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Kalshi has started listing contracts on industry-wide indices of card spending, point-of-sale sales and app downloads, all settled on figures from the data company Carbon Arc. The same vendor already settles Kalshi markets on sportsbook and casino advertising and on DraftKings and FanDuel downloads, and its numbers appear to sit outside the test the SEC used on 13 October to class Cboe's KPI options as securities.

A Baltimore circuit judge has reversed the contract appeals board that upheld Intralot's disqualification from Maryland's lottery systems tender, reportedly holding that a 2025 procurement law required the state to let it correct its minority business paperwork. It revives Intralot's case, not its award: the state threw out every bid in December, and Scientific Games is still running the lottery while it fights that decision.

A one-page memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells service members and civilians that trading on nonpublic information, classified or not, can bring discipline or prosecution, and calls their bets a signal enemies can read. As reported, it stops short of the ban on military-event trading that lawmakers asked for in May.

Football lifted sportsbook handle by 48% to 65% on August in all three states, and revenue recovered from August's low. Against September 2025 the picture splits: Michigan and Pennsylvania revenue rose sharply on better results, New Jersey's fell 14.3%, and only Michigan took more bets than a year earlier.

A Citrin-POLITICO poll finds 50% of registered voters in favour of legal sports betting at tribal casinos, four years after a tribal in-person measure won 33% of the vote. Online betting still trails 37% to 50%, which is the part California's tribes now have to win in 2028.

The Chickasaw Nation's commercial arm now owns 13 Horse Palace sites, live racing at Sweetwater Downs, and the operator behind about 35% of Wyoming's $2.49 billion historical horse racing handle. No price was disclosed, and the deal lands months after a bill to cap the machines died.

The state's largest casino took $46.1 million from its tables and slots in September, its weakest month since the pandemic, while more than 1,300 workers picketed outside. The regulator's statewide total also carries an MGM Springfield figure that matches August's to the cent.

American commercial gaming took $6.48 billion in August, a fraction less than a year earlier, because sportsbooks kept less of what was bet. Handle barely moved; hold fell from 10.8% to 9.2%, and the American Gaming Association blames prediction markets and a late college football start for the rest.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a false-certification proceeding against two ProphetX contracts on whether an NFL game produces a never-before-seen final score, and stayed them before they traded. It is the first stay of a sports event contract on the CFTC's 2026 filings record, and it turns on the same "economic consequence" test the agency says sports contracts pass.

Boyd Gaming's group earnings barely moved in the third quarter, but its two Las Vegas segments lost $8 million of EBITDAR between them while its locals and regional casinos grew. Management says August was the weakest month.

Three Democrats who have spent since August questioning FanDuel's VIP programme have now asked DraftKings, BetMGM, Caesars, Fanatics, Kalshi and Polymarket to say how much their top customers lost before and after they were enrolled. The letters are requests, not findings, and the companies have until 5 November to answer.

Four legislators from both parties have formed what local broadcasters call Pennsylvania's first caucus on problem gambling, promising "common-sense guardrails" for online betting. Two of them co-sponsor a bill, filed the same day, that would limit players to two deposits a day and ban microbets.

New York's commercial casinos took $184.3 million in September, more than three times a year earlier, but almost all of the rise is Resorts World New York City moving from the video lottery reports into the casino ones. On a like-for-like basis the Queens property grew about 63%, and the four upstate casinos were flat.

The first opening weekend without gambling brands on the front of Premier League shirts still carried 11,205 gambling messages across seven live matches, according to the University of Bristol's fourth annual count. Shirt-front logos all but vanished, sleeve and training kit branding rose 362.7% on the three-year average, and pitchside boards held steady or grew.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told every sportsbook, supplier, integrity monitor and testing laboratory it licenses to stop providing services "of any kind" to platforms offering sports event contracts in Ohio, or face reopened suitability investigations. With its cease-and-desist letters to the exchanges now challenged in court, Ohio is turning to the companies that keep them running.

The Senate Commerce Committee chairman intends to file legislation after the 3 November midterms that would bar gambling-linked event contracts, sports included, unless a state or tribe authorises them, Bloomberg Law reports. No text, bill number or co-sponsor is public yet, and the window before this Congress ends is short.

Polymarket's US exchange went to federal court in Columbus on the day Ohio's cease-and-desist deadline expired, leading with a constitutional claim the Sixth Circuit has not decided. Governor Mike DeWine says the state will now file suits of its own.

New Jersey has written into regulation the automated triggers, three-phase interventions and account closures its online operators have run under regulator guidance since 2023. The rule is now enforceable, but on marketing to at-risk players it is narrower than the version proposed a year ago.

Utah's Attorney General has sued five Kalshi companies and two Susquehanna firms in Salt Lake County, alleging that the market makers taking the other side of retail trades are gamblers and bookmakers under Utah law. A gaming lawyer calls it the first state enforcement action aimed at a prediction market's liquidity providers.

Two of the six prediction market operators Missouri ordered to stop offering sports event contracts went to federal court on Friday rather than comply. Both cases sit in the Eighth Circuit, which has yet to decide the question that has already split three other appeals courts.

Station Casinos and the North Fork Rancheria have set an opening date for their California casino while a motion to stop the gaming sits with a federal judge. The case turns on a governor's concurrence that California's courts say never had legal effect.

The league has used its commercial agreements, not a state rule, to strip out the bet types at the centre of the Jontay Porter and Terry Rozier cases before the 2026-27 season. Prediction markets, where it has no agreements, are untouched.

The Federal Register publishes the CFTC's two swap rules on Monday: the exclusion for licensed sportsbooks and casinos is in force that day, and the proposal to define event contracts as swaps opens for comment until 18 November. The rule text says the first changes no one's legal rights, and the second is not yet law.

A Camp Hill skill game vendor, whose subsidiary shares its name with a party to the case the Supreme Court decided in June, is cutting 81 jobs now that the machines are illegal. Its chief operating officer blames lawmakers, and Governor Josh Shapiro's push for "tax parity" with casinos.