- The Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted Aug. 13 to restore TT Elite Series table tennis to the state wagering catalog.
- Any licensed sportsbook in the state can take the bets now that the amended catalog is posted.
- TT Star Pro Series, TT Trophy Hungary and Challenger Series events removed in February stay off the catalog.
- DraftKings reported taking wagers on about 53,000 TT Elite matches elsewhere from January through June without an integrity problem.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted Aug. 13 to restore TT Elite Series table tennis to the state’s sports wagering catalog, six months after it removed the Polish league and three other privately run circuits over integrity concerns. The commission published the amended catalog Monday and under its own catalog guidelines that publication is what clears any licensed operator in the state to take the bets.
What The February Vote Removed
The commission took the four leagues off the board at its Feb. 12 meeting under an agenda item on the clarification of approved table tennis events. Commissioner Nakisha Skinner moved to strike TT Elite Series Poland, TT Star Pro Series, TT Trophy Hungary and Challenger Series events from the official catalog, Commissioner Eileen O’Brien seconded, and the roll call carried 5-0. That left approved table tennis wagering at competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation.
Andrew Steffen, the commission’s compliance and operations manager, told the members the recommendation rested on patron protection, integrity risk and consultation with outside experts. Asked by Skinner about the timeline for operators to comply, Steffen said the Sports Wagering Division would notify operators of the update and require them to cancel or refund any existing futures wagers on the removed markets.
A catalog removal in Massachusetts therefore reaches settled positions as well as new ones. An open futures ticket on a stricken league is voided rather than graded.
What The Division Found On Review
DraftKings, licensed in Massachusetts as Crown MA Gaming LLC, filed a petition on March 13 asking the commission to reconsider that decision for TT Elite Series alone. Five months passed between the filing and the vote. In that window the Sports Wagering Division met with DraftKings, with integrity monitoring organizations and with regulators in jurisdictions that both permit and prohibit wagering on the league.
The International Betting Integrity Association told the division that TT Elite Series had strengthened its protocols since the initial 2025 review through expanded information-sharing agreements, more proactive engagement with monitors and closer coordination with the league’s official data provider. IBIA reported no integrity alerts on the competition in calendar year 2025 and two in 2026 as of May 29, neither of which involved recurring participants or pointed to wider problems.
DraftKings told the division it had built a dedicated live trading team to monitor international sports including table tennis, on top of an integrity and trading staff of more than 70 employees. The operator reported accepting wagers on roughly 53,000 TT Elite Series matches between January and June 2026 in jurisdictions where the league is permitted, without identifying an integrity problem on its own platform.
EMPE Sports runs the league out of the Sports Hall Complex in Czestochowa, Poland, seven days a week, staging about 7,300 matches a month across four competition levels. Every match is streamed, which the petition cites as an integrity control. DraftKings said it would settle the league under the table tennis house rules it already applies to the ITTF events that table tennis betting sites carry year-round.
Sportradar holds a temporary Massachusetts sports wagering vendor license, No. SWV-0003, and is both the league’s data supplier and its integrity services provider. DraftKings told the division that Sportradar and IBIA signed a memorandum of understanding in late 2025 to speed information sharing.
The Restoration Stops At One League
The division’s memo closes with an explicit limit, stating that its recommendation “is limited to TT Elite Series and should not be interpreted as extending to any other previously removed table tennis competitions.” The commission’s event catalog, dated Aug. 13, bears that out. It lists two governing bodies under table tennis, the ITTF and TT Elite Series. TT Star Pro Series, TT Trophy Hungary and Challenger Series do not appear.
Regulators elsewhere have not landed in the same place. DraftKings said the league is approved for wagering in 27 jurisdictions where it operates. The division noted that Ohio and Nebraska have not approved it, and that their decisions turned on standards of information availability and the professional status of the athletes rather than on integrity concerns.
How An Event Reaches The Catalog
Under 205 CMR 247, the commission holds authority to approve, deny or remove sporting events from the catalog to protect wagering integrity and consumer confidence. Operators cannot post a market until the commission authorizes the event and publishes it there, which makes the catalog the gate for legal sports betting in the state.
An operator petitions under 205 CMR 247.03, naming the event, its governing body, the house rules it would apply and its integrity policies. The division reviews the filing and makes a recommendation, and the commission votes.
Approval is not exclusive to the petitioner. The catalog guidelines state that once new leagues or events are approved and published, any licensed provider may offer them, which is why one DraftKings filing reopens the market for every book in the state.
The mechanism has cut the other way before. In 2023 Massachusetts denied LIV Golf a place in the sports wagering catalog after DraftKings petitioned to add it.
Pennsylvania has TT Elite Series under review, according to the division’s memo. The three other table tennis circuits removed in February would each require a separate petition and a separate commission vote to return.
