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Gambling self-exclusion in Tennessee

Self-exclusion in Tennessee: you need two separate enrollments. Tennessee: online and mobile sports betting, run by the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council. First step: Start the self-exclusion application on the Council's site. Tennessee: fantasy sports contests, one operator at a time. First step: Open the Council's list of fantasy operator contacts. None substitutes for another, and this is not everything in Tennessee.

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 Tennessee 2

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 Tennessee
ProgramHow you enrollWhat it blocksHow long it lastsSources
Getting inBettingCredit, compsOnlineMail
Tennessee: online and mobile sports bettingState regulator Run by Tennessee Sports Wagering Council.Online Other route

Start the self-exclusion application on the Council's site.

Official form (No revision or version string is printed anywhere on the application (read 2026-09-25 and 2026-10-01). It is a live web form, not a versioned document.) Program page

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Before you count on it. The Council's application asks for your Social Security number, your driver's license number, a photo of the license and a selfie holding it, and you pick a term of 1, 3 or 5 years. No source says what happens when the term ends, so do not count on your name coming off by itself. The application shows no notary step, and no source says whether notarization is wanted. Its own warning says a casino, online operator or sportsbook may use your Tennessee ban to bar you from all of its land-based properties and all of its online games and sportsbooks, even in other states, and you could lose rewards points. A licensee may choose to exclude you permanently from its own platforms regardless of the period you asked for. Removal is described only for someone who believes they were listed inadvertently, by an application requested from the Council that the rule says does not guarantee removal. No processing time and no confirmation are published, so nothing tells you when the exclusion takes effect. This list covers Interactive Sports Gaming only. It does not reach fantasy sports contests, which take a separate request with each operator, and no reviewed source says it reaches the lottery, casino-style gambling or racing. Whether someone living outside Tennessee may apply is not established. The Council's email address SWAC.TN@tn.gov and its mailing address at 312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue are published for general questions, not as ways to apply. Opening the application, or filling it in, does not by itself mean you are excluded.

Tennessee: fantasy sports contests, one operator at a timeCasino operator Run by Individual fantasy sports operators (licensed under the Tennessee Fantasy Sports Act; the Sports Wagering Council publishes the contact list).By email Online

Open the Council's list of fantasy operator contacts.

Official form

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Before you count on it. Tennessee has no centralized fantasy self-exclusion program; the Council's own page states it. One request does not cover fantasy sports in this state, and nothing here excludes you from an operator you do not contact yourself. The Council's page lists 16 operators, and its Approved Licensees page lists the same 16 as the approved fantasy sports licensees; an operator that is on neither list is not one the Council licenses. The six email addresses come from the Council's page; nobody has tested whether those inboxes actually act on an exclusion request, and nobody has opened the apps to check the menu paths the Council describes. No operator publishes a processing time, a confirmation, an identification requirement or a duration. Rule 1350-05's 30 days is a minimum before you may re-enter, not an end date, and no source says the exclusion lifts then or lifts on its own. Whether someone living outside Tennessee may request this is not established. Sending the email does not exclude you. The operator has to act on it, and none publishes how you would hear that it did. Keep a copy of each email and write down the date. This card does not reach sports betting; that is the Council's separate statewide list.

Gambling types in Tennessee

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 Tennessee
Gambling typeWhat we foundSources
commercial casino — land-based commercial casinosNo program foundWhat we checked: Tennessee Public Chapter 1117 (2026), which makes gambling unlawful statewide and names a closed list of four lawful regimes, none of which is a casino license, read against the statutory definition of gambling that names casino games of chance by name.
Why

The Secretary of State's full Effective Rules and Regulations chapter index (~55KB, covering roughly 90 agencies) has no casino entry, which was the state's old reason to call this unresolved. Read 2026-10-10: that reasoning no longer holds, because a 2026 act now closes the list. Public Chapter 1117 makes "gambling" unlawful statewide and names only four lawful regimes — sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit gaming and the state lottery; a land-based casino is on none of them. "Gambling" is defined by cross-reference to Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-501(1), quoted in a 2014 Attorney General opinion as "risking anything of value for a profit whose return is to any degree contingent on chance, or any games of chance associated with casinos, including, but not limited to, slot machines, roulette wheels and the like" — casino games are gambling by the statute's own words, not by inference.

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tribal casinosOfficial sources don't settle it
1 source
online casino / iGamingNo program foundWhat we checked: Tennessee Public Chapter 1117 (2026), which makes online and app-based gambling unlawful statewide beyond the narrower sweepstakes definition, and names a closed list of four lawful regimes, none of which is an online-casino or iGaming license; the Sports Wagering Council's own rule confirms its licensed activity is sports wagering only.
Why

Rule Chapter 1350-01 defines the Sports Wagering Council's entire licensed activity as "Interactive Sports Gaming" (sports wagering only, via internet, mobile device, or telecommunications platform), with no separate casino-game license category and 9 sportsbook operators plus 16 fantasy operators on its licensee page — silence, which used to be where this row stayed. Read 2026-10-10: a 2026 act now settles it. Public Chapter 1117 makes "the operation, conducting, or commercial promoting of online sweepstakes games and other forms of online or app-based gambling" unlawful, and its closed list of lawful regimes — sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit gaming, the state lottery — has no online-casino or iGaming license on it. "Gambling" is defined to include casino-style games of chance (Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-501(1), quoted in a 2014 Attorney General opinion), so online casino games fall within "other forms of online or app-based gambling" rather than the narrower sweepstakes definition alone.

