PlayUp US To Be Bought, Pared Down By Listed Company is the headline appearing on Legal Sports Report this week. The once ballyhooed horse racing platform that got into some hot water with Ohio regulators before settling in April by agreeing not to operate there (nice settlement) is now about to be sold to a publicly traded company. The biggest gambling operation in the world finnally pulls the trigger and enters the world of online gambling! iGaming NEXT can reveal that Las Vegas Sands Corp. Pierre Lindh of iGaming Next was first to make the announcement via his LinkedIN page that Sands Corp may be closer to entering that space. 'Right now we are exploring opportunities.' 'Yes, we've looked at digital and it's interesting,' Goldstein said at the time. In May, it was being reported that new CEO Rob Goldstein had visions of entering the online casino market. He also never looked to get into the industry he condemned either, this despite the newfound interest in mobile sports gambling.īack in November we learned that Las Vegas Sands would be ending its decade long attempts to quash the activity. Sheldon Adelson lived an amazing life to be sure and he never backed down from his attempt to prevent Web casinos. For the better part of a decade, Las Vegas Sands has worked with the likes of South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to try and eradicate attempts at legalizing online casinos in the US.īut with the casino company's billionaire head having passed away, there's been a change of consideration.

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