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Gambling self-exclusion in South Carolina

South Carolina: no self-exclusion program is recorded here yet. This is not everything in South Carolina.

Reviewed 2026-10-01 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 South Carolina 0

We haven't found a self-exclusion program for South Carolina yet. The gambling types below show what we checked.

Gambling types in South 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 South Carolina
Gambling typeWhat we foundSources
commercial casino — land-based commercial casinosNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina's general criminal prohibition on gaming tables and slot/video-gambling machines.
Why

SC Code § 16-19-50 criminalizes keeping or using 'any gaming table... at which games of chance shall be played' and § 12-21-2710 criminalizes any slot machine or video game machine with a free-play feature, statewide, with no licensing carve-out for a casino operator.

2 sources
tribal casinosNo program foundWhat we checked: the Catawba Indian Nation, the only federally recognized tribe with land in South Carolina.
Why

Pub. L. 103-116 § 14 (the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993) makes the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act inapplicable to the Catawba and subjects the Tribe's gaming, on and off the reservation, to South Carolina state law — the same law that bans gaming tables and slot/video-gambling machines statewide (see land-based commercial casinos, above). This is the documented reason the Catawba Nation's actual casino, Two Kings, was built across the state line in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, instead. No other tribal gaming operation was found in South Carolina.

3 sources
online casino / iGamingNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina’s constitutional prohibition on lotteries and games of chance as the Attorney General reads it, admitting only the state lottery, charitable bingo and charitable raffles; no South Carolina statute or agency licenses an online casino and the state has no gaming regulator to hold an exclusion list.
Why

South Carolina’s constitution lets only the State run a lottery, and the Attorney General’s office has said repeatedly that this is a general ban on lotteries and games of chance with only narrow exceptions — the state lottery, charitable bingo, and since 2015 charitable raffles. An online casino is none of them, no South Carolina law licenses one, and there is no state gaming agency that could hold a list of people who want to be kept out. So there is nobody here to send a request to. Read 2026-10-09. Two honest limits: the 2019 opinion was answering a question about charitable casino nights rather than online casinos, and its "only exceptions" sentence is quoted from a 2004 opinion written before the raffle amendment the same opinion calls a third exception.

2 sources
sports betting — retail sports bettingNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina's bookmaking and pool-selling prohibition, § 16-19-130.
Why

SC Code § 16-19-130 criminalizes 'betting at any race track, pool selling or bookmaking, with or without writing, at any time or place' and recording or registering bets on 'any... trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast'; no statute authorizes a retail sportsbook.

1 source
sports betting — online sports bettingNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina's bookmaking and pool-selling prohibition, § 16-19-130.
Why

The same bookmaking statute is technology-neutral ('with or without writing') and reaches online/mobile wagering identically; no statute authorizes a mobile sportsbook and none was found operating.

1 source
lotteryOfficial sources don't settle it
3 sources
fantasy/prediction — fantasy sportsOfficial sources don't settle it
2 sources
racing/pari-mutuel — racing / pari-mutuelNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina's bookmaking and pool-selling prohibition, § 16-19-130.
Why

The same bookmaking statute explicitly criminalizes 'betting at any race track' and wagering on contests of 'speed or power of endurance of man or beast.' No South Carolina racing commission or licensed racetrack was found.

1 source
skill games — video gaming terminals / skill games / sweepstakes machinesNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina's coin-operated-device prohibition, § 12-21-2710.
Why

SC Code § 12-21-2710 bans exactly this class of machine, 'including those machines, boards, or other devices that display different pictures, words, or symbols, at different plays' — the statute used to prosecute unlicensed skill-game and sweepstakes-terminal operators.

1 source
charitable/bingo — charitable gaming (bingo)Official sources don't settle it
4 sources
card rooms — independent card roomsNo program foundWhat we checked: South Carolina's prohibitions on unlawful card and table games, §§ 16-19-40 and 16-19-50.
Why

SC Code § 16-19-40 criminalizes playing 'any game with cards or dice' or at 'any gaming table' at a tavern, store, house used for gaming, or other named place, and § 16-19-50 criminalizes setting up, keeping or using such a gaming table for gaming. No South Carolina statute licenses a card room, so there is no operator and no list.

1 source
How we checked

South Carolina has no self-exclusion program at all, so this list is the whole picture. We have now looked at every kind of gambling below, and three are still unresolved. Last reviewed October 9, 2026.

We found no self-exclusion program of any kind in South Carolina. For most kinds of gambling, state law makes the activity a crime, so there is no list to join. State law bars gaming tables and slot machines or video game machines with a free-play feature, which together ban the core products of commercial casinos and video gaming terminals statewide. The law against bookmaking applies 'with or without writing, at any time or place', so it reaches sports betting and racetrack wagering, online or in person. The Catawba Indian Nation, the only federally recognized tribe with land in South Carolina, is barred from casino-style gaming by its own 1993 federal settlement act, which puts the Tribe's gaming, on and off its reservation, under the same state law. The South Carolina Education Lottery's responsible-gaming page offers only helpline referrals (the S.C. Gambling Helpline and the National Council on Problem Gambling), with no self-exclusion or account-closure option, and its FAQ says tickets cannot be bought over the internet. Charitable bingo is licensed by the Department of Revenue, whose bingo licensing page describes license classes and requirements and mentions no self-exclusion for players. No statute we found names online casino gaming or fantasy sports, and no South Carolina law licenses an online casino. Whether fantasy sports is allowed stays unresolved. The lottery and charitable bingo stay unresolved too, because no official source says whether a self-exclusion option exists for either. We checked the official sources linked on this page, not every way to gamble in the state.

Official South Carolina links and forms

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If you also gamble outside South 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: