Noah Hawkins 
Right now you can access Kalshi in New York, but calling it simply legal would overstate a genuinely unsettled situation. The platform operates as a federally regulated exchange and remains live for New Yorkers, yet state regulators call its sports contracts illegal gambling, courts have so far leaned toward the state, and a federal order … Read more
As of late 2026, the answer is no. Kalshi cannot legally offer its sports event contracts to anyone located in Michigan, after a state court barred the platform and ordered it to block Michigan users or face fines of $500,000 a day. The prediction market’s sports products are, for now, off-limits across the state, and … Read more
A large share of high-buy-in tournament poker is played with someone else’s money. Many players at a final table aren’t backing their own action at all, and the arrangements behind them range from carefully documented contracts to a handshake and a payment app. At the center of almost every one of those deals sits a … Read more
Running a HUD without knowing whether your site allows it is one of the fastest ways to lose a bankroll that has nothing to do with bad cards. Heads-up display policy varies enormously from room to room, and several major platforms have flipped their rules within the past year alone, which means advice from even … Read more
The Quiet Fee on Every Hand — and How to Get Some of It Back Every poker player pays rake, whether they notice it or not. It’s the cut a site takes from cash game pots and tournament buy-ins, and over enough hands it becomes one of the biggest drags on a serious player’s win … Read more
Online poker in the U.S. has always run into the same wall: each state can only regulate what happens inside its own borders. A licensed site in Michigan can only seat players physically located in Michigan, and a site in Pennsylvania can only seat Pennsylvanians — even if both sites are run by the same … Read more
