Nevada's Gaming Control Board will review amendments to ten technical standards for gaming devices and equipment on 7 October. The drafts are dated June through August; public comment closed on 5 October. The revisions cover slot systems, cashless accounts and sports betting operations.
The scope varies. Standard 9, which governs digital pari-mutuel systems, saw minor additions. Standard 3, which covers slot accounting, had entire sections added and removed. Nevada is considered the leading gambling state in the US, but its regulatory framework has long been criticised for moving slowly. Since Mike Dreitzer took over as NGCB chair in June last year, modernisation has become a priority.
Much of the work has been consolidating technical information in one place, according to Jeremy Eberwein, the board's chief of technology. Requirements were previously scattered across multiple documents — partly in Technical Standards, partly in Minimum Internal Control Standards. The goal now is to give operators a single reference instead of searching several libraries. 'We finally said, let's stop everything else and get this done,' Eberwein told iGB. The effort has been running in fits and starts for more than ten years.
If no serious objections emerge from the Nevada Gaming Commission, the new standards could be adopted by year-end. 2025 has been a busy enforcement year for the NGCB: the regulator handed out five multimillion-dollar fines to Las Vegas Strip casinos for AML violations, including cases linked to illegal bookmaker Mathew Bowyer. Wynn Las Vegas forfeited $130 million to the federal government over proxy betting — the largest confiscation of its kind in US casino history.
