Missouri Prohibits Sportsbooks From Offering Most Super Bowl Prop Bets
Missouri gamblers will not have lots of options to place Super Bowl LX novelty prop bets with legal sportsbooks.
- Missouri regulators prohibited most Super Bowl novelty prop bets, consisting of coin toss and Gatorade color wagers.
- Legal sportsbooks can still offer minimal on-field props, Super Bowl MVP betting, and Super Bowl Squares.
- Prediction markets are filling the gap by offering off-field Super Bowl bets not available at sportsbooks.
State regulators rejected a request to permit most popular non-football proposal bets last month. That choice pointed out coin toss outcome and color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach, however it extends to other "novelty" markets.
Missouri is the 39th and newest state to begin accepting legal sports bets.
The Missouri Gaming Commission's decision likewise used to some football-related wagers, consisting of bets on the player possessing the ball on the game's last play. Bets are permitted on the Super Bowl MVP winner.
Other permitted on-field prop bets include pass efforts, drive lengths, fumbles lost, and lead changes. Missouri's 8 legal sportsbooks likewise can offer "Super Bowl Squares" wagers that permit gamers to bank on the digits of the points scored by each group in each quarter.
The Big Game is perennially the most wagered-on specific U.S. sporting event. Next week's contest may challenge Super Bowl LVIII, held in Las Vegas two years earlier, for the most money bet on a single video game in U.S. history.
Super Bowl prop restrictions
All legal sports betting jurisdictions permit a wide variety of on-field bets, including point spread, moneyline, and totals wagers. Their off-field prop bet authorization varies extensively.
Missouri next-door neighbor Illinois, for example, enables bets on the coin toss however prohibits bets on the national anthem length. Kansas, like Illinois, enables bets on Super Bowl MVP however restricts most other prop wagers.
Missouri regulators last month rejected a demand to permit legal sportsbooks to take wagers on many major Super Bowl novelty bets, including, coin toss outcome, Gatorade color dumped on winning coach and player having the ball when time ends
Prop bets such as squares along with halftime show song efficiency predictions, advertisements, and lots of other off-field aspects have become staples of the Super Bowl Sunday experience for tens of millions of Americans. First promoted in Las Vegas sportsbooks decades ago, these bets, which are typically only offered for the Super Bowl, have not been as excitedly embraced by legal sportsbooks in the eight years because sports betting was legalized outside Nevada.
Proponents of these bans argue their off-field nature and capacity for details make them more susceptible to corruption. Opponents of such prohibitions say that prohibited, overseas sportsbooks and unlicensed bookmakers still accept these kinds of bets.
Multiple forecast markets do as well.
Prediction markets step in
Major forecast markets started offering sports-related occasion contracts in combination with last year's Super Bowl. In the previous 12 months they've millions of dollars in volume, running in states without - and with - legal sportsbooks, including Missouri.
As more than a dozen states take legal action versus the marketplaces for providing what they consider a prohibited kind of betting, leading platforms, including Kalshi, continue to provide bets not just on the game's outcome however also on off-field efficiencies. Kalshi permits users to trade contracts on Super Bowl attendees, celebrity looks in commercials, and Bad Bunny's opening tune for his halftime performance.
Both the prediction markets and the state regulators challenging their legality think months, and potentially years, of court fights will take place. In the meantime, Super Bowl viewers in Missouri - and the rest of the country - will have options to win cash on prop bets outside of banking on a sportsbook.