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Gambling self-exclusion in Indiana

Self-exclusion in Indiana: you need three separate enrollments. Indiana: casinos, sportsbooks, off-track betting locations and mobile sports wagering (VEP), run by the Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC). First step: Start on the IGC's Voluntary Exclusion Program page. A fixed term continues until you request removal; a lifetime term has no published way to lift it. Indiana: mobile sports wagering only (ISRP), run by the Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC). First step: Sign up for the ISRP online. It continues until you request removal. Four Winds casinos (Michigan and South Bend, Indiana): tribal casino exclusion, run by Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (Pokagon Band Gaming Commission). First step: Email the form and ID selfie to GC.Investigators@PokagonBand-nsn.gov. It continues until a removal is granted. Apart from the overlap noted below, none substitutes for another, and this is not everything in Indiana.

Reviewed 2026-09-24 against official sources. Every fact below links to the agency that published it. How we check facts.

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Self-exclusion programs in Indiana 3

Compare what each program blocks and how to sign up. Click any program name for the full step-by-step instructions, official forms, and sources.

Asking a program for a form or an answer does not enroll you.

Self-exclusion programs in Indiana
ProgramHow you enrollWhat it blocksHow long it lastsSources
Getting inBettingCredit, compsOnlineMail
Indiana: casinos, sportsbooks, off-track betting locations and mobile sports wagering (VEP)State regulator Run by Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC).In person Online

Start on the IGC's Voluntary Exclusion Program page.

Official form (State Form 51803 (R3 / 8-21))

ConfirmedConfirmedConfirmedConfirmedConfirmedDepends on the term you pick

Sign up for the longest exclusion time you can. Future you will thank you.

Before you count on it. Indiana's VEP webpage describes an online enrollment option, but the rule that implements VEP (68 IAC 6-3-2(c)) still says you must appear in person and never mentions an online path. Nothing the IGC publishes says which one governs -- ask the IGC directly if you're planning to enroll online instead of in person. If the online identity check can't verify you, the portal sends you to an Indiana casino or the IGC office. Reaching Four Winds South Bend by compact obligates the tribe's gaming agency to run the same procedures; it doesn't guarantee any particular checkpoint stops you, and the tribe also runs its own, separately administered Pokagon Band program (a different card here). The Band's page says it recognizes every Indiana exclusion, so your VEP enrollment also covers its casinos. A Pokagon enrollment on its own doesn't put you on the IGC list, and nothing published says it does. Pari-mutuel horse racing, paid fantasy sports, and e-sports wagering sit outside VEP's own definition of sports wagering and aren't covered. Whether residents and visitors are both eligible isn't established. Filling out the form, getting it witnessed, or opening the online portal doesn't confirm you're enrolled.

Indiana: mobile sports wagering only (ISRP)State regulator Run by Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC).Online

Sign up for the ISRP online.

Not checked yetConfirmedNot confirmedConfirmedConfirmedUntil you ask to lift it

Before you count on it. ISRP only reaches your mobile sports wagering account -- it does nothing for a casino floor, a retail sportsbook, or an off-track betting window. VEP is the broader program for those, and you can hold both. Pari-mutuel horse racing, paid fantasy sports, and e-sports wagering sit outside ISRP's own definition of sports wagering and aren't covered. The portal's questions and the company behind its identity check weren't observed. Whether residents and visitors are both eligible isn't established. Opening the ISRP page is not enrollment.

Four Winds casinos (Michigan and South Bend, Indiana): tribal casino exclusionTribal gaming commission Run by Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (Pokagon Band Gaming Commission).By email

Email the form and ID selfie to GC.Investigators@PokagonBand-nsn.gov.

Official form (Rev04.1)

ConfirmedConfirmedNot confirmedSource says noNot confirmedUntil a removal is approved

Before you count on it. This form only reaches Four Winds South Bend's gaming floor, hotel, on-site venues, and parking, plus the tribe's three Michigan Four Winds properties. It doesn't touch the Four Winds online casino, which the form leaves out. Four Winds runs a separate online exclusion for it, through your online account or a form on its own website, and its own page ties the online casino to Michigan. This program is run separately from Indiana's state-run VEP (a different card here). The Band's page says it recognizes every Indiana exclusion, VEP included, so your VEP enrollment already covers its casinos. Nothing published says a Pokagon exclusion puts you on the IGC list. A second exclusion becomes an involuntary lifetime bar. You can also ask in person at the Security department of any Four Winds casino for the Gaming Commission. The Band's page says a remote request may go by email, fax or US mail, but only the email address is published for exclusion requests. Filling out or emailing the form doesn't confirm the exclusion; it takes effect only once the Commission approves it.

Gambling types in Indiana

One self-exclusion list rarely blocks every kind of gambling. Here is what we found for each type of gambling in this state.

