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1 week ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
Eight tribal entities Thursday had a chance to shoot their shot with regard to sports event contracts to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), but two sources told InGame the takeaway was underwhelming. They say they won’t get any help defending tribal sovereignty or gaming exclusivity from the federal agency.
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1 week ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson |Brant James
The U.S. sports betting world moves quickly and unpredictably in 2025. In order to properly take stock of it all, we offer InGame’s “EndGame,” an end-of-week compilation of the top storylines, some overlooked items, and all the other news bits from this past week that we found interesting.
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1 week ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
In the five years since legal sports betting went live in Washington, D.C., it would be fair to say that the market has undergone more changes than in any other U.S. legal sports betting jurisdiction. On May 28, 2020, the city’s Office of Lottery and Gaming (OLG) launched GamBetDC, a white-label platform developed in partnership with lottery vendor Intralot. Betting kiosks were later added at lottery partners throughout the city. The launch was inauspicious.
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1 week ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
If it seems like the federal government is at odds with itself when it comes to Indian Gaming, that’s because it currently is.
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1 week ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
Century Casinos on Monday became the first Missouri casino company to announce a national partner for sports betting in the state when it revealed a partnership with BetMGM. Century Casinos has two brick-and-mortar locations in Missouri and, according to a press release, BetMGM will be tethered to Century’s Hotel Cape Girardeau location. Missouri voters legalized retail and digital sports betting last November, and the Missouri Gaming Commission (MGC) is mandated to launch operators by Dec. 1.
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2 weeks ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson |Brant James
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The U.S. sports betting world moves quickly and unpredictably in 2025. In order to properly take stock of it all, we offer InGame’s “EndGame,” an end-of-week compilation of the top storylines, some overlooked items, and all the other news bits from this past week that we found interesting. It appears that sports betting operators may be off the hook when it comes to facing another betting tax increase this year. Although on Tuesday Maryland Gov.
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2 weeks ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday became the third governor in two years to sign a sports betting tax increase into law. This one was tucked into a 199-page budget bill, and the rate of the increase is well below the massive hikes in Illinois and Ohio, where lawmakers at least doubled the initial tax rates. But even those numbers pale in comparison to a think-tank proposal that considers raising the federal excise tax on handle from one quarter of one percent to 5%.
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2 weeks ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
Arguing that money is already leaving Alaska via black-market digital sports betting platforms, Rep. David Nelson and industry representatives testified in support of a legal digital sports betting bill last Friday. Alaska lawmakers held the hearing five days before the session was set to adjourn. The House Labor and Commerce Committee did not take any action, and there was no discussion of the bill.
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3 weeks ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson
An Ohio lawmaker Wednesday filed another bill that would levy a second state tax on sports betting operators. Sen. Louis Blessing’s SB 199 would tax sports betting handle at 2% in addition to the current 20% tax on adjusted gaming revenue (AGR). If it passes, Ohio would be the only legal wagering state in the U.S. to tax both — and just the second to have a tax on handle at all. The bill would allow for the 0.25% federal excise tax on handle to be written off.
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4 weeks ago | 
ingame.com | Jill R. Dorson |Brant James
The U.S. sports betting world moves quickly and unpredictably in 2025. In order to properly take stock of it all, we offer InGame’s “EndGame,” an end-of-week compilation of the top storylines, some overlooked items, and all the other news bits from this past week that we found interesting. Off we go with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter of the KalshiEx, LLC v. Flaherty et. al., an action brought by the prediction market platform Kalshi against New Jersey and its gaming regulators.
