Wisconsin lets the state's 11 federally recognized tribes run every casino, and has no online slots or table games. Here is what is actually legal to play online in 2026.
Wisconsin signed its first Class III compacts in 1992, after a federal court ordered the state to the table under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Each of the eleven federally recognized tribes negotiated its own agreement with Governor Tommy Thompson, and each compact has been amended several times since. There are no commercial casinos in the state. Every slot, every blackjack table, and every sportsbook counter runs under one of these sovereign nations.
Milwaukee
Potawatomi Casino Hotel
The state’s largest casino by revenue. Runs the Kambi-powered Potawatomi Sportsbook with a 2,000 sq ft television wall, opened to the public on May 3, 2024 after a March 31, 2023 temporary launch. A second property in Wabeno (Carter) serves the Northwoods.
Baraboo
Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells
The most operationally diverse tribe in the state, with six active casinos (Wisconsin Dells, Black River Falls, Madison, Tomah, Nekoosa, Wittenberg) plus the $405 million Beloit project under construction.
Green Bay
Oneida Casino Main–Airport
Holder of the first Class III sports-betting compact amendment in Wisconsin and home to the state’s first legal sports bet on November 30, 2021. Four Green Bay-area properties run on IGT’s PlaySports platform.
Turtle Lake
St. Croix Casino Turtle Lake
Three properties at Turtle Lake, Danbury, and Hertel. The Book at Turtle Lake and the Red Zone Lounge at Danbury opened April 15-16, 2022, the second tribe to launch retail sportsbooks in Wisconsin.
Keshena
Menominee Casino Resort
Operator of the Highway 47/55 resort in Keshena and the federally pending Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Kenosha project. Governor Walker rejected the tribe’s previous Kenosha bid in 2015; the revived $360 million Bristol-area proposal cleared local approvals in early 2024.
Lac du Flambeau
Lake of the Torches Resort Casino
Home to DraftKings’ first Wisconsin retail sportsbook, opened August 28, 2024 with six self-serve kiosks and a counter window inside the casino floor.
Crandon
Mole Lake Casino & Lodge
Operator of the Gametime Sportsbook, opened in late May 2023 after the October 2022 compact amendment. Six kiosks, staffed windows, and a 42-foot bar with two dozen big-screen televisions.
Hayward
Sevenwinds Casino, Lodge & Conference Center
Northwoods property anchoring the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation. Class III gaming under the 1992 compact with the state.
Bowler
North Star Mohican Casino Resort
The Mohican-operated resort in Shawano County. Class III compact in place since 1992; no sportsbook yet as of May 2026.
Odanah
Bad River Lodge & Casino
Lake Superior shoreline property on U.S. Highway 2. Compact payment formula starts at 1.75% of net win and tops out at 5% above $150 million in annual net win.
Red Cliff
Legendary Waters Resort and Casino
Apostle Islands-area property at the northern tip of Wisconsin. The smallest of the tribal casino footprints by floor count.
Wisconsin voters ratified Question 2 by a 65 to 35 percent margin, amending Article IV, Section 24 to authorize a state-operated lottery. A companion measure on the same ballot authorized on-track pari-mutuel betting. The Wisconsin Lottery sold its first ticket on September 14, 1988.
The Oneida Casino in Green Bay opened the state's first sportsbook, powered by IGT's PlaySports platform. The launch followed a July 2021 compact amendment between Governor Evers and Oneida Chairman Tehassi Hill, which the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs cleared on August 16, 2021.
Wisconsin's first mobile sports betting app went live, geofenced to Oneida Nation property. Patrons could only wager while physically on tribal land. The Forest County Potawatomi and St. Croix Chippewa later signed their own compact amendments, expanding retail sportsbooks to more tribal casinos.
Governor Evers signed AB 601 into 2025 Wisconsin Act 247, making Wisconsin the 33rd state to legalize online sports betting. The Senate had passed the bill 21 to 12 on March 17, 2026, and the Assembly cleared it by voice vote in late February. The law uses a Florida-style hub-and-spoke model: bets travel through servers on tribal land. A statewide launch is waiting on new compact amendments with each of the 11 tribes.
