In Texas, any push for casino gambling is a matter of playing a potentially years-long game. I can't even imagine what that number would balloon to if you were able to do this from the comfort of your own home on a mobile device.” Any casino is already generating nearly $9 billion a year in California alone.

Some kind of revenue split, Fogel said, could get a similar deal done in California. Connecticut and New Jersey reached deals, Fogel said, because those states made agreements with the tribal casinos.

He said the tribes could be receptive if approached correctly. You've got to proactively come to them with an idea of how to get their support because without their support, this is going nowhere.” That's the trick here, what everybody needs to get their heads around. “Remember, the tribes don't need this,” Fogel said.

There was no apparent movement in California this year to legalize sports betting after two competing measures, including one backed financially by Native American tribes, went down in flames in 2022 at the ballot box.īaird Fogel, a California attorney who works with the sports betting industry, said the key is getting the full support of the tribes.