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Gambling self-exclusion in North Carolina

Self-exclusion in North Carolina: all three programs on record can enroll you. North Carolina: Education Lottery online play only, run by the North Carolina Education Lottery, Online Play Support Center. First step: Call the NCEL Online Play Support Center to block your online play. A fixed term ends on its own at the end of the term; a lifetime term has no published way to lift it. North Carolina: sports wagering and pari-mutuel wagering statewide, run by the North Carolina State Lottery Commission, Regulated Gaming Division. First step: Start the VEP Enrollment Form on DocuSign. A fixed term ends on its own at the end of the term; a lifetime term continues until you request removal. North Carolina: Catawba Two Kings Casino in Kings Mountain, run by the Catawba Nation Gaming Commission. First step: Take the completed form to Security at Two Kings Casino. This is not everything in North Carolina.

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 North Carolina 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.

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Self-exclusion programs in North Carolina
ProgramHow you enrollWhat it blocksHow long it lastsSources
Getting inBettingCredit, compsOnlineMail
North Carolina: Education Lottery online play onlyState regulator Run by North Carolina Education Lottery, Online Play Support Center.Online By phone

Call the NCEL Online Play Support Center to block your online play.

Program page 1-866-934-0289

Not confirmedNot confirmedNot confirmedConfirmedNot confirmedDepends on the term you pick

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

Before you count on it. This blocks play through your NCEL online account, and nothing beyond it. It does not reach retail cash ticket purchases, and no source states whether buying a ticket in a store remains possible for someone excluded online. Sports wagering and pari-mutuel wagering sit with the statewide Voluntary Exclusion Program, a separate enrollment; the Catawba Two Kings Casino runs its own separate program. The lottery publishes two options, a temporary block or a permanent exclusion. It says an exclusion cannot be reversed: a temporary one ends when its period does, and you can then sign in with your old credentials, and a permanent one does not end. No processing time and no confirmation are published, so ask on the call what was recorded and when it takes effect, and keep your own note of the date. The lottery checks your identity when you register your account, using the last four digits of your Social Security number. Whether the call or the account tool adds a check, and whether players from outside North Carolina can use it, are both unestablished. Say plainly on the call that you want your online play blocked; asking a general question about the program is not the same request.

North Carolina: sports wagering and pari-mutuel wagering statewideState regulator Run by North Carolina State Lottery Commission, Regulated Gaming Division.Online In person

Start the VEP Enrollment Form on DocuSign.

Official form (BanMyself could not inspect the DocuSign webform, so its revision date is unconfirmed.) Program page

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. This list reaches sports wagering and pari-mutuel horse-race wagering with North Carolina's licensed operators. It does not reach the Education Lottery's draw and instant games (the lottery runs its own exclusion for online play, by phone or in your online account), fantasy contests (carved out of the sports-wagering article by that article's own text), or charitable gaming. One scope limit never appears on the consumer-facing program page. The state's sports-wagering law and the Commission's Rules Manual both say they do not apply to wagering conducted exclusively on tribal land, and the enrollment acknowledgment covers "any form of legalized Wagering in the State, excluding federally-recognized tribal lands." So wagering that happens while you are physically on Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians trust land, including at Harrah's Cherokee, is outside this program. That is easy to read the other way, because the Eastern Band's own licensed sports-betting entity (Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise, EBCI, license NCO-0008) is one of the seven licensed operators on the Commission's list. It has to honor this list for bets you place while you are off tribal land. Whether the Eastern Band runs its own exclusion for wagering on its trust land is unanswered. Harrah's Cherokee's responsible-gaming page shows only booking pages, and the Eastern Band's Tribal Gaming Commission site did not respond to any connection attempt, checked again on 2026-10-01. Treat that as unanswered, not as a no. Enrollment typically takes effect within three to four business days, so protection may lag right after you submit. While you are on the list, any winnings are surrendered and become unclaimed, losses incurred cannot be recovered, and accumulated rewards points are forfeited in North Carolina and elsewhere; an operator may also bar you from its land-based properties and online platforms in other states. Unencumbered funds already in your account before the exclusion begins are refunded. Your name comes off automatically when the term you selected is complete. A lifetime election does not end by itself, but the Commission's rule lets any excluded person petition for early removal: first a reinstatement session with a Commission agent, then a petition to the Commission's Director on a Commission form, then a 30-day wait. No agent contact, address or form is published — only GamingCompliance@ncgaming.gov, for questions about removal. Whether the form requires notarization could not be checked. Whether people from outside North Carolina may enroll is not established. Opening or filling in the form does not by itself mean you are excluded.

North Carolina: Catawba Two Kings Casino in Kings MountainTribal gaming commission Run by Catawba Nation Gaming Commission.In person By mail

Take the completed form to Security at Two Kings Casino.

