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Sports betting now open at Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino By WGR 550. WGR 550 SportsRadio. December 13, 2019 10:28 am. (WBEN) - The ribbon was cut Friday morning for Seneca. The Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino is expected to open sports betting operations soon. Armstrong said patrons can experience televised sporting events like the Buffalo Bills, Sabres and Bandits. Sports betting lounges will also be opening soon at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino in Niagara Falls and Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino in Salamanca. For now, only those three on-site locations will handle Seneca-backed sports betting, Buffalo Business First reports. Seneca Resorts has signed a deal with Kambi Group to help operate the sports betting platform. Once all three lounges are open, people will be able to cast bets on professional football, hockey.
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The Buffalo Bills won't be making an appearance, but with an estimated 100 million television viewers, Sunday is one of THE days to bet on sports.
There was a time when sports betting involved the guy sitting in the back booth of a neighborhood bar or some cubicle in an office. Now it’s online or in giant bettor parlors with massive screens featuring sporting events. An increasingly legal system of sports betting exists for those who want to put cash down on the outcome of a game or of some aspect of the game.
Seneca Gaming Corporation has sports betting lounges in each of its three casinos and Gavin Mercado is its executive director of sports book and interactive gaming. He said betting brings in customers.
'Buffalo Creek is in close proximity to the First Niagara Arena. We saw last year, a lot of the guys and girls that were going to the game were stopping in the sports bar before, stopping back after to collect their winnings or placing another wager in a game coming up next,' Mercado said. 'I think just in our general area, we see a lot of foot traffic.'
Mercado said Buffalo Bills fans were supporting the team with their bets. He said customers will bet on any sport and any activity taking place in a game, from rugby to tennis to a surprisingly strong interest in the NBA.
There will be 300 ways to bet on the Super Bowl.
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'Is this like betting on the 8th Pole? Not really, because we still don’t know what’s going to happen, right? It depends on when you get the line, where you get it at,' Mercado said. 'Some people actually prefer to come in after the kickoff, watch maybe the first quarter, watch the first half, and then place a wager because they feel like they know exactly what’s going to happen at the end.'
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The Seneca Nation of Indians said it expects to have sports betting facilities up and running at its three Western New York facilities before the end of the year.
A spokesperson said the sportsbooks at the Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Salamanca casinos are all in “various stages of construction” and there are no specific opening dates yet. The State Gaming Commission officially set regulations in June for sports betting.
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Across the state, most Indian run casinos as well as the four non-Indian commercially run casinos hurried to open their facilities. However, the Senecas have been taking their time.
They will likely miss out on most or all of the National Football League season but should be ready for the playoffs which start in early January. The Super Bowl is the most popular gambling event in American sports.
The Senecas also announced Monday it will be the “exclusive sportsbook for the Buffalo Sabres” hockey team. It announced a similar partnership with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, who have the same ownership, earlier this year.
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“We are so excited to further expand our partnership with Pegula Sports & Entertainment by becoming the Exclusive Sportsbook Partner of the Buffalo Sabres,” said Melissa Free, Seneca Gaming Corporation’s senior vice president of marketing. “Sportsbook will bring so much more excitement to the fans and Seneca Resorts & Casinos is thrilled to be in the epicenter of all that energy.”
The Senecas said once the facilities are open, fans will be able to bet on “professional football, hockey, basketball, soccer and more with real time odds boards and betting kiosks available 24 hours, 7 days a week.”