Delaware: status at a glance
| Online casino | Live, state-licensed |
|---|---|
| Sports betting | Online and retail |
| Online poker | Live, state-licensed |
| Sweepstakes casinos | Contested: regulator or AG action cease-and-desist letter to VGW on 7 Apr 2025 |
A lottery model, not a permit market
Delaware moved early. The Lottery's own fact sheet says the state became the first in the country to launch iGaming, listing poker and blackjack as examples, on November 7, 2013. The legal route differs from the permit systems elsewhere, because online casino games are lottery games. Chapter 48 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code defines internet table games and internet video lottery as lottery games in which the player's interaction with a game operated by the Office takes place over the internet through a website or network of a video lottery agent.
The legislature explains its aims in the statute's statement of purpose. Offering games online was meant to widen access in a regulated system that limits minors and people with gambling problems, to improve the competitiveness of the video lottery licensees, and to support the horse racing industries that those licensees host. Online play, in other words, is tied to the existing racetrack casinos by design.
Who may offer the games
Only a video lottery agent, a licensed racetrack casino, can offer online casino games. The statute defines such an agent as a person the Director has licensed to conduct table games, video lottery games, sports lottery games and internet lottery games, and it ties the licenses to the horse racing meets that existed in 1993. No new company can enter by applying for an online permit alone.
The technology supplier behind the sites is not a licensee in the same sense. The Lottery's iGaming banner says the games are on new platforms powered by BetRivers, and each casino button leads to a betrivers.com address, such as harrington.betrivers.com.
Legal online casinos Delaware residents can use: the count
The Lottery's iGaming pages, read on November 11, 2026, carry three buttons: Delaware Park, Bally's Dover and Harrington. That makes three, by our own count of the regulator's pages. The Lottery publishes no list with permit numbers. Trade press has reported that the state's iGaming contract was put out to bid in 2026; we did not find a Lottery page that states the outcome, so we do not report one.
What the games and money look like
The Lottery's proceeds report for fiscal year 2026 splits revenue into table games, video games and poker for each casino. For the year, it shows:
| Casino | Total net gaming revenue, fiscal year 2026 |
|---|---|
| Delaware Park | $65,986,205 |
| Bally's Dover | $30,523,814 |
| Harrington | $39,418,875 |
| All three | $135,928,894 |
The report also counts 62,940 registrations for the year. These are the Lottery's own figures, before the operating expenses of the Lottery and the Division of Gaming Enforcement, and they describe the state's three sites, not any one brand's market share.
Rules for residents
- Age: 21. Section 4810 of the chapter makes wagering on internet video lottery and internet table games unlawful for anyone under 21.
- Location: the statute requires software that verifies the player is physically in Delaware when the wager is placed.
- Accounts: only a natural person may hold an internet lottery account; accounts cannot be transferred.
- Limits and exclusion: the rules must allow limits on wagers and losses, and keep out people on the self-exclusion list. The Lottery's program lasts one year, five years or a lifetime and is joined in person in Dover.
- Help: each site must carry a link to services for compulsive gamblers and their families.
Checking a site
Start from the Lottery's iGaming page and follow its three buttons. The regulator page lists the steps. If a casino website cannot be reached from the Lottery's own page, the Lottery does not show it as one of the state's online casinos.
Sweepstakes casinos
Delaware has no statute specific to sweepstakes casinos in the pages we read. Industry trackers report a cease-and-desist letter to a sweepstakes operator in April 2025, which is trade press and not a primary source. The state is grouped with the others on the banned states page.
Frequently asked questions
How many online casinos are licensed in Delaware?
Three, according to the buttons on the Lottery's iGaming pages: Delaware Park, Bally's Dover and Harrington.
Is online poker included?
The Lottery's revenue reports include a poker line for each of the three casinos, so the Lottery treats poker as part of the offering.
Do I have to be in Delaware to play?
Yes. The statute requires verification that the player is physically present in the state at the time of the wager.
Who regulates the sites?
The Delaware Lottery Office, headed by a Director, with background checks run by the Division of Gaming Enforcement.