Lorcan Palaca 
AUSTIN – The most important number of the 2026 NFL season may not be a point spread. It is $36.8 billion, the amount a new industry analysis projects will change hands on prediction markets tied to pro football this year, a figure that would, for the first time, top what every legal sportsbook in America … Read more
Premier Winnings costs $100 and prints four top prizes of $10 million at odds of 1 in 2,250,000. The game’s prize table pays out about 80 cents of every dollar if all 9.2 million tickets sell. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.49, and the smallest prize is $150. The game procedures … Read more
HOUSTON – The nurse who takes your blood pressure and the doctor who reads your chart may have helped pay for their training the same way a bettor plays an NFL Sunday. A new survey says a growing share of the country’s future healthcare workers are betting to pay for school, and Texas, with the … Read more
AUSTIN – Almost every conversation about gambling in Texas circles back to the Legislature and the next opening for lawmakers to approve casinos or sports betting when the session resumes in 2027. Yet the official with the most day-to-day sway over gambling before then will be chosen this fall, and the Texas attorney general race … Read more
AUSTIN – For roughly three weeks last winter, something Texas had shut off for over a decade quietly worked again: a resident could bet a horse race from a phone. Texas online horse betting came back in early February, when the advance-deposit operator TwinSpires reopened to bettors around the state. The window closed by month’s … Read more
Playtika moved to dismiss Washington’s suit over 16 casino-style apps, with oral argument noted for August. The state says Washingtonians spent more than $225 million in the apps since September 2020. Texas defines a thing of value as any benefit, a wider test than the one Washington spent years litigating. Texas licenses no online casino, … Read more
HITCHCOCK, Texas – The city of Hitchcock has lost its bid to claw back $721,408 that Galveston County drew out of a municipal bank account, after a federal judge ruled that two limbs of the same state government cannot take their constitutional grievances to federal court against each other. The result leaves the disputed funds … Read more
The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe opens a 300-machine temporary casino in Leggett, Texas, in August 2026. The facility offers only Class II electronic bingo, with no slots or table games permitted. The temporary casino bridges to a 3,400-machine permanent resort that broke ground June 18, 2026. The permanent resort’s first phase is scheduled to open in late … Read more
A summons in the criminal case against the abolished Texas Lottery Commission went to the agency that now runs the lottery. The commission and former executive director Gary Grief each face a first-degree felony charge of abuse of official capacity. The charge traces to an April 2023 Lotto Texas drawing whose $95 million top prize … Read more
Texas would double the cash a licensed bingo organization may hold, from $50,000 to $100,000. The limit would be calculated from eight quarterly reports instead of three, matching the two-year license term. The rules reach 2,093 bingo license holders, 1,766 of them nonprofits, and carry no fee increases. Comments close 30 days after the July … Read more