Is sports betting legal in Oklahoma?
No. Oklahoma has no law authorizing sports betting, so there are no licensed sportsbooks, online or in person. Tribal casinos run other Class III games under state compacts, but the State-Tribal Gaming Act bars wagers on sports contests. The most recent bill, HB 1047, failed in the Senate 21 to 27 on April 22, 2026.
Why it isn't legal yet
Sports betting in Oklahoma needs the Legislature to amend the State-Tribal Gaming Act, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court held in 2020 that the governor can't add it by compact on his own. Tribes, which hold casino exclusivity under the model compact, have backed bills that give them sportsbooks. Gov. Kevin Stitt released a plan in November 2023 that would license commercial mobile operators, and his office said in April 2026 that he "will only support a free market approach." Past bills have stalled amid that disagreement between Stitt and tribal leaders.
HB 1101, a referendum version, passed the House in 2025 but never got a Senate floor vote. SB 164, which would have put sports pools under the Lottery Commission, was sent to Senate Appropriations on February 13, 2025 and didn't move again. The 2027 regular session begins in February 2027.
The history of sports betting law in Oklahoma
State Question 712 and the model compact (2004)
Voters approved State Question 712 in November 2004 with 59.4% of the vote. It enacted the State-Tribal Gaming Act (3A O.S. §§ 261 to 282), which set out a model compact tribes could sign for specified Class III games, and it authorized a set number of gaming terminals at three racetracks. The Act says it doesn't permit "games where winners are determined by the outcome of a sports contest" (§ 262(H)). The model compact charges exclusivity fees of 4% to 6% on electronic games and 10% on card games, and the compacts of the tribes in the renewal case took effect in 2005 or 2006.
Each compact had a term ending January 1, 2020, with automatic renewal if racetracks or others were authorized to run electronic gaming. The Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission licensed Remington Park and Will Rogers Downs for calendar year 2020 in October 2019.
The compact renewal fight (2019 to 2020)
In 2019 Stitt took the position that the compacts expired on January 1, 2020 and had to be renegotiated. The Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations sued him on December 31, 2019, and other tribes intervened. During court-ordered mediation, the Comanche Nation and the Otoe-Missouria Tribe settled. They signed new compacts with Stitt on April 18, 2020 that listed "event wagering" as a covered game to the extent authorized by law and set a flat 4.5% fee on every game except event wagering at their existing casinos.
The Interior Department received those compacts on April 23, 2020 and took no action within the 45 days the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act allows. They were deemed approved on June 7, 2020 and took effect on publication in the Federal Register on June 29, 2020. On July 21, 2020 the Oklahoma Supreme Court held Stitt had no authority to bind the state to them, and on July 28, 2020 a federal judge held the model compacts had renewed. Stitt said in October 2020 he wouldn't appeal.
Bills in the Legislature (2022 to 2026)
Rep. Ken Luttrell (R-Ponca City) and Sen. Bill Coleman (R-Ponca City) have carried the tribal-model bills. HB 3008, which would have added sports pools to the model compact, cleared the House Appropriations and Budget Committee on March 3, 2022 and got no floor vote. HB 1027 passed the House 66 to 26 on March 21, 2023, went to the Senate Rules and Finance committees on March 30, 2023, and didn't move again.
Stitt released his own plan on November 2, 2023. Tribes would take in-person bets at a 15% tax under updated compacts. State-licensed mobile operators would pay 20%, a $500,000 initial license fee and a $100,000 annual fee, and college prop bets would be banned. He renewed the push in February 2025, posting that any bill had to be "a fair deal for everyone" and that his plan was "solid" and "fair."
