Lorcan Palaca 
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
New York, Tennessee and Maryland posted record June sports-betting handle while Texas, with no legal market, collected nothing.
The state’s programs top the 2026 college football futures boards at Bovada, and not one of those bets is legal inside Texas.
AUSTIN – Texas has never legalized sports betting. The Legislature has voted it down, the lieutenant governor has buried it, and no referendum has ever reached the state’s voters. And yet DraftKings and FanDuel, the two companies that define American sports betting, are live in Texas right now, taking Texans’ money on the Cowboys, the … Read more
AUSTIN – Cowboys bets are banned in Texas; wagering on a game can technically land you in some hot water. Wagering on who will win the state’s blockbuster U.S. Senate race is legal, federally regulated, and open to anyone 18 and older with a smartphone. That is the strange split screen of 2026. While sports … Read more
AUSTIN – The loudest new voice in the fight over gambling in Texas does not belong to a casino magnate or a crusading politician. It belongs to the state’s doctors, and they are worried about teenagers. The Texas Medical Association, the state’s largest physician group, is pressing lawmakers to impose an age restriction on prediction … Read more