Despite notching a recent victory in court, California’s cardrooms and some of their most popular games remain under threat from a forthcoming appeal by the state’s gaming tribes as well as pending potential new regulations from the state that encroach on the same issues being litigated.
On Oct. 10, the cardrooms celebrated when a Sacramento Superior Court judge dismissed a tribal lawsuit challenging their right to offer versions of games like blackjack and baccarat, although the cardrooms acknowledged the win could be short lived with an appeal promised. California’s Indian Country was given a one-time opportunity to sue the cardrooms when the legislature passed SB 549 last fall.
