In the American state of North Carolina and the Catawba Indian Nation has announced the opening of a retail sportsbook within the temporary casino it runs outside the community of Kings Mountain.
The federally-recognized tribe used an official Tuesday press release (pdf) to detail that the new around-the-clock facility features a number of windows for redemption services alongside 30 self-service kiosks allowing punters to wager on a range of action from an array of sports encompassing baseball, auto racing and golf. The band additionally explained that the sportsbetting attraction has been premiered just in time for the start from later today of the latest National Football League (NFL) season to bring such entertainment to the around 2.7 million residents of the greater Charlotte area.
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The Catawba Indian Nation debuted its temporary Carolina used a Wednesday report to divulge that the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has been offering retail sportsbetting via its own Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort and smaller Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel venues for just over a year. This second tribe has purportedly furthermore been involved in a long-running legal battle to stop the Catawba Indian Nation from opening its full-scale Catawba Two Kings Casino Resort facility owing to an allegation that the rival’s ancestral territory lies some 34 miles away in the casino-hostile state of South Carolina.
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North Carolina is the ninth-largest American state by population and is reportedly home to Major League Soccer’s Charlotte FC, the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. Local legislators failed to pass a measure in June that would have legalized commercial online and retail sportsbetting due to concerns that the move could lead to a rise in the prevalence of gambling addictions.