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Kalshi offers Super Bowl contracts in California amid regulatory dispute

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Kalshi and other prediction-market platforms are offering contracts on Super Bowl outcomes to California users, according to the report. It says trading on Super Bowl-related contracts reached hundreds of millions of dollars, while California officials and tribal gaming interests object to the platforms operating outside state gambling oversight.

The dispute raises uncertainty over whether prediction-market contracts fall outside California gambling oversight.

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Nevada sportsbooks take $133.8m in Super Bowl wagers as handle falls

Nevada’s Gaming Control Board reported that 186 sportsbooks handled $133.8 million in Super Bowl wagers, down from $151.6 million a year earlier and the lowest total in 10 years. Unaudited figures showed sportsbooks won $9.8 million, a 7.4% hold. Sportsbook executives cited prediction markets among several possible factors; Nevada regulators separately sought to stop Coinbase’s prediction-market products, and a federal judge issued a temporary 14-day restraining order.

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