GAN To Launch iGaming In Michigan With the Sault Tribe

• Michigan law HB 4311 which was passed in December 2019, allows real money internet casino gaming in Michigan along with brick-and-mortar sports betting.
• GAN is one of the world’s leading companies in supplying internet gambling software.
• The Sault Tribe and GAN reached an agreement where GAN will provide operational services to the Tribe’s five land-based casinos in Michigan.

LANSING, Mich. — Online gambling in Michigan received a major boost with the software developer GAN announcing a partnership with the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians who operate five land-based casinos in the state according to GAN’s press release.

The state of Michigan passed HB 4311 nearly three months ago as the bill opened the door for legal online casino gambling in the state for the first time.

GAN is a business-to-business supplier of internet gambling hoping to gain a growing market share in the booming US gambling economy when casino gambling returns. This partnership is proof of them sticking to their vision.

Jeff Berman Chief Commerical Officer of GAN said, "Michigan has long represented an attractive market with both Internet sports and Internet casino gaming now regulated. Our technical expertise and 'day one' experience in multiple U.S. Internet gambling markets will enable the Sault Tribe to capture their share of the online opportunity and we thank them for their trust in forming this relationship with GAN and our major U.S. casino operator client whose identity will be confirmed in due course. We are incredibly excited to bring real money Internet gambling to Michigan, which remains at the core of our mission, strategy and purpose in the United States.”

Although many of the rules of and regulations of sports betting in Michigan has yet to be launched by the state's Gaming Control Board, the hope is that sports betting will kick off in Michigan by 2021. Despite the delays, both parties are confident that there will be big profits to be made on gambling in Michigan.

"The Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians is excited to take this important step with GAN and our mutual partner to bring both retail sports to our consumers at our five casino locations in short course, in addition to Internet gaming casino on day-one when first allowed by the state of Michigan,” said Allen Kerridge, CEO of the Kewadin Gaming Authority.

“We chose GAN and our mutual partner based on their market-leading technology and combined substantial experience serving gaming clients both online and offline.”

There is no telling when Michigan will fully launch sports betting in the state but bettors should remain optimistic that something will get done sooner rather than later.

So far, the three commercial casinos in Detroit have launched land-based sportsbooks, but those options only scratch the surface of what a full online sports betting market in Michigan will be.