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Georgia Sports Betting

Georgia sports betting is not legal. Despite Georgia’s difficulties during the legalization process, many lawmakers want to make legal online sports betting a reality in the state. There is also considerable interest in legal sports betting from Georgia residents.

Read on for the latest news about what’s next for Georgia sports betting.

Written by

Matthew Kredell

Last updated: October 26, 2026

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Georgia Betting Sites in October 2026

Is sports betting legal in Georgia?

No. Online sportsbooks are not legal despite multiple efforts in the Georgia Assembly. A bill to let voters decide on sports betting failed on crossover day in 2026, though there could still be a chance to pass legislation before the session is over.

Prediction Markets in Georgia

Prediction markets allow Georgia residents to participate in event-based trading tied to future outcomes. Platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket feature contracts on sports, politics, economics, and major news events, offering a different experience than traditional sports betting.

Kalshi

The first CFTC-regulated exchange built purely for event contracts. The market list goes well beyond sports here. You’ll find elections, the economy, weather, pop culture, and even bets on what a public figure might say on air. Contracts cost between 1¢ and 99¢, and every winning contract pays $1. Selling early to lock in a profit or cut a loss is always an option. Fees rise and fall with a contract’s price, topping out around 1.75¢ per contract on 50/50 markets.

Check out our Kalshi review for the full breakdown.

FanDuel Predicts

One of the biggest names in US sports now runs its own prediction market. Trading is simple on FanDuel Predicts. Pick “Yes” or “No” on an outcome and collect a payout when you call it right.

Each trade carries a transaction fee of 2% of your potential payout, so keep that in mind before you lock anything in. Georgia users can also trade right inside the main FanDuel app.

Check out our FanDuel Predicts review for the full breakdown.

Polymarket

Shares trade between $0 and $1, and each winning share pays out $1 on this prediction market platform. The variety here is huge. Politics, geopolitics, tech, and crypto sit alongside a deep sports lineup that covers football, hockey, esports, cricket, and even chess.

Fees depend on your role in a trade. Placing an order that waits for a match costs nothing. Buying or selling at the current price comes with a small fee based on the contract’s price, topping out around 1.74¢ per contract on 50/50 markets.

Check out our Polymarket review for the full breakdown.

ProphetX

This peer-to-peer sports exchange lets you trade directly with other users instead of a house. Accept a price already on the board, or post your own odds and wait for someone to match them. Laying an outcome is another option. That simply means betting against it. The platform is sports-only and covers the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college sports, and soccer, with moneylines, spreads, totals, props, futures, and live markets.

The odds come without a hidden house cut. ProphetX takes a commission of about 1% to 3% on net winnings instead. That said, expect a short learning curve at first.

Check out our ProphetX review for the full breakdown.

Georgia Daily Fantasy Sites

Daily Fantasy Sports sites provide Georgia residents with a legal way to compete in sports-based contests despite the state’s ban on traditional sports betting. Players can build fantasy lineups, enter tournaments, or participate in pick’em games through operators recommended below.

Sleeper

This app ranks among the most popular DFS platforms around. Free season-long leagues are here, with two real-money modes sitting right alongside them. Sleeper Picks lets you combine two to eight “more” or “less” calls on player stats, with payouts reaching up to 100x your entry. Daily Drafts drop you into a $1 snake draft with seven other players. From there, you can enter your lineup into bonus contests ranging from $5 to $1,000. Deposits work with Visa, Discover, Apple Pay, or a bank transfer.

ParlayPlay

Simplicity makes this app a great starting spot for beginners. The main game, Pick’M, lets you stack two to nine “more” or “less” picks into one entry. Choose “All In” for a bigger payout, or go “Insured” for an entry that can still cash with one miss. Hit It contests ask you to predict a stat range for two players and pay up to 6x. Besides, Free2Play contests let you chase cash prizes on weekly leaderboards without spending a dime. Deposits are limited to Visa and Mastercard, though, and withdrawals carry a $30 minimum.

