| Sports (online) | Limited | Jan 3, 2024 | Monopoly State | Mobile/online sports betting is run by the Lottery as an extension of the same sports-lottery program as retail; BetRivers (Rush Street Interactive, selected by the Delaware State Lottery in Aug. 2023, replacing 888) is the sole online sportsbook operator, operating as the Lottery's exclusive mobile-wagering/online-casino contract partner rather than as one of several independently licensed operators. Soft-launched Dec. 27, 2023 and fully live Jan. 3, 2024 at Delaware Park, Bally's Dover Casino Resort, and Harrington Raceway & Casino. CHECKED DIRECTLY per audit: delottery.com's own public Sports Lottery page does not mention online/mobile wagering (describes retail-only, "Visit a Sports Pick retailer or Delaware Casino Sportsbook"); BetRivers' Delaware-specific site (de.betrivers.com, which redirects to a DE-coded page) exists and is corroborated by multiple independent trade-press reports (SBC Americas, LotteryDaily, CDC Gaming, WSN) of the Jan. 2024 launch, so mobile wagering is treated as live despite the Lottery's own marketing page being incomplete/stale. HB 365 (2024) would have let each of the 3 casinos partner with up to 2 online sportsbook operators ($500,000 five-year license fee + 18% of adjusted revenue) but died in the House Appropriations Committee in June 2024 after the Lottery and BetRivers opposed it. A successor bill, HB 4074 (2025-2026 session), would license up to 5 mobile operators at a $500,000 fee plus a 15% GGR tax; according to a single trade-press report it passed the House 100-11 but was not taken up by the Senate Gaming Oversight Committee in either 2025 or 2026, leaving BetRivers the sole operator as of October 2026. 29 Del. C. § 4805(a)(26), § 4815(c) (Delaware Sports Lottery) [1],[2],[3],[4] |
| Sports (retail) | Live | Jun 5, 2018 | Monopoly State | Operated by the Lottery at the state's 3 racino casinos and licensed retail "Sports Pick" locations; single-game wagering began June 5, 2018, three weeks after Murphy v. NCAA struck down PASPA. No wagering on Delaware-based teams. 29 Del. C. § 4805(a)(26), § 4815(c) (Delaware Sports Lottery) [5],[1] |
| Online casino | Live | Oct 31, 2013 | Monopoly State | Run directly by the Lottery (not a licensed-operator model) at the 3 casinos; Delaware became the first state to launch regulated online real-money casino games, on October 31, 2013 (games provided by 888 Holdings), narrowly ahead of New Jersey. Online poker followed within about 1-2 weeks once the multistate Nevada-Delaware poker network pieces were in place; sources differ on whether poker was part of the October 31 launch or followed in mid-November 2013, so the poker-specific go-live date is not pinned down to the day. 29 Del. C. § 4803(k)-(n) (definitions), § 4805(a)(34), § 4815(e) (Internet Lottery) [6],[7] |
| Online poker | Live | | Monopoly State | Operated as part of the Lottery's internet gaming platform; Delaware previously shared a multistate poker network with Nevada. 29 Del. C. § 4803(k)-(n), § 4805(a)(34) [6] |
| Commercial casinos | Live | Dec 29, 1995 | Monopoly State | 3 racino casinos, all run under the Lottery as video-lottery agents, not independently licensed commercial casinos. Table games legalized January 2010. 29 Del. C. § 4803(ff), (ii); § 4819 (video lottery); table games added 2010 [8],[5],[9] |
| Tribal casinos | Not authorized | | | No federally recognized tribe holds Delaware land eligible for IGRA Class III gaming.[6] |
| Lottery | Live | Mar 1, 1975 | Monopoly State | Created by the General Assembly May 31, 1974. 29 Del. C. § 4801 et seq. (State Lottery) [5] |
| iLottery | Live | | Monopoly State | Internet lottery/e-instants revenue-shared under § 4815(e) (first $3.75M/year of proceeds to the State Lottery Fund after costs and player payouts). 29 Del. C. § 4803(k)-(n), § 4815(e) [6] |
| Daily fantasy | Live | Legalized Jul 26, 2017 | Competitive | Operators register with the Division of Gaming Enforcement/Lottery Director rather than obtain a full gaming license; subject to a 15% tax on net adjusted revenues plus a $50,000 annual fee; fee/tax administration now runs partly through 30 Del. C. § 2301(d)(3). Before HB 249, the Delaware DOJ had taken the position (announced around July 2016) that paid-entry fantasy sports contests could not legally operate in the state; HB 249 reversed that by declaring DFS a "game of skill." Registered operators as of the DGE's most recent General Assembly report include DraftKings, FanDuel, PrizePicks, and Underdog. Pick'em-style (player-vs-house) formats are not separately addressed by statute. 29 Del. C. Ch. 48, Subch. III (§§ 4860-4873, Interactive Fantasy Contests), enacted by HB 249 of 2017 [10],[11],[12] |
| VGTs / VLTs | Limited | Dec 29, 1995 | Monopoly State | Delaware calls commercial slot machines "video lottery" and operates them as a Lottery monopoly at the 3 racinos rather than as a separate non-casino VGT program; players receive >=87% of proceeds on average, with 42.5% of the remainder returned to the State. 29 Del. C. § 4803(ff),(ii); § 4815(b); § 4819 [6] |
| Historical horse racing | Not authorized | | | Delaware has not authorized historical horse racing machines; video lottery terminals at the 3 racinos occupy the analogous slot-machine role.[6] |
