BetMGM Michigan Review

The BetMGM Michigan app went live on 22th January 2021. People in Michigan can now enjoy betting on sports with one of the most user-friendly sports betting platforms in the business.

With the success that the BetMGM Sportsbook and Lounge in the MGM Grand Detroit, it is only a matter of time before the BetMGM MI app becomes an industry leader in Michigan.

Legislation passed in December 2019 legalized sports betting in Michigan which is regulated by the Michigan Gaming Control Board. However, Bet MGM did not open its retail location in Detroit until March 2020. But the future of MGM sportsbetting MI, like every other sportsbook, is online sports betting. MGM online MI let users pre-register for an account so that they could be ready to go when BetMGM MI went live on 22th January 2021.

With one of the lowest taxation levels in the country (8.4 percent on revenue), hopes are high for MGM Michigan and the Play MGM app once BetMGM Michigan can go live.

BetMGM MI will be taking bets on many of the traditional sports, including:

BetMGM No Deposit Bonus Michigan

The $100 in bonus bets users got for pre-registering with BetMGM Michigan are even better than they appear to be. Why? It’s a no deposit bonus offer meaning no deposit is required to receive the bonus bets. A new user deposit bonus promotion often requires and is dependent on how much your first deposit into your sportsbook account is, but not this one.

However, if you use a bonus bet to place your first BetMGM sports wager, you will not be eligible for the bonus bet up to $1000 offer.

BetMGM First Deposit Bonus Michigan

BetMGM Michigan does want you to make your first deposit into your account when you open it. MGM sports betting has a welcome offer where you can earn a bonus bet up to $1000 to encourage users to make a deposit when they sign up for a sportsbook account.

Should you lose your first bet, BetMGM MI will credit your sportsbook account with bonus bets equal to the value of your lost wager (in ten percent increments). That is a pretty good betting bonus, right? Right when you think you’ve lost, it turns out you haven’t.

BetMGM MI Bonus Bet Offer

Since bettors in Michigan will have options for getting their online gambling needs met, BetMGM Michigan is offering several ways in which users can win bonus bets. Bonus bets are not necessarily bonus money. But they can enhance the MGM betting experience when appropriately used (restrictions apply), resulting in users winning money. 

Along with the $100 (which will appear once BetMGM MI goes live in the form of two $50 bets) users can earn when they pre-register, users can earn bonus bets via several other BetMGM offers: the Money Monday Club, Bet Basketball Live, Follow the Puck, Overtime Insurance, and Parlay Insurance.

Make sure you check with BetMGM Michigan to see when promotions are offered.

BetMGM Michigan Promotions

• Money Monday Club – Once you opt-in to this weekly promotion, make $50 in qualifying bets during the week (Monday through Sunday), and BetMGM Michigan will credit your sportsbook account with a $10 bonus bet (no bonus code or promo code needed).
• Bet Basketball Live – When you place live, in-play wagers on a college basketball or NBA game, you can earn a bonus bet. The value of the bonus bet will range from $5 to $100 and depend on how much you wager (no bonus code or promo code needed).
• Overtime Insurance – With overtime insurance, if an NFL game you have a bet on goes to overtime and you lose, BetMGM MI will credit your sportsbook account with up to $25 in bonus bets (no bonus code or promo code needed).
• Parlay Insurance – Should you lose a multi-leg parlay because you missed one leg, BetMGM MI will credit your sportsbook account with up to $25 in bonus bets (no bonus code or promo code needed).
• Power Parlay Leaderboard – Compete with other BetMGM sportsbook users and have a chance to win prizes when you place high enough on the leaderboard, either weekly or monthly (no bonus code or promo code needed).
• Odds Boosts – BetMGM MI will often offer boosted odds for certain wagers. With the boosted odds, should you win, your payout will be higher than it would have been (no bonus code or promo code needed).
• Follow the Puck – To encourage pregame hockey bets, BetMGM sportsbook will credit your account with up to $100 in bonus live bets (dependent on how much you wager on qualifying bets; (no bonus code or promo code needed).

The MGM name alone will do wonders for BetMGM in Michigan. But there is nothing that will promote the BetMGM app, quite like its partnership with the NFL’s Detroit Lions. The Lions have a pre-existing relationship with MGM Resorts via the MGM Grand Detroit. Because of that, the BetMGM sportsbook was a logical choice to become the team’s official sports betting partner.

Through the partnership, BetMGM MI will become the presenting sponsor for several things like Lions Bingo and Lions Perks, along with team broadcasts and digital marketing assets. There will also be in-stadium promotions and signage present at Ford Field.

BetMGM – Detroit Lions

Established back in 1930, the Detroit Lions are one of the older teams in the NFL. While success has been hard to come for the team in recent years, the Lions can claim to four NFL championships. They won all four before the AFL and NFL merged in 1970. Since then, the team has won three division titles and made the playoffs 12 times. 

The 2020 team saw head coach Matt Patricia fired in-season and saw the Lions finish with a 5-11 record. Dan Campbell, an assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints during the 2020 season, has been hired to be the new head coach.      

BetMGM Michigan, and other online sportsbooks, are required to partner with an in-state retail location. MGM Resorts has a Michigan location it wasn’t hard for BetMGM Michigan to find a partner, MGM Grand Detroit.

The MGM Grand Detroit sportsbook opened inside the BetMGM Sports Lounge at the MGM Grand Detroit in March. Shortly after, the pandemic brought the sports world and action at the MGM sportsbook Detroit to a screeching halt (in-person betting at the BetMGM sports lounge has since resumed).

The BetMGM sportsbook app added live streaming after it launched in New Jersey. Since then, BetMGM has worked on improving the live streaming function. BetMGM also plans on expanding the selection of sports that the Michigan BetMGM app will stream. For now, users can watch European soccer and tennis. At the moment, there is no reason to think it will be any different with the BetMGM mobile app in Michigan.

Now that online gambling and mobile betting has become active in Michigan, BetMGM Michigan wants its users to have no fear when it comes to placing bets. To that end, the company designed the app to make the process of placing a bet easy and worry-free.

BetMGM MI is one of the many sports betting apps that launched in Michigan once the state allowed them to on 22th January 2021. That is, once the state sets a launch date for online/mobile app sports betting. Michigan passed legislation legalizing sports betting in December 2019, becoming the 20th state to legalize sports betting. The retail location launched inside the MGM Grand Detroit in March 2020.

Entain Group 

BetMGM and BetMGM Michigan exist thanks to the partnership between the Entain Group (formerly known as GVC Holdings) and MGM Resorts International. Perhaps because it appears like the online sports betting industry is about to take off in the United States, MGM recently tried to buy the Entain Group for a reported $11 billion—which the Group refused. 

With the passing of legislation in December 2019, sports betting became legal in the state of Michigan. But due to regulatory procedures and requirements, online betting and betting with a mobile app was delayed but has launched as of 2021. Leading up to the launch new users could pre-register with the BetMGM mobile app or via the BetMGM online site to take advantage of their new user promotion.

Responsive and effective customer support can be crucial to BetMGM sportsbook users enjoying their time on BetMGM MI. That is why BetMGM offers 24/7 customer support. Users can live chat with someone, send an email, or reach a customer support rep by phone. BetMGM MI will also have answers to some common questions BetMGM online users may have.