Best Utah sportsbooks for today

When will online sports betting launch in Utah?

Probably never. Utah has no launch date, and recent moves push legal betting even further away. The state constitution bars lawmakers from authorizing any game of chance, lottery, or gift enterprise. Legal sports betting would need a constitutional amendment, with a two-thirds vote in both chambers and approval from voters.

Utah tightened its gambling laws again in 2026. HB 243 took effect on May 6, 2026. The law adds proposition bets to the state’s definition of gambling.

Utah’s stance against online betting goes back years. A 2012 law requires the state to opt out of any future federal law legalizing online gambling. That language now part of Section 76-9-1402 of the criminal code titled Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, Welfare, and Morals:

If any federal law authorizes Internet gambling in the states and that federal law provides that individual states may opt out of Internet gambling, this state shall opt out of Internet gambling in the manner provided by federal law and within the time frame provided by that law.

Legal betting options in Utah

You’d better head to any of Utah’s six border states to experience anything resembling legal gambling or online sports betting promotions. In 2020, the state banned the closest thing to gambling in the state: machines that sold gift cards that allowed the buyer to use that gift card to enter a sweepstakes. More recently, the state’s lawmakers have taken aim at prediction markets as well (see the timeline below).

That doesn’t mean gambling in Utah is impossible. There are several offshore operators that have unlicensed gambling and sports betting websites that will accept bets from anywhere in the United States. However, those platforms are dangerous because consumers are left without any protection.

That means if the operation chooses not to pay out a bet or close the operation without returning a customer’s account balance, that customer has no legal recourse to recover their money. We don’t recommend gambling on unregulated, unlicensed real-money sites.

Utah Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS)

Daily fantasy sports let you build lineups of real players and win prizes based on their stats. In Utah, DFS falls in a legal gray area. No state law specifically allows or bans fantasy contests. DraftKings, FanDuel, PrizePicks, and other major platforms still accept Utah players. State officials see things differently, though. Attorney General Derek Brown considers these platforms illegal. Utah’s 2026 prop-bet law adds more uncertainty for pick’em-style contests.

Check out the list of top 5 DFS platforms in Utah:

Sleeper Utah

Sleeper Daily Drafts are weekly snake drafts against seven other players, with optional bigger contests. Sleeper Picks lets you combine two to eight “more” or “less” stat predictions for payouts up to 100x. You’ll find contests for the NFL, NBA, MLB, college football, college basketball, and esports.

Betr Picks Utah

Co-founded by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr Picks launched in 2023 with casual fans in mind. You choose “more” or “less” on two to eight player stats, and every pick must hit to win. Payouts range from 3x for two picks to 100x for eight. Betr uses half-point lines, so there are no pushes. It’s mobile-only and covers NFL, NBA, MLB, and college sports.

ParlayPlay Utah

You play against the house instead of other users on ParPlay. Its main mode, Pick’M, lets you build entries with two to nine “more” or “less” picks. You can go “All In” for a bigger payout or choose “Insured” to win even with one miss. Hit It contests ask you to predict stat ranges for two players, and Free2Play offers contests with no entry fee. Sports range from the NFL and NBA to golf, tennis, MMA, and esports.

DraftKings Pick6 Utah

DraftKings Pick6 launched in December 2023 as a peer-to-peer pick’em game. Each entry includes two to six “more” or “less” picks, with players from at least two teams. DraftKings spreads your entry across multiple $1 contests. Winners are ranked by the percentage of correct picks. Pick6 covers eight sports, including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, UFC, and PGA Tour.

DraftKings DFS Utah

The platform follows the classic salary-cap format. You build a lineup of real athletes for a single day or event and score points based on their stats. Each player has a salary, and your lineup must fit under a set cap. Contest types include guaranteed prize pools, head-to-head matchups, 50/50s, qualifiers, and casual contests. Sports include the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA Tour, and UFC.

Utah social sportsbooks

Surprisingly, Utah does not specifically outlaw social sportsbooks. Utah’s laws specifically define gambling as:

“risking anything of value for a return or risking anything of value upon the outcome of a contest, game, gaming scheme, or gaming device when the return or outcome … is based on an element of chance.”