Betr Picks

This pick’em app keeps things fast and casual. You decide whether players will finish above or below their projected stats, with up to 10 picks per entry. Every line uses a half point, so pushes never happen. Flex Play adds a safety net by paying out at lower multipliers even when one or two picks miss. The app is mobile-only, with deposits through debit cards, ACH, and PayPal.

DraftKings Pick6

DraftKings’ take on pick’em puts you up against other players instead of the house. Each entry, called a pick set, includes two to six “more” or “less” calls on players from at least two teams. Your pick set then competes against entries with the same number of picks. The entries with the highest share of correct calls split the prize pool, so a five-for-six finish can still earn money. The default $10 entry spreads across ten $1 contests, and you can go as high as $150. Picks lock the moment you submit, with no late swaps allowed.

DraftKings DFS

Here’s the format that kicked off the whole DFS boom. You get a $50,000 salary cap to build a lineup of real athletes, and your team scores points based on their actual stats. Contest options include head-to-head matchups, 50/50s, qualifiers, and massive guaranteed prize pool tournaments. Funding your account is easy with PayPal, Venmo, cards, or online banking.

What’s happening in Georgia sports betting right now

October 2026 — Sports betting remains illegal in Georgia, and a ballot vote before 2028 looks unlikely. Prediction markets remain fully live in the state, with the governor and U.S. Senate races drawing heavy trading ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
June 2026 — The CFTC proposed new prediction market rules that appear to support most sports event contracts. Georgians rely on these platforms as a legal sports alternative, so the proposal is a welcome sign.
May 2026 — Polymarket dropped its waitlist, opening sign-ups to eligible users in Georgia.
April 2026 — The legislative session ended April 2 without any sports betting measure passing. Lawmakers can try again when the next session opens in January 2027.
March 2026 — On March 6, the Georgia House voted 98-63 against HR 450. This constitutional amendment would have let voters decide on sports betting in November. It fell well short of the 120 votes needed, and its companion bill, HB 686, lapsed along with it.
February 2026 — Crypto.com launched OG, a standalone prediction market open to Georgia residents.
January 2026 — Rep. Matt Hatchett reintroduced HB 910. The bill would have placed online sports betting under the Georgia Lottery without a voter referendum, with up to 18 sportsbooks and a 25% tax rate. It never advanced. Days later, FanDuel Predicts began offering sports event contracts in Georgia.

The status of Georgia sports betting

Georgia’s 2024 legislative session has ended, and no new sports betting legislation was passed. SB 386 and Senate Resolution 579 were the last active bills with any hope of passing, but ultimately neither had enough support on either side of the aisle.

When will online sports betting be legal in Georgia?

Online sports betting likely won’t launch in Georgia before 2029. In March 2026, the Georgia House voted 98-63 against HR 450. This constitutional amendment would have let voters decide on sports betting in November 2026. It needed a two-thirds majority, or 120 votes, to advance. Its companion bill, HB 686, would have created 16 sportsbook licenses, taxed operators at 27.5%, and launched the market by July 31, 2027. Both measures died with the vote.

Lawmakers can try again once the next session opens in January 2027. Even so, Georgia can only put a constitutional amendment before voters at a general election. That makes November 2028 the earliest realistic referendum date.

Earlier proposals faced the same hurdles. Any measure needs approval from both lawmakers and voters. After that, the Georgia Lottery would still need several months to write regulations, issue licenses, and let sportsbooks go live.

Sportsbook apps that could launch in Georgia

With legalization stalled until at least 2028, it’s hard to say which sportsbooks would bring top sports betting promos to Georgia. The latest proposal, 2026’s HB 686, would have allowed up to 16 online sportsbook licenses. With no betting venues in the state, mobile apps would be the only legal way to bet. That exclusivity, plus a population of about 11 million, makes Georgia one of the most attractive untapped markets around. Here are some of the likely candidates to debut once legal online sports betting launches in GA.