Official form (No printed revision date; the filename indicates 'Dec2024'.) Program page

ConfirmedConfirmedConfirmedNot confirmedConfirmedNot confirmed

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

Before you count on it. This reaches Catawba Two Kings Casino and any future gaming operation the Catawba Nation Gaming Commission regulates. It does not touch sports wagering or pari-mutuel wagering with North Carolina's licensed operators (the statewide Voluntary Exclusion Program is a separate enrollment), the Education Lottery's games, or Harrah's Cherokee. Only you can put yourself on this list: "no one other than the individual can request to be on the self-exclusion list." If you are found in the gaming facility after your exclusion request, the casino says you "may be subject to arrest and prosecution under all applicable laws, including trespass." Any winnings while excluded are subject to forfeiture and are donated to a charity the casino chooses. Your player's card is surrendered and your player's club account is closed with points and promotions voided; you are removed from all mailing lists and cannot receive complimentary goods or services or take part in promotions. A mailed form that is not notarized and does not include a current photo does not meet the casino's own instructions. No removal or reinstatement process is published for the one-year term or for a lifetime term, and nothing states whether a one-year exclusion lapses on its own. No processing time and no confirmation are published beyond the countersigned form, so keep a copy of what you hand over or mail, and write down the date. Whether people from outside North Carolina are eligible is not established. Downloading or filling out the form does not by itself mean you are excluded.

Gambling types in North Carolina

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 North Carolina
Gambling typeWhat we foundSources
commercial casino — land-based commercial casinos (non-tribal)No program foundWhat we checked: North Carolina's general gambling prohibition (G.S. 14-292) and Chapter 18C's authorized activities, which do not include a non-tribal casino-gaming license.
Why

G.S. 14-292 makes any game of chance a Class 2 misdemeanor 'except as provided in Chapter 18C... or Part 2 or Part 4 of this Article' (lottery/sports/pari-mutuel and bingo/raffle only); Chapter 18C's authorized activities, examined via Articles 9 (sports wagering) and 10 (pari-mutuel), contain no casino-gaming authorization. No commercial (non-tribal) casino licensing scheme exists under North Carolina law.

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online casino / iGamingNo program foundWhat we checked: North Carolina's general gambling prohibition and Chapter 18C's authorized activities.
Why

Same statutory basis as land-based commercial casinos: G.S. 14-292's default prohibition, with Chapter 18C authorizing only lottery, sports wagering, and pari-mutuel wagering — no separate iGaming or online-casino article exists.

2 sources
fantasy/prediction — fantasy sportsNo program foundWhat we checked: the sports-wagering article (Chapter 18C, Article 9) that both authorizes fantasy contests as unregulated and creates the statewide VEP.
Why

Fantasy contests are explicitly excluded from the sports-wagering article's own definitions: 'Nothing in this Article shall apply to fantasy or simulated games or contests in which one or more fantasy contest players compete...' Because the statewide VEP is created by this same article for sports and pari-mutuel wagering only, fantasy contests fall outside it by the statute's own terms, not by omission. No separate North Carolina fantasy-sports exclusion program was found.

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skill games — video gaming terminals / sweepstakes machinesNo program foundWhat we checked: G.S. 14-306.1A's video-gaming-machine ban and G.S. 14-306.4's sweepstakes-machine ban, outside an approved tribal compact.
Why

G.S. 14-306.1A(a) makes it unlawful to operate, allow to be operated, or possess for operation any 'video gaming machine' (a slot machine as defined in G.S. 14-306(a), plus enumerated electronic games such as video poker, video bingo and eight-liners), with the only exemption running to a federally-recognized tribe operating under an approved Tribal-State Compact. G.S. 14-306.4 independently bans operating or promoting a sweepstakes 'through the use of an entertaining display,' with an anti-subterfuge clause (14-306.4(c)) aimed at evasion. The 'disabled and not operable... unless on Indian land' language is G.S. 14-306.1A(c)'s narrow exemption for machine manufacturers, repairers and sellers, not the general operating ban. G.S. 14-292, the general gambling-prohibition statute, is not the source of this ban and has no video-gaming-machine exemption.

1 source
skill games (G.S. 14-306(b)(1) no-redemption amusement devices)Official sources don't settle it
5 sources
tribal — wagering occurring on Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians trust landOfficial sources don't settle it
8 sources
charitable/bingo — charitable gaming (bingo and raffles)Official sources don't settle it
4 sources
lottery — retail (in-store) lottery ticketsOfficial sources don't settle it
5 sources
racing/pari-mutuel — live on-track pari-mutuel horse racingNo program foundWhat we checked: Chapter 18C Article 10, the only North Carolina authorization of pari-mutuel wagering, which licenses advance deposit account wagering operators and creates no racetrack, race-meeting or mutuel-window license, read with G.S. 14-292's default prohibition; outside federally recognized tribal land.
Why

