Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman Mike Dreitzer and Indian Gaming Association executive director Jason Giles questioned prediction-market companies’ claims that their sports-event contracts are innovative. Dreitzer said companies must obtain a Nevada licence and argued that allowing 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to wager in states where it violates penal codes is not innovation. Attorney Scott Crowell said the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act governs activity on Indian lands; Alabama-Quassarte Chief Samuel Marshall Jr. denied a partnership announced on October 7.
Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman Mike Dreitzer and Indian Gaming Association executive director Jason Giles disputed claims by prediction-market companies that their sports-event contracts are innovative, speaking on the IGA's weekly New Normal webinar on Wednesday. Dreitzer said companies seeking to operate in Nevada must first obtain a licence, and said that allowing 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to wager in states where doing so violates penal codes is not innovation.