FanDuel — Its IT hub investment and presence in Georgia for DFS play make FanDuel near-certain to open its sports betting doors in the state should it get the opportunity. It also serves sports bettors in nearby Tennessee, the closest sports betting-friendly location to Georgia’s largest city, Atlanta.
DraftKings — DraftKings also offers daily fantasy sports contests to people in Georgia, and it is often among the vanguard of sportsbook apps to launch in new states. Like FanDuel, DraftKings is also available in neighboring Tennessee and is quick to launch in states that offer competitive licensing.
BetMGM — BetMGM Sportsbook is usually among early adopters in new markets. It is part of the market to the north in Tennessee, too, so it’s likely that the book already has some cachet and brand recognition within areas of Georgia.
bet365 — bet365 already operates next door in Tennessee and North Carolina, so many Georgians near those borders likely know the name. With 18 states under its belt and a track record of launching on day one in new markets like North Carolina, bet365 looks like a strong candidate for Georgia’s opening lineup.
BetRivers — BetRivers Sportsbook might not be a familiar name to many in the South, but the app has battled successfully to prove itself in other areas of the country. There’s little reason to assume Rush Street Interactive would pass on Georgia if available.

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GA sports betting bills

Despite Georgia’s past resistance to gambling, lawmakers in the Peach State have been diligently working to pass legislation for sports betting since 2020. In the years since, there have been several bills that have sought various ways to authorize sports betting for Georgia’s citizens. The list below is a running collection of those efforts:

SB 386
SB 172
HB 237
SB403
HB903 — amendments as part of an unrelated parking bill
HB86
SR135
SB142
SB 57
HB 380
SR 140

We will update this list as more bills proceed through the Georgia Legislature.

Georgia DFS pick’em

While daily fantasy sports platforms and social sports betting sites are unregulated in Georgia, companies such as Underdog, PrizePicks, Fliff, DraftKings, and FanDuel operate in the state.

Georgia came close to legalizing DFS in 2017. The House passed a bill, but the Senate didn’t bring it up for a vote. A 2016 attorney general ruling questioned the legality of DFS in Georgia, but no laws were made to either outlaw or legalize the activity. New DFS legislation was debated during the 2024 legislative session.

Below are some of the daily fantasy sports apps and social sportsbooks currently available in Georgia.

PrizePicks Georgia

PrizePicks provides a simplified DFS platform, allowing users to select “more” or “less” on player stat lines provided by the app. Users can pick either Flex Play contests or Power Play contests. Both require users to pick between two and six stat lines, but Power Play requires users to get every pick correct to win, like a parlay. With Flex Play, the payouts depend on how many correct picks you make. For example, users would get a better payout if they got four of five picks correct versus two of four.

Underdog Georgia

Underdog users have two main categories of contest: draft and pick’em.

With draft contests, users select a team in the standard snake draft format and then leave their team alone for the duration of the contest. Draft contests use a best-ball format, meaning the app will automatically select each team’s best players, so the user does not interact with the team at all after the initial draft. Contests can be as short as one day or as long as the entire season. The team with the most cumulative points wins.

With pick’em contests, users have a couple of options. You can pick an over/under on one player’s stat line or between two players using the same stat, with an adjustment. For example, over or under 85.5 rushing yards for Christian McCaffrey, or McCaffrey +10.5 yards vs. Nick Chubb.

Betr Picks Georgia

Betr Picks contests are another version of the pick’em contests available at Underdog and PrizePicks. However, Betr Picks users must get all of their picks right to win. Users make between two and eight selections and must choose either “yes” or “no” on whether a player will exceed the given stat line. Payouts increase as more selections are made.

ParlayPlay Georgia

Georgia is one of the more than 20 states where ParlayPlay offers paid contests. Its most popular option is a pick’em-style game mode that involves making multiple more/less picks on lines for various player stats. You can play such contests either “all in” or “insured.” The first option means you win only if you get all of your picks correct. The second offers a lower potential payout, but you can still win if you miss one of your picks.

Rebet Georgia

Available in 47 states, including Georgia, Rebet combines elements of an online sportsbook, sweepstakes contests, and social media platforms. Customers can place wagers using dual virtual currencies — “Rebet Coins” and “Rebet Cash.” The second of those offers a chance to redeem winnings for real money. As far as the social aspect, the platform offers peer-to-peer wagering and the option for users to “rebet” their friends’ wagers.

