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Google will let certified online gambling advertisers buy the slot at the top of YouTube's homepage from 21 October, widening a carve-out that has covered only sports betting since 2022. The notice names no markets, and it arrives in a month when European lawmakers are moving to restrict gambling advertising rather than extend it.

DraftKings and FanDuel gave $3.5 million each in the latest reporting period, taking Tax Relief Nebraska's fundraising to $14.65 million for two online sports betting measures on the 3 November ballot. The committee registered to oppose them had reported nothing raised or spent by the same date, on Ballotpedia's count.

Voters in Allen, DeKalb and Steuben counties decide on 3 November whether northeast Indiana can bid for the state's 14th casino, and the congressman who represents all three wants them to say no. The law gives a "no" more weight than a "yes": a county that rejects it cannot ask again.

Ten days after closure notices gave the Maverick Casino Hotel and the Gold Country Inn until 30 November, Maverick's co-founder says he is buying both back and will rehire every worker. No price, buyer entity or court filing for the deal has been made public, and Nevada's regulator says only that it is "very involved".

The tribe that holds Florida's sports betting monopoly wants a Broward County court to shut down DraftKings' prediction-market sports tab and its Pick6 game, and accuses chief executive Jason Robins personally of racketeering. It is suing under state law, in state court, where DraftKings' federal preemption defence has to be won rather than assumed.

The Michigan Gaming Control Board has written to 33 unlicensed casino, sweepstakes-style and sports betting sites, and this time it led with a player-protection argument: the state's self-exclusion database binds only licensed operators. Two of the names were already on the list it published in April.

Illinois casinos took $178.2 million in September, up 12.7% on a year earlier, and 14 of the state's 17 properties grew. Penn's new land-based Aurora casino supplied about a third of the increase; the rest came from players spending more per visit, not from more visits.

Maine's gambling regulator now says the first quarter of 2027 is the more practical target for online casino, and the state has told a federal court its rules cannot take effect before 25 November. Between now and launch sit a legality review, six hires, a licensing portal still to be launched and a constitutional challenge still waiting for a ruling.

Every one of the nine gaming suppliers in the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers' index pulled it down in September, led by Aristocrat and Light & Wonder. The index is now 5.9% lower than a year ago while the S&P 500 is up 14.4%.

Nevada's Gaming Control Board has backed Christopher Ruffin at Circus Circus and Sean Lanni at Aria and Park MGM, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. One is licensing work he already does; the other, by his own account, wants the licence mainly for estate planning.

Ohio has led 38 other states and the District of Columbia in urging the Supreme Court to take New Jersey's case against Kalshi, joined by the tribe behind the landmark 1987 tribal gaming ruling, the National Football League and three nonprofits that want the Court to revisit Murphy. Every brief on the docket backs New Jersey; Kalshi's response is due on 9 November.

Less than three weeks after the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe went first, four more tribal nations have launched Kalshi-backed prediction apps, CNN reports, one of them in northern California, inside the circuit that has just called Kalshi's sports contracts Class III gaming on tribal land. Only two of the four have been named, and the commercial terms have not been disclosed.

Connecticut's consumer protection chief says three of the nine prediction markets it ordered to stop sports contracts last month are leaving the state. None of the three has confirmed it publicly, and one industry analyst says ProphetX has not gone at all.

Coinbase will stop offering sports event contracts in Michigan, Kalshi's included, and close its customers' open positions at the same deadline, under an order a federal judge signed on 23 September. Michigan has promised not to prosecute while the appeals run; nobody has conceded the law.

Three Democrats want copies of every personalised athlete and entertainer video FanDuel has sent to VIP customers, and for each one, how much the recipient had lost and why the host chose them. FanDuel told them in September that it has no plans to suspend or end its VIP programme.

Families and Friends of Gamblers, a Boston nonprofit built by the tobacco litigator Richard Daynard's institute, has named a 10-member board it says has no connection to gambling interests and is recruiting from the problem gambling councils around the National Council on Problem Gambling. It is a rival pitch rather than a split inside the council, timed for a moment when the NCPG has no permanent leader in sight.

A week after the same notices went out in Washington, Maverick's Nevada arm has told the state it will permanently close the Maverick Casino Hotel and the Gold Country Inn in Elko unless a new operator takes them over. Court filings show both sit in the sale-leaseback portfolio that drew no bids in the company's bankruptcy.

The State Police's third notice closes the route Pace-O-Matic says it will take, disabling terminals rather than removing them, and puts bars' liquor licences on the line. None of the six skill game bills has left committee.

Bulgaria notified the European Commission of its draft Gambling Act amendments on 2 October, closing the procedural gap that left Lithuania's promotion ban unenforceable. The text, still out to consultation and not yet before parliament, would end affiliate licences in January and charge online operators at least €100,000 a month.

A week after closure notices put eight Washington card rooms on course to shut on 30 November, Maverick Gaming's founder says he is buying them out of the bankruptcy and that the deal will close within three weeks. No buyer entity, price or court filing for the sale has been made public, and a new owner needs the state's gambling licence.

Pennsylvania's regulator took almost 9,700 new self-exclusion enrolments in the year to June, more than in any year it has reported, and the monthly figure beat the year before in every month. The same week's reports show the state's casinos ended the year with 598 fewer staff as play kept moving online.

Two associations of gaming regulators have told the Supreme Court that the same Kalshi contract is shielded from state law in New Jersey and subject to it in Ohio, and that only the Court can end that. They follow a group of state lawmakers in backing New Jersey's petition; nobody has yet filed for Kalshi.

A Chicago judge has found that Kalshi's championship contracts are likely swaps and that Illinois likely cannot make the exchange take out a sports wagering licence. She has not yet ruled on the state's new 1.75% to 3.5% prediction-market fee, and her reasoning puts her at odds with a Wisconsin judge in the same circuit and with two federal appeals courts.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and seven other platforms to stop offering sports event contracts to Ohioans and confirm it in writing within 14 days. Kalshi, the company that lost in the Sixth Circuit, did not get a letter: its $5 million penalty case is already under way.