Sportsbook & Casino Reviews · State by State
SWRNN answers the three questions every bettor actually asks — with researched reviews of online sportsbooks and casinos, then a state-by-state breakdown of how each brand really works where you live. Licensing, payout speed, bonus fine print. No hype.
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2004 (as BetOnline.ag; roots in a 1990s-era book that moved online around 2001)
One of the oldest offshore books still operating — online since roughly 2001, rebranded BetOnline.ag from Panama in 2004
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2011
The flagship US-facing brand of the Bodog lineage (PaiWangLuo network) — sister site of Ignition, Cafe Casino, and Ozoon
Casino · Est. 2016
Casino-only sister site of Bovada and Ignition — same operator family, no sportsbook
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2012
Founded 2012 in Boston by Jason Robins, Matt Kalish, and Paul Liberman; listed on Nasdaq as DKNG in April 2020
Casino · Est. 2016
Casino + poker sister of Bovada and Cafe Casino (PaiWangLuo / Bodog network) — it took over Bovada’s poker room in 2016
· Est. 2018
Founded 2018 by MIT classmates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara; CFTC DCM in November 2020; public launch 2021
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2026 (rebrand of Bodog, a brand dating to the 1990s)
Launched February 17, 2026 as the rebrand of Bodog’s Canadian operation — accounts, balances, and bet histories migrated automatically
· Est. 2020
Largest prediction market by global volume; event contracts on politics, sports, crypto, culture
· Est. 2015
Pick’em DFS, not a sportsbook: you build a lineup of player (or team) projections, not a wager against the house on a game result
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2023
Crypto casino + sportsbook launched 2023 — part of the newer no-KYC generation, not the Bovada/Bodog family
Sportsbook + Casino · Est. 2019
Crypto casino + sportsbook launched 2019; claims over ten billion bets processed
Every review starts with who actually licenses the operator, where, and what that regulator does (and doesn’t) protect you from.
The same brand can be regulated in one state, gray-market in another, and off-limits in a third. We map it out for all 50.
Rollover requirements, payout minimums, fee schedules — we pull the real numbers from the terms, with the date we verified them.