Brett Calaap, Chief Operating Officer for Bally’s North America Interactive, recently reiterated Bally’s commitment to the North American gaming market by explaining why the company was the only sportsbook operator to attend a Massachusetts Gaming Commission roundtable on limiting bettors, SBC reported.
“I very, very much, told our team we’re coming to this meeting. And they were all like, ‘Oh, no one else is showing up.’ We’ve talked to our friends. They’re all going to bail at the last second. And I was like, ‘Absolutely not. We’re not bailing on this.’ Now we have the power to choose what we share and what we don’t share, but not showing up to something isn’t acceptable at all, from my perspective,” Calaap said.
The commitment has been shown in other recent moves made by the company, including its agreement to sell its interactive businesses in the Asian market, including Japan. “The transaction is intended to allow Bally’s to focus its capital and resource allocation on North American and European business,” Bally’s said in a statement.
Back in September, Calaap told CDC Gaming, “as a public company, we owe our shareholders to maximize profitability. But we also owe it to society to create a great, sustainable responsible gaming experience. And the two do not compete against each other. If we think about creating a great, safer experience for the player in the long term, it’s going to result in more activity for us, more profits, more taxes, and more shareholder value. Setting those foundations is the right thing to do at the end of the day.”
Bally’s operates 15 casinos in 10 states and provides an online gambling platform in several more. The company also owns a golf course in New York and a horse racetrack in Colorado.
