Kansas: the four state-owned casinos and race-meet locations

Terms you can choose

Not verified: KRGC's own current pages conflict. The VEP overview page, the brochure and the sample application describe a choice between two years and lifetime; the FAQ page states the name remains on the list for a minimum of five years. All were checked again on 2026-10-01. K.A.R. 112-112-9(a) lets a person petition for removal "at any time after two years from the original date of application" and K.A.R. 112-112 contains no five-year minimum, so the regulation fits the two-year option and not the FAQ. The conflict between the Commission's own pages stays unresolved, because only the Commission can say which page is stale. The brochure adds that a term, once chosen, "may be increased but not decreased".

When it ends

A fixed term continues until a removal is granted; whether a permanent term exists, and what would govern it, is not established.

A fixed term. Your name does not come off on its own. After two years from your application date you can petition the Commission's executive director, who approves or denies each petition (K.A.R. 112-112-9). You have to show the Commission a problem gambling assessment with a certified gambling counselor or another method it approves, completion of a Commission-approved education program on healthy lifestyle choices and problem gambling awareness, any other requirement the Commission sets, and a signed authorization and release on a Commission form. You are removed when the executive director mails the approved notice. If the petition is denied you stay on the list. Removal questions go to the Responsible Gambling Coordinator on 785-296-5800. How long the term runs is unresolved between KRGC's own current pages.

A lifetime term. Not verified: K.A.R. 112-112-9(a) lets "any person on the self-exclusion list" petition after two years and does not mention a lifetime election. The brochure says a participant who chose two years or a lifetime may be removed "once the time period chosen has concluded", and the sample application and overview page offer lifetime as a choice. No page says in terms whether a lifetime election can be ended. Two official readings, so unknown.

How to enroll

Enroll in person at any state-owned Kansas casino.

Go to any of the four state-owned casinos and ask for a KRGC agent. The Commission's own page says no appointment is necessary. Bring a valid driver's license or government-issued ID: staff photocopy it and take your photo on site, and an agent witnesses your signature as part of intake. You can also enroll at the Commission's Topeka office, 700 SW Harrison, Topeka, KS 66603, by appointment on 785-296-5800. Downloading or filling in the sample PDF at home does not enroll you. You are enrolled the moment the application is complete: “once you have completed a valid application, you are in the Voluntary Exclusion Program.” You leave with a photocopy of it, and a letter confirming your placement on the List follows in a few weeks. If that letter never comes, call 785-296-5800.

1. Pick where to go. Any of the four state-owned casinos takes walk-ins — Boot Hill, Kansas Star, Hollywood at Kansas Speedway, Kansas Crossing — and the Commission's page says no appointment is necessary; ask for a KRGC agent. The Commission's Topeka office at 700 SW Harrison takes appointments, booked on 785-296-5800.
2. Go sober, and go straight to the KRGC office without crossing the gaming floor. The Commission's own page says an applicant “cannot be under the influence of any alcoholic beverages or controlled substances that would prevent the applicant from making a sober and informed decision at the time of application.” It also asks you not to make one last visit on the way in.
3. Bring a valid driver's license or other government-issued ID. Staff photocopy it and take a photo of you on site.
4. Ask the KRGC agent for the application and complete it with them. The sample posted on the Commission's site (rev. 09-2017) shows what it asks for: identifying information, a waiver of damages, and an acknowledgment that the program does not reach Kansas's tribal casinos. It is a sample. The application you sign is the one staff hand you.
5. Sign in front of the agent, who witnesses the application as part of intake. No source says whether notarization is separately required for this program; the in-person witnessing is what the Commission describes.
6. Ask about your term and about removal before you leave. KRGC's own pages disagree on the length — two years or lifetime on the overview page, the brochure and the sample application, a five-year minimum on the FAQ page — and your name does not come off on its own. Removal is a petition to the Commission's executive director, and it opens two years after the date of your application (K.A.R. 112-112-9). You show the Commission a problem-gambling assessment, a Commission-approved education program on healthy lifestyle choices and problem gambling awareness, anything else it requires, and a signed release on a Commission form. The Commission decides each petition and mails you the notice. You come off the list when it mails the approved notice. The FAQ sends removal questions to the Responsible Gambling Coordinator on 785-296-5800.

Official form (09-2017 (sample only)) · Program page

Before you count on it. KRGC's own current pages contradict each other on the term. The VEP overview page, the brochure and the sample application all describe a choice of two years or lifetime; the FAQ page states a minimum of five years. Both are current official pages, checked again on 2026-10-01, and neither has been updated to settle it — get your end date from the Commission in writing rather than from a page. Your name does not come off on its own. You can petition the Commission's executive director for removal once two years have passed since your application (K.A.R. 112-112-9). The Commission decides each petition, and a denied petition leaves you on the list. Removal questions go to the Responsible Gambling Coordinator on 785-296-5800. The regulation does not say whether a lifetime election can be ended, and the brochure and overview page offer lifetime as a choice, so ask the Commission about it before you pick. This program does not reach any tribal casino in Kansas — Prairie Band, Sac & Fox, Golden Eagle and Casino White Cloud all operate outside it. By rule (K.A.R. 112-201-22(c)(4)), casinos exclude people who enrolled in the VEP after 2022-09-01 from sports wagering while they are in the VEP, so you do not need a separate sports wagering enrollment for that. The rule does not say whether the Commission keeps one list or two. You have to be able to make a sober and informed decision to apply: the Commission's page says an applicant cannot be under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance at the time of application, so a trip made drunk is a wasted one. You leave with a photocopy of your application, and a letter confirming your placement on the List arrives in a few weeks — treat a missing letter as a reason to call 785-296-5800. Casino direct mail may keep arriving for several weeks because campaigns are printed in advance; that is not a sign the exclusion failed. Whether people from outside Kansas can enroll is not established. Downloading or completing the sample PDF does not enroll you. Only completing the application in person with a KRGC agent does.