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Sweepstakes casinos: legal research
How each gaming mechanic works, and where it is enforced. By Kale Pasch, JD, CFA, a former Skadden, Arps attorney.
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- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: a checklist for streamers, affiliates and promotersWhat the FTC Endorsement Guides, four state texts and three platforms’ own policies say to someone who markets a sweepstakes casino, and a checklist drawn from them.Oct 17, 2026 · 7 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: does skill change anything in a Gold Coin game?Three ways statutes and courts measure chance, one state each, then what the new sweepstakes-casino statutes do with a game that has skill in it, and how one operator’s own rules draw a state line by game format.Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: how an operator leaves a stateWhat three statutes say about when they take effect, what two operators published about dated wind-downs, what attorneys general have recorded about stopping sales and redeeming balances, and what operators’ terms say about excluded territory.Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: the business, the economics, and where a startup fitsHow a dual-currency casino earns its money, what the published rules, SEC filings and court records say about its costs, which layers of the stack the California and New York statutes name, and where the public record shows a new company could build.Oct 17, 2026 · 18 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: what the lobby offers, and the stack behind itThe game categories three operators, three statutes and three attorney-general documents name, how a coin pack is priced in the record, and who supplies the games, the platform and the mechanics behind the lobby.Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: which designs the new statutes and enforcement releases describe, and which they do notFive state statutes and three attorney-general releases, read feature by feature: the second coin, the casino-style game, the cash or equivalent prize and the purchase. What each text keys on, what it carves out and who it reaches.Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: Florida sues the operators and their payment processorsOn August 19, Florida’s Attorney General sued VGW and Stake.us, and named five payment companies as co-defendants under a 1951 gambling-loss statute. What the complaints allege, what they do not, and what it changes for vendors.Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: the full analysis for buildersHow the dual-currency model is built, what the free method of entry answers and what it does not, the seven theories states now use, where the cases stand, and the designs each state’s law leaves standing.Sep 25, 2026 · 20 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: a founder’s checklistEight questions to answer before launch, in the order the answers depend on each other — each with the statute that makes it matter and an operator’s own written answer.Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: what the statutes leave standingCalifornia’s and New York’s bans define the product in cumulative parts. What each part leaves open, what the operators have done with it, and why outside a statute is not the same as lawful.Sep 23, 2026 · 7 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: four states, four ways past the free method of entryNew York defined the product, California counted the free coin, Tennessee called it a lottery and Illinois called it internet gambling — read in the statutes’ own words, and against the operators’ own terms.Sep 22, 2026 · 6 min
- Sweepstakes casinosSweepstakes casinos: what they are and the test that decides themTwo currencies, one free way in, and the three-element lottery test the model is designed around — read against the operators’ own rules, Tennessee and Illinois enforcement, and four new state statutes.Sep 21, 2026 · 8 min