The only vendor to ever provide legalized sports gambling in Montana recently won the state’s contract after a successful bidding process in which it underbid it’s current contract as it inked a new deal for a seven-year term that could be extended to as long as 10.

Intralot, a Greek-based sports betting and technology company, won the bid, but that process wasn’t always so certain. During the 2025 Legislature, lawmakers, including Montana Senate President Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, raced to close a loophole that would have allowed the state’s lottery commission to circumvent the bidding process, and simply name a vendor.

The Legislature stymied the plans, and forced the commission to go out to bid, and now that the process has been finalized, some of those same lawmakers say they’re fe

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