DraftKings Sportsbook, which has quickly emerged as an industry leader during the infancy period of United States legal online sports betting, is now live and taking bets in the state of Iowa.
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DraftKings Sportsbook has been positioned in Iowa since October when it partnered with Wild Rose Casino & Resort to power sportsbooks at three locations across the state.
Unlike other states that offer legal mobile sports betting, Iowa requires mobile sports bettors to complete the registration in-person at one of three Wild Rose-DraftKings locations. The three retail shops operate in Clinton, Emmetsburg and Jefferson. You can begin the registration process here.
Iowa, which has permitted legal sports betting at retail locations since August, joins others such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Indiana where DraftKings Sportsbook is open for business.
“DraftKings has seen steady fan engagement in Iowa during the last few months at our three Wild Rose sportsbooks across the state, and we couldn’t be more excited to provide customers with our state-of-the-art mobile sports-betting platform,” said President and co-founder of DraftKings Matt Kalish.
Iowa’s sports betting laws require an additional layer to the sign up process that doesn’t exist in other states where online sports betting has gone legal. The state requires all users to register both online and in person at a casino affiliate through January 1, 2021. Still, it’s quick and easy to sign up and get started with DraftKings Sportsbook.
DraftKings Sportsbook makes it easy to fund your account with several quick and convenient deposit methods. To add money to your account, simply click the green “plus” button at the top right-hand corner of the app. Doing so will bring you to a deposit screen where you can select both the amount and payment option. Among the options are:
Typically, deposits are immediately accepted, providing funds needed to begin wagering. Winning payouts immediately hit your account once the event is completed. Finalizing a withdraw from your account only takes a moment.
DraftKings Sportsbook offers a wide selection of sports to wager on, ranging from popular national and international sports leagues to the more obscure:
DraftKings Sportsbook offers action on both collegiate and professional sports and has a particularly robust offering of soccer leagues from which to choose. Moreover, be sure to check out the daily odds boosts and potentially lucrative daily promotional bonus offers.
Following a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision to repeal the national ban on sports betting, Iowa became the 11th state to permit sports wagering. Retail sportsbooks based at several Iowa casinos have been accepting wagers since sports betting officially went legal on Aug. 15.
In a unique wrinkle of Senate File 617, Iowa sports bettors who wish to wager through a mobile app are required to physically travel to its affiliated casino partner in order to verify their identity now through Dec. 31, 2020.
DraftKings Sportsbook’s entry into the state was announced last October when it partnered with Wild Rose Casino and Resort. DraftKings Sportsbook, which also enters Iowa’s legal online sports betting space through the Wild Rose partnership, currently operates retail sportsbooks at the casino’s three Iowa locations stationed in Jefferson, Emmetsburg, and Clinton.