Compliance
Brazil switched off betting. Free-to-play is what’s left standing.
Provisional Measure 1,394 ends Brazil’s regulated sports betting and online casino market less than two years after it opened. Thirty million players don’t disappear with it. Here is what changed, what survives, and how to build in what remains without becoming part of the problem.
Steve Evans · 1 October 2026 · 6 min read