The American Gaming Association said its American Attitudes Toward Gaming survey found that 57% of US adults had wagered in the past year. It also reported a record 134 million land-based casino visitors over the same period, including people using dining and entertainment facilities.
The survey provides operators and regulators with measures of US gambling participation and casino visitation.
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AGEM said the federal reporting threshold for gambling winnings subject to Form W-2G rose from $1,200 to $2,000 on 1 January 2026 under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In a 5 January letter, the association urged operators, suppliers and regulators to coordinate implementation, noting that some state and local rules still use the $1,200 threshold. It said suppliers must continue to comply with those requirements until they change.
OpenBet and Sportradar did not renew their American Gaming Association memberships this month, according to a review of the association’s membership list. The AGA said the departures reflect differences over prediction markets and its focus on state and tribal authority; neither company has disclosed its reasons. DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics had previously left after launching or announcing prediction-market products.
The American Gaming Association appointed former New Jersey governor Chris Christie to an advisory role opposing prediction markets, according to the report. Christie has publicly argued that sports event contracts offered by prediction-market platforms are illegal, while those platforms say they are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission rather than state laws.
The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development will hold a hearing on campus sports betting at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., a media report said. Lawmakers will examine student gambling, harassment of student-athletes and the legality of college player prop bets.
A hearing on gambling on college campuses is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development confirmed. The examination will cover gambling by students, abuse directed at student-athletes and whether college player prop bets are legal.
The American Gaming Association estimated that Kalshi users aged 18 to 20 generated more than $8.844 billion in sports-related trading volume through 27 October, based on a 4% figure the association said Kalshi had published and later changed. The AGA argues that users aged 18 to 20 can access these markets despite age limits of 21 for sports betting in numerous US states.
The American Gaming Association (AGA) estimated that Kalshi users aged 18 to 20 generated more than $8.844bn in sports trading volume through 27 October. According to the AGA, the calculation rests on information that Kalshi published on its website and later changed. In that information, the AGA said, Kalshi stated that users aged 18 to 20 accounted for 4% of its trading volume.