet365 announced a market access deal with MLB's St. Louis Cardinals.

Four other teams could partner with a sportsbook: the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, MLB's Kansas City Royals, the NHL's St. Louis Blues, and the NWSL's Kansas City Current.

BetMGM revealed an online and retail market gain access to offer with Century Casinos. BetMGM parent operator MGM Resorts does not handle a gambling establishment in Missouri.

Missouri sportsbooks that have actually gotten, applied or revealed strategies to get a Missouri mobile sports wagering license:

bet365.
BetMGM.
Caesars.
Circa.
DraftKings.
ESPN BET.
Fanatics.
FanDuel.
Underdog

Caesars and PENN Entertainment, which both handle three Missouri gambling establishments, revealed strategies to launch their respective mobile sportsbooks in the state. Both Caesars and ESPN BET have market access due to their associations with state gambling establishments.

Underdog is the only other sportsbook operator to obtain a Missouri sports betting license as of Aug. 25. The company has not revealed its market access partner.

BetRivers, based in surrounding Illinois, is among the other leading prospects for a Missouri license. Hard Rock, which handles an Illinois casino and has launched its mobile sportsbook in the state, might also seek a license.

Bally's is the just other Missouri casino operator that handles a mobile sportsbook. The business has not publicly revealed launch plans in the state.