Ohio recorded more than $10bn in sports betting handle in 2025, according to a market tracker. It lists $23,434,549,059 in lifetime handle and names September 2025 as the latest reported month.
The reported handle helps operators and regulators assess Ohio’s sports betting market activity.
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Ohio has asked the US Supreme Court to hear a dispute over authority to regulate sports prediction markets. A bipartisan coalition of 39 states supports the request. Ohio argues states should oversee these products, while operators including Kalshi and Polymarket say they offer swaps under Commodity Futures Trading Commission supervision.
Ohio has asked the US Supreme Court to hear a dispute over whether sports-related prediction markets fall under state gambling law or federal oversight of swaps, according to a filing by the state. Ohio is leading a bipartisan coalition of 39 states in the request. The Supreme Court is not required to take the case, and it is not yet known whether the justices will agree to hear it.
The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for Ohio and Tennessee in consolidated cases concerning Kalshi’s sports event contracts, according to the report. The unanimous decision found Kalshi had not shown that the contracts qualified as swaps under federal law and said the Commodity Exchange Act would not override state gambling laws even if they did.
The Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi on Friday. The decision allows Ohio and Tennessee to apply their sports betting laws to the prediction market operator.
Kalshi suffered a fresh setback on Friday when a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously against the prediction market operator, according to a report. That outcome opens the door for officials in Tennessee and Ohio to apply their state sports wagering statutes to the company. The panel turned aside Kalshi's claim that its sports contracts are governed exclusively by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The report was published on September 28, 2026.
The Ohio Casino Control Commission is advancing a rule to prohibit sports bettors from funding wagers with credit cards, an agency spokesperson confirmed. The proposal has not taken effect and must pass through the Common Sense Initiative before receiving approval from the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review.
Ohio representatives Johnathan Newman and Beth Lear filed House Bill 971 on 1 July, proposing to end online and mobile sports betting and limit wagering to in-person casino betting. The proposal would also prohibit live betting, parlays, college sports betting and player prop bets, among other restrictions; it has not yet been assigned to a committee.