Hazard Docket is an independent desk covering gambling as three things at once: a body of law, a flow of money, and a form of play.
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.
What is on this page
Most writing about gambling picks one and ignores the other two. A court ruling on an unpaid marker is a money story. A par sheet is a law story. A deposit limit is all three.
This page says what the site is, where its numbers come from, and what it is not.
What the Docket covers
Eight desks, each with its own standing brief:
- Courts — rulings, dockets, treatment courts, debt enforcement, self-exclusion claims.
- Policy — statutes, bills, regulator guidance, advertising rules, licence conditions.
- Payments — card coding, bank blocks, cashless wallets, crypto rails, KYC.
- Games — the arithmetic: par sheets, hold, RTP, test-lab standards, machine classes.
- Sports — markets, pricing, integrity monitoring, void and settlement rules.
- Protection — harm, treatment, limits, self-exclusion, and what research actually shows.
- Market watch — revenue, tax, traffic and operator behaviour, updated as filings land.
- Global — jurisdictions outside the United States, in their own regulatory terms.
Where the numbers come from
The rule on this site is short: a figure, a date, a licence number or a quotation appears only with a source behind it, and the source is named in the text or linked from it. Where a primary document exists — a statute, an administrative code, a court opinion, a regulator's filing, a test-lab standard — that document is the source, not someone's summary of it. Where only a secondary summary exists, the text says so.
The consequence is visible in what is missing. Pages here carry fewer round numbers than most gambling coverage, because a number nobody will stand behind does not get written down. When a claim could not be sourced, the sentence saying so stays in the piece.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, write to the editorial address and name the page, the sentence, and what the record actually says. Corrections are made in place and the page's review date moves. Material is reviewed on a schedule and the date on each page is the date of that review, not the date it was first written.
What this site is not
It is not a court, a regulator, a law firm, a treatment provider or a helpline, and it is not affiliated with any of them. Nothing on it is legal advice or clinical advice. Some pages carry commercial links, and the footer says so on every page.
If gambling is causing harm to you or someone close to you, the National Problem Gambling Helpline is open at all hours on 1-800-GAMBLER, run by the National Council on Problem Gambling. That is a line worth calling before reading anything else on this site.
What a gambling treatment diversion court is
This domain was used before for advocacy around gambling treatment diversion courts, and the explanatory material from that period is kept here because it is accurate and hard to find elsewhere.
A gambling treatment diversion court is a court-supervised, comprehensive outpatient treatment programme for defendants in the criminal justice system whose offending is tied to problem gambling. It belongs to the same family as drug courts: supervision and treatment in place of incarceration, with the court holding the case open while treatment runs.
Eligibility. Defendants are eligible where they have been convicted of a crime and committed that crime in furtherance of, or as a result of, problem gambling.
Cost. An administrative fee may be assessed for the programme. Treatment costs are covered by insurance or state grant funds. The defendant pays for drug testing.
Programme duration. Twelve to eighteen months at minimum, and a maximum of thirty-six months.
A fuller account of the model, its legal basis and its results is in the UNLV Gaming Law Journal. Our own account of how such a court runs, case by case, is at How a gambling treatment diversion court actually works.