In a statement, Rush Street Interactive President Richard Schwartz praised the tribe’s “outstanding reputation” in the gaming industry. Little River Casino currently includes about 1,350 slot machines, 26 table games, craps and interactive stadium roulette. “Rush Street’s ability to provide a road map of how they’ve enabled other land-based casinos to operate market-leading sportsbooks kept us from having to reinvent the wheel.” “The successful track record of Rush Street Interactive as a provider of in-casino sportsbooks in Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois was very significant to us when we chose them as our partner,” Little River Casino Resort General Manager Andrew Gentile said in a statement. The Chicago firm, which was founded in 2012, also operates online sportsbooks in Colorado, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and serves as the sportsbook partner for the Philadelphia Flyers. Rush Street Interactive operates sportsbooks inside casinos in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. The deal also includes plans to launch co-branded online sports betting and online casino gaming once allowed by state rules, according to a statement.

The tribe expects to open the sportsbook to guests early in the third quarter of this year, according to a statement. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, Rush Street Interactive will operate the sportsbook located inside the tribe’s Little River Casino Resort north of Manistee, Mich. The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians has partnered with a Chicago-based sports betting and online gaming operator Rush Street Interactive LLC to run its in-casino retail sportsbook.

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