Connecticut still doesn’t have any online poker legislation in place. However, changes have been discussed and there could be progress made in the next couple of years.
| Type/Code | Summary |
|---|---|
| State Code Section(s) | 53.278; 52.553-554; 12.557 |
| Definition of Gambling | Gambling: Risking any money, credit, deposit or other thing of value for gain contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance or the operation of a gambling device, including the playing of a casino gambling game such as blackjack, poker, craps, roulette or a slot machine. |
| Definition of Professional Gambling | Professional gambling: Accepting or offering to accept, for profit, money, credits, deposits or other things of value risked in gambling, or any claim thereon or interest therein. |
| Online Poker/Gambling | Both tribes with casino compacts – Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot – have long been lobbying for online poker and casino games, most recently in testimony to lawmakers in 2018. Both offer free-play internet gaming to their casino patrons. Currently, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection specifies that internet gambling is illegal. |
| Live Poker | Live poker is legal and available at the Indian casinos in the state. |
| Casinos | The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes operate full-fledged casinos on their reservation lands per the federal IGRA law. |
| Sports Betting | Several years of bills have led to 2020 legislation that is likely to pass in some form. |
| DFS | Paid-entry fantasy sports contests were legalized as a part of the 2017 budget and subsequently signed into law with the permission of the state’s tribes. |
| Other Forms of Gambling | Bingo, charitable gambling, jai alai, horse racing and off-track betting, pari-mutuel betting, social gambling. |