| Sweepstakes casinos | Prohibited | | | The Division of Gaming Enforcement has taken the position that dual-currency "sweepstakes casino" sites are illegal unlicensed online gaming under the Delaware Constitution, the Delaware Penal Code, and the Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012. DGE issued a cease-and-desist order to VGW Luckyland, Inc. (Chumba Casino, LuckyLand Slots, Global Poker); per DGE's April 7, 2025 announcement, Delaware residents could no longer participate in those platforms effective April 2, 2025. VGW complied (while disagreeing with DGE's position) and exited the state; some reporting describes an earlier, lower-profile 2023 order that VGW did not fully comply with before the 2025 action. No statute names "sweepstakes casinos" specifically; the prohibition rests on regulator/AG-style enforcement under existing unlicensed-gambling law.[13] |
| Prediction markets | Not authorized | | | Corrected from "unknown" to "not_authorized" per the national prediction-markets rule: no DE-specific regulator statement, cease-and-desist, or litigation regarding CFTC-registered sports event contracts (Kalshi, Polymarket, etc.) identified in this research pass. Contracts are available to Delaware residents statewide under claimed CFTC/federal preemption, with no DE regulator, AG, or court action against them as of this file's as_of date. Delaware sits in the 3rd Circuit (with NJ and PA); the 3rd Cir.'s April 6, 2026 ruling for Kalshi on CFTC preemption (in the NJ litigation) is binding circuit precedent in Delaware even though no DE-specific enforcement action or court case has been identified, which would weigh against any future DE cease-and-desist to Kalshi surviving a preemption challenge on the same facts. |
| Skill games | Not authorized | | | No Delaware statute, bill, AG opinion, or court ruling authorizes unregulated "skill game"/"grey machine" cash-payout terminals (the Pennsylvania/Georgia-style Pace-O-Matic category) in bars or convenience stores; a renewed, targeted search (2026-10-11) for Delaware-specific skill-game litigation, enforcement, or legislation (the subject of active disputes in PA, KY, VA, MO, NC, TN and other states) again found none. 11 Del. C. §1432(c) defines "gambling device" broadly as any device/machine/paraphernalia/equipment "used or usable in the playing phases of any gambling activity," with no skill-based carve-out, and §1405 makes knowingly manufacturing, keeping, possessing, or exhibiting such a device a class A misdemeanor; the only exceptions are antique slot machines (25+ years, not used for gambling) and the State's own video lottery machines (§1405(e)). The Delaware Lottery holds the only authorized cash-payout terminal program (video lottery at the 3 racetrack-based facilities); by 29 Del. C. §4819(a), video lottery machines "shall only be located within the confines of an existing racetrack property," so there is no licensing path for skill-game-style cash terminals in ordinary retail locations. 11 Del. C. §1405; 11 Del. C. §1432; 29 Del. C. §4819 [14],[15] |
| Card rooms | Not authorized | | | No stand-alone card-room category; table games/poker operate only inside the 3 Lottery-run racino casinos.[6] |
| Lottery couriers | Not authorized | | | No DE-specific statute, regulation, or AG/DGE opinion addressing third-party lottery couriers was identified. Jackpocket, the largest US digital lottery courier, lists its operating states/territories (per a USA TODAY Network results page) as Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., and West Virginia -- Delaware is absent from that list, consistent with no authorized courier operation here, though this is an inference from an operator's own market list rather than a DE-specific legal determination.[16] |
| Pick'em fantasy | Not authorized | | | No statute or published DGE rule distinguishes pick'em/player-vs-house formats from peer-to-peer DFS, but DGE's October 2024 registration of PrizePicks in Delaware covers only its peer-to-peer "Arena" product rather than a house-side pick'em product; industry trackers read this as DGE treating player-vs-house pick'em as unauthorized sports wagering while peer-to-peer contests remain registered as fantasy contests under 29 Del. C. §§ 4860-4873. No formal DGE ruling or cease-and-desist was located to confirm this directly.[17],[18] |
| Pari-mutuel | Live | | Competitive | Live harness racing at Dover Downs and Harrington; live thoroughbred racing at Delaware Park; purses funded via § 4815(b) video-lottery and § 4815(c) sports-lottery revenue shares. 29 Del. C. Ch. 48 (video lottery/racino integration); Del. Harness/Thoroughbred Racing Commission regulations [6] |
| Advance deposit wagering | Live | | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering platforms licensed to take pari-mutuel wagers from DE residents on in-state and simulcast races; specific statute/launch date not independently verified in this pass.[6] |
| Charitable gaming | Live | | Monopoly State | Licensed charitable organizations may operate video lottery-style machines; player return 60-86% of proceeds, 40% (or 35% if networked) of the remainder to the State, 1% of the State's share to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. 29 Del. C. § 4819A (charitable video lottery machines) [6] |
| Esports betting | Not authorized | | | Delaware's "sports lottery" definition (29 Del. C. § 4805; 10 Del. Admin. Code § 204-2.0) is limited to "the outcome of any professional or collegiate sport or sporting event," with no reference to esports or electronic sporting events. House Bill 365 (152nd General Assembly, 2023-24) would have expanded the definition to include "amateur and electronic sporting events" as part of a broader mobile-sports-wagering overhaul, but it stalled in House Appropriations and did not become law.[19],[3] |
| Social casino | Not authorized | | | No DE statute or regulator addresses free-to-play social casino apps; not licensed or regulated as gambling. |