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Online Casinos in Colorado
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Not trackedColorado licenses casinos in three mountain towns and licenses online sports betting, but it licenses no online casino. The 2019 act that legalised sports betting made the two things explicitly separate: only the owners of casinos in Central City, Black Hawk and Cripple Creek may hold a master licence, and a master licence lets its holder contract with a licensed sports betting operator or a licensed internet sports betting operator for the operation of sports betting. The General Assembly's own record describes the act as decriminalising sports betting in Colorado with effect from 1 May 2020. The Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission and the Colorado Division of Gaming are the regulators. No casino status is recorded on this page, because the Colorado statutes and constitutional provisions that would settle it are published by the state only in forms this research could not quote from.
Colorado Licenses Casinos and Online Sports Betting, Not Online Casinos
Colorado's casinos are physical and confined to three former mining towns, and the state's sports betting law was built on top of that fact rather than extending it. The General Assembly's own record of the 2019 act states that "Persons or entities currently licensed to conduct limited gaming (i.e., the owners of casinos in Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek) are the only persons or entities eligible to hold a "master license" to conduct sports betting upon paying a license fee and submitting to background checks."
The same record describes what the act did and when: "The act decriminalizes sports betting in Colorado, effective May 1, 2020, under the following conditions:". One of those conditions is the licensing structure, and it is the clearest evidence of how Colorado separates the verticals: "A master license entitles the licensee to contract with a licensed "sports betting operator" or a licensed "internet sports betting operator", or both, for the operation of sports betting." An internet licence exists in Colorado, and it is a sports betting licence. There is no equivalent category for casino games played online. This site does not point readers at operators that are not licensed where they are.
Why This Page Records No Casino or Sweepstakes Status
Every status on this site has to rest on a quotation from a primary source that can be checked. Colorado publishes its statutes in a way that defeats that check: the Office of Legislative Legal Services states that "The Colorado Revised Statutes are available on the internet as hosted by LexisNexis (the current printer).", and the downloadable official copies of the relevant titles are issued as PDF documents. The provisions that would settle Colorado's position on online casino gaming — the criminal gambling article, the Limited Gaming Act and article XVIII of the state constitution — were therefore not available in a form this research could quote.
Rather than record a status from inference, this page records none. A null status lists no operators, exactly as a declared status would, and it asserts nothing that cannot be stood behind. The same applies to sweepstakes casinos: no Colorado statute, rule or official opinion addressing dual-currency online sweepstakes products was found in quotable form, so no sweepstakes status is recorded. Sweepstakes casinos and real-money casinos are separate products and neither is presented here as a licensed version of the other.
Who Regulates
Two bodies share the work, and the Division of Gaming states it on its own site: "The Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission and the Colorado Division of Gaming are the statutory authority over the regulation of legalized sports betting in Colorado." The Commission is the body that already supervised limited gaming when sports betting was added to its remit. The Division handles licensing, and it notes that "The Division offers all licensing services online and encourages all new and current licensees to complete their applications online."
Why No Casinos Are Listed for Colorado
Colorado’s real-money casino position has not been verified yet, so no casinos are listed here. A blank status is not a verdict.
Online Casino Status by State
Real-money and sweepstakes status are tracked separately, and a dash means nobody has checked yet — not that nothing is permitted.
| State | Real money | Sweepstakes | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Prohibited | — | |
| Alaska | Prohibited | — | |
| Arizona | Prohibited | — | |
| Arkansas | Prohibited | — | |
| California | Prohibited | Prohibited | |
| Colorado | — | — | |
| Connecticut | Regulated | Prohibited | |
| Delaware | Regulated | Prohibited | |
| Florida | Prohibited | — | |
| Georgia | Prohibited | — | |
| Hawaii | Prohibited | — | |
| Idaho | Prohibited | — |
12 of 51 shown. All 51 states and territories →
Sources
- Colorado Division of Gaming, Sports Betting ↗
- Colorado General Assembly, HB19-1327, Authorize And Tax Sports Betting Refer Under Taxpayers' Bill Of Rights ↗
- National Council on Problem Gambling: the National Problem Gambling Helpline, 1-800-MY-RESET ↗
- Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services: Colorado Revised Statutes, where the statutes are published online ↗
Support in Colorado
The National Problem Gambling Helpline™ is operated by the National Council on Problem Gambling and can be reached on 1-800-MY-RESET by call or text. The NCPG publishes 1-800-MY-RESET as the national number on its own pages, and that is the number recorded here because it is the one the helpline operator itself publishes. Older state and industry materials sometimes print a different national number, so more than one is in circulation; where a state body publishes its own helpline, that number is shown alongside this one. The helpline offers call, text and chat services 24/7/365 and its network covers all 50 states and the U.S. territories.