Maryland’s Lottery, casinos and sportsbooks sent $1.637 billion to the state in fiscal 2026, up $48 million. Sports wagering supplied $43.4 million of the year’s $48 million gain, leaving about $4.6 million from everything else. Handle rose 11.1% to $6.91 billion while the state’s take rose 48.8% after the mobile tax went from 15% to … Read more
All FanDuel Predicts sports and novelties contracts move to Crypto.com’s exchange, Flutter said Wednesday. CME Group keeps its 51% stake in the venture but will clear only financial contracts. FanDuel Predicts trades under federal commodities rules rather than state gaming licenses and now runs nationwide. Flutter posted a $296 million net loss as group revenue … Read more
Saturday’s drawing is the 42nd of a run that began after the jackpot was last won May 2. The advertised $856 million is an annuity estimate; the cash option is $372.0 million. At true odds, a $2 ticket on a 1-in-292.2-million outcome would return about $584 million. The run has produced 36 Match 5 winners, … Read more
Colorado casinos generated a record $185,178,613 in gaming taxes in fiscal 2026, up 4.27% from fiscal 2025. June slot coin-in fell 5.24% year over year to $994.25 million while slot hold rose to 8.22%. Taxes grew faster than adjusted gross proceeds, lifting the state’s effective take to 16.07% from 15.95%. Colorado limited gaming paid nearly … Read more
Lucas Jumalon, 22, of Spokane, Wash., won $10 million and became the second-youngest World Series of Poker champion. The 9,208 entries put up $92.08 million, and $85,634,400 of that went back to the field as prize money. Cashing paid at least $15,000, one and a half times the buy-in, and everyone out earlier lost the … Read more
Act 247 adds one paragraph to state law, exempting mobile sports wagers from Wisconsin’s criminal definition of a bet. The three-count complaint asks the court to bar Gov. Tony Evers from negotiating compact amendments implementing the law. A third count calls the law’s tribal-server requirement a racial classification barred by the 14th Amendment. Each defendant … Read more
Just 34 of the 4,973 machines Light & Wonder shipped in the U.S. and Canada went to new or expanding casinos. Replacements made up 4,939 of those shipments, and new-opening units fell from 293 in the first quarter. Overseas casinos took 342 new-opening units, up from 74, so the construction slowdown is American rather than … Read more
Democrat Amy Acton and Libertarian Don Kissick back online casino legalization; Republican Vivek Ramaswamy did not respond. Acton would direct new gambling tax revenue to public schools, childcare and property-tax relief. Ohio’s two iGaming bills have sat in committee since May 2025 without reaching a floor vote. House Bill 971 would go the other way … Read more
New Hampshire’s charitable game rooms reported $42,374,820 in June revenue, up 31% from a year earlier. Video lottery terminals generated $21,643,774, more than half the total, in their first June in service. Historic horse racing revenue fell 56% to $10,343,417, losing its place as the state’s top machine game. State revenue rose 51% to $7,143,220, … Read more
A federal judge denied the CFTC’s emergency bid to halt New York’s gambling case against prediction market Kalshi. The order reached the docket Aug. 3 and found the agency showed neither likely success on the merits nor irreparable harm. New York seeks $100,000 for each unauthorized sports wagering offer plus a penalty of three times … Read more