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sports betting — retail sports bettingNo program foundWhat we checked: Tennessee's sole licensed sports-wagering activity is defined as internet/mobile/telecommunications wagering; every licensee type is authorized only to operate that activity.
Why

Rule 1350-01 §(29) defines 'Interactive Sports Gaming' as wagering via the internet, mobile device or telecommunications platform, and §(74) defines 'Sports Gaming Operator' as a Licensee 'authorized under the Sports Gaming Act and these Rules to offer and operate Interactive Sports Gaming' — no retail or brick-and-mortar licensee category exists anywhere in the rule's own definitions.

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lotteryOfficial sources don't settle it
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racing/pari-mutuel — racing / pari-mutuelOfficial sources don't settle it
1 source
charitable/bingo — charitable gaming (nonprofit annual gaming events)Official sources don't settle it
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card rooms — commercial card roomsNo program foundWhat we checked: Tennessee state law, which makes gambling unlawful and names a closed list of four lawful gaming regimes — sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit annual events and the state lottery — none of which is a card-room license; this covers state law only and says nothing about tribal or offshore operators.
Why

Tennessee closed this list in May 2026. Public Chapter 1117 says in so many words that "Gambling; the operation or possession of gambling devices; and the operation, conducting, or commercial promoting of online sweepstakes games and other forms of online or app-based gambling are unlawful", and then names the only lawful gaming in the state: sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit annual events, and the state lottery. A commercial poker room is on none of that list and is regulated by nobody, so there is no license, no regulator and nothing to ban yourself from. The Secretary of State’s own gaming FAQ rules poker tournaments out even as a charitable event. One honest limit: "gambling device" is defined by cross-reference to a section of the criminal code that no free official source publishes — the official Tennessee Code sits behind a commercial portal — so the 2014 Attorney General opinion quoting its exceptions is supporting evidence rather than the leg this stands on. The closed savings clause does the work however a particular room is classified.

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skill games — video gaming terminals / skill-game machinesNo program foundWhat we checked: Tennessee state law, which makes gambling and the operation or possession of gambling devices unlawful and names a closed list of four lawful gaming regimes — sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit annual events and the state lottery — none of which is a video-gaming-terminal or skill-game license; the narrow antique-coin-machine carve-out in Public Chapter 65 (2021) is not one either.
Why

The same closed savings clause reaches payout machines. A skill-game terminal in a gas station is on none of Public Chapter 1117's four lawful regimes (sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit annual events, the state lottery) and is regulated by nobody. A 2021 act (Public Chapter 65) points the same way: it carves out an antique coin machine only where it is not used for gambling and the public may not operate it, the narrowest possible exception and not a license for a payout machine. The Secretary of State’s own gaming FAQ rules video lottery games out even as a charitable event. The same honest limit applies: "gambling device" is defined by cross-reference to a section of the criminal code that no free official source publishes, so the 2014 Attorney General opinion is supporting evidence rather than the leg this stands on.

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How we checked

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

Tennessee allows online and mobile sports betting only. The rule that licenses sports wagering authorizes "Interactive Sports Gaming" and nothing else, and no retail or brick-and-mortar sportsbook category appears in it. You can exclude yourself through the Sports Wagering Council's statewide list, and separately through each licensed sportsbook's own list. The Council's online application is the route its own FAQ names. It asks for your name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone, driver's license number and state, and email. You pick a 1-, 3- or 5-year term, agree to its terms, and upload a copy of your driver's license and a selfie holding your ID. The form has no notary step, and no source says whether one is needed. Fantasy sports works differently. The Council says Tennessee has no centralized fantasy self-exclusion program and publishes each fantasy company's own contact, so you have to make that request once with every fantasy company you use. A 2026 law makes gambling unlawful except sports wagering, fantasy sports, nonprofit gaming and the state lottery, so land-based casinos, online casinos, card rooms and skill-game machines have no license or regulator. We found nothing about tribal casinos either way. We couldn't open the Tennessee Education Lottery's site (tnlottery.com), so we don't know whether it has a self-exclusion program. The State Racing Commission's own history says the agency expired on June 30, 1998, which suggests no regulated racing industry, though no source says racing is illegal today. Charitable gaming is run by the Secretary of State's Division of Charitable Solicitations and Gaming, and its materials mention no self-exclusion. We checked the official sources linked on this page, not every way to gamble in the state. We don't know whether people who live outside Tennessee can use either program.

How Tennessee's programs fit together

Tennessee has two separate routes, the Sports Wagering Council's list for sports betting and a request to each fantasy sports company you use, and signing up for one doesn't cover the other.

What we know about each one

Sports wagering runs through the Council's statewide list or a sportsbook's own list. Fantasy sports has no shared list, so you contact each fantasy company directly, one at a time. These are two separate sign-ups, and joining one doesn't enroll you in the other. Signing up for both still doesn't cover every way to gamble in the state.

Official Tennessee 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 Tennessee

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: