Licensed cardrooms may offer approved card games in which players vie against each other (rather than against the house), such as poker. With other states claiming paid daily fantasy contests should require a sports betting license, the status of DFS in California is up in the air. He wrote a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta asking him to focus on whether gambling laws prohibit paid DFS contests. Unregulated, daily fantasy sports is active in California, though the end of 2023 brought much attention to this by State Senator Scott Wilk. Commercial casino-style gaming is prohibited. state of California include cardrooms, Indian casinos, the California State Lottery, parimutuel wagering on horse racing, and charitable gaming. Morongo Casino Resort & Spa is an Indian gaming casino, of the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians, located in Cabazon, California ( Carol Highsmith, 2013) Act for the Government and Protection of Indians.