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Residents and Visitors to Illinois Can Now Place Wagers on the FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook App
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FanDuel Group today announced the launch of the FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook app and online experience in Illinois. In partnership with Boyd Gaming, Illinois is the sixth state in the United States where the industry-leading FanDuel Sportsbook online and mobile platform is available. FanDuel is bringing its best-in-class online sports betting experience to sports fans who can now place wagers across professional football, basketball, baseball, golf, MMA, soccer, and tennis with a multitude of betting and payment options available.
The FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook is available for download via iOS and Android for residents and visitors to Illinois.
“We have been waiting for this day for quite some time,” said Mike Raffensperger, CMO of FanDuel Group. “Sports are back, so we are going to show sports fans in Illinois an innovative sports betting app experience with industry leading promotions and consumer protections that have made FanDuel the #1 sportsbook in the U.S.”
The FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook in Illinois is simple, secure and convenient, with a number of key features, including:
- Industry-leading promotions: Any customer that doesn’t win their first bet is refunded their wager, up to $500. Plus, if you refer a friend, you’ll both get $50 more.
- Hometown Heroes: The FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook will offer markets on hometown teams with extremely generous odds to give new customers More Ways to Win.
- Innovative Spirit: FanDuel was the first US Sportsbook to offer live streaming of sporting events inside a betting app and the first to offer Same Game Parlays, which is the ability to build a parlay utilizing betting markets from the same game.
- FanDuel Group’s Account and Wallet Technology: FanDuel Group developed its own account and wallet technology in-house that is the backbone of the new operating system on the FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook app in Illinois. The FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook now connects to FanDuel’s popular fantasy sports app, so customers can use fantasy sports and sportsbook winnings interchangeably.
- Cash Out: FanDuel offers fast, secure payouts enabling customers to withdraw their winnings in as little as 24 hours. The new Cash Out feature allows you to settle a bet for a certain value before the sporting event bet on has finished.
In addition, the FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook offers a range of payment options, safe and secure banking, lightning fast payouts usually within twenty four hours, 24/7 customer service, and in-game wagering allowing users to bet on live games as they’re being played. FanDuel utilizes its proprietary risk and trading technology that leverages the IGT PlaySports platform. The FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook also has account protections in place and a global reputation for responsible wagering.
Sports fans in Illinois can download the FanDuel Par-A-Dice Sportsbook app today on iOS and Android or visit https://il.sportsbook.fanduel.com/sports. For more on the FanDuel Sportsbook and sports betting content, follow @FDSportsbook on Twitter.
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About FanDuel Group
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Betfair US, and TVG. FanDuel Group has a presence across 45 states and 8.5 million customers. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, and Scotland. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, a leading international sports betting and gaming operator and a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange.
About Boyd Gaming
Founded in 1975, Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE: BYD) is a leading geographically diversified operator of 29 gaming entertainment properties in 10 states. The Company currently operates 1.76 million square feet of casino space, approximately 38,000 gaming machines, 900 table games, more than 11,000 hotel rooms, and 320 food and beverage outlets. With one of the most experienced leadership teams in the casino industry, Boyd Gaming prides itself on offering its guests an outstanding entertainment experience, delivered with unwavering attention to customer service. For additional Company information and press releases, visit www.boydgaming.com.
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#FanDuelBestBall–Today, FanDuel announced the expansion of its industry-leading fantasy sports products with the launch of Best Ball and Daily Snake Drafts ahead of the football season.
Best Ball contests are the simplest way to play fantasy football, bringing the popular season-long fantasy game on to FanDuel’s fantasy platform. The Pro Football Best Ball slates are small, single-entry contests with a shared player pool. Users draft a 20 player fantasy team before or during the football season, then keep that team for the remainder of the season. Unlike other FanDuel contests, there is no salary cap and one player per team. There are also no trades or waiver claims like other season long fantasy football products. Every week, FanDuel automatically combines the scores of your best players at each position (9 players in total) to generate your score for that week. There are only 2-12 users in each contest, and the user with the highest cumulative score at the end of the season wins. As of today, Best Ball contests are available on FanDuel.com or via the FanDuel DFS app, and you can choose from a variety of contest sizes and entry fees starting at $1.
