Online Gambling in Rhode Island

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Players are free to play leading sites like DraftKings and FanDuel. There are still debates about regulation and legal interpretations, but players in the Ocean State can play DFS games unencumbered. With sports betting already legalized, any further changes to existing law will assuredly be formalities that codify the state's existing stance.

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Gambling in Rhode Island

Despite a past that included an almost total ban on gambling, things are changing in America's smallest state. Rhode Island was funded heavily by money from lotteries in the 17th and 18th centuries, mainly run by community organizations. After centuries of prohibition, the climate is again, finally, becoming friendly towards gambling.

Connecticut and Massachusetts are at varying stages of making more types of gambling legal, and Rhode Island's laws seem to be following suit so the state can stay competitive in the regional gambling market. That includes sports betting, where it become the first state in New England to take a legal bet, doing so in November 2018. There are a number of pending possible changes, including the potential to parlay the sports betting market into a regulated online casino and poker market, so things may shift rapidly in the next couple of years.

Timeline of Gambling Legislation in Rhode Island

• 2016

  Daily fantasy sports are made legal after a judge decides they are not purely games of chance, so legal under state law

• 2012

  Voters support the proposal for state-operated gaming at Twin River casino, which completes its transformation from greyhound track to full-scale casino. The state previously outlawed greyhound racing in 2010

• 1998

  The Narragansett Tribe propose building a casino on trust land, but is blocked by the state

• 1994

  Voters reject proposals to allow full-scale casinos to be built

• 1992

  Video lottery terminals approved by the general assembly

• 1988

  Rhode Island joins up with the Multi-State Lottery Association, making Powerball and Mega Millions available

• 1979

  Charitable gambling is legalized, which includes poker and casino nights. However, this was amended in 1993 so that only bingo and bazaars can be used for charitable gambling

• 1973

  Lawmakers pass a proposal to create the Rhode Island State Lottery

• 1934

  State gambling laws are expanded, legalizing bets on greyhound racing and horse racing

• 1896

  Rhode Island outlaws all gambling as defined by “any lottery, chance, game, or device of any nature or kind whatsoever, or by whatsoever name it may be called, for the purpose of exposing, setting for sale or disposing of any money, houses, lands, merchandise, or articles of value.”