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Oklahoma's ban on dual-currency sweepstakes casinos takes effect in a fortnight, after lawmakers overrode Governor Kevin Stitt's veto with no votes to spare in the House. The fine is small; the felony reaches suppliers and media affiliates as well as operators, and tribal gaming is carved out.

The former FanDuel shareholders suing KKR, Shamrock and FanDuel's old board over the 2018 Paddy Power Betfair merger have won a route into legal advice the defendants withheld as privileged. The order decides nothing about the merits, but it reaches the documents most likely to show how a $465.5 million valuation was set.

MGM Resorts says the city of Springfield owes it about $500 million for sitting on the sale of MGM Springfield for two years. The city wants a judge, not an arbitrator, to decide whether it can keep saying no.

Louisiana's gaming regulator has pushed DraftKings' permit renewal to February while state police finish checking shareholders who hold 5% or more and the board examines reports about how the operator uses artificial intelligence. The chairman said the decision is not a finding of wrongdoing, but it is the first licensing decision in iGaming Times' coverage to turn on the AI reports.

States that legalised online sports betting saw more depression and anxiety prescriptions and outpatient diagnoses among the employer-insured, a JAMA Psychiatry paper finds. It is a population-level association, not proof of harm to bettors, and it adds a clinical strand to evidence that has so far been mostly financial.

The high-stakes professional alleges GGPoker's chief executive promised him a 5% stake and commissions in 2018, then cut his pay and blamed him for cheating on the site. The claims are untested, the CEO has moved to dismiss, and Kenney amended his complaint on the day his reply was due.

The professional bettor prosecutors place at the centre of the college and Chinese basketball fixing scheme has admitted seven counts in Philadelphia, including two transferred from the Brooklyn case against Terry Rozier. He will be sentenced in February, weeks after Rozier's trial is due to open.

A magistrate judge has recommended that Kentucky's gambling suit against Polymarket go back to the state court where it was filed, leaning on the Sixth Circuit's September ruling against Kalshi, and the same is reported in the Kalshi case. If the district judges agree, a Kentucky judge will hear the state's claims for injunctions, penalties and treble damages.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared Cboe to list yes-or-no options that pay $1 on whether a company's reported figure, such as iPhone sales, clears a set level. They will trade as securities, not CFTC event contracts, with Robinhood lined up as the first broker, but there is no launch date until Cboe's clearing house is approved.

Google has added Connecticut to the US states where certified prediction markets may not advertise, the fifth exclusion since it opened the category in January, and has written a pointer to its prediction market rules into the main body of its gambling policy. Each of Google's notices has taken effect the day it was posted, and none gives a reason.

Underdog's exchange and brokerage arms filed a federal suit in Nashville on Tuesday against Tennessee's attorney general and the officials of its Sports Wagering Council, four days after a letter to "Mr. Levine". It is the seventh state Underdog has taken to court, and the first suit it has filed where a binding appeals ruling already rejects the argument it relies on.

The Federal Trade Commission has begun an early-stage review of online sportsbooks such as FanDuel and DraftKings, The Washington Sun reported, citing three sources. Nothing is on the record yet: DraftKings says it has had no civil investigative demand and the agency declined to comment.

A federal judge in Philadelphia gave the scheme's most prolific recruiter 72 months, two months above the bottom of his guideline range, and let him stay free until 1 December. The sentence sets the marker for the players and fixers still to come before the same court.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated Club La Molienda, a horse racetrack on the edge of Nuevo Laredo that Treasury says shared a betting arrangement with Casino Centenario, the casino it accused in April of serving as a drug stash house and a place where the cartel tortured its enemies. It is the second US action in six months to put a Mexican gambling venue on the sanctions list.

The leagues' new campaign with the National Council on Problem Gambling tells fans that trading on a prediction market puts their money at risk just as a sports bet does, weeks after the NBA was reported to be close to its first prediction-market deals. The release names no budget, no creative and no start date.

Kalshi is reviewing three small trades that backed Katie Zacharia at 1 and 2 cents before Donald Trump named her White House press secretary. The exchange's own trade record shows the fills, and shows the price climbing to 45 cents before the time outlets give for the first reports.

BetMGM's third quarter was its joint-best for adjusted EBITDA on the figures it has published since 2025, against a weak comparison a year earlier. It still expects 2026 to land at the bottom of guidance that has already been cut once, which needs a fourth quarter bigger than any it has reported.

Wyoming's Select Committee on Gaming has voted to back a draft bill that would make running an online sweepstakes casino, or knowingly supplying one with payments, geolocation or game content, a felony. Its definition of sweepstakes currency is wider than California's, but the bill still needs a sponsor the committee may not be able to supply itself.

Interim results from a state-funded University of Nevada, Las Vegas study suggest 7% of Colorado's sports bettors report serious gambling problems, in a year when the state's sports betting tax take rose 28% to $47.2 million. On the reported numbers, the figure rests on about 20 sports bettors in a 500-person sample, and the full method has not been published.

The State Department's 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report says senior Cambodian officials benefited from and protected scam compounds, that no scam centre trafficker was prosecuted, and that casinos with a documented history of hosting scam centres were licensed in January. It lands as Cambodia sends inspectors into casinos to enforce its online gambling ban.

US states spent about $145 million of the $188 million they allocated to problem gambling services in FY2025, and 48% of funded states spent at least 5% less than their budgets, according to the national association of state administrators. The share has barely moved since FY2023, which makes it a capacity problem rather than a one-off.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has published the two rules it sent to the White House last month: one, in force the day it appears in the Federal Register, says a bet with a licensed sportsbook or casino is not a swap; the other proposes that event contracts, sports included, are. The line runs through who sells the product and where it trades, not what it is.

New York's Gaming Commission has proposed barring every gambling licensee in the state, not only sportsbooks, from using AI to tailor offers or suggest bets, and presuming any personalised offer unlawful. A second rule would make mobile sportsbooks flag, contact and if necessary close the accounts of at-risk bettors.

The senator whose name is on the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and the CFTC chairman who implemented it have told the Supreme Court that Congress never moved sports betting from the states to the commodities regulator. The American Gaming Association, 145 tribes and tribal groups and Atlantic City's casinos filed too, and there is still nothing on the docket for Kalshi.