Legal sports betting from your Blackberry in Nevada

Peter Amsel
September 1, 2010
5 Comments

Blackberry-Sports-Betting-NevadaLeroy’s Sportsbook has a treat for football fans this season – provided you’re within Nevada state limits. Leroy’s, which operates some 58 race/sportsbooks in the state, will allow Blackberry users to place a sporting bet from anywhere in Nevada they can get coverage – home, the office, a public washroom at a truck stop in Reno, you name it. Plans are afoot to bring the service to other smartphones in due course, but fat lot of good that does you now, sitting on the bog with your iPhone in your hand and no toilet paper on the damn roll, right? Read more.

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  • Ammuray M.

    hurray for blackberry users, what about iPhone users? iPhone is more quite popular here, heard some companies will be developing few gambling applications for iPhone, hope it's true and will be sooner.

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  • Anonymous

    I think its a great use of blackberry for sports betting using sportsbook. Its a great news for the blackberry user, Who are also love sports betting.