Other legal betting options in Georgia

There are no legal betting options in Georgia. In fact, there are few gambling options in general. Georgians and visitors to the state have the Georgia Lottery, which allows online ticket sales. There are also charitable games such as bingo. But most betting options are nonexistent and prohibited in the state.

Any websites that will take your bet in Georgia are illegal offshore websites that don’t hold a license from any US jurisdiction. Without state regulation, these offshore betting apps can’t be counted on to pay out winnings and have been known to disappear with people’s money. The only safe and protected way to bet on sports in the US is with a licensed sportsbook.

Is horse racing legal in Georgia?

Horse racing is legal in Georgia, but there are no permanent racetracks, and horse racing betting is illegal. The Georgia Steeplechase and Hawkinsville Harness Festival are two annual horse racing events in the state.

Several legislative attempts in recent years have made an effort to legalize horse betting. The Georgia Horse Racing Coalition seeks to bring racetracks and pari-mutuel wagering to the Peach State. But these efforts haven’t made it far. A 2020 bill that would have put the question of horse racing on the November ballot failed. In 2021, a similar effort in the Georgia Senate also failed. SR131 proposed an amendment to the Georgia Constitution that would have allowed wagering to proceed at “licensed racetracks and betting facilities.” However, the proposal failed to progress beyond its initial reading and committee referral.

The most recent attempt to legalize pari-mutuel betting in Georgia occurred in February 2022. A Georgia Senate committee held a hearing but the bill did not advance much farther.

Most popular sports to bet on in Georgia

Georgia has three major professional sports teams in Atlanta and a popular soccer club, but a college team reigns supreme in the state.

NCAA betting in Georgia

Georgia is in the middle of SEC country, where NCAA football is king.

The Georgia Bulldogs are one of the top programs in the country and recently claimed national titles following the 2021 and 2022 seasons. The team’s 37 bowl victories are tied for the second-most of any college football program after Alabama.

While Bulldogs football tops the list, several other NCAA Division I schools also compete in the state:

Georgia State University
Georgia Southern University
Georgia Tech
Kennesaw State University
Mercer University

MLB betting in Georgia

The Atlanta Braves have had more success than the other Atlanta professional teams combined. Founded in 1871 as Boston Red Stockings, the Braves are one of the National League’s two remaining charter franchises. Moving to Atlanta from Milwaukee in 1966, the Braves are the only Major League Baseball team to win the World Series for three cities, winning in Atlanta in 1995 and 2021. The Braves also won the NL East all five seasons from 2018-22.

NFL betting in Georgia

In 2016, the Atlanta Falcons nearly brought the city its first Super Bowl championship since joining the NFL in 1966. The high-flying birds lost to the New England Patriots in the first Super Bowl to go to overtime. The Falcons have won their division, the NFC South, four times since the league realigned in 2002, but they have not made the playoffs since 2017.

NBA betting in Georgia

The Hawks haven’t won an NBA championship since moving to the city in 1968, but they’ve had their fair share of success, making the playoffs in 10 consecutive seasons from 2008 to 2017.

MLS betting in Georgia

Atlanta United is the city’s newest team, joining MLS as an expansion team in 2017. But it immediately captured the love of Georgians, setting attendance records and winning the city’s first sports championship in 25 years with the MLS Cup in 2018 and adding the Campeones Cup.

Georgia sports betting timeline

2024

Georgia’s 2024 legislative session starts on Jan. 8. Sen. Bill Cowsert introduces sports betting bill SB 172 on the second day of the session. The bill was carried over from the 2023 session. SB 386 passes the Senate and moves to the House.

The Senate Economic Development & Tourism Committee then advances SB 386 on Jan. 31. The bill has bipartisan support and would allow up to 16 licenses.

Georgia’s legislative session ends on March 28 without passing any new sports betting legislation.

2023

Another year, another legislative session with high hopes regarding the possibility of legal sports betting in Georgia. SB 57, HB 380, and SR 140 are all introduced during the legislative session and seem to have decent backing from some legislators. However, all three die on March 6, 2023, with HB 380 not even receiving a vote in the House. The Senate votes down the other two bills, sending legislators back to the drawing board with the hopes of getting something passed in 2024.

