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Bookies have turned to live dealer casino betting to weather the coronavirus storm.  An argument against the internet casino experience has always been visuals and atmosphere. Bookies will come across players who believe they can’t get an entertaining gaming experience unless they’re in a live, smoke-filled room – drink in hand and dealer at the ready. It’s possible to convince clientele that a digital online casino experience can overshadow 2 a.m. in Sin City. However, PayPerHead’s Live Dealer Casino is the best of both worlds , combining the online experience with an evening at their favorite table. In a time where social distancing is becoming a way of life, we’ll outline the details of the PayPerHead Live Dealer Casino, its features, and how it boosts your bottom line. What is PayPerHead Live Casino The PayPerHead.com Live Casino is as you picture it, a live casino experience from your home. The dealer casino offers three games in real-time with real dealers, Blackjack,...

As the U.S. economy opens, so should sports. Make sure your sports bettors can look forward to these leagues getting back to work. The U.S. economy is slowly reopening. With it, two of the most popular sports leagues in the nation, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League, have plans in place to restart their seasons. That’s good news for bookies. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced the NBA and NHL to shut down, agents have struggled to find betting options to promote. Many agents have turned to their digital racebooks and casinos. Some have added premium live dealer casinos. All three sports betting platforms have helped bookies weather the Covid-19 Crisis storm. But although per head agents are happy to accept action from casino and racebook betting , they can’t wait to start again profiting from traditional sports like basketball and hockey. Because horse racing has become a focus, let’s first talk about the two most important meets of the year....

Like UFC and NASCAR, the Professional Golf Association is back in business. Read about everything bookies must know to promote golf betting. Grass, iron, and great swings. That’s all you need for a golf tournament in the social distancing, COVID-19 era of sports. Unlike the NBA and NHL, golf doesn’t need crowds. It also doesn’t require athlete to athlete interaction. It’s the perfect remedy for the coronavirus pro-sports infection. It’s no surprise the PGA Tour is one of the first U.S. sports leagues, along with UFC and NASCAR, to make a triumphant return. A significant sport with minimal restrictions, PGA Tournaments can provide excellent online sports betting experiences. Upcoming 2020 PGA Tour Events On June 11, PGA Tour returned with the Charles Schwab Challenge first round. Already, bookies have benefited from golf betting options. As per head agents learn about the event’s success, expect bettors to check PGA Tour odds before players tee off. Here’s a list of upcoming PG...

Sportsbook operators hope to offer baseball betting options soon. How will your players wager? Is it finally time for optimism regarding Major League Baseball? If the other professional leagues are any indication, this year, baseball should happen. MLB and the MLB Player’s Association (MLBPA) are in week four of talks to finally kick off their 2020 season. On March 12, COVID-19 stopped pro baseball before it got a chance to start. But since May 12, the league has been hard at work planning a return. Bookies should be working just as hard on their sportsbook betting options. All per head agents want to be ready when MLB announces they’re ready to start the 2020 regular season. What We Know About the 2020 MLB Season MLB recently rejected an MLBPA plan that featured a 114-game regular season. Players initially offered an 82-game season. Under that plan, the league’s most prominent names would take the most significant pay cut. It’s been a back-and-forth of “resoundingly rejected” ...

The NHL Return to Play Plan and the 2020 Draft Lottery COVID-19 has put every major sport on hold, and the National Hockey League (NHL) was no exception. However, for the first time since March 12, the NHL announced its plans to resume and complete the 2019-2020 season with a 24-team playoff. NHL Return to Playoffs Plan Twenty-four teams will compete for the Stanley Cup – 12 from the Western Conference and 12 from the East. The 189 remaining games are void and 24 of the 31 teams were chosen based on point percentage. The tournament begins with a 16-team, eight-series Qualifying Round and a Seeding Round Robin with the top four teams to determine how the postseason will line up from top to bottom. Finally, some NHL action for online bookies to handicap. Unfortunately, the expectation is for this plan to kick in no earlier than the first half of July. In the meantime, bookies can offer bettors an NHL primer with the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery on June 26th. 2020 NHL Draft Lottery Fifte...

Use state of the art per head betting technology to maintain and grow your sportsbook business. Today’s bookies need to know and use sports betting tech to see success in their sportsbooks. Luckily for sportsbook owners, the technology required to run lucrative bookmaking operations exists. Check out a brief history of the sportsbook industry. Then, we’ll dive into the sports betting tech that can make you a successful bookie. A brief history of sports betting- notably without technology. When did wagering start? Although we can’t prove it, there’s a good chance that Aztecs made wagers during Ullamaliztli games. Betting is in our genes. We wager on everything. Even today, during a pandemic, folks are wagering on the weather.  The first instances of wagering in the U.S. may have started with the Cajuns. Bettors wagered on horses that ran over bush tracks set up in Central Louisiana. The first American football game happened on November 6, 1869. Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4. N...

Now you can book wagers on these upcoming Summer eSports tournaments. Those who run The International decided to cancel this year’s tournament. The Dota 2 competition is the most high-prized tournament in eSports. Although The International won’t happen in 2020, all is not lost. Plenty of eSports tournaments will still happen this summer. Who knows when basketball and hockey will restart? There is still no word yet on professional baseball. With these tournaments, players can make money. Check out the list and then see if your bookie offers eSports bets. Top eSports tournaments that attract significant betting action CS:GO Blast Premier Showdown The Counter-Strike (CS:GO) Blast Premier Showdown starts on May 31. The tournament runs to June 7. European and American round-robin groups play from May 31 to June 4. The following weekend, teams participate in the Gauntlet. Twenty teams total will participate. See below for the top 6 ranked teams. Astralis MiBR NiP Team Vitalit...

