Online Casinos in New Hampshire

1. May 19, 2026

   No online casino bill on the table

   New Hampshire's 2026 session has not advanced any iGaming legislation. Sports betting through DraftKings and the NH iLottery remain the only legal online options.

Real-money online casinos

Not legal, none licensed

Online sports betting

Legal, DraftKings only

Online lottery (NH iLottery)

Legal

Sweepstakes / social casinos

Available, not banned

Commercial or tribal casinos

None in the state

Charitable gaming halls

Legal, table games + HHR

Minimum gambling age

18

Regulator

New Hampshire Lottery Commission

Bids received

13Operators that submitted proposals to the NH Lottery Commission in 2019. Rep. Tim Lang said all but two cleared the technical-capability review.

DraftKings exclusive bid

51%Share of online GGR DraftKings offered the state if it was awarded the only license. Pairs with 50 percent of retail GGR, the highest accepted rate of any US sports-betting state.

DraftKings competitive bid

21%Share DraftKings would have paid if the state awarded up to four other licenses. The 30-point delta is what bought the monopoly.

Award date

Nov 25, 2019NH Lottery Commission executive council vote. Gov. Chris Sununu placed the first legal wager 35 days later at The Brook in Seabrook on Dec 30, 2019.

NH and RI are the only US sports-betting states where the operator hands back roughly half of every dollar of gross gaming revenue. Both got there by running a one-firm market; both auctioned exclusivity to clear the highest rate. The 51 percent NH share has held up across six years of operation. Pro bettors complained early that the rate would force books to widen vig and tighten lines; DraftKings has stayed in the market, and the FY25 hold of roughly 12 percent says the math continues to work for them.

Lifetime handle

$4.5BTotal wagered with DraftKings NH since the Dec 30, 2019 launch. Confirmed by SBCAmericas at the Feb 2026 contract renewal.

Lifetime education share

$172MCumulative transfer to the state Education Trust Fund. Sports wagering is the third-largest line item in NH Lottery, behind scratch tickets and Powerball.

FY25 education share

$39MAll-time record. The FY24 contribution was $37M. NH Lottery ranks the state third in the country for sports-betting tax revenue per capita.

CY25 operator hold

11.77%Blended hold across $880.6M in 2025 handle. Books kept $103.6M in gross gaming revenue; the state took $45.0M at the 51 percent online rate.

On a per-capita basis New Hampshire ranks third in the country for state revenue from sports betting, according to the FY25 NH Lottery release. The math works because the rate is so high. Each $100 in DraftKings GGR routes $51 to the state; in Massachusetts the same $100 produces $20. The state accepts the trade-off of a single operator in exchange for a per-bettor tax line that no multi-operator market in the country comes close to clearing.

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Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed HB 2 into law on July 1, 2025. The bill removed the long-standing 230-to-300 video lottery terminal cap per venue, set a 31 percent VLT tax with 35 percent to charity and 65 percent to the state, lifted per-bet limits on table games and HHR, and renamed the regulator the New Hampshire Lottery and Gaming Commission. Fiscal staff project the changes will add up to $65 million a year to the general fund once the VLT framework ramps. The same session passed a town-level opt-out that lets municipalities block new charitable halls inside their borders.

Licensed gaming halls

14Charitable casinos statewide as of May 2026, per NH Lottery Commission records. Five operate under the Revo Casino brand owned by New Hampshire Group LLC. Others include The Brook in Seabrook and Chaser’s in Salem.

FY24 hall revenue

$244MCombined revenue from table games and historical horse-racing machines across all 14 venues, per the Spectrum Gaming report submitted to the legislative study commission Aug 28, 2024.

To charity 2025

$64MCharity share from table games plus HHR plus video lottery in calendar 2025, per the Concord Monitor March 17, 2026 piece citing NH Lottery and Gaming Commission filings.

Nonprofits served

~800Approximate number of NH 501(c)(3) groups that received a share of charitable gaming proceeds in FY24. Halls pick their own partners on rotating schedules; the state does not assign organizations to venues.

The model has a recurring critic. Each hall picks its own nonprofit partners on rotating game-day schedules, which the state does not oversee. The Concord Monitor reported on March 17, 2026 that St. Paul’s School pulled $204,616 from The Brook Casino in 2025 while the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness took $14,218 from a Revo location across the same months. A legislative study committee is examining the selection-process gap, but lawmakers have so far resisted statutory rules on which charities qualify, calling it “picking winners and losers.”

The closest comparable rate elsewhere is New York at 51 percent across nine licensed mobile books. New Yorkers feel that rate as worse pricing, with promos stripped down and parlay vigs tightened to absorb the tax. New Hampshire users get the same rate priced into a single operator’s app, so the cost lands the same way. The variety question is whether you want one tightly priced book or several. The state picked revenue.

• Online Sports Betting

  Legalized by HB 480 in 2019. DraftKings holds an exclusive statewide contract, so it is the only mobile sportsbook you can legally use in New Hampshire. Regulated by the NH Lottery Commission, 18+.

• NH iLottery

  New Hampshire ran the first modern US state lottery back in 1964. The NH iLottery sells draw games and e-instant games online to anyone 18 or older physically inside the state.

• Sweepstakes & Social Casinos

  No state law bans the sweepstakes model. Free-to-play social slots and sweepstakes sites that award redeemable prizes are accessible to residents, the closest legal substitute for online casino games here.

• Charitable Gaming Halls

  Licensed venues run house-banked blackjack, poker, and roulette, with a share of revenue going to charity. A 2021 law added historical horse racing machines. The only in-person casino-style gambling in the state.

1. 1963

   Sweepstakes bill signed

   Gov. John King signed the bill authorizing a state-run sweepstakes lottery on April 30, 1963. Critics in Congress argued it ran afoul of federal anti-gambling law; the state moved ahead anyway.

2. 1964

   First ticket sold

   On March 12, 1964, after a town-meeting referendum where only 12 of 224 NH towns voted against the measure, the New Hampshire Sweepstakes Commission sold the first ticket of any modern US state lottery at Rockingham Park.

3. 2017

   iLottery authorized

   The legislature authorized online lottery sales as part of the biennial budget bill. The law lets the commission sell draw tickets and e-instant games to anyone 18 or older physically inside the state.

4. 2018

   NH iLottery launches

   E-instants went live in September 2018 with IWG as the primary game studio. Within 16 days the platform took 4,200 registrations and paid $362,263 in winnings. NH was the fifth state with an iLottery after MI, GA, IL, KY.

The pattern is consistent. NH legalizes one product at a time, contracts it to a single private operator (or a single vendor like IWG for e-instants), routes the state cut to the Education Trust Fund, and lets the NH Lottery and Gaming Commission supervise. No bill has moved iGaming into that same channel. When one does, it will follow this template: vendor RFP, state ownership of the platform, lottery-run regulation, and a revenue split tilted toward the state.