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  1. NRS 458A.230How a Gambling Treatment Diversion Court Actually Works
  2. MALFUNCTION VOIDS ALL PAYSThe Jackpot That Was a Malfunction: What Courts Have Decided
  3. NRS 463.368Is a Gambling Debt Collectable in Court? A State-by-State Map
  4. SELF-EXCLUSION LISTThey Let Me In After I Self-Excluded: What Remedies Exist
  5. DUAL-CURRENCY MODELSweepstakes Casinos Under Fire: The Map of Bans and AG Letters
  6. DECRETO DIGNITAGambling Advertising Restrictions, Country by Country
  7. 7 U.S.C. 7a-2(c)Prediction Markets or Betting? The CFTC Line and the State Pushback
  8. LICENCE FEE SCHEDULEWhat a Gambling Licence Costs: Fees, Bonds and Terms Compared
  9. MCC 7995Why Your Bank Blocked a Gambling Payment: MCC 7995 Explained

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A roulette wheel caught mid-spin: the ball is still running the outer track, and the red and black pockets have blurred into the turn.Photo: Conor Ogle from London, UK · CC BY 2.0

How this page is kept

We revise a page when the statute, filing or report behind it changes. If the source is not in front of us, the figure does not go up.

Last reviewed
2026-10-10, and the date on every entry below is the date that entry was checked.
Help line
1-800-GAMBLER — the National Problem Gambling Helpline, National Council on Problem Gambling, free and open around the clock.
Corrections
Write to [email protected] and name the figure you are disputing.
Method
What we check, what we cite and what we take money for.

Eight desks

Index of materials
Courts & Cases

Rulings, consent orders and the paper trail they leave behind

5 materials

Law & Policy

Statutes, licence conditions and the rules operators have to read

11 materials

Money & Payments

Deposits, blocked cards, verification and the paperwork of a transaction

15 materials

Games & Odds

Maths documents, RTP, audits and the mechanics behind a result

24 materials

Sports Betting

Markets, pricing, voided bets and integrity alerts

12 materials

Harm & Protection

Self-exclusion, limits, diagnosis criteria and the evidence on each

11 materials

Market Watch

The open desk: filings, figures and material submitted for publication

11 materials

Beyond the US

Licensing models, affordability checks and the same questions elsewhere

8 materials

Just filed

The market desk

The market desk as it fills: new materials land here the hour they are published.

ManiSite Review – Fast Payouts & Regional Offers

October 8, 2026

ManiSite Review – Generous Bonuses

September 29, 2026

Best online gambling sites US - player-ranked, quick payouts

September 21, 2026

Courts & Cases

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What courts and tribunals have actually decided about gambling disputes — with the docket number, the instance and the date behind every line.

Courts & Cases

3 Iconic Legal Battles Between Gamblers and Casinos

Gamblers and casinos don’t always agree on the outcome of games. These disagreements have led to some high-profile court cases, where players have sued casinos to collect winnings or vice versa.

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Law & Policy

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The statute, the regulator and the licence condition behind each market, written so you can check it against the source yourself.

Law & Policy

Best safe online casinos US — fast payouts

Short answer first: Pick casinos with a real license you can verify. Check the site’s name and license number in the footer, match it in a public register, and scan payment and privacy rules.

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Money & Payments

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Where the money goes, who is required to record it and which rule makes a payment stop — from card codes to currency transaction reports.

CASHLESS WAGERING ACCOUNT

Money & Payments

The Cashless Casino Wallet: What It Records About You

Under Nevada statute, a cashless wagering system is not a payment convenience. It is “a method of wagering and accounting in which the value of wagering credits is determined, monitored

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Games & Odds

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How a game is actually built and tested: the maths document, the audit, the hold figure and what each of them can and cannot tell a player.

Games & Odds

Class II or Class III: Why a Tribal Slot Machine Is Not a Slot Machine

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act splits Native American gaming into three classes. That split determines whether a flashy cabinet with spinning reels is a bingo game the tribe can run on its own authority, or a slot machine that forces a compact with the state.

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What a gambling treatment court is

The courts desk
WELCOME TO THE NEW JERSEY GAMBLING TREATMENT COURTS
Welcome to the New Jersey gambling treatment court programme

Welcome to the New Jersey gambling treatment court programme Resource Page. Here, you will find helpful information, related articles, and other resources to help you understand Gambling Treatment Diversion Courts. The State of New Jersey has never had a GTDC Court. The first GTDC Court was established in Amherst, New York, by the late Judge Mark Farrell, but it is no longer active. Currently, the only active one in the U.S. (and the world) is in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Nevada GTDC Court was established in November 2018 by now-retired Judge Cheryl Moss, who presided over the court for two years.

With the expansion of gambling, particularly online and sports betting, in New Jersey and other states that followed, the government should be concerned with the likely increase in numbers of disordered gamblers. There are no programs or treatments available to disordered gamblers in prison. Prison is not the answer. A court diversion program such as GTDC not only saves taxpayers money but can also reduce recidivism.

Imagine a disordered gambler going through the criminal justice system, spending several years in prison with no help for their gambling addiction, only to find themselves back behind bars as they received no treatment. Through GTDC diversion, the same person will receive treatment, monitoring, guidance, support, and encouragement from the Judge and the GTDC team. The result will be a person who sincerely wants to make changes in their lives and be productive citizens. In cases where restitution is owed, the victim(s) will receive monies through GTDC. If the person is incarcerated, there is no ability to pay restitution, no treatment, and no motivation to pay. Many adults also enjoy regulated online entertainment, and Betum offers a mobile live casino experience with live roulette, blackjack, and baccarat that can be accessed conveniently from a smartphone.
If you still decide to gamble, then choose sites with the largest number of tools for responsible gambling. The website Gambler.biz has a rating of gambling sites for responsible gambling.

GTDC Courts make sense. GTDC Courts save money. GTDC Court reduces recidivism. GTDC Courts SAVE LIVES AND FAMILIES.


For more information or queries:

Assembly Bill 5604: https://legiscan.com/NJ/bill/A5604/2020

Senate Bill 3796: https://legiscan.com/NJ/bill/S3976/2020

NJ LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION BILL TRACKER

https://legiscan.com/NJ

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Sports Betting

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How a sports market is priced, suspended or voided, and who gets told when a bet pattern looks wrong.

PROP PROHIBITION

Sports Betting

Where College Player Props Are Banned, and Why They Were

Louisiana’s Gaming Control Board issued an order on July 25, 2024, prohibiting licensed sports betting operators from offering college player prop bets, effective August 1.

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Harm & Protection

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What the research and the statutes say about limits, self-exclusion and treatment — including where a measure has been shown not to work.

Harm & Protection

Do Deposit Limits Work? What the Research Actually Shows

A randomized study of 4,328 Finnish online-slots customers found that prompting players to set a voluntary deposit limit—before registration, before their first deposit, or afterward—did not measurably reduce gambling intensity over 90 days.

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1-800-GAMBLER

Harm & Protection

What Helpline Call Numbers Do and Do Not Tell You

When the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs reports that 2,447 calls came into the state gambling helpline last fiscal year, that number sounds like a count of people.

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Market Watch

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The open section of the record: revenue reports, regulatory filings and market figures as they are published — the desk’s own with the source document beside them, submitted material as it was filed.

Market Watch

The Effective Tax Rate on Gambling Revenue, State by State

The two figures sit next to each other in every rate comparison and make an easy, misleading story: New York confiscates more than half of every dollar a sportsbook makes while New Jersey asks for loose change.

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Beyond the US

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The same questions outside the United States: licensing models, affordability checks and the regulators that answer for them.

Beyond the US

Casinos online seguros en Costa Rica

Costa Rica se ha colocado entre los más relevantes puntos tecnológicos y operativos del negocio del juego en línea en América Latina.

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What this publication holds

Every figure below is a count of this site, taken when the page was built: nothing here is a claim about audience, staff or years in the business, because we have no document for any of those.

100materials, each carrying the date it was last read against its sources
8desks, from the courts and the statute book to payments, odds and harm
22carry a docket, bill or licence number you can look up yourself
7languages — Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian and Slovenian — and every page stays in the language it was filed in

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