Betting on sports has never been easier. You can place wagers on the following sports at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia: football, basketball, hockey, soccer, baseball, golf, tennis, auto racing, rugby, cycling, boxing and MMA, and cricket. Professional and collegiate betting options will be available. Hollywood Casino Charles Town opened its doors as the Charles Town Races in 1933, the first in West Virginia. In keeping with that tradition, Hollywood Casino Charles Town became the first casino in West Virginia to offer sports betting. Its sportsbook soft-opened on Aug. 30, 2018, and had its grand opening two days later. West Virginia was the fifth state in the country to legalize sports betting following the ending of the federal ban in May 2018. It was in August 2018 that West Virginia opened its first sportsbook, with Nevada, Mississippi, Delaware and New Jersey also having legal sports betting at the time. The legal gambling age in West Virginia is 21 years of age. This includes the minimum legal age for betting on sports online. Anyone who attempts to place bets prior to their 21st birthday is doing so in direct violation of the law. West Virginia is one of the most liberal states when it comes to online gambling, having legalized daily fantasy sports activities in 2016 and sports betting as soon as the PAPSA regulation was overturned in 2018. The state will next work towards allowing online casino gambling, though a recent bill which was introduced in 2017, ultimately failed.

Two West Virginia casinos that suspended sports betting operations this week are promising to honor all outstanding bets that have been decided, but otherwise are leaving customers in the dark with their funds in the bookmakers' possession.

The sportsbooks at Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras casinos, as well as their online betting platform BetLucky.com, halted service Wednesday night. Patrons who contacted customer support weren't given any time frame for when the sportsbook would be operating again or when their funds would be available.

Delaware North, the company that owns Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras casinos, pointed to a contractual dispute between vendors as the cause of the disruption.

'We have been informed by Miomni Gaming, our sports wagering platform provider in West Virginia, that they have encountered a contract dispute with a third-party platform provider,' Delaware North said in a statement. 'This has resulted in the interruption of the Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras sports-betting operations as well as the BetLucky.com mobile app from accepting new sports wagers. We are honoring and redeeming all resulted bets and are working to determine a time frame to restoration. We apologize for the interruption in service.'

LegalSportsReport.com first reported the suspension of sports betting operations at the two casinos.

West Virginia Sports Betting App

A message at the top of the BetLucky app Friday morning said, 'We are currently experiencing system issues. We are working to resolve these issues.'

The West Virginia Lottery, which oversees the state's sports betting, did not immediately return phone messages.

When Will West Va Have Sports Betting

West Virginia was the fourth state to open legal sportsbooks after the U.S. Supreme Court this past May struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, the federal statute that had restricted state-sponsored sports betting to primarily Nevada.

West Virginia Casino Charles Town

The BetLucky sports betting app launched in late December, the first mobile sportsbook in West Virginia.