PROVIDENCE – GTECH has announced several new ventures, including an agreement to provide enhanced sports betting at MGM Resorts properties, and its involvement with Georgia’s new iLottery.
GTECH, in a news release, said its subsidiary GTECH Interactive U.K. and MGM Resorts International will provide the enhanced sports betting technology at a dozen MGM Resorts properties and GTECH OnPremise mobile sports betting and casino gaming at 10 MGM Resorts in Nevada.
Pending regulatory approvals, the technology is expected to debut in third quarter 2015. GTECH will modernize MGM’s sports betting offerings to include live in-play betting, allowing customers to place sports wagers through a mobile device anytime in Nevada.
Matteo Monteverdi, GTECH senior vice president, iGaming and Americas Interactive, said that this technology “will enable MGM to offer more gaming without requiring more space on the gaming floor.”
Thomas Mikulich, senior vice president of business development, MGM Resorts International, said that MGM, based in Las Vegas, Nev., selected GTECH to assist with the modernization of its sports betting based on the company’s experience, expertise and technological innovation.
“The GTECH OnPremise solution will ensure that our players enjoy convenient and exciting new ways to wager seamlessly across multiple gaming channels, by sports betting via mobile from anywhere within Nevada, and through mobile table games and slots on premise at 10 MGM properties, whether they’re at a sports book, slot floor, restaurant or poolside,” Mikulich said in a statement.
In other news, GTECH was involved with the Georgia Lottery’s iLottery rollout, featuring traditional draw-based games, iKeno and eInstant games at mygalottery.com .
The lottery is for adults over the age of 18 within Georgia state lines.
“We believe that the convenience and timeliness of the Internet channel will facilitate incremental growth for the Georgia Lottery and maximize revenues to enhance educational funding,” Debbie Alford, president and CEO, Georgia Lottery Corporation, said in prepared remarks.
Georgia’s iLottery is fueled by GTECH’s interactive technology, content and services, GTECH said.
Georgia’s iKeno game mirrors the Lottery’s keno game at retail, with real time drawings every 3.5 minutes. The Georgia Lottery is the first U.S. lottery to offer iKeno, and the company said results have been favorable, with online sales accounting for nearly 8 percent of all of Georgia’s keno ticket sales.
Rounding out the Georgia Lottery’s complete iLottery offering are multistate draw-based games Powerball and Mega Millions, and Georgia’s own Fantasy 5.