The House passed HB 1047 62 to 31 and HB 1101 66 to 29 on March 26, 2025. HB 1101 would have sent the question to voters and took effect only if HB 1047 didn't become law. A Senate committee reported both on April 24, 2025. On April 21, 2026 Coleman filed a floor substitute for HB 1047 that let tribes run in-person and mobile betting for an 8% exclusivity fee, which he estimated at $15 million to $18 million a year. The Senate voted it down 21 to 27 the next day. A Stitt spokesperson said the governor wasn't "interested in expanding Democrat Gov. Brad Henry's bad gaming compact." Coleman served notice to reconsider, and the motion expired on April 28, 2026.
In a related gambling fight, lawmakers overrode Stitt's veto of SB 1589, a ban on sweepstakes (dual-currency) games, on May 14, 2026, by 34 to 10 in the Senate and 68 to 19 in the House.
Sports betting court cases in Oklahoma
Cherokee Nation v. Stitt (W.D. Okla. No. 5:19-cv-01198)
On July 28, 2020 Judge Timothy DeGiusti granted the tribes partial summary judgment, holding that their compacts "automatically renewed for an additional 15-year term on January 1, 2020." The racetrack licenses the Horse Racing Commission kept issuing were enough to trigger the renewal clause. Stitt didn't appeal. The Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribe had left the case in April 2020 under their settlement.
Treat v. Stitt (Okla. Sup. Ct. 2020 and 2021)
Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat and House Speaker Charles McCall asked the state Supreme Court to rule on the Comanche and Otoe-Missouria compacts. In Treat v. Stitt, 2020 OK 64 (No. 118,829, July 21, 2020), the court held the compacts "invalid under Oklahoma law" because they authorized house-banked games and event wagering that § 262(H) prohibits. It added that even the Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations couldn't have approved them. The vote was 7 to 1; Justice Kane would have dismissed because the tribes weren't parties. The court denied Stitt's request for rehearing in September 2020.
Stitt signed two more compacts with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Kialegee Tribal Town while the first case was pending. In Treat v. Stitt, 2021 OK 3 (No. 118,913, January 26, 2021), the court held those invalid too, because their terms differed from the model compact and the Joint Committee hadn't approved them.
Cherokee Nation v. Department of the Interior (D.D.C. No. 1:20-cv-02167)
In August 2020 the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Citizen Potawatomi nations sued the Interior Department, the two tribes' leaders and Stitt, arguing the deemed approval of the Comanche and Otoe-Missouria compacts violated federal law. On November 23, 2022 the court dismissed the claims over the Keetoowah and Kialegee compacts for lack of standing and let the rest proceed.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond tried to take over the state's defense in July 2023. The court certified that question to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which held in Cherokee Nation v. U.S. Department of the Interior, 2025 OK 4 (No. 122,108, January 15, 2025), that he could appear but couldn't override the governor's chosen counsel.
On September 21, 2026 Judge Timothy Kelly dismissed the case for lack of standing without reaching whether the compacts are valid. He found the compacts' sports betting provisions couldn't injure the plaintiffs because those games aren't legal in Oklahoma under § 262(H), so the two tribes can't offer them. We couldn't confirm whether any of the plaintiffs has appealed.
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes v. Stitt (10th Cir. No. 23-6041)
The Wichita tribe, an intervenor in the renewal case, argued that three changes in state law breached its casino exclusivity: letting liquor stores sell lottery tickets, longer racetrack gaming hours and web-based lottery promotions. The district court ruled for Stitt on February 24, 2023. On June 23, 2026 a Tenth Circuit panel affirmed the dismissal of the damages claim on sovereign immunity grounds but reversed on the exclusivity-fee claim, holding Part 11.A of the compact ambiguous. The order is unpublished.
Prediction market cases that reach Oklahoma
We found no Oklahoma lawsuit or cease-and-desist letter against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood, Underdog or Novig, and no operator suit against the state. Oklahoma is in the Tenth Circuit, where the pending case comes from Utah. In KalshiEX LLC v. Cox (D. Utah No. 2:26-cv-00151), the district court ruled on August 4, 2026 that the Commodity Exchange Act doesn't preempt Utah's gambling laws as applied to Kalshi. Kalshi appealed (No. 26-4100), and the Tenth Circuit denied an injunction pending appeal on September 8, 2026. There's no merits ruling, so no appellate holding on preemption binds Oklahoma.
