Ohio has more betting activity than Pennsylvania, home of the Super Bowl runner-up Philadelphia Eagles

CINCINNATI — Pennsylvania despatched a group to the Tremendous Bowl. Nevertheless it couldn’t match Ohio when it got here to Tremendous Bowl betting exercise, based mostly on new knowledge from GeoComply, a Vancouver-based firm that verifies the placement of bettors for on-line sports activities books.

Ohio had 1.1 million distinctive accounts energetic on Saturday and Sunday, about 300,000 greater than Pennsylvania, dwelling of the Philadelphia Eagles, who misplaced within the Tremendous Bowl to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Ohio additionally notched 12.6 million geolocation checks on Tremendous Bowl weekend, second solely to New York’s complete of 13.8 million.

“The numbers in Ohio are positively trending greater than we had predicted,” GeoComply CEO Anna Sainsbury stated. “It’s been fairly an incredible state when it comes to actually having robust oversight and a aggressive market. So, I believe what lawmakers supposed within the state has been an enormous success.”

GeoComply doesn’t monitor the precise variety of bets or quantities wagered. However its knowledge reveals how busy on-line bookies are by counting the variety of occasions a bettor’s telephone, laptop or pill contacts an internet sports activities e book for “geolocation checks.”

These checks are required earlier than on-line sports activities books like FanDuel and DraftKings can settle for a guess. However they’ll additionally occur a number of occasions whereas bettors are reviewing choices.

GeoComply

GeoComply stated it performed greater than 100 million geolocation checks all through the nation on Tremendous Bowl weekend. Inside Ohio, Cincinnati had probably the most geolocation checks, at 1.8 million. However Cincinnati ranked third with 163,000 energetic accounts.

Cleveland had 1.6 million geolocation checks and 222,976 energetic accounts. Columbus had 1.3 million geolocation checks and 180,0545 energetic accounts.