In Michigan, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, owners of Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant, the state’s largest retail casino, and Saganing Eagles Landing Casino Hotel, announced it may launch online sports betting in time for Super Bowl LVI on February 13.
Saginaw Chippewa Gaming Enterprises would be the state’s 15th and final online gambling operator. The Michigan Gaming Control Board still must approve the tribe’s plans.
Soaring Eagle spokeswoman C.C. Griffus said, “The current estimated timeframe for retail sports betting at the two properties, along with the online sports betting and online casinos launches, is mid-January 2022.”
Most Michigan online casino operators secured MGCB approval and launched on January 22, the first day of legal online sports betting. The rest, except for Soaring Eagle, launched by July. The state’s online casinos and poker rooms generated $110 million in gross revenue in October.
In May, California-based iGaming provider GAN Limited announced its partnership with Soaring Eagle. GAN helped Soaring Eagle develop its iGaming and sports betting apps and worked on Access Club marketing. A GAN statement read, “Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort offers an expansive 210,000 square-foot casino facility with thousands of slot machines and the widest variety of floor games available in the Midwest. It also possesses an extremely sizable database of patrons, who the parties anticipate converting into active online players via GAN’s patented iBridge loyalty platform.”
Malta-based Kambi Group also is assisting SCGE with its retail and online sportsbooks.
