Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The Bureau of Gambling Control's self-described decision window on pending cardroom game applications — publicly anticipated to run from July 30 to September 29, 2026, with denied games required to stop by October 31, 2026 — has lapsed. The Bureau's own published page now states the implementation timeline remains suspended pending the outcome of the Attorney General's appeal. That appeal follows a San Francisco Superior Court final judgment of July 10, 2026, holding that the Bureau lacks statutory authority to issue the blackjack-style game and player-dealer-rotation regulations it had promulgated; Attorney General Bonta filed notice of appeal on July 17, 2026. Separately, California has issued no cease-and-desist or other enforcement step against Kalshi or Polymarket's sports-event prediction-market contracts, in contrast to Nevada and Arizona, even as a Ninth Circuit preliminary injunction of September 17, 2026 favoured tribes against Kalshi on tribal land and a Sixth Circuit ruling of September 25, 2026 upheld state authority to enforce gambling law against such contracts, deepening a split with the Third Circuit.