Oregon Lottery seeks to launch mobile sportsbook by 2nd week of October

Oregon state’s first mobile option for sports betting has a new target launch date, aiming at the second week of October.

The Oregon Lottery originally estimated that Scoreboard, its new online sports betting game, would be out before the start of the professional football season, but after the sports betting market began on August 27, when the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City launched its new sportsbook operations, a spokesman of the lottery said that the agency would not meet its goal of starting up in time for NFL season opening. Now, it’s slated to launch the second week of October, as reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting.

According to John Canzano, of local newspaper The Oregonian, the Oregon Lottery has completed testing its Scoreboard online sports betting app and now only waits approval from banking partners before official launch. “Scoreboard could hit the market by October 7,” he posted in his Twitter account.

The game will allow players to bet on professional sports online, both through the lottery’s website and a mobile app. It’s taken longer to test the game than expected, said Chuck Baumann with the Oregon Lottery.  

“This is the first time that the lottery has entered into an e-commerce game,” Baumann said, as reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting. “This will be the first time we’ve offered a game — an Oregon lottery game — available online.” 

Baumann said the platform for the game is complete, but the lottery is still testing the player accounts to make sure financial transactions work, as far as betting money and receiving pay-outs go.

The game will allow players to bet on professional football, basketball, baseball, soccer, golf and NASCAR.