Deadwood prepares for Super Bowl weekend

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Deadwood is South Dakota’s historic city identified for colourful characters, outdated west shootouts, and playing. Since 2021, a brand new addition has been added to the slots and sellers, sports activities betting. And with that addition comes not solely extra foot site visitors but in addition extra earnings.

“Sports activities betting was all elevated enterprise. It additionally had residual enterprise coming in with individuals sitting on the bars, consuming on the eating places, staying on the inns, different forms of playing that they might wish to do, so it’s been a really constructive impact for us and the city of deadwood,” mentioned David Schneiter, normal supervisor of Cadillac Jacks.

Whereas summer season is when South Dakota sees the vast majority of vacationers, deadwood has seen a rise in low season foot site visitors, bringing in additional individuals to look at their favourite sports activities and make bets.

On line casino supervisor, Tyler Nold of Deadwood Mountain Grand said “Quite a lot of occasions individuals would make deadwood a 2-day vacation spot, they’d keep Friday, go away Sunday morning. With NFL video games on Sunday, lots of people are coming in on Friday and leaving now on Monday.”

And whilst you don’t have to remain in anybody on line casino to take pleasure in deadwood, Josh Thurmes says there may a bonus to sitting down and watching the video games.

“Right here you’re gonna get the expertise. You’re gonna be with a bunch of individuals with a typical curiosity rooting for one group or the opposite” mentioned Thurmes.

We’re instructed the casinos are pleased to have the sports activities ebook launched, and hope that extra companies in Deadwood will add it to their institutions.

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