Gaming Scraps on the Cutting Room Floor
Last week I ranked the houses. This is the plumbing underneath — and the 2027 session is coming for all of it.
Last week I gave you the rankings of Maryland’s casinos and sportsbooks, with the lobbyists behind them. That was the easy part. The houses are licensed, regulated, taxed, and named. What I left on the cutting room floor is the rest of the gaming world — the parts Annapolis can’t quite get its hands around — and that is where the next fight lives.
In the 2026 session, Annapolis tried to police the edges of gaming: the offshore books, the sweepstakes casinos, the prediction markets, the credit cards, the betting parlors. Nearly everything died in the Senate, most of it in one committee. The money kept flowing anyway, untaxed, through the very plumbing the bills would have touched. If you represent anybody in or around gaming, the 2027 session is not a new debate. It is a rematch. Here is the field.
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