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
No state opened a new online sports betting or online casino market in the year’s first six months, even as US commercial gaming set a sixth straight
The state’s fresh budget makes operating a sportsbook pricier while giving a competing product a gentle landing, and a few legislators fear the imbalance could siphon off the very dollars the increase was supposed to bring in. In one budget, North Carolina made sportsbooks costlier to operate and, at the very same moment, gave a … Read more
Kalshi and Polymarket are now clearing something like $24 billion in trades a month, more than the country’s licensed books handle. The matchup is messier than the headline suggests, but the scramble by states to tax it is not. The pecking order of American betting just got turned around. Month over month, the dollars moving … Read more