Outside the Tenth Circuit, the Third Circuit ruled for Kalshi against New Jersey on April 6, 2026 (No. 25-1922), and New Jersey's petition to the Supreme Court is pending (No. 26-299), with Kalshi's response due November 9, 2026. The Ninth Circuit ruled against Kalshi in Nevada on August 28, 2026 (No. 25-7516). The Sixth Circuit held on September 25, 2026 (Nos. 26-3196 and 26-5235) that the Act doesn't preempt Ohio's or Tennessee's gambling laws.
Prediction markets and daily fantasy
NCSL's 2026 tracker doesn't list an Oklahoma bill on prediction markets, and we found no statute aimed at them. CBS Sports' state tracker listed Oklahoma as open to sports contracts as of September 24, 2026. Drummond has taken the states' side in court filings: he signed the March 10, 2026 amicus brief of Ohio, New Jersey and 37 other states backing Nevada in the Ninth Circuit, and the April 24, 2026 multistate brief supporting Massachusetts against Kalshi in its Supreme Judicial Court. On April 30, 2026 he and 40 other attorneys general asked the CFTC to confirm it lacks jurisdiction over sports contracts. Coleman cited the apps during the HB 1047 debate, saying "the predictions market is sports betting" and that the state gets nothing from it.
Novig, the trade name of Ludlow Exchange, LLC, which the CFTC designated a contract market on June 16, 2026, takes traders 21 and older with ID in Oklahoma, since its eligibility page excludes only Nevada, Arizona and Michigan.
Oklahoma has no statute or regulator for daily fantasy sports that we could find, and no court has ruled on them.
Help with a gambling problem
The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services lists the Problem Gambling Hotline, 1-800-522-4700, and its own line, 405-248-9200. Its gambling page also links the Oklahoma Association on Problem Gambling and Gaming and Gamblers Anonymous.
Sources
State Question 712 vote and model compact fees (Oklahoma Policy Institute)
Cherokee Nation v. U.S. Department of the Interior, 2025 OK 4 (January 15, 2025)
Cherokee Nation v. Stitt, W.D. Okla. No. 5:19-cv-01198, order on compact renewal (July 28, 2020)
Cherokee Nation v. Stitt, order on the Wichita tribe's claims (February 24, 2023)
Stitt says he won't appeal tribal gaming ruling (Public Radio Tulsa)
Oklahoma Supreme Court denies Stitt's rehearing request (Public Radio Tulsa)
Federal court dismisses challenge to Oklahoma's 2020 tribal gaming compacts (Crowe and Dunlevy)
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes v. Stitt, Tenth Circuit No. 23-6041 (June 23, 2026)
Governor Stitt announces sports betting plan (November 2, 2023)
Stitt renews Oklahoma sports betting proposal (Legal Sports Report)
House passes HB 1047 and HB 1101 (Oklahoma House, March 27, 2025)
SB 1589 (sweepstakes ban), bill history, Oklahoma Legislature
KalshiEX LLC v. Cox, D. Utah No. 2:26-cv-00151, decision (August 4, 2026)
KalshiEX, LLC v. Assad, Ninth Circuit No. 25-7516 (August 28, 2026)
KalshiEX LLC v. Schuler, Sixth Circuit Nos. 26-3196 and 26-5235 (September 25, 2026)
Amicus brief of Ohio, New Jersey, 37 other states and D.C., Ninth Circuit (March 10, 2026)
Multistate amicus brief, Commonwealth v. KalshiEX LLC, Mass. SJC No. SJC-13906 (April 24, 2026)
Drummond urges CFTC to recognize state authority over sports gambling (Oklahoma AG, May 4, 2026)
Status of sports prediction markets in all 50 states (CBS Sports)