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Rules & Law

Everything below was put together the way our Rules & Law desk works through any question: read the terms, read them again, then write down only what the terms actually say. Nothing here is a prediction, and nothing here is a promise about your own result. Rules differ from one state to the next, so treat the stricter version as the one that applies to you until you have checked your own.

Where online casino play is licensed at home

Online casino play is licensed in a handful of states and nowhere else; sites reachable from the rest are offshore, whatever their marketing says. Sports betting runs on a separate set of rules and is not covered by this table.

States that license online casino play
StateCodeStatus
New JerseyNJLicensed online casino play
PennsylvaniaPALicensed online casino play
MichiganMILicensed online casino play
West VirginiaWVLicensed online casino play
DelawareDELicensed online casino play
ConnecticutCTLicensed online casino play
Rhode IslandRILicensed online casino play

State list from americangaming.org and the state regulators' own pages (nj.gov, gaming.nv.gov); checked for this build.

21+ We judge operators on published terms, payout records and the regulator named on the site itself — never on the size of a bonus headline. Some outbound links on this site are paid placements, and that never changes what we write. Online gambling is legal only in some US states; check your own before you deposit. Free and confidential help: National Problem Gambling Helpline, 1-800-MY-RESET.