Online Casinos in Oregon

Real-money online casinos

Not legal, none licensed

Online sports betting

Legal, DraftKings only

Online poker

Not legal

Online lottery (iLottery)

Not offered, retail tickets only

Sweepstakes / social casinos

Available, not banned

Tribal casinos

Nine venues, eight tribes

Commercial casinos

None, Measure 82 rejected 2012

Charitable bingo and raffles

Legal, Oregon DOJ licensed

Minimum gambling age

21 sports and tribal, 18 lottery

Regulator

Oregon Lottery

The Pacific Coast plus Idaho holds about 56 million residents and zero state-licensed online casinos. No other contiguous five-state cluster in the country looks like that. The Northeast runs five legal markets in a row (Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia). The South has none yet but is moving (Mississippi and Maryland both held active iGaming bills in 2025). Oregon's western boundary is the Pacific Ocean and the three states behind it have all decided, repeatedly, that the answer is no.

1. Nov 6, 2012

   Voters reject Measure 82

   The Oregon Privately-Owned Casinos Amendment, which would have authorized a non-tribal casino in Multnomah County in exchange for 25 percent of adjusted gross revenue, fails at the ballot. Tribes, the Lottery, and the Governor's office all opposed it.

2. Oct 16, 2019

   Oregon Lottery launches Scoreboard

   The Lottery debuts its in-house Scoreboard mobile sportsbook, relying on Oregon's PASPA grandfather status earned by the Sports Action parlay game that ran from 1989 to 2007. Scoreboard is the state's first online sports betting product, 21 and over.

3. Jan 18, 2022

   DraftKings replaces Scoreboard

   Oregon Lottery and DraftKings switch the state over to DraftKings Sportsbook under an exclusive contract announced January 12. Scoreboard accounts and balances migrate to DraftKings. It remains the only legal mobile sports betting app in Oregon.

2025 OR sports handle

$927M

State share of net revenue

51%

2025 bets placed

35M

Licensed online sportsbooks

1

Two structural restrictions ride along with the monopoly. DraftKings cannot accept any college sports wagers in Oregon, a Lottery rule tied to the fact that net proceeds fund higher education. The DraftKings app also geofences itself off all nine tribal casino properties, so on-site customers stay inside the tribal sportsbooks instead of getting drawn back to the state app. The Lottery built those guardrails into the agreement because the alternative was a fight with the tribes and the NCAA at the same time.

Video lottery terminals statewide

~11,000

Bars and taverns hosting VLTs

~2,150

Share of FY2025 Lottery sales

69.1%

FY2025 transfer to state

$887M

The retail mechanics keep small-business owners on the Lottery's side of any iGaming debate. Bars and restaurants that host VLTs keep 27.5 percent of every dollar lost on the machines and absorb 27.5 percent of every dollar won. The state takes the remaining 72.5 percent. Operators that hit the Lottery's $10,000-per-week-per-terminal sales floor keep their machines; those that miss it can lose them in the Q2 or Q4 review cycles. Light & Wonder shipped more than 2,375 new terminals to Oregon between October 2024 and September 2025 to refresh the floor. That is the political constituency any iGaming bill would have to displace. So far, no legislator has tried.

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The next moving piece sits in southern Oregon. On January 14, 2025, the Department of the Interior took 2.42 acres in Medford into trust for the Coquille Indian Tribe under the Restored Lands Exception of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, clearing a 13-year permitting fight for a second Coquille gaming property. The other Oregon tribes filed objections during the comment period because the action breaks the informal one-tribe-one-casino arrangement that has held since the early 1990s. Litigation is pending. If Medford opens, it is the first new tribal casino floor in Oregon since the Spirit Mountain and Chinook Winds builds of the mid-1990s.

The practical effect for a bettor in Eugene who logs into an offshore site is small. Oregon has not filed felony charges against an individual online bettor under ORS 167.122 in recent memory, and the operator-side felony under 167.109 is structurally aimed at offshore companies beyond easy reach. The statute matters more as a structural signal. Any future iGaming bill would have to amend or carve out ORS 167.109 to authorize a state-licensed operator, and that vote sits next to the constitutional provision in Article XV Section 4 that reserves casino games for the Lottery and the tribes. Two layers, both adverse to private operators.

• Online Sports Betting (DraftKings Only)

  DraftKings Sportsbook is the only state-authorized mobile sportsbook in Oregon, operating under an exclusive Oregon Lottery contract that took effect January 18, 2022. It replaced the Lottery's in-house Scoreboard app, which launched October 16, 2019. Minimum age 21. College games involving Oregon schools and player-prop bets on college athletes are restricted.

• Tribal Casinos

  Nine tribal casinos statewide, run by eight federally recognized tribes under IGRA compacts. Spirit Mountain (Grand Ronde) is the largest by floor area. Other venues include Wildhorse near Pendleton, Chinook Winds in Lincoln City, Seven Feathers in Canyonville, and two Ko-Kwel properties in North Bend and Medford. In-person play only, generally 21 and up because most properties serve alcohol.

• Oregon Lottery and Video Lottery

  Powerball, Mega Millions, Megabucks, Keno, Cash Pop, and scratch-its sell only at retail. Video lottery terminals (line games and video poker) sit in licensed bars and taverns across the state. Oregon does not run an online iLottery, so digital ticket sales come only from third-party couriers. Minimum age 18.

• Sweepstakes and Social Casinos

  Oregon has no statute that bans sweepstakes casinos by name, and the Oregon DOJ has not issued cease-and-desist orders the way Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arizona regulators have. Operators that include a genuine free entry method continue to serve residents. Not state-licensed gambling. Most sites set 18 or 21 as the minimum.

• Charitable Bingo, Raffles, and Monte Carlo

  Tax-exempt nonprofits can apply to the Oregon Department of Justice for a charitable gaming license under ORS 167.118. Bingo prizes are capped at $5,000 per game, and operating expenses cannot exceed 22 percent of annual handle. Small bingo (under $5,000 per year) and small raffles (under $10,000 per year) are exempt from licensing.

The campaign mechanics behind those rejections matter for any operator looking at Oregon. Each Wood Village vote was opposed by the same coalition: the nine federally recognized tribes, the Oregon Lottery, the sitting governor, and the three former governors who taped a joint commercial in 2012. The combined opposition assembled the largest political action committee in each cycle. The Lottery retailers, all 2,150 of them, lined up on the same side. Until that coalition fractures, iGaming has no path even if a willing legislator drafts the bill.