Two California cardrooms announced today that they have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the legality of a November 2022 ballot initiative promoted by nine California Indian Tribes – an initiative which would legalize sports wagering, allow roulette and craps at Indian casinos, and grant one-way permission for tribal casinos to sue their card-room competitors. The cardrooms, Hollywood Park Casino and Cal-Pac Rancho Cordova, are asking the court to bar the California Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act from the November ballot because it violates California’s constitutional rule that ballot initiatives can involve only a…

The seemingly never ending battles between California cardrooms and tribal casino operators operators rages on. After years of not being able to get together for online poker, the fight over “house-banked games” has taken center state. This week, the US District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a lawsuit filed by three of the state’s gaming tribes who accused the state government of violating the tribes’ gaming compacts. Specifically, the tribes argued that the state violated exclusivity provisions of the compacts by allowing commercial cardrooms to offer house-banked games, in which players play against the house (blackjack) rather…