Our monthly look at the online gambling landscape includes the current legal and regulatory landscape, prospective online casino and online poker states, and significant trends to watch.
If you’re a proponent of legalizing online gambling, 2024 and 2025 have been absolute disasters. Not a single state has passed a bill legalizing online casinos or mobile sports betting (Missouri managed to get online sports betting approved via referendum in 2024, by the slimmest of margins).
2026 isn’t shaping up to be much better, considering the best contenders all face significant obstacles.
These states are contenders, but …
Massachusetts
A new bill (H 4431) introduced in August offered some hope, but efforts to legalize online casinos are receiving very little attention, even H 4431, which also addresses the more hot-button topic of sweepstakes casinos…