New York, Tennessee and Maryland posted record June sports-betting handle while Texas, with no legal market, collected nothing.
- New York mobile sportsbooks took a record $2.26 billion in June 2026 bets, up 36.4% from a year earlier.
- Tennessee ($456 million) and Maryland ($523 million) also set June handle records, driven by the World Cup.
- Texas has no legal sports betting and collected zero handle or tax in the same month.
- The Texas Legislature meets only in odd years, so no expansion is possible before 2027.
Austin – New York’s mobile sportsbooks took a record $2.26 billion in wagers in June 2026, one of several legal states to set a monthly mark, while Texas remained without a single dollar of legal sports-betting handle and no session scheduled to change that.
Records fall in three legal states
The New York State Gaming Commission reported mobile sportsbooks handled $2,255,933,538 in June, a June record and a 36.4% jump over the same month last year. The figure kept New York the largest sports-betting market in the country, though thin margins from the World Cup and the Knicks’ championship run pushed the state’s hold to a record-low 5.19% and cut its tax take to $59.7 million.
Tennessee bettors wagered $456,129,258, according to the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council, a June record and 30.0% more than a year earlier. Tennessee, the only state that taxes handle rather than sportsbook revenue, collected $8.4 million in privilege tax at its flat 1.85% rate.
Maryland sportsbooks handled $523.3 million, a June record and a 29.6% increase over June 2025, the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency reported. Online books took $515.4 million of that total.
Texas has no market to measure
Texas has no legal sportsbook, mobile or retail, and its regulators publish no handle report because there is no wagering to count. Where New York’s June activity produced roughly $59.7 million in state tax and Tennessee’s produced $8.4 million, Texas collected zero from a legal market it does not have.
The gap runs against a population larger than New York, Tennessee and Maryland combined. Every dollar Texans wager on sports leaves the state’s tax base entirely.
Where the action goes
That money does not disappear. Texans place bets through offshore sportsbooks that operate outside U.S. licensing, through federally regulated prediction markets now offering sports contracts, and by driving across state lines. Neighboring Oklahoma’s tribal casinos draw heavy Texas traffic, a pattern detailed in Texans bet billions in Oklahoma.
None of that activity is captured, taxed or consumer-protected by Texas. For readers weighing the current legal options, the site’s guide to Texas online sportsbooks lays out what is and is not available, and its broader guide to online gambling for Texans covers the rest of the market.
No vote until 2027
The state’s most recent expansion attempts, HJR 134 and HJR 137 in the 89th session, were both referred to the House State Affairs Committee on March 19, 2025, and never reached a floor vote before the session ended, according to the Legislature’s bill histories for HJR 134 and HJR 137. Both proposed a constitutional amendment that would have required voter approval.
Because the Texas Legislature convenes only in odd-numbered years, no bill can advance in 2026. The earliest a sports-betting measure can be filed and heard is the 2027 session, meaning the contrast with record-setting legal states will hold through at least another full year of monthly reports.