Dustin Gouker
Owner, Closing Line Consulting
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 2:00 PM ET
For gaming operators and vendors, the lines between verticals are blurrier than ever. One company might offer state-regulated online gambling, prediction markets, daily fantasy sports and skill games, each with its own regulatory requirements. And, in some corners of the market, the rules have yet to be written.
In competitive markets, diversifying across gaming verticals is essential for growth. Compliance teams must manage overlapping requirements, conflicting expectations, and real regulatory gaps simultaneously.
Join industry experts Dustin Gouker and Peter Hammon for a practical look at how gaming operators and vendors can build compliance programs that hold up across every product line, across jurisdictions.
In this webinar, we’ll examine:
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The key compliance and licensing challenges of operating across multiple jurisdictions, both multi-state and international (tracking renewals and filing deadlines, managing key-person and vendor licensing, and meeting different disclosure requirements in each market)
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Common pitfalls when managing compliance across multiple verticals
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How geolocation, age-gating, payments, and responsible gambling requirements differ for operators and vendors
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How to stay on the right side of state regulators and policymakers while offering products that may be unregulated or federally regulated
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How working with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on prediction markets differs from working with other regulators
Presenters
Dustin Gouker has been an executive, analyst, writer and editor in the gambling industry for more than a decade after a career in journalism. He currently runs a consultancy in the gaming and content industries and publishes two daily newsletters: The Closing Line on the gambling industry and The Event Horizon on prediction markets.
He helped build a number of sites that covered the rise of daily fantasy sports and sports betting in the United States, including Legal Sports Report. That let to a role as vice president of content at Catena Media, a publicly traded gambling affiliate company.
He’s also worked at The Washington Post and has been cited as an expert in a number of national publications, including The New York Times, Axios and CNN. He graduated from The George Washington University (’00) with a degree in political communication.
Peter Hammon
Senior of Counsel, Vela Wood
Peter Hammon is an attorney specializing in business development and regulatory strategy for online gambling companies, particularly sportsbooks, prediction markets, and their oddsmaking/software suppliers. When Hammon graduated from UCLA Law School in 2017, sports betting remained broadly illegal, so he began his career with a UK-based sports betting company before focusing on the U.S. market once sports betting was legalized in 2018.
His core business involves consulting for entities seeking entry into the North American market and blending his legal/regulatory background with operational experience gained in the UK & US. For example, since 2020, he has advised a U.S. sportsbook turned prediction market, negotiating external partnerships with commercial/tribal casinos, managing internal state regulatory licensing strategy, and guiding corporate strategic decisions like the pivot to prediction markets.
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