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This article examines the challenges and difficulties regarding compliance issues that confront gaming regulators, gaming companies, and those associated with the industry. Regulation of the gaming industry by the various gaming jurisdictions, while presumably trying to strive for and ultimately accomplish the same goal, varies widely in how the regulatory oversight is implemented. For many years, Nevada was the sole jurisdiction in the U.S. to have casino gaming as one knows it today. Regulation of gaming in Nevada has continued to evolve and adapt over the decades in order to keep up with the demands of an industry that continues to challenge the regulatory infrastructure. The emergence of new gaming jurisdictions worldwide has placed added burdens not only on gaming regulators but also on gaming companies. As an example, it is now commonplace to see regulated casinos in Eastern Europe and Russia. Ongoing educational compliance programs are just one of the efforts that large U.S.-based companies operating in literally hundreds of gaming jurisdictions make in order to continue to remain compliant.