How online gambling is regulated in the United States, from the federal statutes that constrain the market to the state licences that create it. The course covers the federal framework (the Wire Act and its three readings, PASPA and Murphy v NCAA, UIGEA, IGRA, the Commodity Exchange Act), sports betting state by state (the four models, market access and tethering, the tax range from under 10 to 51 per cent, product rules, the holdouts), online casino state by state (the seven live markets and Maine, why iGaming lags, interstate poker), licensing, compliance and tax (suitability, individual and vendor licensing, geolocation, KYC, reserves, advertising codes, Bank Secrecy Act obligations, the tax stack), tribal gaming and compacts (the three classes, exclusivity and revenue sharing, the hub-and-spoke model upheld in Florida), and the frontier (sweepstakes bans, the prediction-market circuit split, fantasy pick'em, skill games, federal proposals).
Written for operators, suppliers and affiliates entering or expanding in the American market, for compliance and legal teams who need the framework rather than the headlines, and for anyone in the industry trying to understand why the United States has fifty regimes and a federal fight over the fifty-first.
The through-line is that the American market is state-made and federally bounded, and that the products growing fastest are the ones testing the boundaries.
The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.
Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.
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.