Gambling self-exclusion in South Dakota

These are the kinds of gambling we checked in South Dakota, and the list may not include every way to gamble in the state.

South Dakota has one statewide program, the Commission on Gaming's Self-Exclusion (Voluntary Exclusion) Plan. It is distributed to every licensed gaming establishment in Deadwood, where all of the state's commercial casino gaming and retail sports wagering is concentrated. Terms are 6 months, 1, 2 or 5 years, or indefinitely, and the form requires a copy of your ID and a photo. You can sign and submit it in your browser, and the Commission also takes it by mail or email. The form has no notary block, and no source says whether notarization is required. The Commission's Executive Secretary answered us in writing on October 7, 2026. You can ask to come off the list before your chosen term ends; the request goes to the Commission at its Spearfish address, with no penalty and no waiting period for asking. People who live outside South Dakota can enroll. The list does not reach South Dakota's tribal casinos: he wrote, "no, they would have to have their own." He didn't say what happens when a fixed term runs out on its own, or whether an indefinite exclusion can use the same removal request, and no other source does either. A separate route covers advance-deposit sports wagering accounts: you ask the licensee that holds the account to suspend it for at least 72 hours or indefinitely. South Dakota law limits all sports wagering, including this account-level request, to physical presence on a licensed Deadwood premises. A third program, run by the affiliated Deadwood Mountain Grand, Silverado and Franklin properties, offers 90-day, 2-year or permanent terms with mail-in enrollment, on top of whatever the statewide list already covers. We don't know whether any South Dakota tribe runs its own self-exclusion program, and we haven't asked any tribal gaming commission. The two tribal-state compacts we read (Rosebud Sioux 2024, Yankton Sioux 2016) contain no self-exclusion term, and the Department of Revenue's page says tribal casinos offer 'the same games' as Deadwood. That is a real gap if you play at one. Rosebud Casino's website gives a Valentine, Nebraska postal address, but under its compact the casino stands in Todd County, South Dakota. Online horse and dog racing wagering became licensable through multi-jurisdictional totalizator hubs under rules effective September 30, 2026, and those rules require a hub licensee to have a self-exclusion plan. We found no hub licensee. We found no self-exclusion option for the State Lottery (including its video lottery terminals), for racing and pari-mutuel wagering (the Commission can only exclude people for cause), or for fantasy sports (the only relevant rule bars Deadwood sportsbooks from accepting bets on fantasy contests, which is not an exclusion option). Charitable gaming and bingo stay unresolved: no state regulator runs an exclusion list, and a 2026 change lets a charity place a coin- or bill-operated pull-tab dispensing machine in a bar it doesn't own, with nothing stopping someone excluded from every Deadwood casino from using one. South Dakota law doesn't allow card rooms or non-lottery video gaming terminals (skill games) outside Deadwood, so there is no company or list to ask. We checked the official sources linked on this page, not every way to gamble or every tribe in the state. People from out of state can enroll in the Commission's list. We don't know yet whether they can use the advance-deposit account route or the Deadwood Mountain Grand program.