Online Casinos in Vermont

Real-money online casinos

Not legal, none licensed

Online sports betting

Legal, mobile-only, three operators

Daily fantasy sports

Legal, regulated by DLL

Online lottery

Not available, H.669 pending in committee

Sweepstakes / social casinos

Allowed under 13 V.S.A. § 2143b

Commercial casinos

None, no statute authorizes them

Tribal casinos

None, no federally recognized tribes

Charitable gaming

Bingo, raffles, card games; $400 per-game prize cap

Minimum age

21 sports betting and DFS, 18 lottery and charitable

Regulator

Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery

Statutory floor

20%Minimum revenue share to the state written into Act 63 of 2023. The DLL could not approve a bid below this line.

Average bid

31.7%Mean of the three accepted bids. The auction format produced a rate well above the floor and roughly twice what Maine, Massachusetts, or Connecticut take on sports betting.

Operator fee

$550KFlat licensing fee paid by every selected operator, separate from the ongoing revenue share. Vermont collected $1.65 million in fees from the three contracts at signing.

Licensee cap

3-6Act 63 set a minimum of two operators and a maximum of six. The DLL ran a single bid round and capped the market at three. No new bids have been opened since.

• DraftKings

  Bid: 31% of AGR

  Largest US online sportsbook by handle. Day-one Vermont operator on Jan 11, 2024 and the lead share-taker in monthly DLL reports.

• FanDuel

  Bid: 33% of AGR

  Highest bid in the auction. Flutter Entertainment subsidiary. Day-one Vermont operator and the only book to clear the average rate.

• Fanatics Sportsbook

  Bid: 31% of AGR

  Fanatics Betting & Gaming, the same group that absorbed the former PointsBet US license footprint in 2023. Day-one Vermont operator.

Every other US sports-betting state taxes operators at a fixed rate set by the legislature. Vermont is the only one where the rate came out of a sealed-bid auction. The RFP scored 800 points for technical capability, product, and compliance plus 200 points for the revenue-share offer. None of the three winning bids have been renegotiated since signing, and no new bids have been opened to fill the unused capacity in the three-to-six licensee band.

1. Jun 8, 2017

   Daily fantasy sports legalized

   Governor Phil Scott signed S.136, exempting paid-entry fantasy contests from Vermont's gambling laws. The law required DFS operators to register with the Secretary of State and pay a $5,000 annual fee.

2. Jun 14, 2023

   Sports Wagering Act signed

   Governor Scott signed H.127, enacted as Act 63 of 2023. The law put sports wagering and fantasy contests under the Department of Liquor and Lottery and capped operators at a minimum of two and a maximum of six.

3. Dec 12, 2023

   DLL picks three operators

   The Department awarded competitive sports wagering contracts to DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics Sportsbook. Pre-registration opened the same day.

4. Jan 11, 2024

   Mobile sports betting goes live

   All three apps opened at midnight. The market closed fiscal year 2024 with about $3.5 million in state revenue, and 2025 handle grew to roughly $235 million for the year.

5. Jan 14, 2026

   Online lottery bill introduced

   House lawmakers introduced H.669 to authorize the Board of Liquor and Lottery to sell tickets through mobile apps and the internet. The bill was referred to the Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs and remains pending.

Cumulative handle

$456MTotal wagered through March 2026, the 27th month of legal mobile betting. Tracks the DLL handle reports compiled by RG.org and reproduced in WCAX coverage.

Cumulative GGR

$54.3MOperator gross sports wagering revenue after winnings. Books kept a blended 11.9 percent of wagers across the first two-plus years.

Cumulative state share

$9.7MPrivilege share collected by the Department of Liquor and Lottery, plus the $1.65 million in upfront operator fees collected at signing in December 2023.

2024 vs 2025 handle

+18%Year-two handle climbed from $198.75M to $235.09M. Hold normalized from a lucky 13.96 percent year-one print to 9.71 percent in 2025 as books gave more back to bettors.

Vermont’s handle ranks last among states with mobile sports betting on a raw basis and roughly in the middle on a per-capita basis after dividing by the state’s 648,000 residents. The 31.7 percent blended bid rate means each $100 in operator gross revenue produces about $31.70 in state share, which is why a small handle still cleared a meaningful tax line in year two. The DLL publishes monthly figures on its Sports Wagering page, and Joshua Sumner, the department’s director of sports wagering, has told the legislature the market is performing as a maturing one should.

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The closest brick-and-mortar floors for most Vermonters sit across two state lines. Saratoga Casino Hotel in upstate New York runs roughly 1,700 electronic gaming machines and is about 100 miles south of Burlington. Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut sit four to five hours by car. The Wabanaki tribal casinos in Maine offer bingo only, no slots or table games. Vermont sits inside a region where every neighbor has either an iCasino bill on the books or a land-based casino industry to anchor one. The state itself has neither.

