ESPN Bet promo code: Available states for November 2023 launch
Are you ready? Hopefully, you are, because the highly anticipated ESPN Bet promo code is slated to hit a bundle of states in November 2023.
From The Great Pyramid of Giza to The Temple of Artemis, humanity cannot help but marvel at the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Yet, naturally, questions arise more rapidly than when yellow laundry leaves a zebra's back pocket in an NFL prime-time spot.
(Here's looking at you, Miami Dolphins fans, as your team falls in Philadelphia. Please accept our Monday morning, terrible-joke apologies.)
How could humans construct such a thing? Why in the world was it even necessary? Who are these superhuman folks who took the time to drop our jaws so many centuries later?
Admittedly, I'm nowhere near qualified enough to provide answers. But perhaps I'm aware enough to spot the eighth wonder of the world to be: the ESPN Bet bonus code set to hit virtual online sports betting tables in November 2023.
Inform a diehard sports gambler just two decades ago that, in 2023, the Worldwide Leader in Sports would feature a legal sports betting app, in what's become a wholly regulated sports wagering market, and chuckling loudly would be the most timid of responses.
Yet, here we are.
The ESPN Bet app is ready for its November 2023 launch, in conjunction with new partners PENN Entertainment, and with it comes a brand-spanking-new bonus code ripe for both casual and hardened online sports bettors to utilize to their advantage.
Much like each of the current Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has a specific location on this planet we call Earth, the soon-to-be-released ESPN sportsbook promo code also has accompanying location details---in which states the mobile online sports betting app will be legal and available.
The ESPN Bet promo code availability will be anything but incremental
Although I label the ESPN Bet sportsbook promo as the eighth wonder of the world in jest, it's extremely true that this is no ordinary sportsbook launch.
Generally speaking, an online sportsbook takes incremental steps en route to sowing its wild oats across this great nation of ours.
For instance, bet365 Sportsbook enjoyed only international success for quite some time. That's no longer the case.
Courtesy of ambitious expansion and an aggressive new-user promotion, bet365 sportsbook's recent dent in the overall market share is evident. The rub here is that the success came incrementally.
In 2023, bet365 introduced its online sportsbook platform in two more states, Iowa and Kentucky, upping its portfolio total to six.
A similar incremental pathway is what the likes of DraftKings Sportsbook and FanDuel Sportsbook experience. Since both popular online sports betting apps are the market leaders, each enters a new state once legislation reaches a point of an online sports betting launch.
ESPN Bet's introduction to the market is the antithesis of what we have witnessed.
PENN Entertainment's partnership creates a unique opportunity
The co-press release from PENN Entertainment and ESPN in August 2023 most definitely shook up the sports betting world, and it did so for a variety of unique reasons.
Since PENN is already a monster in the industry, already owning a plethora of betting licenses, ESPN is set up for a giant wave of first impressions.
Perhaps the easiest way to think about it is like this: What was once Barstool Sportsbook's territory automatically becomes ESPN Bet's.
Subbing out Barstool in favor of ESPN allows PENN to rebrand its sportsbook in every state it already held a license. Therefore, there's nothing incremental about the November 2023 launch soon to become a reality.
The ESPN Bet promo code is set to launch in at least 16 states
Amazingly, the best ESPN Bet promo code is set to become available in at least 16 states upon its November 2023 launch.
Better yet, there are a couple of states most likely to welcome ESPN Bet into the fold rather shortly, as well as longer-term visions for a few more down the road.
Here's the list of the original 16 states ready to feature the ESPN Bet app and introductory ESPN Bet sportsbook bonus primed to knock the socks off of every digital gambler:
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- New Jersey
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- West Virginia
Why it's feasible to include 17 states boils down to the latest to join the ranks of the legal sports gambling world.
Kentucky online sports betting launched on Sept. 28, 2023, with the likes of FanDuel Sportsbook, DraftKings Sportsbook, bet365 Sportsbook, BetMGM Sportsbook, and Caesars Sportsbook already operating within it.
PENN Entertainment has an online betting license with Kentucky, as plans to launch Barstool Sportsbook in the Bluegrass State existed. To think the ESPN Bet promo code won't be available in Kentucky is to think the NFL is actually rigged (here's looking at you, yet again, Dolphins fans).
Additional ESPN Bet promo code state possibilities
In the on-deck circle is North Carolina, whose legislation puts them in a technically-legal sports betting place, with existing retail online sports betting, and mobile online sports betting expected to launch in January 2024.
There's very little reason to doubt ESPN Bet's ability to launch in North Carolina.
Thinking longer-term, "What about the state Frank Sinatra believes is the true measuring stick for making it?"
Nearly everybody involved, including Barstool founder Dave Portnoy himself, admits that the Barstool image made regulation a nightmare for the company's sportsbook efforts. These nightmares didn't help matters when attempting to launch in New York.
When New York online sports betting launched on Jan. 8, 2022, just a handful of sportsbooks were let in (FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars, BetMGM, BetRivers, etc.). Barstool Sportsbook wasn't even invited to the virtual altar, along with a few others.
Perhaps the new face of PENN's online sports gambling license, ESPN, tremendously changes matters in the Empire State.
No matter how it unfolds in each of these states, the possibilities that lie at the feet of PENN and ESPN Bet are now limitless via realistic hope. And thus, legal online sportsbook bettors can lick their lips while realizing that the fruitful ESPN Bet promo code is poised to compete with the best in the industry, while also doing so in an incredible number of states.
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