Connecticut Gaming Division, the state gaming regulator

Who the Gaming Division is

The Gaming Division sits inside the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, an agency headed by a commissioner. In its own words, the Division works to ensure the highest degree of integrity in the conduct of all forms of legalized gambling within the state and the federally recognized Tribal Nations. It does this by credentialing every individual and business that takes part in legal gambling, and by monitoring compliance with the gaming laws and the Tribal-State agreements. Its description of itself adds that its investigators are certified police officers.

The Division is not a lottery operator and does not run games. That role belongs to licensed parties, and the Division sits above them as the licensing and enforcement body.

What the law lets it license

The legal basis for online gambling is Public Act 21-23, which the Division links from its laws page. The Division's own overview says the governor signed the legislation in May 2021; it covers online casino gaming, sports wagering and fantasy contests. The act defines the Commissioner of Consumer Protection as the licensing authority and sets up a three-tier structure:

• Master wagering licensees: the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut, and the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, each as the act describes.
• Online gaming operators: businesses that run the electronic wagering platform and contract directly with a master wagering licensee.
• Online gaming service providers: businesses that supply goods or services to a master licensee or an operator.

Under section 3 of the act, effective July 1, 2021, the commissioner may issue one master wagering license to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and one to the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut, and each license permits its holder to operate one skin for online sports wagering, one skin for online casino gaming, and fantasy contests. The act defines a skin as the branded or cobranded name and logo on the website or mobile app interface that bettors use to reach the wagering platform. Its definition of online casino gaming names slots, blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, poker, video poker, bingo, live dealer and other peer-to-peer games, and any games the department authorizes, conducted over the internet through a platform that does not require the bettor to be at a facility.

What the Division publishes

The Division publishes several pages a resident can read without an account:

• A page titled Legal Gaming in Connecticut. It says that consumers may take part in online casino gaming through DraftKings or FanDuel, and that the three platforms licensed for sports wagering are DraftKings (Foxwoods), FanDuel (Mohegan Sun) and Fanatics (Connecticut Lottery). It also states the age limits: 21 for online or in-person casino gaming and sports wagering, 18 for fantasy contests, lottery tickets and keno.
• A laws and regulations page, dated September 4, 2026, linking Public Act 21-23, the implementing regulations, and technical standards for casino, lottery, keno, sports wagering and live dealer platforms.
• A data page. It points to Connecticut Open Data for amounts wagered, winnings and transfers to the General Fund, and shows a summary for 2025 that includes $108,265,925 in online casino gaming payments to the state.
• Copies of the Tribal-State compacts and agreements with the two tribes.
• A complaint page, dated September 9, 2026.

The Division does not offer a spreadsheet or PDF of licensed operators. The operator information is the prose of the Legal Gaming page, so that page serves as the practical register.

How a resident can check a license

1. Open the Division's Legal Gaming in Connecticut page and read the Sports Wagering and Online Gaming boxes.
2. Compare the brand name on the site or app with the names printed there. The Division's statement covers only the names on that page.
3. The same page carries the age line: 21 for casino gaming.
4. If a brand is not named there, the Division's pages do not show it as licensed for online casino gaming in Connecticut. The act's licensing structure means a casino brand must sit under one of the two tribal master licenses.

Complaints

The Division asks players to contact the operator first. If that does not resolve the issue, the complaint page says a player may email the Division at DCP.Gaming@ct.gov. The page names the help desks of the licensed brands and gives the Division's mailbox rather than a form.

Unlicensed operators and sweepstakes

The pages of the Division that we read do not discuss sweepstakes casinos. The law does. Public Act 25-112, section 14, amended section 42-301 of the general statutes with an effective date of October 1, 2025. It bars anyone from conducting or promoting a sweepstakes or promotional drawing that allows or facilitates participation in real or simulated online casino gaming or sports wagering, unless that person holds a license under the state's gaming chapter. A violation counts as an unfair or deceptive trade practice. The sweepstakes provisions are covered at greater length on the Connecticut sweepstakes page.

What we read

Our client read the Division's pages on November 11, 2026. The portal's robots.txt allowed them, and no page was blocked. We did not read any list of vendors or suppliers licensed by the Division. The Division's statement of two online casino brands, and the figures above, are the Division's own and are shown as of the day we read them.