Vermont responded with a state-only recognition track. Gov. Peter Shumlin signed recognition for the Elnu Abenaki Tribe and the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation on April 22, 2011. He signed the same status for the Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi (formerly St. Francis-Sokoki) and the Koasek Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation on May 7, 2012. State recognition does not satisfy the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, so the four bands cannot enter a Class III compact and cannot open a tribal casino. The Odanak and Wolinak First Nations of Quebec, both federally recognized in Canada, publicly disputed the legitimacy of Vermont's state-recognized bands in November 2023 and asked Vermont to investigate the recognition process.

Federally recognized tribes

0Zero of the four state-recognized Abenaki bands hold federal recognition. Without it the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act provides no path to a Class III compact or a tribal casino.

State-recognized bands

4Elnu and Nulhegan signed April 22, 2011 by Gov. Peter Shumlin. Missisquoi (St. Francis-Sokoki) and Koasek signed May 7, 2012. All routed through the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs.

2007 BIA descent finding

8 of 1,171In the Final Determination denying the St. Francis/Sokoki Band, the Bureau of Indian Affairs found that 8 of the petitioner’s 1,171 enrolled members showed descent from a Missisquoi Abenaki ancestor. The application failed four of seven mandatory criteria.

Federal applications filed

3St. Francis/Sokoki filed in 1980, 1992, and 2007. Two were denied on the merits. One was withdrawn. No Vermont band has filed since the 2007 denial.

A future Vermont tribal casino would need one of two things to happen first. Either a Vermont band would have to file and win federal recognition under the BIA process, which no Vermont band has attempted since 2007. Or Congress would have to pass a private recognition bill, which has happened in other states (the Lumbee Recognition Act path) but has no Vermont sponsor as of May 2026. Both routes take years even when a tribe meets the descent and continuity tests. The four state-recognized bands operate cultural programs and artist guilds, not gaming enterprises.

• Online-Only Sports Betting

  Authorized by Act 63 of 2023 and live since January 11, 2024. DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics Sportsbook hold the three operator contracts awarded by the Department of Liquor and Lottery. Bettors must be 21 and physically inside Vermont. There are no retail sportsbooks in the state.

• Daily Fantasy Sports

  Legal since the 2017 Fantasy Sports Contests Act (S.136). Act 63 moved oversight to the Department of Liquor and Lottery under 31 V.S.A. Chapter 25, Subchapter 3, raised the minimum age from 18 to 21, and replaced the old $5,000 annual operator fee with a 10 percent tax on adjusted revenue.

• Sweepstakes & Social Casinos

  Vermont has not passed a sweepstakes ban. The carve-out at 13 V.S.A. § 2143b lets sweepstakes operate as long as no payment is required to enter. Dual-currency social casinos that award redeemable prizes continue to accept Vermont players, the closest legal substitute for online slots and table games here.

• Vermont Lottery (Retail Only)

  Draw games, scratch tickets, Powerball, and Mega Millions sell only through retail agents today. H.669, introduced on January 14, 2026, would let the Board of Liquor and Lottery sell tickets online and through a mobile app, but the bill is still in the House Government Operations Committee.

• H.669

  Online lottery sales

  Introduced: Jan 14, 2026

  House Government Operations and Military Affairs

  Would let the Board of Liquor and Lottery sell tickets, products, and subscriptions through mobile apps and the internet, with an effective date of July 1, 2026. Modeled on Michigan and Pennsylvania iLottery experience and pitched as a way to backfill flat retail draw sales. Retailers would keep a negotiated share of online tickets.

• H.913

  Per-bet fee, prediction-market ban

  Introduced: Feb 2026

  House Government Operations and Military Affairs

  Rep. Thomas Stevens and 12 co-sponsors. Would add a flat 50 cents per wager on top of the existing revenue share, copying the Illinois per-bet model. The bill also amends the criminal code to prohibit prediction-market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket from offering event contracts on sports, elections, disasters, or death.

• H.133

  Sports betting repeal (prior session)

  Introduced: Feb 2025

  Died in committee, 2025-2026 carryover

  Stevens’ prior attempt to repeal Act 63 in full and recriminalize wagering. The bill never received a hearing and died on the 2025-2026 carryover. H.913 reads as the fallback after the straight repeal failed.

None of the three bills has a fiscal note attached and none has cleared committee. H.669 enjoys quiet executive-branch support from the Department of Liquor and Lottery, which has cited Michigan iLottery performance in committee testimony. H.913 lacks both a fiscal analysis and detailed regulatory language, and Compass Vermont reported in March 2026 that passage this session is unlikely. The combined picture is a legislature that built a sports-betting market in 2023 and is still deciding what it wants that market to look like.