What has Louisiana published?

The Louisiana Gaming Control Board maintains an official webpage titled “Illegal Operators.” The page contains a numbered list of businesses that the regulator says have received cease-and-desist letters.

When checked by American Casino Sweeps on July 21, 2026, the page contained 41 entries. Several names are directly connected to the sweepstakes and social gaming market, including:

• KHK Games, Inc. d/b/a Clubs Poker
• MW Services Limited d/b/a WOW Vegas
• VGW Holdings US, VGW Games and VGW Malta
• Golden Heart Games
• Joy Media Works d/b/a Zitobox
• Kickr Games and Kickr Sweepstakes
• Regal Technologies d/b/a SweepSlots
• Gold Coin Group d/b/a Chanced Casino
• Woopla d/b/a funzpoints
• Blazesoft Ltd.

The official list also includes offshore sportsbooks, poker platforms, online casino businesses and corporate entities whose precise products are not described on the page. It would therefore be misleading to describe all 41 entries as sweepstakes casinos.

A cease-and-desist notice is also not the same as a final court judgment. It reflects a regulator’s enforcement position and demand that identified conduct stop. The legal position of an individual business may depend on its response, later proceedings and any eventual court action.

Why August 1 matters

Louisiana was already pursuing unauthorized online gaming before the 2026 legislative session. However, two enacted laws scheduled to take effect on August 1 introduce more specific language and additional enforcement tools.

How Louisiana defines qualifying dual-currency games

Act 182 amends Louisiana’s gambling-by-computer language. Under the new wording, an internet or mobile game, contest or promotion can constitute gambling by computer when it:

• Uses a dual-currency payment system;
• Allows currency to be exchanged for a prize, cash, a cash equivalent or a chance to win one; and
• Simulates a form of gambling.

This language is particularly relevant to sweepstakes casinos because many use two separate currencies. One is generally used for entertainment-only play, while a second promotional currency can be used in prize-eligible games.

Readers unfamiliar with this structure can learn more in the ACS guide to sweepstakes consideration, free entry and dual currencies .

Businesses supporting an operator may also be affected

Act 182 does not focus only on the company directly running a gaming website. Its support-and-facilitation language includes categories such as platform providers, geolocation providers, gaming content suppliers, promoters, endorsers, media affiliates and other people who knowingly support gambling by computer in Louisiana.

The law also addresses merchant payment processors and platform providers. Once a person or website has been identified through the statutory notice process, that identification may count as constructive knowledge for certain enforcement purposes.

A formal notice and public-list process

Louisiana’s attorney general or the chairman of the Gaming Control Board may issue a written cease-and-desist notice to a person alleged to be operating, conducting, promoting or supporting gambling by computer.

The notice must generally describe the alleged activity and state that the recipient has no more than ten days after receiving it to stop. Act 182 also directs the attorney general to maintain a public listing of operators, website addresses, platform providers and merchant payment processors issued notices under the new section.

The Gaming Control Board already maintains its current 41-entry page. It remains unclear whether that webpage will continue in its present form, be expanded or operate alongside a separate attorney general list after August 1.

Different provisions carry different penalties

Act 182 contains several separate penalties and legal remedies. They should not be combined into a single figure or assumed to apply automatically to every business on the existing list.

• The operator-side gambling-by-computer provision allows a maximum fine of $100,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
• Knowing support or facilitation may carry a maximum fine of $20,000, imprisonment of up to five years, or both.
• Financial penalties may be doubled when the relevant conduct involves a person under 21.
• A client physically located in Louisiana may fall under a separate provision carrying a maximum $500 fine, imprisonment of up to six months, or both.
• Violating a qualifying court order involving a platform provider or payment processor carries separate financial penalty provisions.

These figures are statutory maximums. Any actual liability would depend on the relevant provision, evidence, legal process and circumstances of the alleged conduct.

What the racketeering change means

Act 48 adds several gambling-related crimes to Louisiana’s definition of racketeering activity. These include:

• Gambling;
• Gambling in public;
• Gambling by computer;
• Gambling by electronic sweepstakes device;
• Unlawful wagering involving a prohibited player; and
• Other specified gambling and sports-integrity offenses.

Describing an offense as a racketeering predicate means that it may be used as an underlying offense in a racketeering case when the separate requirements of Louisiana’s racketeering law are met.

Even with that distinction, the change increases the potential seriousness of organized or repeated conduct involving prohibited online gambling. It provides authorities with an additional enforcement route beyond a standalone gambling charge or cease-and-desist demand.

Louisiana’s actions began before the new laws

Acts 48 and 182 build on an enforcement position Louisiana authorities had already made public.

The current 41-entry webpage appears consistent with Louisiana’s wider enforcement campaign. However, because the page does not show a notice date for every entry, ACS cannot confirm the precise enforcement timeline for every named company.

What remains unconfirmed

Several important details cannot yet be stated conclusively from the available public materials:

• The exact date on which each of the 41 listed businesses received its letter;
• Whether every named business was still offering access in Louisiana when the list was checked;
• Whether every entry involves a sweepstakes product rather than another form of online wagering;
• How often Louisiana will use Act 182’s new notice and injunction procedures after August 1;
• Whether the current Gaming Control Board list will be changed or supplemented by an attorney general list; and
• How individual businesses will handle balances, promotional currency or pending redemption requests.

ACS News will continue monitoring official notices, legislation, court filings and availability changes through the latest sweepstakes casino news hub .

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Louisiana’s approach is part of a wider state-by-state shift in how dual-currency casino-style games are regulated.