Ohio casino regulators quit NCPG over Kalshi; third exit this year
The Ohio Casino Control Commission withdrew from the National Council on Problem Gambling in June over the organization's ties to Kalshi, though the departure was not reported until September. The exit came to light when the Massachusetts Gaming Commission discussed the matter. It follows tension over the council's stance on prediction markets and event contracts. Ohio becomes the third state gaming regulator to quit the NCPG this year.
The NCPG is losing the very regulators whose problem-gambling mandates it claims to serve. Ohio's exit follows two other state regulator departures this year, stripping the council of institutional credibility just as Kalshi faces a multi-front legal assault. Each withdrawal weakens a key industry voice that state attorneys general and tribal litigants might otherwise cite as neutral.
Kalshi, the regulatory ecosystem is shrinking faster than its courtroom losses. Platforms now face pressure without the cover of a unified problem-gambling consensus. The next state regulator to quit will confirm the NCPG's fracture into partisan camps. Operators must build state-level alliances case by case, because national bodies no longer bridge the divide.
Joins a widening state-by-state campaign against Kalshi and other CFTC-registered platforms, after Missouri's attorney general ordered six prediction markets to halt sports event contracts and the Ninth Circuit ruled twice that tribal compacts override federal registration.