A report describes Nevada’s gambling market as focused on land-based casinos, mobile sports betting and online poker. It estimates total 2025 gaming revenue at about $15.8bn and says mobile wagers accounted for roughly 70% of sports betting handle, exceeding $7.1bn in 2025.
The figures offer operators and investors estimates of Nevada’s market scale and the role of mobile sports betting.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board says Regulation 6.090 requires Group I licensees to establish administrative and accounting procedures covering gaming taxes, fees and internal fiscal controls. Its minimum internal control standards set minimum requirements for gaming operations; the page also lists related filing instructions and documents.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board’s Audit Division says it audits Group I casinos, reviews other licensed gaming businesses for compliance and conducts special investigations. It reports that about 144 casinos currently fall into Group I, defined as casinos whose annual gaming revenue exceeds the applicable threshold. The division also says its professional staff numbers 92, with six clerical employees.
The CFTC said on 5 November that registered designated contract markets must remove domestic geographic restrictions that conflict with its fair-access requirements within 30 days. Exchanges must also ensure partner intermediaries comply, or explain in writing why they cannot; the guidance comes amid state court orders requiring restrictions in several states.
The CFTC said on 5 November that registered prediction market operators must unblock geoblocked states within 30 days. Under its new interpretative guidance, designated contract markets that cannot comply may instead explain in writing why they cannot.
The CFTC issued guidance saying state-based geographic restrictions generally conflict with impartial-access requirements for designated contract markets in the United States. It gave exchanges 30 days to remove conflicting blocks or explain to the Division of Market Oversight, with supporting evidence, why compliance is not feasible. The same framework applies to intermediaries and other entities providing market access.
The CFTC said state-based geographic restrictions on prediction markets are generally inconsistent with its impartial access rules, and gave operators and exchanges 30 days to lift them or explain why they cannot. The agency issued the guidance on Thursday as a formal interpretation of its impartial access requirements for designated contract markets. It said location alone should not be used to deny access to eligible participants within the United States.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered designated contract markets to end US geofencing that conflicts with impartial-access requirements within 30 days, or explain why they cannot comply. The order puts exchanges offering sports-event contracts at odds with court orders restricting Kalshi in several states and on tribal lands. Chairman Michael S. Selig said derivatives markets must operate nationally.
Within 30 days, designated contract markets must end geofencing restrictions in the U.S. that violate “impartial access requirements,” or give reasons they cannot comply, the CFTC has ordered. CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig said in a statement that derivatives markets "must operate on a uniform basis at a national scale" to serve the purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act.