Sportsbook & Casino Reviews · State by State

Is it safe? Is it legit?
Is it legal where you live?

SWRNN answers the three questions every bettor actually asks — with researched reviews of online sportsbooks and casinos, then a state-by-state breakdown of how each brand really works where you live. Licensing, payout speed, bonus fine print. No hype.

Current Reviews

888 Casino

Casino · Est. 1997 (launched as Casino-on-Net by Aaron and Avi Shaked with Ron and Shay Ben-Yitzhak; renamed 888casino in 2006)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.6

Launched in 1997 as Casino-on-Net, one of the internet’s oldest real-money casinos, and was renamed 888casino in 2006

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Bally Bet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2020 (rebuilt on the Kambi platform in 2024)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Operated by Bally's Corporation (NYSE: BALY), a publicly traded casino operator headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, formerly Twin River Worldwide Holdings before its 2020 rebrand

0 statesRead review →

BC.Game

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2017

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Live since 2017, one of the larger crypto-first casino-and-sportsbook brands by game count: 10,000+ casino titles plus a sportsbook covering 80+ sports, 3,000+ daily events, and roughly 60,000 betting markets

0 statesRead review →

bet365

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2000

★★★★★★★★★★
4.5

Founded 2000 in a portable building in Stoke-on-Trent by Denise Coates; still majority family-owned, not publicly traded

0 statesRead review →

BetFury

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2019

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Live since 2019, currently licensed by the Curaçao Gaming Control Commission under Universe B Games N.V. (OGL/2024/1494/0942, effective July 31, 2025)

0 statesRead review →

BetMGM

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2018

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

Launched 2018 as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain; headquartered in Jersey City, NJ

0 statesRead review →

BetOnline.ag

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2004 (as BetOnline.ag; roots in a 1990s-era book that moved online around 2001)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.1

One of the oldest offshore books still operating — online since roughly 2001, rebranded BetOnline.ag from Panama in 2004

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

BetRivers

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2018

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Launched 2018; operated by Rush Street Interactive (RSI), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois

0 statesRead review →

BetUS

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 1994

★★★★★★★★★★
4.3

One of the oldest offshore sportsbooks still taking US action — live continuously since 1994, starting as a phone-betting operation before moving online

0 statesRead review →

BitStarz

Casino · Est. 2014

★★★★★★★★★★
4.1

Live since 2014 — one of the longer-running names in crypto casino gambling, now operated by Gareton B.V. under Curaçao Gaming Control Board license OGL/2024/165/0185

0 statesRead review →

Borgata

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2013 (Borgata Online launched in New Jersey; Pennsylvania followed in 2021)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.3

The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa opened in Atlantic City in 2003; the online casino arm launched in New Jersey in 2013, in the first wave of operators after the state legalized iGaming

0 statesRead review →

Bovada

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2011

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

The flagship US-facing brand of the Bodog lineage (PaiWangLuo network) — sister site of Ignition, Cafe Casino, and Ozoon

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Caesars Sportsbook

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2021

★★★★★★★★★★
3.8

Caesars Sportsbook is the digital rebrand of William Hill US, following Caesars Entertainment's roughly $4 billion acquisition completed in April 2021

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Cafe Casino

Casino · Est. 2016

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Casino-only sister site of Bovada and Ignition — same operator family, no sportsbook

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Chumba Casino

Casino · Est. 2017

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Not a casino under any state gaming license — a sweepstakes promotion. Gold Coins (GC) are play-only; Sweeps Coins (SC) are the redeemable currency and are given free, never sold outright

0 statesRead review →

Cloudbet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2013

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Crypto-first sportsbook and casino live since 2013 — one of the oldest brands in crypto gambling

0 statesRead review →

DraftKings

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2012

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Founded 2012 in Boston by Jason Robins, Matt Kalish, and Paul Liberman; listed on Nasdaq as DKNG in April 2020

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Duelbits

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.5

Crypto-first casino and sportsbook launched 2020, operated by Liquid Entertainment N.V. under Curaçao Gaming Authority license OGL/2024/1507/0838

0 statesRead review →

ESPN BET

Sportsbook · Est. 2023

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Launched November 2023 as PENN Entertainment's rebrand of Barstool Sportsbook, under a 10-year ESPN trademark license worth roughly $1.5–2 billion

0 statesRead review →

Everygame

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 1996

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

Originally launched in 1996 as Intertops — the operator that took the first-ever internet sports wager — before folding that identity into the Everygame brand on December 1, 2021

0 statesRead review →

Fanatics Sportsbook

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2023

★★★★★★★★★★
4.3

Fanatics Betting and Gaming launched its sportsbook app in October 2023, first testing in Tennessee and Ohio out of a physical book at FedEx Field

0 statesRead review →

FanDuel

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2009

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Founded 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland (originally Hubdub) by Nigel Eccles, Lesley Eccles, Tom Griffiths, Rob Jones, and Chris Stafford; US headquarters now in New York City

0 statesRead review →

Gamdom

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2016

★★★★★★★★★★
4.1

Launched in 2016 as a CS:GO skin-gambling site before converting into a full crypto casino and sportsbook; Twitch added Gamdom to its list of banned gambling-site promotions in August 2023

0 statesRead review →

Global Poker

Casino · Est. 2016

★★★★★★★★★★
4.5

Not a licensed real-money poker site under any US state gaming law — a sweepstakes promotion. Gold Coins (GC) are play-only; Sweeps Coins (SC) are the redeemable currency and are never sold outright, only given free

0 statesRead review →

Golden Nugget

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2013 (Golden Nugget Online Casino launched in New Jersey, tied to the land-based Golden Nugget Atlantic City license); went public in December 2020 via a SPAC merger with Landcadia Holdings Corp II as Golden Nugget Online Gaming (Nasdaq: GNOG)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Launched in New Jersey in 2013, in the first wave of operators after the state legalized online casino gaming — the license rides on the land-based Golden Nugget Atlantic City property

0 statesRead review →

Hard Rock Bet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Launched 2020 as Hard Rock Digital, a joint venture between Hard Rock International (Seminole Tribe of Florida) and gaming-industry veterans

0 statesRead review →

High 5 Casino

Casino · Est. 2020 (sweepstakes launch; parent studio High 5 Games dates to 1995)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Operated by High 5 Games, a New Jersey slot developer founded in 1995 — brand roots to 2012, sweepstakes launch in 2020, with a reported 33 million-plus players since launch

0 statesRead review →

Ignition Casino

Casino · Est. 2016

★★★★★★★★★★
4.6

Casino + poker sister of Bovada and Cafe Casino (PaiWangLuo / Bodog network) — it took over Bovada’s poker room in 2016

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Kalshi

· Est. 2018

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Founded 2018 by MIT classmates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara; CFTC DCM in November 2020; public launch 2021

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

LuckyLand Slots

Casino · Est. 2018

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

LuckyLand Slots is shutting down permanently — Gold Coin sales stopped August 3, 2026, gameplay ended August 24, 2026, and the entire site including Sweeps Coin redemptions closes for good on September 14, 2026

0 statesRead review →

McLuck

Casino · Est. 2023

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Not a licensed casino — a sweepstakes promotion run by B-Two Operations Limited (Isle of Man), with payments handled by an Estonian sister company, B2 Services OÜ

0 statesRead review →

MyBookie

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2014

★★★★★★★★★★
4.5

Operating since 2014 under Duranbah Limited N.V., licensed through Curaçao eGaming — real oversight, but far thinner than a US state regulator

0 statesRead review →

Ozoon

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2026 (rebrand of Bodog, a brand dating to the 1990s)

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Launched February 17, 2026 as the rebrand of Bodog’s Canadian operation — accounts, balances, and bet histories migrated automatically

17 statesRead review →

PointsBet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2015

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Founded in Melbourne in 2015 by Sam Swanell; parent PointsBet Holdings Limited trades on the ASX under ticker PBH

0 statesRead review →

Polymarket

· Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Largest prediction market by global volume; event contracts on politics, sports, crypto, culture

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

PrizePicks

· Est. 2015

★★★★★★★★★★
3.8

Pick’em DFS, not a sportsbook: you build a lineup of player (or team) projections, not a wager against the house on a game result

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Pulsz

Casino · Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

Not a licensed casino — a sweepstakes promotion operated by Yellow Social Interactive Limited, a Gibraltar-registered company, since 2020

0 statesRead review →

Rainbet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2023

★★★★★★★★★★
3.9

Crypto casino + sportsbook launched 2023 — part of the newer no-KYC generation, not the Bovada/Bodog family

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Rollbit

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.1

Crypto casino, sportsbook, NFT marketplace, and synthetic crypto-futures trading (up to 1000x leverage) under one account, operated by Bull Gaming N.V. since February 2020

0 statesRead review →

Roobet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2019

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Crypto casino + sportsbook launched 2019; claims over ten billion bets processed

51 states · 20 countriesRead review →

Shuffle

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2023

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Crypto-native casino and sportsbook launched February 2023, licensed by the Curaçao Gaming Control Board (Natural Nine B.V., OGL/2024/1337/0628) after starting on the old Antillephone sublicense system

0 statesRead review →

Sleeper

· Est. 2015

★★★★★★★★★★
4.5

Started in 2015 as Blitz Studios / Sleeper, a social-first fantasy league app — the pick-em and prediction products came later, layered onto an existing fantasy platform

0 statesRead review →

Slots.lv

Casino · Est. 2013

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

Casino-only sister site of Bovada and Cafe Casino — same Arbol Media B.V. operator family, no sportsbook or poker room

0 statesRead review →

Stake.com

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2017

★★★★★★★★★★
3.8

Founded in 2017 by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, who had already built the Bitcoin dice game Primedice before launching Stake; both are now Australian billionaires and Craven co-owns the Sauber Formula One team

0 statesRead review →

Stake.us

Casino · Est. 2022

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

Not a licensed casino — a sweepstakes promotion operated by Medium Rare N.V., legally distinct from (but branded alongside) the offshore crypto casino Stake.com, which itself blocks all US players

0 statesRead review →

Thunderpick

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2017

★★★★★★★★★★
4.5

Esports-focused crypto sportsbook and casino live since 2017, licensed under Curaçao eGaming OGL/2024/677/0722

0 statesRead review →

Underdog Fantasy

· Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.4

Founded 2020 in Brooklyn by Jeremy Levine, Brandon Stakenborg, and Trevor John — daily fantasy sports, not a sportsbook

0 statesRead review →

WOW Vegas

Casino · Est. 2023

★★★★★★★★★★
4.0

Not a licensed casino — a sweepstakes promotion operated by Wow Entertainment Limited, a Malta-registered operator that launched Wow Vegas in 2023 as its first US-market product

0 statesRead review →

WynnBET

Sportsbook · Est. 2020

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Launched late 2020 under Wynn Interactive, the entity Wynn Resorts formed by merging its US betting business with BetBull

0 statesRead review →

XBet

Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2014

★★★★★★★★★★
4.2

Live since 2014, operated by Duranbah Limited N.V. under a Curaçao eGaming license — the identical operator and license family behind MyBookie.ag and MyBCasino.ag

0 statesRead review →

State Guides

BetOnline.ag

Bovada

Cafe Casino

DraftKings

Ignition Casino

Kalshi

Ozoon

Polymarket

PrizePicks

Rainbet

Roobet

Country Guides

BetOnline.ag

Bovada

Cafe Casino

DraftKings

Ignition Casino

Kalshi

Polymarket

PrizePicks

Rainbet

Roobet

Licensing first

Every review starts with who actually licenses the operator, where, and what that regulator does (and doesn’t) protect you from.

State by state

The same brand can be regulated in one state, gray-market in another, and off-limits in a third. We map it out for all 50.

Fine print, read

Rollover requirements, payout minimums, fee schedules — we pull the real numbers from the terms, with the date we verified them.