New Hampshire Sports Betting: Legal Sportsbooks, Apps & Betting Guide

• ✓ Legal Both online and retail sports betting are legal and live, in operation since Dec. 30, 2019.
• ① One operator DraftKings holds an exclusive contract as the only legal online book and runs all five retail sportsbooks.
• 📱 Remote sign-up You can register, verify and bet from home; no in-person visit required.
• ⚠ 18 and in state The minimum age is 18, one of the lowest in the country; you must be physically inside New Hampshire.
• 🎓 For education Proceeds flow to the state Education Trust Fund; the Lottery Commission is both regulator and market operator.

Yes. Both online and retail sports betting are legal and live in New Hampshire. The law came from House Bill 480, which the legislature passed in June 2019 and Governor Chris Sununu signed in July 2019, with an effective date of July 12, 2019. It is codified as RSA 287-I. DraftKings launched mobile betting on Dec. 30, 2019, making New Hampshire the 16th state to legalize sports wagering and the first in New England. Sununu placed the state’s first legal bet, backing the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl. For a full state-by-state breakdown, see our guide to states with legal sports betting.

Legally, an authorized sports bettor is defined as a person 18 or older who is physically present in New Hampshire and is not a prohibited bettor. You do not have to be a state resident, but you must be inside state lines when you wager, and you can register remotely from home rather than in person. The law allows up to five online operators and up to 10 retail sportsbooks, though the state currently uses far fewer of each.

Who Regulates Sports Betting in New Hampshire?

The New Hampshire Lottery Commission, now formally the New Hampshire Lottery and Gaming Commission, regulates the industry through its Division of Sports Wagering. The commission licenses and monitors the operator, approves the categories of wagers offered, sets the administrative rules, and handles integrity oversight. Its stated mission is to maximize revenue for public education. Every form of legal sports betting in the state flows, one way or another, through the state lottery, which is unusual. In most states, an independent gaming board or racing commission runs sports betting; in New Hampshire, the lottery itself is the regulator and the market operator.

How New Hampshire’s Model Works

Rather than license many competing sportsbooks, New Hampshire ran a competitive bid and awarded a single exclusive contract. Operators bid by committing a percentage of revenue to the state instead of paying a fixed tax. DraftKings won by offering 51 percent of online revenue and 50 percent of retail revenue, and the state accepted, giving DraftKings a monopoly in exchange for one of the largest revenue shares in the country. The contract includes a clause that would drop the state’s share to 21 percent if a second operator were added, and lower still with three or more, which is a strong financial reason for the state to keep the single-operator model in place. The lottery’s own lottery-style sports products are powered separately by the technology supplier Intralot.

What You Can Bet On

New Hampshire allows wagering on professional and college sports, along with the standard bet types. Live in-game betting is permitted, as are moneylines, spreads, totals, parlays, same-game parlays, teasers, futures and player and game props. The main limits are on in-state college events, high school and youth events, and non-sports markets such as politics, elections and award shows, none of which the legal book offers. Sports betting is not the only regulated betting in the state, either: daily fantasy sports, online prediction markets, horse racing through online and simulcast wagering, the state lottery and iLottery, and charitable gaming are all legal. Online casino gaming is not.

New Hampshire Sports Betting Quick Facts

The legal, regulated market in New Hampshire consists of a single online book. That is unusual. Most states license several operators to compete on odds and bonuses. New Hampshire chose a different path, awarding one exclusive contract in exchange for a larger share of the revenue.

List of All Legal Online Sportsbooks in New Hampshire

Because of the exclusive contract, the list of legal online sportsbooks in New Hampshire is short. DraftKings is the only one. State law allows up to five online operators, so the list could grow in the future, but as long as the current contract and its 51 percent revenue share are in place, the state has little incentive to add competition. The lottery has also reserved the brand name Sports 603 for possible lottery-retailer sports products. The national brands that operate in most other states, listed below, are not licensed in New Hampshire. Any of them that appears to accept New Hampshire players online is doing so through an offshore platform, not a state license.

Alongside the one legal book, some New Hampshire bettors use offshore sportsbooks. These are online books based outside the United States that accept American players. They advertise heavily and have operated for years, so it is easy to mistake them for legal, regulated options. They are not. An offshore sportsbook is a betting site headquartered in another country, typically in jurisdictions such as Panama, Curacao, Costa Rica, the Comoros or Antigua and Barbuda, that holds a license from that jurisdiction rather than from any United States authority. Because these sites sit outside United States jurisdiction and often lean on cryptocurrency, they can accept players from states where they are not licensed. Many bettors reach them as mobile sports betting sites rather than app-store downloads.

The Risks of Betting at Offshore Sportsbooks

Offshore books carry real risks that a state-regulated book does not. The core difference is accountability. A licensed New Hampshire sportsbook answers to the Lottery Commission, which can force a disputed payout to resolution and can pull a license. An offshore book answers to no United States authority. Anyone considering these sites should weigh the following:

• No United States regulatory recourse. If a site voids a bet, withholds a payout or closes your account, there is no New Hampshire regulator or United States court that will step in. With crypto, even a bank chargeback is usually not an option.
• No state consumer protections. None of New Hampshire’s required safeguards apply, including audited accounting, segregation of player funds, and mandated dispute processes.
• Account limiting and payout caps. Some books limit accounts that win consistently, and withdrawals can be slowed, capped or subjected to added verification.
• No local responsible-gambling tools. New Hampshire’s self-exclusion and the operator limit-setting, cooling-off and self-exclusion features built into the legal app do not reach offshore sites.
• Legal gray area that can change. The sites operate outside state and federal law, the state considers unauthorized wagers void, and access can disappear overnight, as it did when Bovada pulled out.
• Banking and crypto friction. Because card processing is unreliable for offshore books, many push cryptocurrency, which adds volatility, extra steps and irreversibility if funds are sent in error.
• Data and privacy exposure. You are handing personal and financial information to a company outside United States jurisdiction, with no state oversight of how that data is stored or used.

The appeal is straightforward: with only one legal online book, there is no way to shop for better lines, and offshore books often post larger bonuses, more markets (including the in-state college games New Hampshire bans, plus politics and entertainment props), and fast crypto payouts. The six books below currently accept New Hampshire players. None is licensed or regulated in the state, and every risk above applies. Bonus terms change constantly, so treat any figures as a snapshot.

None of these are recommendations. They are here so New Hampshire bettors can understand the landscape, and the safest, fully legal option in the state remains DraftKings.

Retail sports betting is legal in New Hampshire, and every brick-and-mortar sportsbook in the state is branded and run by DraftKings. Each location offers self-service betting kiosks, over-the-counter windows or both, along with video walls, televisions and a sports-bar atmosphere. Any city or town that hosts a retail book must first pass a local public referendum approving it. Mobile betting accounts for roughly 90 percent of the state’s total handle, with retail making up close to 10 percent. The New Hampshire Lottery Commission currently lists five retail sportsbook facilities.

The Brook, Seabrook

The Brook was the first retail sportsbook in New Hampshire, opening on Aug. 12, 2020. It sits on the site of the former Seabrook Greyhound Park, about one mile off Interstate 95 Exit 1 and roughly 42 miles from Boston, and is operated by Eureka Casino Resorts. Located at 319 New Zealand Road, it can be reached at 603-474-3065. The sportsbook, set inside the property’s stadium-style viewing area, offers both teller windows and kiosks, and it is generally considered the most substantial retail sportsbook in the state. The Brook is also the only place in New Hampshire where you can bet on horse racing in person, through its simulcast racebook. The wider venue features 500 or more gaming machines, live table games, a poker room and a 250-seat entertainment space.

Revo Casino and Social House, Manchester

The Manchester location opened in September 2020 as the state’s second retail sportsbook, originally under the Filotimo name and later rebranded to Revo Casino and Social House. It is located at 1279 South Willow Street and can be reached at 603-935-9947. The property offers a DraftKings sportsbook with kiosks and a window, a sports-bar setting with large screens, table games and a Rebels bar and restaurant. Manchester is the state’s largest city, which has historically made this one of the busier retail books.

Revo Casino and Social House, Dover

The Dover location opened on Oct. 18, 2021 as New Hampshire’s third retail sportsbook, also originally branded Filotimo before the Revo rebrand. It is located at 887 Central Avenue and can be reached at 603-742-9632. The sportsbook offers betting kiosks, a window and multiple televisions, and the property includes charitable gaming and a separated poker room along with a Rebels bar and restaurant.

Gate City Casino, Nashua

Gate City Casino opened its DraftKings sportsbook in August 2023 as the fourth retail book in the state. Formerly the Boston Billiard Club and Casino, it is owned and operated by Delaware North, the Buffalo-based company that also owns Boston’s TD Garden and the Boston Bruins. It is located at 55 Northeastern Boulevard, near U.S. Route 3 and minutes from greater Boston, and can be reached at 603-943-5630. The sportsbook offers 12 self-service kiosks and an over-the-counter window, with televisions carrying NFL Sunday Ticket, and the venue is open seven days a week. The wider casino features 540 historic horse racing machines, table games, a poker room, a restaurant, a sports bar and an outdoor beer garden.

The Nash, Nashua

The Nash opened in March 2025 inside the former Sears space at Pheasant Lane Mall, on the Massachusetts border, and is operated by ECL Entertainment as part of a project reported at $250 million. Located at 310 Daniel Webster Highway, it can be reached at 603-751-6274. It is the largest casino in the state, and it houses the largest sportsbook in New Hampshire. The DraftKings sportsbook spans two levels and features 16 betting kiosks, two betting windows and the largest video wall in the state. The property also offers more than 1,000 gaming machines, 28 table games, a poker room, five restaurants and a live-music bar. Guests must be 21 or older to enter the property.

All Land-Based Sportsbooks in New Hampshire

For the biggest in-person experience, The Nash in Nashua stands out, with the largest video wall in the state, the most kiosks, and a location near the Massachusetts border. The Brook in Seabrook is the strong alternative for anyone who wants the state’s original and most established sportsbook, and it is the only retail venue with a horse racing book. A retail sportsbook can open only in a city or town whose voters have approved one in a public referendum; more than a dozen communities have done so, including Berlin, Claremont, Laconia, Manchester, Somersworth, Franklin, Belmont, Derry, Hampton, Hinsdale, Hudson, Newmarket, Pelham, Rollinsford, Salem and Seabrook, with Nashua approving in November 2021. The law caps the total at 10 retail locations statewide.

New Hampshire’s model is unusual, and it shapes everything else. In most states, an independent gaming board writes the rules and licenses a field of competing sportsbooks. In New Hampshire, the state lottery is both the regulator and the operator of the market. The New Hampshire Lottery and Gaming Commission runs sports betting through its Division of Sports Wagering, and its guiding mission is to maximize revenue for public education.

The Agent Model

RSA 287-I does not license sportsbooks in the usual sense. Instead, it authorizes the commission to conduct sports betting itself through what the law calls agents, which are companies chosen by competitive bid and approved by the governor and the Executive Council. DraftKings is the agent for both mobile and retail betting. Separately, the technology supplier Intralot provides the lottery’s own lottery-style sports products. Because the commission holds the authority and simply contracts it out, adding or removing an operator is a contracting decision rather than a routine licensing process, which is a big reason the market has stayed with a single book.

How the Money Is Collected and Shared

Rather than charge a fixed tax rate, New Hampshire has its agent hand back a share of gross gaming revenue. Under the DraftKings contract that share is 51 percent of online revenue and 50 percent of retail revenue, among the highest in the country. Under RSA 287-I:9, the money the commission keeps, after administrative costs, prizes paid and problem-gambling funding, flows to the state Education Trust Fund. Sports betting is one of several lottery products, alongside scratch tickets, KENO 603 and iLottery, that feed that fund.

Oversight, Compliance and Integrity

The commission does more than collect revenue. It approves the categories of wagers an operator may offer, requires detailed house rules and accounting controls under RSA 287-I:8, and reviews the operator’s financial reports. To protect the integrity of events, RSA 287-I:13 lets the commission and its agents take part in national and international monitoring associations and share betting information with sports governing bodies, and it gives the executive director the power to restrict, limit or exclude wagering on an event when integrity is a concern. The operator must also verify age and identity, keep wagers inside state lines through geolocation, and run a responsible gaming plan. Under RSA 287-I:17, the commission adopts detailed administrative rules, set out in Chapter Lot 3000 of the New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules, effective May 9, 2020.

New Hampshire moved quickly after the legal landscape changed nationally. In May 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, clearing the way for states to legalize. During the 2019 session, some lawmakers wanted to tie sports betting to a push to allow casinos, which threatened to stall the effort. Once the casino question was separated out, the sports betting bill moved through both chambers over the summer, and Governor Chris Sununu signed House Bill 480 into law in July 2019. The law authorized up to 10 retail sportsbooks and up to five online operators under the Lottery Commission.

Rather than set a fixed tax rate, New Hampshire had operators bid by committing a percentage of revenue to the state. Thirteen proposals came in. DraftKings offered the most aggressive terms, pledging 51 percent of online revenue and 50 percent of retail revenue in exchange for exclusivity, far above rival bids. The Lottery selected DraftKings in November 2019, and the Executive Council approved the choice. DraftKings launched mobile betting on Dec. 30, 2019, making the state the first in New England with a legal sportsbook, and Sununu placed the first legal wager. The first retail sportsbook, at The Brook in Seabrook, opened in August 2020. In 2021, House Bills 330 and 354 refined the rules, with HB 330 authorizing live in-game (Tier II) wagering. On Feb. 11, 2026, the Lottery Commission extended the DraftKings contract through June 30, 2028, and added a cap on promotional deductions at 40 percent of gross gaming revenue.

New Hampshire Sports Betting Timeline

• 2017: House Bill 580 legalizes and regulates daily fantasy sports.
• May 2018: The Supreme Court strikes down the federal ban on sports betting.
• July 2019: Governor Sununu signs House Bill 480 into law.
• November 2019: The Lottery selects DraftKings through a competitive bid; the Executive Council approves.
• Dec. 30, 2019: DraftKings launches mobile betting, the first legal sportsbook in New England.
• Aug. 12, 2020: The Brook in Seabrook opens as the first retail sportsbook.
• 2021: HB 330 and HB 354 refine the law; HB 330 authorizes live in-game betting.
• Oct. 18, 2021: The Dover retail sportsbook opens.
• Nov. 2, 2021: Nashua voters approve retail sports betting.
• January 2022: New Hampshire tops $1 billion in all-time handle.
• March 2023: New Hampshire records its biggest single month, $103.4 million wagered.
• 2024: The Concord Casino has its gaming license suspended for six months after its owner misused federal disaster-loan funds.
• March 2025: The Nash opens at Pheasant Lane Mall as the largest sportsbook in the state.
• July 1, 2025: Governor Kelly Ayotte signs House Bill 2, removing the cap on video lottery terminals in casinos.
• Aug. 2025: A second attempt to raise the betting age to 21 fails.
• Feb. 11, 2026: The Lottery Commission extends the DraftKings contract through June 2028.

New Hampshire’s sports betting law is codified as RSA 287-I. It authorizes the New Hampshire Lottery Commission to conduct and regulate wagering through agents, and it sets out the rules for who can bet, what can be wagered on and where the money goes.

• RSA 287-I, the statute. Created legal sports betting, defines the terms, authorizes both mobile and retail wagering, caps mobile operators at five and retail locations at 10, and directs proceeds to public education. Read it at the New Hampshire General Court: RSA 287-I, Sports Betting.
• House Bill 480, the originating law. The 2019 bill that became RSA 287-I; follow-up bills HB 330 and HB 354 (2021) refined the framework, with HB 330 adding live in-game wagering.
• Legal age and definitions. Under RSA 287-I:1, an authorized bettor is a person 18 or older, physically present in New Hampshire, who is not a prohibited bettor; the same section defines prohibited events. Read it: RSA 287-I:1, Definitions.
• The three betting tiers. Tier I covers pregame wagers, Tier II covers live in-game wagers (added by HB 330 in 2021), and Tier III covers specialty lottery-commission products that could be sold through lottery retailers.
• Where revenue goes. RSA 287-I:9 directs proceeds, after costs, prizes and problem-gambling funding, to the state’s Education Trust Fund.
• Operating and integrity rules. RSA 287-I:8 requires house rules, accounting controls and records (RSA 287-I:8); RSA 287-I:11 requires disclosure of the data source; RSA 287-I:12 requires a risk-management framework; RSA 287-I:13 addresses integrity monitoring. Mobile betting requires age and identity verification, geolocation, and that each wager is initiated, received and completed within the state.
• The administrative rules. Chapter Lot 3000, effective May 9, 2020, fills out the statute. Read them: Chapter Lot 3000, Rules for Sports Wagering.

The rules also govern settlement: winning wagers are void one year after the event, unclaimed winnings more than 90 days past the claim period are booked as gross gaming revenue, and player accounts inactive and unclaimed for more than five years are presumed abandoned under RSA 471-C. If a bet is not accepted and confirmed by the central computer system, the operator’s liability is limited to a refund of the amount wagered. Additional official resources: New Hampshire Lottery, Sports Betting and the New Hampshire General Court.

New Hampshire’s market is mostly permissive, but the law and rules draw clear lines around certain events, markets and people.

Prohibited Sports Events

RSA 287-I:1 defines a category of prohibited sports events that no legal book may take action on:

• Any college event in which one of the participants is a college team primarily located in New Hampshire, which covers the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth.
• Any college event that takes place in New Hampshire, regardless of which teams are playing.
• Any high school sports event, in any location.
• Any amateur sports event in which the participants are primarily under 18.

There is an important tournament exception. The prohibition does not extend to the games of a college tournament in which a New Hampshire team participates, nor to a tournament held outside New Hampshire even if some individual games take place in the state. In practice, you may bet on a tournament that includes a New Hampshire school as long as the wager is on the overall outcome rather than the specific in-state game, which is why events like the college basketball tournament remain bettable.

Non-Sports Markets and Prohibited Bettors

New Hampshire’s legal book sticks to sports. It does not offer wagers on politics or elections, or on award shows such as the Oscars or Emmys, and DraftKings does not offer esports wagering in the state. Certain people cannot legally bet, under RSA 287-I:1 and the Lot 3000 rules: members and employees of the Lottery Commission and their household family; directors, officers and certain employees of the operator or its agents; contractors connected to conducting sports betting; athletes, coaches, referees, trainers, team personnel and governing-body officials with respect to their own sport; anyone betting as a proxy for a prohibited bettor; and anyone who has entered self-exclusion. RSA 287-I:10 backs this up by barring the commission and its agents from accepting wagers by prohibited bettors, from offering prohibited events, and from taking wagers from anyone outside the state.

Age, Location and Credit Cards

You must be 18 or older to bet on sports in New Hampshire, one of the lowest thresholds in the country; most states, including neighbors Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, require 21. Two attempts to raise the age to 21, in January and August 2025, both failed. Some retail properties, such as The Nash, require guests to be 21 to enter even though the betting age is 18. You must be physically inside New Hampshire when you wager, confirmed by geolocation, though residency is not required. Credit card deposits are not allowed.

Mobile betting is the dominant channel in New Hampshire, accounting for roughly 90 percent of the state’s handle, and DraftKings is the only legal mobile option. The DraftKings app is available for iOS and Android, covering the major leagues, international sports, live markets, same-game parlays and cash out, with app-store ratings around 4.8 on iOS and 4.6 to 4.7 on Android. New Hampshire allows full remote registration, so you can create an account, verify your identity and start betting from anywhere in the state; geolocation confirms you are inside New Hampshire each time you wager.

Live and In-Game Betting

Live betting, which the statute treats as a Tier II wager, is legal in New Hampshire. It was not part of the original 2019 law and was added through House Bill 330 in 2021. On the DraftKings app you can place bets after a game has started, with odds that update in real time. Same-game parlays and cash out are also available.

Types of Bets Available

• Moneylines, point spreads and totals for straightforward outcomes.
• Parlays and same-game parlays that combine multiple selections for a larger payout.
• Teasers, which let you adjust the point spread across multiple games in exchange for a lower payout.
• Player and game props on specific performances or events.
• Futures on season-long outcomes such as division winners and championships.
• Live in-game wagers placed after the event has started.
• Betting pools, a DraftKings feature where a small entry can lead to a large payout.

Odds Explained

New Hampshire sportsbooks display betting odds in the American format. A minus sign marks the favorite and shows how much you must wager to win $100; at odds of minus 170, you would bet $170 to win $100. A plus sign marks the underdog and shows how much you would win on a $100 bet; at plus 110, a $100 bet returns $110 in winnings plus your original stake. Many bettors use an odds converter to switch between American, decimal and fractional formats.

Banking and Payment Methods

Legal betting through DraftKings supports cash at retail, along with debit cards, online bank transfers such as ACH, PayPal and promotional funds. Credit cards cannot be used to fund a sports betting account in New Hampshire. DraftKings is also introducing a way to fund accounts with cash converted from stablecoins, with New Hampshire among the first states to get the feature; the operator does not hold cryptocurrency directly. Withdrawals typically return to the same method used to deposit, with payout speed generally around 24 hours for electronic methods. To start: confirm you are 18+ and inside New Hampshire, create your DraftKings account online (remote registration is allowed), verify your identity, deposit using an approved method and claim any welcome offer, then place your first wager.

Even though New Hampshire has only one legal online book, DraftKings still runs a competitive welcome offer and regular promotions. Because bonus terms change frequently, confirm the current offer and its conditions before you sign up. For more, see our guide to sportsbook bonuses.

• Welcome offer. DraftKings typically offers new customers a bet-and-get promotion, recently structured as a Bet $5, Get $200 bonus-bets offer, where a small qualifying wager returns bonus bets regardless of the result. It has at times paired that with a first-deposit match. The exact structure varies over time.
• Ongoing promotions and odds boosts. Existing customers get odds boosts, profit-boost tokens, parlay promotions, a refer-a-friend bonus and event-specific offers, particularly around the NFL season, the Super Bowl and the college basketball tournament.
• Offshore vs legal bonuses. Offshore books often advertise larger headline bonuses, but those usually carry higher rollover requirements and come with none of the regulatory protection of a licensed book. A bigger banner number does not always mean better value.
• How to read bonus terms. Before claiming, look at the rollover or playthrough requirement, the minimum odds needed for wagers to count, the qualifying deposit or bet, and the expiration window.

New Hampshire’s single-operator model produces some of the cleanest betting data in the country, and the numbers have consistently beaten expectations for a one-book market. The state’s revenue share, 51 percent of online revenue and 50 percent of retail, is among the highest in any regulated United States market, and the proceeds fund public education. Since launch, New Hampshire has taken in a lifetime handle approaching $4.5 billion across more than 107 million wagers, and the partnership has contributed more than $172 million to the state’s Education Trust Fund. In fiscal year 2025, the state recorded about $815 million in handle and delivered a record of about $39 million to public education, up about 9 percent year over year. New Hampshire ranks among the top three states nationally in sports betting revenue per capita.

Under RSA 287-I:9, sports betting proceeds, after administrative costs, prizes and problem-gambling funding, go to the state’s Education Trust Fund, which pays for public school adequacy aid, Education Freedom Account scholarships, school building aid, special education aid and career and technical education. The New Hampshire Lottery is the oldest state lottery in the country. After Keene state representative Laurence Pickett pushed a sweepstakes bill repeatedly through the 1950s and early 1960s, the first ticket was sold on March 12, 1964, to Governor John King at Rockingham Park in Salem. Since then the lottery has contributed more than $3 billion to public education on more than $10 billion in lifetime sales. The commission is based at 14 Integra Drive in Concord.

How Your Winnings Are Taxed

Two very different taxes come up. One is the revenue share the operator pays the state, the 51 percent figure above. The other is the tax you personally owe on money you win. New Hampshire does not tax your sports betting winnings: the state has no general personal income tax on wages, and its longstanding tax on interest and dividends was fully phased out at the start of 2025. Federal taxes still apply. The IRS treats gambling winnings as taxable income, and you are expected to report them on your federal return whether or not you receive a tax form. A sportsbook issues a Form W-2G for larger payouts (the common trigger is net winnings of $600 or more that are at least 300 times the wager), and mandatory federal withholding, currently 24 percent, generally applies to winnings above $5,000 that meet that odds threshold. Even when no form is issued and nothing is withheld, the winnings are still reportable. You can deduct gambling losses on a federal return only if you itemize and only up to the amount of your winnings; casual bettors cannot deduct a net loss. Because the reporting is on you, it is worth keeping records of your wagers, deposits, withdrawals and any tax forms. This is general information, not tax advice, so consider speaking with a tax professional about your own situation.

New Hampshire has no major professional teams of its own and only one notable minor league team, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, a Double-A baseball club in Manchester. Betting interest skews heavily toward Boston. The Patriots in the NFL, the Celtics in the NBA, the Bruins in the NHL and the Red Sox in MLB are the region’s most popular betting targets, and many bettors in the northern part of the state also follow the Toronto Blue Jays. The University of New Hampshire Wildcats and the Dartmouth Big Green are the state’s college programs; remember that you cannot bet on them when they play in New Hampshire, only when they play out of state, and never through an individual game wager that runs afoul of the in-state rule.

How New Hampshire Compares to Rhode Island and Connecticut

New Hampshire’s structure is easiest to understand alongside its similarly sized New England neighbors. It permits more operators than it currently uses, but in practice it looks a lot like Rhode Island’s centralized model rather than Connecticut’s more open one.

Daily Fantasy Sports

Daily fantasy sports have been legal in New Hampshire since House Bill 580 passed in 2017, which put the state among the first to explicitly authorize and tax fantasy contests. Both DraftKings and FanDuel operate here. The New Hampshire Lottery Commission regulates the industry, and operators must register, safeguard customer funds, follow consumer-protection rules and undergo annual financial audits.

Prediction Markets

Prediction markets, where users trade contracts on the outcome of events, have grown as an alternative to traditional betting. Platforms such as Kalshi, Polymarket and ProphetX operate under federal derivatives oversight rather than state gaming law. One quirk worth noting is that New Hampshire is one of only a few states where DraftKings does not run its own prediction-market product.

Horse Racing

New Hampshire no longer has any live horse racing tracks; Rockingham Park, the last active track, closed in 2016. The only place to bet on racing in person is The Brook in Seabrook, which runs the state’s lone simulcast racebook. Everyone else uses online advance-deposit wagering platforms such as TVG, TwinSpires and FanDuel Racing.

Charitable Gaming, Poker and Historic Horse Racing

New Hampshire has a distinctive charitable gaming model, in place since 2006, in which the operator, rather than the state, sends a share of proceeds to charity. Eligible nonprofits can host up to 10 days of gaming and receive a percentage of table-game revenue, while venues contribute a share to the lottery for education. Games include blackjack, roulette, poker and other table games; the state removed single-bet limits on table games in its 2024 budget. Poker has been legal since 1977, with roughly a dozen poker rooms in the state. In 2021, House Bill 626 allowed charitable gaming venues to install historic horse racing machines, which look and play like slot machines but base outcomes on archived racing data; New Hampshire was the sixth state to permit them, and a 2025 budget bill removed the cap on how many a venue can operate.

Casinos, Online Casino and iLottery

New Hampshire has no commercial or tribal casinos in the traditional sense; its gaming venues operate under the charitable gaming model and host the DraftKings retail sportsbooks. Active venues include The Brook, Gate City Casino and The Nash, the two Revo properties, The River Casino and Sports Bar in Nashua, Chasers Poker Room and Casino in Salem, and Lakes Region Casino in Belmont. Online casino gaming is not legal, though lawmakers have floated proposals. The New Hampshire iLottery launched in September 2018 and offers instant-win games and tickets to major draws to players 18 and older, with required spending limits. The lottery has also trademarked the brand name Sports 603 for a plan to offer sports betting at select lottery retail locations, with few details released. Unlawful gambling is addressed in Chapter 647. Participating in or permitting illegal gambling is generally a misdemeanor, while operating an unlawful betting business becomes a Class B felony if the operator takes in more than $2,000 in a single day or more than $5,000 in a single month, which can carry up to seven years in state prison. Enforcement generally focuses on those who run unlicensed operations rather than individual bettors.

Betting should stay fun and within your means. State law requires the sports betting operator to maintain a responsible gaming plan that includes educational resources, operator-imposed betting limits and self-exclusion options, and New Hampshire sets aside a share of sports betting proceeds for problem-gambling services.

New Hampshire studied a statewide self-exclusion database through Senate Bill 83 in 2025, but the bill passed the Senate and died in the House. On the future: adding more sportsbooks is unlikely in the near term, because the DraftKings contract includes a clause that would drop the state’s revenue share to 21 percent if a second operator were added, and lower still with three or more. The February 2026 extension locked DraftKings in through at least June 2028. Lawmakers have repeatedly considered legalizing online casino gaming, including a 2025 Senate bill, but the proposals have not advanced, and repeated efforts to raise the minimum betting age from 18 to 21 have failed, partly over concern about lost tax revenue.