MGM-GVC sports bet deal with California’s United Auburn tribe

Casino operator MGM Resorts and online gambling operator GVC Holdings have inked a prospective sports betting deal with California’s United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC).

On Monday, MGM and GVC announced that their MGM GVC Interactive LLC joint venture had inked a retail, online and mobile sports betting deal with the UAIC, which operates the Thunder Valley Casino Resort near Lincoln, California.

The deal will see MGM and GVC provide the UAIC with their “iconic brands and proprietary technology” for not only sports betting, but also “casino and poker if and when any are permitted under state law.”

The UAIC and GVC aren’t complete strangers, as the tribe struck an online poker technology deal with the now defunct Bwin.party, which GVC acquired in 2015. That deal, which was struck way back in 2012, ultimately went nowhere, thanks to California’s repeatedly demonstrated inability to approve the necessary online poker legislation.