What we found for each gambling type in Indiana
Gambling typeWhat we foundSources
online casino / iGamingOfficial sources don't settle it
2 sources
lotteryOfficial sources don't settle it
2 sources
fantasy/prediction — fantasy sportsOfficial sources don't settle it
2 sources
charitable/bingo — charitable gamingOfficial sources don't settle it
2 sources
racing/pari-mutuelNot covered by a program listed hereWhat we checked: The Voluntary Exclusion Program and the Internet Self-Restriction Program: both are defined by statute to exclude pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing from what they mean by sports wagering, and VEP's casino pledge runs to Gaming Commission facilities, not the Horse Racing Commission's tracks or its seven licensed advance-deposit wagering providers.
Why

Neither of Indiana's two statewide programs reaches a pari-mutuel wager. The statute that defines what the Voluntary Exclusion Program and the Internet Self-Restriction Program mean by sports wagering says so directly: "The term does not include pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing or money spent to participate in paid fantasy sports." VEP's broader casino pledge is bounded to "a riverboat or other facility under the jurisdiction of the commission" — the Gaming Commission, not the Horse Racing Commission. The Horse Racing Commission's own public site has no responsible-gambling page, no helpline and no exclusion form anywhere in its navigation. Seven providers hold a license to run advance-deposit wagering with Indiana customers; no Indiana rule requires any of them to offer self-exclusion, and whether any does on its own was not established.

4 sources
skill games — dual-currency sweepstakes games and cash-paying skill machinesNo program foundWhat we checked: Indiana creates no license category for a dual-currency sweepstakes operator or a cash-paying skill machine: IC 4-33-10-7 is a civil penalty with no enrollment route, and IC 35-45-5-1's gambling-device definition and closed exception list name no skill-game category.
Why

Indiana licenses neither category. A 2026 statute lets the Gaming Commission fine an operator or individual up to $100,000 for knowingly using the Internet to conduct a dual-currency sweepstakes game involving Indiana — a civil penalty, not a license scheme, an exclusion list or an enrollment route. Separately, the criminal gambling chapter defines an electronic gaming device to cover a cash-paying machine "the award of which is determined by chance even if accomplished by some skill", and its one amusement-device carve-out pays no cash and is capped at $25 wholesale value; the chapter's exception list for lawful gambling is closed and names seven statutes, none a skill-game category. Possessing such a device is itself a Class A infraction. The Gaming Commission's complete licensing menu has no sweepstakes or skill-game category of any kind.

4 sources
card roomsNo program foundWhat we checked: Indiana has no commercial card-room or poker-room license category: the Gaming Commission licenses casino owners, suppliers, junket operators, sports wagering, paid fantasy sports and occupational licensees only, and the criminal code treats a card game as gambling with no card-room exception. A charity's licensed casino game night is covered under charitable gaming, not here.
Why

Indiana licenses no card room. The criminal gambling chapter treats a card game, including an electronic version, as "a game of chance" that "may not be considered a bona fide contest of skill", and professional gambling covers banking or percentage card games for which no exception exists outside the closed list of licensed statutes. The Gaming Commission licenses casinos, suppliers, junket operators, sports wagering, paid fantasy sports and occupational licensees, and nothing else. The one lawful non-casino poker is a licensed charity's "casino game night" under the charitable gaming statute; whether any exclusion program reaches it is the same open question the charitable gaming entry above leaves unresolved.

2 sources
How we checked

These are the kinds of gambling we checked in Indiana. Four are still unresolved because official sources don't settle them.

Indiana runs two statewide programs plus a separate tribal one. The Voluntary Exclusion Program (VEP) is the broad one. It covers all Indiana casinos (riverboats, land-based properties, French Lick, and the racino floors in Shelbyville and Anderson), casino sportsbooks, the three off-track betting facilities, all mobile sports betting, and the Four Winds South Bend tribal casino by compact. The Internet Self-Restriction Program (ISRP) is narrower and online only. It covers mobile sports betting alone, for 1 or 5 years with no lifetime option, and you enroll online through the Gaming Commission. If the online identity check can't confirm who you are, the Commission's portal points you to an Indiana casino or the Commission's office. The Commission's VEP webpage describes enrolling online with an identity check, but the rule that governs the VEP says you must appear in person at a Commission office or another place the executive director designates, and says nothing about an online path. We don't know which one applies. Four Winds South Bend, the state's only tribal casino, also runs its own exclusion program through the Pokagon Band Gaming Commission, covering both its Indiana and Michigan properties. The Band's own page says it recognizes every exclusion Indiana issues, including the VEP, so a VEP enrollment also covers Four Winds South Bend and the Michigan Four Winds casinos. Pari-mutuel horse racing, paid fantasy sports and e-sports wagering are outside what the VEP and ISRP mean by sports wagering. We don't know whether people who live outside Indiana can use these programs. We checked the official sources linked on this page, not every gambling option in the state.

How Indiana's programs fit together

Start with the Voluntary Exclusion Program: it is the broad one, and it carries into every Four Winds casino.

Where they overlap. One Voluntary Exclusion Program enrollment also keeps you out of every Four Winds casino, in Indiana and in Michigan. The Commission's application says VEP participants are restricted from the Four Winds South Bend gaming floor by compact, and the Pokagon Band says it recognizes every exclusion Indiana issues. It does not run the other way: nothing says a Pokagon Band exclusion reaches Indiana's list.

What we know about each one

The Voluntary Exclusion Program covers every Indiana casino, the casino sportsbooks, the three off-track betting facilities and all mobile sports betting. The Internet Self-Restriction Program covers mobile sports betting alone, for one or five years, with no lifetime option; take it only if online betting is the whole problem, or take both. The Pokagon Band runs its own request for the Four Winds properties, and that one covers the physical casinos only. Four Winds internet gaming takes a separate request of its own. Pari-mutuel horse racing, paid fantasy sports and e-sports are outside what either state program means by sports wagering. Signing up for all of them still doesn't cover every way to gamble in the state.

Official Indiana links and forms

These are the primary sources this page is built from: agency program pages, statutes, regulations and the forms themselves. How we check facts explains what each label means.