Prepare your racebook and notify your players; Churchill Downs and Santa Anita Park are opening for business.  Two of the most important racetracks in the United States have set dates to resume racing. Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, and Santa Anita Park in Southern California will offer live racing later this month. Santa Anita Park has targeted May 15 to continue their winter-spring meet.  Churchill Downs starts its 2020 meet on May 16. Both should offer attractive betting opportunities to even the most casual players. Bookie agents should prepare their digital racebooks for Churchill and Santa Anita. The more information agents like you can provide players; the more horse racing action goes to your business. Churchill Downs the first word in the thoroughbred industry The Kentucky racetrack is an industry leader. Churchill Downs has turned the Kentucky Derby into the most famous horse race in the world. When it comes to U.S. horse racing, everything revo...

Many changes have been made to the UFC 249 card in response to the COVID-19 outbreak but we have all the updates sports bettors need to know.  *As of this writing on April 14th, the date of this event remains uncertain.* The Coronavirus continues to break the hearts of sports fans worldwide.  The latest victims are MMA fans who really got the rug pulled out from under them.  First, Khabib Nurmagomedov is under lockdown and Russia and was scratched from the UFC 249 main event originally scheduled for April 18th. Dana White moved quickly to set up a fight between Tony “El Cucuy” Ferguson and Justin “The Highlight” Gaethje in a lightweight fight for the interim title. Things were looking up as White was looking to host events on an Indian Reserve north-west of LA and some sketchy private island.  That is when broadcaster ESPN and their owner Disney stepped in.  It seems White values his relationship with Disney and ESPN more than his pride and has stepped back...

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world of sports; Here’s a quick check-in to look at which leagues are coming back soon, and some that are still hosting events regardless. The opening day of Major League Baseball (MLB) came and went with little fanfare last week.   Zero fanfare to be exact.   It was the s ame with March Madness, the Stanley Cup playoffs and countless other major sporting events in the United States.   With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread, every major sports league around the world has suspended or delayed their respective seasons. Just one of the many facets of our daily life to be put on hold.   An especially painful loss to sports fans because watching a good game is the perfect way to pass the time when at home. Gone are the hours arguing with friends over whose team is better, obsessing about your fantasy lineup or watching late-night replays on an endless loop.  To fill the void, many have gone back to the archives to w...

Bookies can boost profits with online Craps wagering, even if your players aren’t betting on sports right now.  PayPerHead bookie agents can easily access streams of revenue to help them weather the disruption by turning their sports players into casino gamers . One of those streams is the digital casino with Craps and live dealer. This week, we’ll discuss one of the oldest, most exciting, and most fun to play games in your casino. Craps has a storied history that makes it one of the most popular games in the United States. With stay-at-home orders in most of the 50 states, craps is the perfect game to promote. History of Craps Some claim that Roman soldiers invented the game by using knuckle bones of a pig as dice. Others believe craps is a derivative of an Arabic game call Al Dar. No matter where it originated, most agree the father of craps is an American dice maker named John H. Winn. Winn added the don’t pass betting option to the craps table. That changed the way that p...

Golden Gate Fields offers horse racing 3 or 4 days a week; turn your sports bettors into horseplayers by promoting this track.  While most sports have shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, a few horse racing tracks remain open. One of those tracks is Golden Gate Fields located in Berkeley, California. Golden Gate runs on an all-weather track. But unlike other racetracks, GG Fields, as horseplayers call it, does have a turf track. Golden Gate runs races 4 days a week from Thursday to Sunday. That’s not always the case, though. Sometimes, GG Fields runs races 3-days a week, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. First race goes off depending on the day. But the first race never goes off before 12:45 pm PDT and never after 1:15 pm PDT. Check out more information on the lone horse racing facility in the Golden State that’s currently running live races. Then, you can take that information and provide it to your players. Who knows? You might turn a sports bettor or two into a horseplayer. Th...

Sports wagering legalization in the United States is on the upswing in 2020. Here’s a look at what to expect.  The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 vote to strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act happened in May, 2018. Since then, many states have legalized sports betting. But that’s nothing compared to the trend for 2020. Even in the midst of world upheaval, the sports betting train continues to fly down the wagering track. Check out the legalization trends this year that are sure to increase sports wagering in the U.S. Things are great for everyone, but the future looks bright for pay per head agents and individual bookies! Current U.S. states with legalized sports betting  Check out a list of the U.S. States that have legalized some form of sports betting. We broke the list into categories: Sports Betting Legal, Pending Sports Betting Legislation, Sports Betting Talk Brewing, and No Sports Betting Talk…Yet. Sports Betting Legal Nevada, Delaware, New Je...

Sports bettors don’t have much to get down on these days; keep them busy with horse race betting. Per Business Wire , sports betting should grow by $144.4 billion from 2020 through 2024. Warren Buffet’s company, Berkshire-Hathaway, owns Business Wire . That lends much credibility to the stats. But as the recent coronavirus pandemic showed us, bookies and sportsbook operators must offer their customers more than just sports betting options. Like any good business, sportsbook owners must find new revenue streams, market those streams, and, hopefully, profit from those streams. That’s why it’s important for bookmakers to not only push for betting dollars from their books but to also offer options found in their Pay Per Head Casino. But casino betting options aren’t alone. Every Pay Per Head agent has access to a digital racebook. Their online racebook can add big profits to their bottom lines. Racebook betting provides advantages to players they can’t find betting on sports. An onlin...