He said it will take at least 30 days before that happens and at that time the computerized races will be offered at all William Hill racebooks in the state. Asher explained that Nevada regulations require new gambling products such as virtual racing be introduced with a limited trial run before they are given complete approval. It's clearly not something for everyone, but if you're hanging around in a race and sports book and you've got 10 minutes to kill and there's a race going off every five minutes you might bet a few bucks on it.”įor now, the virtual races are available only at the Plaza Hotel and Casino and the Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino. So we needed to do something to get more content and we think virtual is a really good filler product. We have these gorgeous racebooks that will have 40 TVs and just two tracks or three tracks are going. There's just not enough content early and midweek in the U.S. “Early in the week, you go into one of our racebooks and you'll see five TVs with the exact same track on. for a number of years and it makes up 18% of our horse racing win in the U.K.,” said Joe Asher, CEO of William Hill US. “Virtual racing has been popular in the U.K. The lower the horses odds are the higher the chance it will win the “race.” There are no past performances available and the odds are fixed.

The fields consist of eight to 12 horses and costumers can make win, place, show, exacta and trifecta wagers. version, famed announcer Tom Durkin provides the calls. The races, already popular with bookmakers in the U.K., where they are also offered over the internet, go off every five minutes and feature computer generated horses battling it out to the wire. Last week at two of its Las Vegas racebooks, William Hill began taking bets on “virtual” horse races. William Hill, one of the world's leading bookmaking firms, apparently doesn't think you do.

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