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Missouri's mobile sports wagering handle decreased from December 2025 to January 2026 as a preliminary marketing blitz diminished and the variety of prospective football video games to wager on decreased.
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- Missouri's online deal with dropped 29% from $538.8 million in December 2025 to $380.4 million in January 2026, while [in-person manage](https://elinks.bio/stephanycarone) a little increased.
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- Tax income fell sharply, with sportsbooks paying $138,000 in January, a 74% decline from December, due to reductions for [free-bet promotions](https://git.genowisdom.cn/jakekime228580).
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- FanDuel and DraftKings led the marketplace, capturing nearly three-quarters of bets over the first two months, with DraftKings surpassing FanDuel in January.
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The state's online deal with [dropped](http://39.108.209.1793000/odessadown660) from $538.8 million in its very first month with legal betting down to $380.4 million in the 2nd, an approximately 29% month-over-month decrease, the Missouri Gaming Commission reported. Missouri's eight in-person sportsbooks increased manage from $4.1 million to $4.7 million throughout that very same time.
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The drop was anticipated following an [enormous marketing](https://www.ocgig.com/blog/new-products/journal-blog) blitz around the state's Dec. 1 launch date. Sportsbooks spent more than $125 million on free bets in December compared to a bit more than $33 million in January.
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Fewer opportunities to bank on football, the most popular sport in the state (and nation), likewise added to the decrease, as there were fewer NFL and college football video games in January compared to December. Total football wagering manage, not consisting of parlays, declined more than 50% between the 2 months, dropping from nearly $152 million to $72 million.
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Basketball took over as the most wagered-on sport in January, increasing handle from simply under $99 million in December to slightly more than $109 million.
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Missouri sportsbook taxes
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The month-over-month decline in Missouri sports betting tax was more noticable.
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[Missouri sportsbooks](https://rentry.co/38602-the-bet9ja-promo-code-for-2026-is-yohaig) paid around $138,000 in taxes in January, an almost 74% drop from the more than $521,000 paid in December. Retail books contributed nearly a third of the overall taxes despite accepting a small fraction of the bets compared to online platforms.
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Like a lot of the other 31 states with statewide mobile sports wagering, Missouri enables sportsbooks to subtract free-bet advertising play against their tax liabilities.
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The books might also deduct their impressive adjusted gross profits losses from complimentary bets for the previous month. The December promos around the launch date will likely be the greatest in state history, but it has nonetheless cut the state's capacity for tax generation.
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ICYMI: DraftKings topped FanDuel for the No. 1 deal with spot in Missouri in January; FD edged DK for the [leading mark](http://cletina.com/blog/season-essentials) in December
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DraftKings - $144.4 m. +FanDuel - $125.7 m. +bet365 - $34.0 m. +BetMGM - $33.0 m. +Fanatics - $21.0 m. +Caesars - $14.1 m. +theScore Bet - $6.7 m. +Circa Sports - $1.5 m
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FanDuel, DraftKings, and Fanatics, the nation's biggest sportsbooks by manage, have not yet needed to pay taxes in Missouri on their sports betting income due to their advertising deductions.
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The books could continue significant marketing invest in February around the Super Bowl and in March for the NCAA Tournament, but figures are set to decrease significantly as the year advances. Missouri tasks to produce more than $20 million in annual sports wagering taxes by 2030.
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FanDuel and DraftKings promote launch
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The country's two biggest sportsbooks by market share extended that standing in Missouri's first months of legal sports wagering.
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FanDuel, the No. 1 sportsbook by nationwide manage share, topped the state's eight mobile books in December by accepting nearly 40% of all bets placed that month. FanDuel executives on a recent revenues call touted the "excellent" launch, saying consumer acquisition was "ahead of expectations."
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Around 5% of Missouri's adult population placed a bet with FanDuel in the first one month of launch, making Missouri "one of our best state launches to date," FanDuel wrote in its incomes declaration.
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[DraftKings](https://richardadamslaw.com/caption/) saw one of its highest consumer acquisition penetration rates and its second-highest gross earnings per grownup of any of its 18 jurisdiction launches considering that 2021, the business stated in its profits report. DraftKings took over the leading area in January from FanDuel, with 38% of the state's wagering deal with to 33% for its competitor.
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DraftKings has actually accepted $339.7 million in bets during [Missouri's](http://47.100.37.24310191/vickydooley56) first 2 months with sports betting, compared to $338.4 million for FanDuel. The pair has actually [accounted](https://cuvio.com/Galleria-Foto/emodule/7396/eitem/284) for nearly three-quarters of all bets positioned in the state.
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