Sportsbook & Casino Reviews · State by State
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.
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2000
Founded 2000 in a portable building in Stoke-on-Trent by Denise Coates; still majority family-owned, not publicly traded
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2018
Launched 2018 as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain; headquartered in Jersey City, NJ
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2004 (as BetOnline.ag; roots in a 1990s-era book that moved online around 2001)
One of the oldest offshore books still operating — online since roughly 2001, rebranded BetOnline.ag from Panama in 2004
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 1994
One of the oldest offshore sportsbooks still taking US action — live continuously since 1994, starting as a phone-betting operation before moving online
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2013 (Borgata Online launched in New Jersey; Pennsylvania followed in 2021)
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
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2011
The flagship US-facing brand of the Bodog lineage (PaiWangLuo network) — sister site of Ignition, Cafe Casino, and Ozoon
Casino · Est. 2016
Casino-only sister site of Bovada and Ignition — same operator family, no sportsbook
Casino · Est. 2017
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
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2013
Crypto-first sportsbook and casino live since 2013 — one of the oldest brands in crypto gambling
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2012
Founded 2012 in Boston by Jason Robins, Matt Kalish, and Paul Liberman; listed on Nasdaq as DKNG in April 2020
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2009
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
Casino · Est. 2016
Casino + poker sister of Bovada and Cafe Casino (PaiWangLuo / Bodog network) — it took over Bovada’s poker room in 2016
· Est. 2018
Founded 2018 by MIT classmates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara; CFTC DCM in November 2020; public launch 2021
Casino · Est. 2018
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
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2026 (rebrand of Bodog, a brand dating to the 1990s)
Launched February 17, 2026 as the rebrand of Bodog’s Canadian operation — accounts, balances, and bet histories migrated automatically
· Est. 2020
Largest prediction market by global volume; event contracts on politics, sports, crypto, culture
· Est. 2015
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
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2023
Crypto casino + sportsbook launched 2023 — part of the newer no-KYC generation, not the Bovada/Bodog family
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2019
Crypto casino + sportsbook launched 2019; claims over ten billion bets processed
Casino · Est. 2022
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
Casino · Est. 2023
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
Every review starts with who actually licenses the operator, where, and what that regulator does (and doesn’t) protect you from.
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.
Rollover requirements, payout minimums, fee schedules — we pull the real numbers from the terms, with the date we verified them.