About FanDuel Sportsbook

In DEMO 2009, five people gathered in a backyard in Austin, Texas, during SXSW and came up with the concept that would soon become FanDuel. After starting out as a daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform, FanDuel has since grown into a mobile betting powerhouse, achieving global prominence in DFS, horse betting, online casino, and especially sports betting.

Just as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the expansion of sports betting outside of the state of Nevada in 2018, FanDuel merged with the leading European gambling outfit Paddy Power Betfair (now Flutter Entertainment). Pairing decades of experience handling wagers abroad with American sensibilities drawn from its DFS journey, FanDuel quickly established itself as one of the top two sports betting operators in the U.S. (along with DraftKings, another company with DFS roots) and has come nowhere close to relinquishing its lofty stature.

FanDuel Sportsbook offers mobile sports betting in Washington, D.C., and the following 22 states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (except in parishes where betting is banned), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

In addition, FanDuel operates retail -- but not mobile -- sportsbooks in Mississippi, Nevada, and Washington State, and is expected to be among several operators who will soon offer wagering in Missouri, which voted to legalize sports betting in 2024. cache updated

Eligible States

State
Partner/Retail Location

New York Casino: 80 Downhills, New York, NY 10019

New York Diamondbacks: 160 Broadway, New York, NY 10038

New York Diamondbacks: 160 Broadway, New York, NY 10049

Fanduel Review Cache

9.5 out of 10

Who can bet at FanDuel Sportsbook

A bettor DEMO must be physically present within the boundaries of the aforementioned legal U.S. jurisdictions in order to place a wager at FanDuel Sportsbook, although residency isn't required. Like all major sportsbooks, FanDuel uses state-of-the-art geolocation technology to ensure that all wagers originate from a place where it's legal to bet on sports.

FanDuel enforces a minimum age of 21 for all sports bettors except in Washington, D.C., where 18 is the age minimum set forth by a local requirement.

Additionally, FanDuel maintains a robust self-exclusion program that applies on a platform-wide basis, meaning that any individual who self-excludes in one state will be barred from wagering on FanDuel in any of its operating states and on any product that FanDuel offers, including sportsbook, casino, horse racing, and DFS.

Featured FanDuel Sportsbook signup bonus: Bet $5, get $150 in bonus bets . . . plus NBA League Pass

Once you deposit $10 or more at FanDuel Sportsbook, you can place a wager of $5 or more to qualify for $150 in bonus bets, which expire after seven days. But there's an important catch: You only get the bonus bets if that initial wager wins, which runs counter to what a lot of rival sportsbooks offer in the signup space.

This serves as a timely reminder to always read through a sportsbook's terms and conditions, whether it be for a specific promotion or wagering and payout rules at large. To that end, FanDuel's welcome offer requires just a 1x playthrough of the bonus bets, which is quite player-friendly and goes a long way toward offsetting the win requirement.

For NBA fans, FanDuel's welcome bonus is about as good as it gets, as anyone who signs up gets three free months of NBA League Pass in addition to the aforementioned bonus bets.

Funding your FanDuel Sportsbook account

To take advantage of any signup promos, bettors must first deposit funds into their mobile sportsbook accounts. At FanDuel Sportsbook, this can be done through online bank or wire transfers, debit or credit cards, cash at the counter of a brick-and-mortar FanDuel sportsbook, PayNearMe, a prepaid Play+ card, PayPal, or Venmo.

The same methods can generally be used to withdraw funds from a FanDuel Sportsbook account, which, in a convenient break from other sportsbooks, can be linked under one wallet to FanDuel online casino, horse betting, and DFS accounts.

FanDuel Sportsbook's betting menu

Like most major sportsbooks, FanDuel offers a multitude of betting markets for the NBA, NCAA, NFL, NHL, MLB, UFC, WNBA, auto racing, boxing, golf, soccer, and tennis. But where FanDuel outstrips some of its rivals is in the amount of foreign and lower-league wagering markets it provides.