2022

The legislative year begins with high hopes. In January, House Speaker David Ralston suggests allowing Georgians to vote on whether they want casino gaming in the state and figure out what it looks like if the answer is yes. He also adds that there is an appetite to pass a gambling bill in 2022 that has not been there before.

Rep. Ron Stephens tries to amend two pieces of gambling legislature passed by the Senate in 2021 in SR 135 and SB 142. SR 135 would have put gambling on the November ballot for Georgians to approve, while SB 142 would legalize sports betting. However, those efforts are stymied, and the session ended on April 4 with no gambling bills passing. The next session will begin in January 2023.

Meanwhile, efforts in neighboring North Carolina heat up in April before falling apart a few weeks later. This would’ve given Georgia residents another legal sports betting option beyond Tennessee sportsbook apps.

2021

Rep. Ron Stephens redoubles his efforts in the new session and unveils HB 86 as a follow-up to last year’s bill. The bill proposes online-only sports betting, remote registration, and up to six licensees. However, the new bill would not allow college sports wagers.

Stephens’ colleagues in the Senate don’t wait for HB 86 to navigate through the House committee system and offer their own bill, SB 142. The bill is similar to the House version but notably diverges on the subject of betting on college games. SB 142 and its companion, SR 135 (which would put the question on a referendum for voters), passes through the Senate in early March 2021.

The end of the legislative session on March 31 looms over the bills’ proceeding through the House. Because of disagreements about a controversial voting rights bill signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp, sports betting is drawn into a political battle along partisan lines. The arguments are so contentious that, at one point, the NAACP publicly announces its opposition to sports betting in Georgia. Thus, despite their passage through the Georgia Senate, both measures do not progress past the committee stage in the House of Representatives.

2020

Georgia gets off to a late start in making an effort to legalize sports wagering. Lawmakers don’t take an interest in GA sports betting until neighboring Tennessee legalizes the activity.

In February, a group of Senators drops S 403, an online-only sports betting bill similar to what passed in Tennessee. The bill calls for a 10% tax rate and $900,000 annual license fee.

That bill dies in committee, but facing an unforeseen budget crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers revive the proposal late in the session by amending the language onto a bill that is still alive.

Stephens follows suit by putting his H 378 into an unneeded Senate bill. His legislation would have put the question of legalizing sports betting, casinos, and horse racing on the ballot to give voters a chance to amend the state constitution to allow the activities. But constitutional amendments require a difficult-to-reach two-thirds vote in the legislature.

Stephens believes that the gambling expansions would be widely approved by voters if only they could get on the ballot. Unfortunately, none of these efforts prove unsuccessful, as the 2020 legislative session ends without any forward motion on the amendments.

Georgia sports betting FAQ

Is sports betting legal in Georgia?

Sports betting is not legal. The state legislature is taking up sports betting again in 2024, but many hurdles remain, including a statewide vote in November if the bill moves through the House of Representatives. The session ends on March 28.

Who would oversee sports betting in Georgia?

The Georgia Lottery. As is the case in states without many options for legal gambling, the lottery commission in the Peach State serves as the de facto gaming commission. SB 142 designated the Georgia Lottery as the oversight agency for the new industry.

What is the legal gambling age in Georgia?

For the limited gambling in Georgia, the legal minimum age is 18. However, sports betting in Georgia will certainly require bettors to be 21, as all of the most successful attempts to legalize so far have included language to that effect.

Would mobile GA sports betting be legal?

Yes, with no casinos in the state, Georgia has been exploring the Tennessee model of having sports betting only take place online.

There are some sports betting websites that say they accept bets from the United States. Are those legal options?

No. There are currently no sportsbook operators licensed at the federal level. All US sportsbooks are licensed at the state level. Any website suggesting it allows betting from anywhere in the US is a website that operates offshore. It’s not legal for those sites to accept bets from US citizens. They offer no protection to those who use them to bet.