Act 247 imports the legal theory the Seminole Tribe of Florida proved out in federal court. A bet placed from a phone in Madison or Milwaukee is treated as happening on tribal land, because the server that accepts it sits on tribal land. The D.C. Circuit blessed that reading in West Flagler v. Haaland in June 2023, and the Supreme Court let the ruling stand in June 2024. Wisconsin is the second US state to build a statewide mobile market around it.
The Florida compact runs 30 years and guarantees the state at least $2.5 billion across the first five years. Wisconsin’s amended compacts are still on the negotiating table; the Department of the Interior gets a 45-day window to approve or deny each amendment once a tribe and Governor Evers sign. No statewide launch can happen until every one of the eleven tribes has a ratified amendment, or the participating tribes carve a launch out independently.
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 requires at least 60 percent of net gaming revenue to stay with the tribal entity hosting the wager. A national sportsbook entering Wisconsin would have to hand over 60 cents of every revenue dollar to a tribal partner before keeping a cent. The Sports Betting Alliance spent a quarter million dollars trying to rewrite that math out of AB 601, and lost.
Opposed AB 601
$262,603
Reported lobbying spend filed with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, opposing AB 601 and its Senate companion. The SBA ranked 20th in the state by lobbying expenditure across the 2025 reporting period and logged 64 hours of lobbyist time in the second half of 2025 alone. Membership: DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Fanatics, and Bet365.
Supported AB 601
92 hours
Second-most active lobbying tribe in the second half of 2025, behind only Ho-Chunk Nation. The tribe owns the Milwaukee flagship and a Kambi-powered retail sportsbook; it has the largest commercial stake in the hub-and-spoke launch on the tribal side.
Supported AB 601
100 hours
Most active lobbyist of any single entity on the bill in the second half of 2025. Six operating casinos plus the Beloit project under construction. Statewide mobile launch is the natural sportsbook companion for a tribe that already runs the broadest retail casino footprint in the state.
Already has a tribal partner
Holds the only SBA-member tribal partnership in Wisconsin through Lake of the Torches Casino on the Lac du Flambeau reservation, where its retail sportsbook opened August 28, 2024. The most natural path to a statewide skin once the Lac du Flambeau compact amendment clears.
No Wisconsin tribal partner
Closest geographic peer footprint to draw from is its Suquamish Tribe deal in Washington. SBA argues the 60% IGRA floor makes Wisconsin entry uneconomic absent a renegotiated partnership structure.
No Wisconsin tribal partner
Runs the Puyallup-branded Emerald Queen sportsbook in Washington and the BetMGM brand at multiple commercial properties nationwide. Has not announced a Wisconsin tribal counterparty as of May 2026.
Wisconsin-resident tech provider
Powers the Potawatomi Sportsbook in Milwaukee under a multi-year, multi-channel agreement. The white-label option for any Wisconsin tribe that does not want to share economics with a national consumer brand.
Forest County Potawatomi logged 92 hours of lobbying on the bill in the second half of 2025, and the Ho-Chunk Nation logged 100 hours. Each tribe out- lobbied the SBA on its own. The vote on March 17, 2026 in the Senate came in 21 to 12, with the Assembly clearing the bill by voice vote on February 19, 2026. The 60 percent floor moved through both chambers intact.
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Wisconsin's tribal sportsbook map filled out between November 2021 and August 2024, well ahead of statewide mobile authorization. Five different tech providers run these counters, including IGT, Kambi, DraftKings, and two in-house operations. Each tribe controls its own brand and platform pick, and that choice will largely determine what the statewide mobile lineup looks like when Act 247 launches.
Nov 30, 2021
IGT PlaySports
Oneida Nation
The first legal sports bet in Wisconsin. More than a dozen self-serve IGT kiosks plus staffed betting windows. The Oneida Nation’s July 2021 compact amendment cleared the Department of Interior on August 16, 2021.
Late 2021
IGT PlaySports
Oneida Nation
Second Oneida property to launch retail sports betting, running on the same IGT PlaySports turnkey platform as the Main-Airport casino. On-property mobile through the Oneida Casino Sportsbook app went live February 21, 2022, geofenced to Oneida land.
Apr 15, 2022
In-house
St. Croix Chippewa
The second tribe to launch in Wisconsin. The Turtle Lake book opened a day before the Danbury counter, the first paired-property launch in the state. Compact amendment approved by the Department of Interior in late 2021.
Apr 16, 2022
In-house
St. Croix Chippewa
A retail sports bar built around the betting counter. The third St. Croix sportsbook later opened at the Hertel property, giving the tribe three counters across its Wisconsin footprint.
May 3, 2024
Kambi
Forest County Potawatomi
A 2,000 sq ft television wall that plays up to 30 games at once, three tiers of seating for 200+, a 24-tap bar, and a 14-table poker room next door. Centerpiece of a $190 million Milwaukee renovation. A temporary book opened March 31, 2023 ahead of the permanent build.
2023
Kambi
Forest County Potawatomi
The Northwoods Potawatomi counter opened alongside the Milwaukee temporary book in early 2023. Same Kambi multi-channel agreement covers both locations.
May 2023
In-house
Sokaogon Chippewa Community
Half a dozen kiosks, staffed windows, two dozen big-screen TVs, and a 42-foot bar. The Sokaogon Chippewa compact amendment was signed in October 2022 and cleared federal review the following spring.
Aug 28, 2024
DraftKings
Lac du Flambeau Band
Six DraftKings kiosks and an over-the-counter window on the casino floor next to Woody’s Bar & Grill. DraftKings’ first Wisconsin location and its 28th US state for retail sports betting.
Post-2022
In-house
St. Croix Chippewa
The third St. Croix sportsbook, opened after the Turtle Lake and Danbury launches. Counter service plus a sports bar, trucker’s lounge, and walk-in humidor cigar shop on the same property.
The Stockbridge-Munsee, Bad River, Red Cliff, Lac Courte Oreilles, and Menominee tribes have not opened retail sportsbooks yet. Each of them will need a compact amendment of its own to reach a sports-betting launch, on top of whatever the statewide mobile framework requires. The Department of the Interior’s 45-day approval clock starts only after a tribe and the Governor sign.
Wisconsin's gambling baseline lives in the state constitution. Article IV, Section 24 says the legislature 'may not authorize gambling in any form,' with narrow exceptions added by amendment: charitable bingo in 1973, raffles in 1977, and a state-operated lottery plus on-track pari-mutuel betting in 1987. Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 945 then makes commercial gambling a crime. The state-operated lottery itself is constitutionally barred from offering blackjack, baccarat, poker, roulette, craps, keno, slot machines, video gambling devices, or any game based on the result of a race or sporting event. Online slots, table games, and live dealer products have no statutory home.
Class III tribal casinos are the only casino-style gambling allowed in Wisconsin. The state signed the first round of Class III compacts with each of the 11 federally recognized tribes in the early 1990s under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and those compacts have been amended several times since. There are no commercial casinos and no commercial casino lobby pushing for an iGaming extension. Lawmakers spent the 2025-2026 session on sports betting, not online casinos. 2025 Wisconsin Act 247, signed by Governor Tony Evers on April 9, 2026, authorized statewide mobile sports betting through a tribal hub-and-spoke model and left iGaming entirely off the table.
Each Class III compact requires the tribe to pay a percentage of net win (wagers minus winnings) to the state, on a sliding scale that climbs as net win climbs. Eleven separate compacts, eleven separate payment formulas, and a single annual tally reported by the Wisconsin Department of Administration. The published Bad River formula is the closest thing to a public benchmark.
Confidentiality provisions in each compact prevent disclosure of any individual tribe’s payment to the state. Only the aggregate number is public. The Bad River ladder is one of the few rate schedules published in plain text.
Most US state lotteries can pivot to an in-house app, a courier partnership, or both. Wisconsin cannot. Three different sections of Wis. Stat. 565.17 wall off the online channel, and the 1987 constitutional amendment that authorized the lottery also banned it from offering casino-style products. The result is a $954.8 million lottery (FY 2023-24) that still only sells through licensed retailers, for cash.
Wis. Stat. § 565.17(1m)
"No person may operate a ticket courier service in this state." Closes the third-party app channel that Jackpocket, theLotter, and similar services use in roughly two dozen US states.
Wis. Stat. § 565.17(1)
"Lottery tickets or lottery shares may be sold only for cash." Cuts off the card-on-file checkout flow that any in-house Wisconsin Lottery app would need to clear. No debit card. No ACH. No mobile wallet.
Wis. Stat. § 565.17(2)
"Lottery tickets or lottery shares may not be sold by any person other than a retailer or the department." Closes the third-party marketplace that would otherwise let an out-of-state platform broker Wisconsin tickets.
Const. Art. IV § 24(6)(c)
The 1987 amendment that authorized the Wisconsin Lottery also barred it from offering blackjack, baccarat, poker, roulette, craps, keno, slot machines, video gambling devices, or any game based on the outcome of a race or sporting event. The lottery has no casino-product runway.
FY 2023-24 ticket sales were $954.8 million, down 2.7 percent from $981.7 million the year before. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau projects FY 2024-25 sales of about $859.9 million. Violations of 565.17 are punishable under 565.50 by a fine up to $10,000 or imprisonment for up to nine months. Lottery proceeds are constitutionally dedicated to property-tax relief for Wisconsin homeowners.
Wisconsin's regulated online menu is short: fantasy contests, sweepstakes, and a tribal sports betting market still waiting on compact amendments.
Legal at the Oneida Casino in Green Bay since November 30, 2021 and on the Oneida mobile app since February 21, 2022, geofenced to tribal property. 2025 Wisconsin Act 247, signed April 9, 2026, lets all 11 tribes offer statewide mobile sports betting through a Florida-style hub-and-spoke model, with every wager routed through a server on tribal land. The statewide launch is waiting on new compact amendments. Minimum age 21.
Eleven federally recognized tribes run the only casinos in Wisconsin under Class III compacts with the state. The Forest County Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk Nation, and Oneida Nation operate the largest properties, with Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee and Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells at the top by revenue. Slots, blackjack, and most table games are available in person at age 21.
Wisconsin has no statute targeting the sweepstakes model. Dual-currency operators including Chumba, Stake.us, and others continue to accept Wisconsin players using a free Alternative Method of Entry to remove the 'consideration' element from Chapter 945's lottery definition. The closest legal substitute for online slots and table games in the state.
DraftKings, FanDuel, PrizePicks, and Underdog accept Wisconsin entries without a state license. There is no specific authorizing law and no specific ban, and the major operators have served the state for years without enforcement action. Minimum age 18. Sportsbook apps from the same companies are not licensed in Wisconsin.
Draw games, scratch tickets, Powerball, and Mega Millions sell only through licensed retailers, for cash. Wis. Stat. § 565.17 explicitly bans ticket courier services and limits sales to authorized retailers, which closes off the third-party online and mobile channels other states use. The 1987 constitutional amendment also bars the lottery from running blackjack, poker, roulette, dice, keno, or slot-style games.
The retail map is not done expanding. The Ho-Chunk Nation is finishing a Beloit megaproject that will be the second-largest casino in Wisconsin when it opens in September 2026, and the Menominee Tribe is working a Bristol-area Hard Rock proposal through federal review that has been more than a decade in the making. Both projects predate the Act 247 mobile launch and will be operating with statewide sportsbooks under their own flags by the time the paint dries.
Under construction
Ho-Chunk Nation broke ground on October 25, 2024 at the southeast corner of Willowbrook and Colley roads in Beloit. The first phase is a 240,478 sq ft venue with more than 1,500 slot machines, 44 table games, a sportsbook, four restaurants, and a casino bar. A second phase adds a 300-plus room hotel and a conference center. Construction supports about 3,000 jobs, with more than 1,500 permanent positions once the doors open. Ho-Chunk President Jon Greendeer publicly estimated total cost at $500 million on groundbreaking day; the public figure is $405 million, and KeyBanc Capital Markets pegs the project at $705 million.
