New Hampshire Sports Betting – Is Sports Betting Legal In New Hampshire?

As mentioned above, New Hampshire only has one online sportsbook:

• DraftKings Sportsbook: Based in nearby Boston, DraftKings is one of the largest and most well-known online sportsbooks in the U.S. It is New Hampshire’s only online sportsbook and has been operational there since Dec. 30, 2019. It has an easy-to-use app with frequent odds boosts based around New England teams like the Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics and New England Patriots.

New Hampshire is one of the few states in America where the legal gambling age is 18, not 21. That’s been the case since the state legalized sports betting.

There are some other limitations around sports betting in New Hampshire. You can’t bet on college games taking place in the state, and you also can’t bet on teams from New Hampshire regardless of where they’re playing.

Betting on high school sports is also prohibited.

There are no professional sports teams in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats are the state’s only minor-league team. They’re the Double-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays and play in the Eastern League.

New Hampshire is surrounded by professional sports teams, however, as the Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, New England Patriots and New England Revolution all play in nearby Massachusetts.

New Hampshire does have several college teams to root for, although betting on them is prohibited.

• Dartmouth Big Green

Dartmouth has a record 21 Ivy League championships in football along with 11 College Football Hall of Fame inductees. The Big Green are one of the oldest football programs in the country, playing their first season in 1881. They claimed the National Championship in 1925.

Dartmouth has struggled on the court, however, and hasn’t had a winning record since 1998-99. The Big Green haven’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1959, which is the longest active drought in the sport and the second longest ever.

• New Hampshire Wildcats

The Wildcats first fielded a football team in 1893 and compete at the FCS level. They’ve sent over 20 players to the NFL and former coach Bill Bowles was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016.

The Wildcats haven’t had much success on the hardwood, as they’ve yet to play in the NCAA Tournament or NIT. None of their former players have made the NBA, although they do have the longest continuous non-Ivy League basketball rivalry with the Maine Black Bears.