That looks unlikely now, and along with New York, we may have to wait until at least 2024. Legalizing online sportsbooks in Indiana as far back as 2019, we were expecting online casinos to come online in Hoosier State in 2023.
However, we will have to wait until at least 2024 for casinos to join the already successful launch of online sportsbooks in New York. In what would be a very different move to neighbor New Jersey which has online casinos in addition to Atlantic City's land-based behemoth, New York could be in the unique position of not having legal brick-and-mortar casino establishments but will allow online casino operations. To address the latter, there are a ton of reasons why online casino has been released in fewer numbers than sportsbooks, primarily due to smaller states' concerns of the threat to land-based casino business and political issues, but there are some more states expected to begin business in 2023/24 New York With fewer states allowing real money casino sites than online sportsbooks, the main questions from online casino players are when more states will legalize and offer licenses for more online casino operations and how many states will start the process.
Which States Will be Next to Legalize Online Casinos? The following states have real money online casinos available, with information on the number of casinos per state, what's next in the plan to release more operators and the maximum that will be allowed.