Pending federal approval
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has been trying to land a Kenosha-area casino for more than a decade. The current $360 million proposal at a 60-acre site in the Village of Bristol cleared the Kenosha County Board on January 18, 2024 and got parallel Common Council backing later in 2024. The Bureau of Indian Affairs draft environmental assessment in spring 2026 found no significant negative impacts. Public comments closed April 12, 2026. The plan calls for about 1,500 slots and 50 table games.
Walker rejects the original Kenosha bid
Governor Scott Walker turns down the Menominee Tribe’s previous Hard Rock Kenosha proposal, citing roughly $100 million in potential state liability to the Forest County Potawatomi under the existing Milwaukee-area compact economics.
Scaled-down Bristol revival
The Menominee Tribe and Hard Rock announce a scaled-down $360 million proposal on 60 acres in the Village of Bristol. Hard Rock pays $15 million for the land. Plan: 1,500 slots, about 50 table games, more than 1,000 permanent jobs.
Kenosha County Board approves
The county board signs off on the development agreement. The Kenosha City Council backs parallel agreements later in 2024. A 2018 Potawatomi compact amendment has by this point reduced the Walker-era liability concern.
BIA finds no significant impact
The Bureau of Indian Affairs draft environmental assessment finds no significant negative impacts from the Kenosha proposal. Public comment window closes April 12, 2026.
Final BIA determination, then Evers
If the BIA finalizes its no-significant-impact finding, the application moves to the Department of the Interior for a record of decision. The final compact authorization sits with Governor Evers, who has publicly said tribes have the right to pursue gaming on their lands.
No. Article IV, Section 24 of the Wisconsin Constitution only carves out a state lottery, charitable bingo and raffles, on-track pari-mutuel betting, and Class III tribal gaming. Online slots, table games, and live dealer products have no statutory home, and no iGaming bill has been introduced in the 2025-2026 session. Any site advertising 'Wisconsin online casino real money' is offshore and unregulated.
Soon, but not yet statewide. 2025 Wisconsin Act 247, signed on April 9, 2026, lets the 11 federally recognized tribes offer statewide mobile sports betting through a hub-and-spoke model with servers on tribal land. The statewide launch is waiting on new compact amendments. Until then you can wager at tribal retail sportsbooks (Oneida Casino in Green Bay since November 2021, plus several other tribal properties) and on the Oneida mobile app while physically on Oneida property.
Yes. Wisconsin has not banned the sweepstakes model. Dual-currency operators such as Chumba, Stake.us, and others continue to accept Wisconsin players by offering a free Alternative Method of Entry, which removes the 'consideration' element from Chapter 945's lottery definition. As of May 2026 no enforcement action or pending bill targets the format in the state.
You can play their daily fantasy contests, not their sportsbooks. DFS apps operate here without specific licensure or a ban, and the major operators have served Wisconsin for years. The DraftKings and FanDuel sportsbook apps are not licensed in Wisconsin. When Act 247 launches, those operators may enter only through tribal partnerships under the federal 60 percent tribal revenue floor that the Sports Betting Alliance has publicly opposed.
No. The Wisconsin Lottery sells draw games, scratch tickets, Powerball, and Mega Millions only through licensed retailers, for cash. Wis. Stat. § 565.17 bans ticket courier services and limits sales to authorized retailers, so neither an in-house app nor a third-party courier can sell tickets in Wisconsin. No bill is pending to change that.
Only tribal ones. The state's 11 federally recognized tribes run casinos under Class III compacts with the state, with the Forest County Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk Nation, and Oneida Nation operating the largest properties. Wisconsin has no commercial casinos, and the legislature has never authorized commercial casino licensing.
No iGaming bill has been introduced in the 2025-2026 session. The constitutional barrier at Article IV, Section 24 means any expansion would need either a new tribal compact framework or a multi-year constitutional amendment that has to pass two consecutive sessions and a statewide referendum. We update this page when the legal status changes.