“Best Ball games are perfect for sports fans looking to play fantasy for the first time, or who love the season-long fantasy format,” said John Griffin, General Manager Fantasy, FanDuel Group. “These contests are a hybrid of season-long and daily fantasy, and users can draft a team once and never have to set their lineups again or watch waiver wires, which is incredibly appealing to fans of all levels.”
To celebrate the launch of Best Ball, FanDuel will debut a new commercial featuring former NFL Head Football Coach, Jeff Fisher. The new spot from BBH NY, highlights the fact that FanDuel’s new fantasy sports addition is simple and easy to play. In the hilarious spot, Coach Fisher helps a fan with his Best Ball picks, while multitasking in the kitchen. Only 15 wins shy of being in the top-10 winningest coaches of all time, Coach Fisher is not only a world class talent evaluator, he also cooks a mean paella.
FanDuel will also offer daily Snake Draft contests for select NBA, NHL, golf and MLB games. Snake Draft contests for the football season will be available in early September. Daily Snake Drafts are single-entry, easy-to-enter, small contests with a shared player pool, letting you draft a team for each game day or week. Unlike other FanDuel contests, there’s no salary cap. In addition, the player pool is shared so players can only be drafted by one user. Everyone in the contest picks players one after another in real-time, with 30 seconds to pick, until your rosters for that week are full.
About FanDuel Group
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Betfair US, and TVG. FanDuel Group has a presence across 45 states and 8.5 million customers. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, and Scotland. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, a leading international sports betting and gaming operator and a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange.
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Emily Bass
HAMILTON, N.J. – Hamilton Mayor Kelly Yaede has started a new athletic tradition among Hamilton’s three public high schools, where they will compete against each other annually to earn the new, distinguished George O’Gorman Trophy.
George O’Gorman is a name synonymous with Hamilton high schools’ sports. As a newspaper sports writer for The Times of Trenton, The Trentonian, the Monitor, and Burlington County Times, he has covered nearly every Hamilton high school athlete and team for about half a century.
Therefore, it is appropriate to dedicate a trophy for excellent Hamilton high school athletic champions to a man who has such a sports legacy with the township and who is also a resident.
“I can’t think of no more deserving individual to receive this particular recognition than George O’Gorman,” explains Mayor Yaede.
“During the past 50 years, he has covered the games, matches and competitions that Hamilton high school athletes and their families will remember throughout their lifetimes. Thanks to his dedication and passion to high school sports, a half of century of amazing memories were recounted in ways in which generations of Hamiltonians will always cherish,” said Mayor Yaede.
During his sports reporting career, O’Gorman covered the gambit of high school sports, including every State track and field championships since 1976. He also covered the Cosmos professional soccer team for 12 years, and the New York Giants (NFL) from 1978-2015.
In addition to his reporting, O’Gorman was a former soccer coach for St. Anthony High School. He also started the Mercer County Soccer Hall of Fame. He was a past honoree and recipient of the Trenton Select Man of the Year Award. He was former president of Chambersburg Little League, and recently was a member of Hamilton Township Public Library’s Board of Trustees.
“When you’ve spent over 45 years in a job that never felt like work, you are a very lucky guy. I’ve been that lucky guy,” said O’Gorman.
“Reporting on high school athletics at Hamilton, Steinert and Nottingham has allowed me to compile so many great memories of friendships with coaches, student athletes and administrators who have remained close friends. It’s why five decades covering sports in Hamilton’s three public high schools has been a love – because of all the coaches and athletes who made it happen,” he said.
So, this new competition that Mayor Yaede has started among the public high schools is significant to the schools, to the athletes, and to carry on O’Gorman’s legacy.
The three public high schools track both boys and girls’ sports over the school year, and award the high school athletic program with the most victories in games and matches against their counterparts the George O’Gorman Trophy for that school year.
This year, Steinert High School has achieved the most victories in head-to-head sports competitions against the other two high schools.
Therefore, on Friday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., Steinert High School will accept the first ever O’Gorman Trophy on their home field at halftime during a football game called Friday Night ‘under the lights’ with Notttingham High School.
“Competitions like this are a constructive way to promote the virtues of hard-work, dedication, commitment, and teamwork in our high schools athletes,” says Councilwoman Dina Thornton, who is a former member of the Hamilton Township School Board.
“Through his distinguished career in covering our young adults as they competed through high school athletics, George O’Gorman truly earned the honor of having this competition’s trophy bear his name,” she said.