This definition of gambling in the state has meant that some operators in the industry, including Fliff, PrizePicks, Underdog, Betr Picks, DraftKings, and FanDuel, have continued to accept tournament and contest entries from within Utah’s borders. That said, the status of these sites may now be challenged by HB243 (discussed below), but for now, they continue to serve Utah.

In other words, while sports betting is and will likely remain off the table, there are still some choices for sports entertainment in Utah. Read below to find out more about social sportsbooks available now in Utah:

Fliff Utah

As a social sports offering a free-to-play experience, Fliff is available in Utah. Users will find the Fliff interface looks exactly like that of a traditional online sportsbook, but users are not required to deposit any money to play.

Offered exclusively on mobile devices — either iOS or Android — Fliff allows users to make picks on all major sporting events and compete with friends. Users can “follow” friends in the app, as they would on a social network, to track what they pick. The more correct predictions you make, the more “Fliff Coins” you can earn. Fliff Coins have no cash value.

The app also allows users to deposit money and compete against each other while accruing “Fliff Cash,” which they can redeem for real money.

Rebet Utah

Similar to Fliff, Rebet social sportsbook allows users to place wagers using two virtual currencies — in this case, “Rebet Coins” and “Rebet Cash.” The second of those options allows customers to redeem winnings for actual money at a rate of 1:1. The app — initially available only to iOS users — also allows customers to place peer-to-peer bets versus their friends and also to track their friends’ wagers and, if they see one they like, to “rebet” it with the click of a button.

Most popular sports to bet on in Utah

From a betting perspective, the top two Utah teams are likely in one sport: football.

The University of Utah Utes and Brigham Young University Cougars create the two most popular college football teams in the state. They would likely receive the largest handle if betting were legal and bettors could bet on in-state college teams. BYU‘s men’s basketball team also tends to make the NCAA‘s March Madness basketball tournament interesting every few years.

Utah is also home to the Utah Jazz of the NBA, which has been a staple in the league ever since John Stockton and Karl Malone were one of the best duos never to win a championship.

The Jazz aren’t the only professional team in Utah, either. Major League Soccer‘s Real Salt Lake has been a regular in the postseason for the past decade and even won the MLS Cup in 2009.

Is horse racing legal in Utah?

Utah actually does have legal horse racing. But betting on those, or any simulcast races, is prohibited. No advance-deposit wagering websites, such as FanDuel Racing or TwinSpires, operate in the state either.

Utah sports betting timeline

January: Rep. Joseph Elison introduced HB 243 on Jan. 20. The bill adds proposition bets to Utah’s definition of gambling. It defines a prop bet as a wager on “an individual action, statistic, occurrence, or non-occurrence” instead of a game’s outcome.

February: The House passed HB 243 63-9 on Feb. 10. Kalshi sued Utah officials later that month and claimed exclusive federal authority under the CFTC. The Senate passed the bill on Feb. 27.

March: Gov. Spencer Cox signed HB 243 on March 25.

May: The law took effect on May 6. It squarely targets prop-bet products and prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.

August: U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled for Utah on Aug. 4. Kalshi appealed to the 10th Circuit.

October: Attorney General Derek Brown called DFS and prediction market platforms illegal in Utah. On Oct. 20, he sued Kalshi and its market maker, Susquehanna, in state court. The suit labels Kalshi a public nuisance and seeks to block its sports, election, and culture markets for Utah users. Brown’s office estimates Kalshi collected $30.6 million to $61.2 million in fees from Utah accounts.

Utah sports betting FAQ

Is sports betting legal in Utah?

No, sports betting is not legal in Utah. It is unlikely to become legal in the future, either.

Where can I bet on sports in Utah?

There are no legal options for betting on sports in Utah. Anyone claiming to offer legal wagering is doing so illegally.

Can I bet on my phone in Utah?

No. Without any legislation legalizing sports betting, there can’t be mobile sports betting, either.

Offshore sportsbooks that are operating without a license will say they can accept bets from anywhere within the United States, including Utah. But without a license, local authorities are overseeing their activities, meaning bettors using those sites have no consumer protections.

Should an offshore sportsbook operation decide not to pay a winning bet or close the site and keep account balances, the bettor has no way to retrieve those funds.