Chapter 18C Article 10 is North Carolina's only authorization of pari-mutuel wagering, and the only license it creates is the advance deposit account wagering license: G.S. 18C-1005(a) makes it unlawful to offer or accept advance deposit account wagers in the State without one, and G.S. 18C-1015(a) requires a resident who wants to place pari-mutuel wagers to establish an account with an ADW licensee. Article 10 creates no racetrack, race-meeting or mutuel-window license. The one physical venue it contemplates is a simulcast facility, defined as a facility approved by the Commission to simulcast horse racing and conduct pari-mutuel wagering through an ADW licensee, and the Commission's Rules Manual defines a Wagering Facility for pari-mutuel wagering the same way. G.S. 18C-1025(a) directs the Commission to adopt rules governing the conduct of horse racing in this State and G.S. 18C-1015(e) says the Article does not authorize non-pari-mutuel wagering on live, simulcast or other horse races, but neither provision licenses a live race meeting, and wagering outside Article 10 falls back to G.S. 14-292, which carves out only Chapter 18C and Article 37's bingo and raffle parts. The Commission's approved-licensees list, read on October 8, 2026, has sections for sports wagering operators, service providers and suppliers and no section for ADW licensees or simulcast facilities. Coverage is not the gap here: all lawful North Carolina pari-mutuel wagering runs through an ADW licensee account, G.S. 18C-1015(b)(4) prohibits a person in the voluntary exclusion program from pari-mutuel wagering, and 24 NCAC 06A .0602(c)(2) has the enrollee acknowledge they may be refused entry or ejected from the Wagering Facility.

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card rooms (poker rooms outside tribal land)No program foundWhat we checked: Article 37's gaming-table offenses (G.S. 14-293, 14-295, 14-297) and the only poker carve-out in North Carolina law, the Alcohol Law Enforcement-permitted charitable game night, at which cash prizes are forbidden; outside federally recognized tribal land.
Why

A card room is reached by Article 37's gaming-table offenses, which are different provisions from the general-prohibition reasoning already recorded for commercial casinos. G.S. 14-295 makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor to establish, use or keep any gaming table 'by whatever name such table may be called' at which games of chance are played, and makes playing or betting at one an offense as well; G.S. 14-297 adds an offense and a $200 forfeiture for knowingly allowing such a table on one's premises; G.S. 14-293 makes a keeper of a house of entertainment or a place where alcohol is retailed who allows betting forfeit the license permanently. The General Assembly places poker among games of chance and licenses it in exactly one setting: G.S. 14-309.25(2) defines a game night as an event at which games of chance are played, G.S. 14-309.30 lists poker as one of only six games that may be played at one, and G.S. 14-309.29(a) forbids cash and cash prizes there. The Alcohol Law Enforcement game-nights page permits those events on a per-event application, caps a sponsor at four events a year, and publishes no player-exclusion mechanism. North Carolina licenses no card room and no commercial poker operator from which a person could exclude themselves.

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How we checked

These are the kinds of gambling we checked. The list may not include every way to gamble in the state.

North Carolina runs three separate self-exclusion programs, and none of them overlaps. The statewide Voluntary Exclusion Program (VEP), run by the State Lottery Commission's Regulated Gaming Division, covers online and mobile sports betting and horse-race betting through advance-deposit accounts with every licensed company. The state has no racetrack of its own. The VEP's own Rules Manual leaves out 'federally-recognized tribal lands', so betting done in person on Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) trust land, including at Harrah's Cherokee, is outside the program. That's true even though EBCI's licensed sports-betting company is one of the state's eight licensed sports-betting companies that must honor the statewide list. The North Carolina Education Lottery separately runs a much narrower, phone-only exclusion for its own online play. The Catawba Two Kings Casino in Kings Mountain, on Catawba Nation trust land, runs its own tribal program with a downloadable form. Commercial casinos, online casino gambling and fantasy sports aren't legalized gambling in North Carolina, and the VEP doesn't cover fantasy contests. Video gaming machines are banned except under a federally recognized tribe's compact, and sweepstakes machines are banned separately. Skill machines that award nothing redeemable and no free replays fall outside both bans, and we don't know whether any are run as gambling or whether any self-exclusion reaches them. EBCI's own self-exclusion policy for its Harrah's Cherokee casinos is unconfirmed. Its responsible-gaming page sends you to a Caesars booking app with no text we could read. We haven't looked into charitable gaming (bingo and raffles) beyond the general gambling law. We checked the official sources linked on this page, not every gambling option in the state. We don't know yet whether people who live outside the state can use any of the three programs.

Official North Carolina 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.

If you also gamble outside North Carolina

State lists stop at the state line. Some casino companies' own bans reach their properties elsewhere, and each program above says what it covers. If you also travel to nearby states to gamble, check their pages too: