Feb. 9, 2026
State's cardrooms say new gambling rules favor tribes, plan challenge
Cardrooms allege state regulators quietly rewrote casino rules to benefit tribal casinos, and plan to challenge the changes after they take effect April 1.
California cardrooms say Attorney General Rob Bonta and state gambling regulators quietly rewrote casino gaming rules, granting tribal casinos a victory that a judge denied them last year. The cardrooms plan a legal challenge to block the rules.
New regulations, first posted by the Bureau of Gambling Control last spring while litigation was still underway, would prevent cardrooms from offering blackjack and so-called banked games, such as poker, with a dedicated dealer. These are ...
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