Which sportsbooks actually offer responsible-gambling tools? A per-operator evidence table (Q3 2026)
Every large U.S. sportsbook says it is committed to responsible gambling. Almost none of them say what that means in numbers. This page is the first attempt we know of to check, operator by operator, what is actually published: does a deposit limit exist, is there a loss limit as well as a wager limit, how long is the shortest cool-off you can take, how many years does self-exclusion run, and can you close your account without talking to anyone. We read fourteen operators' own responsible-gaming pages, help centers and terms of service, and we recorded a source URL for every cell. Where an operator does not publish a fact, we wrote "not published" rather than guessing — and that turned out to be the most common answer of all. Forty-seven of the 154 core cells in this table are blanks the operators left. We did not create accounts and we did not log in.
The table
| Operator | Deposit limit | Loss / wager limit | Time, session or reality check | Cool-off / timeout | Self-exclusion in app | Written self-exclusion by email | Account closure | RG tools reachable from main nav? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DraftKings | Y — daily/weekly/monthly, account-wide. An increase needs a waiting period whose length DraftKings says "depends on the type of limit and where you live," plus a further 24 hours and a return visit to confirm. (src) | Y — both. A loss limit blocks wagering once hit (src); a wager limit runs daily/weekly/monthly plus a Max Single Wager cap. (src) | Y — daily time limit, resets at midnight UTC. (src) | Y — durations not published. (src) | Y — "up to 5 years"; the duration menu is not published and the article defers to state instructions. Not reversible. (src) | N | Self-serve, but only as self-exclusion — the "Close Account" control opens the Self Exclusion flow. (src) | Partly. Published for self-exclusion only: profile photo → Close Account → Self Exclusion. The path to the limits themselves is not published. |
| FanDuel | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. A decrease is immediate; an increase needs a request, a cooldown of unpublished length, then a return visit to confirm. (src) | Wager (spend) limit Y. A loss limit as a separate tool: not published. | Y — maximum daily hours, tracked across products; login is blocked at the limit. (src) | Y — 3 to 365 days. (src) | Y — self-exclusion starts at 1 year; a separate 3, 6, 9 or 12-month suspension is also documented. Not reversible. (src) | N | Self-exclusion is self-serve; ordinary closure is not published — contact support. | Not published as a tap path. The tools sit on an "RG Tools" page inside the account. |
| BetMGM | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. A decrease is immediate with an instant text; an increase is valid only after 1 day (daily), 7 days (weekly) or 30 days (monthly). (src) | Y — loss limit, daily/weekly/monthly. | Y — daily time limit with a warning prompt, then automatic logout. | Y — 3 to 180 days, plus a 365-day timeout that "will not be reactivated under any circumstances." (src) | Y — durations not published nationally; they are state-specific. | N | Not published as self-serve. | Menu → Responsible Gaming → Self-Exclusion. The path to the limits is not published. |
| Caesars Sportsbook | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. Increase delay: not published. | Spending limit Y, daily/weekly/monthly. A loss limit as a separate tool: not published. | Y — daily time limit in hours. | Y — 3 to 30 days. | Y — minimum 12 months; New Jersey and Indiana publish 1 or 5 years. Not reversible. | Y — responsiblegaming@caesarssportsbook.com, attach a photo of your ID. | Not published as self-serve. An RG email address and (855) 474-0606 are published. | Not published. The RG page sits under Support, and /responsible-gaming redirects into /support/responsible-gaming. |
| theScore Bet (formerly ESPN BET) | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. A decrease is immediate; no increase until the prior period expires. (src) | Partly — "limits on wagering amounts" are stated; the periods, and whether a distinct loss limit exists, are not published. | Partly — "limits on access time" are stated; the values are not published. (src) | Y — 3 days to 4 weeks. State minimums appear in the state terms: New York and Colorado 72 hours to 1 year; Maryland 30 days to 1 year. | Y — 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, or permanent. The account is closed and the balance returned. Not reversible. (src) | N | Self-exclusion closes the account; ordinary closure is not published. | Not published. |
| Fanatics Sportsbook | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. A decrease is immediate; an increase requires the prior limit's period to lapse. | Y — both. A loss limit on "how much money you can risk" daily/weekly/monthly, plus a maximum single wager. | Y — session time limits, daily/weekly/monthly. | Y — timeout of 3 to 365 days; state pages also document a cool-off of no less than 72 hours. | Y — minimum term 1 year. Not reversible. | N — Fanatics does not accept a written self-exclusion request; support@betfanatics.com handles account closure only. Self-exclusion is completed in-app or through your state program. | Must contact support — "you may close your account at any time by contacting the support team." | Not published. Fanatics files its RG content under /legal/, per state. |
| bet365 (US) | Y — calendar day, week or month. A decrease is immediate; an increase requires a 7-day wait, then a return visit to confirm. (src) | Spend limit Y, day/week/month, counting sportsbook and gaming together. A loss limit as a separate tool: not published. | Y — Reality Check: a pop-up showing time logged in plus the session's winnings and losses. A hard session limit is not published. | Y — 72 hours, 7 days, or 30 days; you can still log in to withdraw. (src) | Y — New Jersey 1 year, 5 years or permanent, covering all NJ licensees; elsewhere 6 months, 1, 2 or 5 years, or indefinite. "Not possible to re-open your account for any reason." (src) | Y — supportusa-eng@customerservices365.com | Self-serve online and separate from self-exclusion: choose a closure period or enter a date. (src) | Not published as a tap path, but a per-state RG site gives each tool its own URL under "Stay In Control." |
| Hard Rock Bet | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. Increase delay: not published. | Wager limit Y, day/week/month. A loss limit: not published. | Y — session limits and session reminders. Durations and reminder intervals: not published. | Y — durations not published. | Y — state-specific: New Jersey 1 or 5 years and not revocable, Virginia 2 or 5 years. No consolidated list. | N | Not published as self-serve; the documented exits are timeout and self-exclusion. | Not published. A standalone RG site, rg.hardrock.bet, exists. |
| BetRivers | Y — daily/weekly/monthly. Increase delay: not published. | A spending limit and a maximum-single-wager limit, Y. A loss limit: not published. | Y — time limit in hours per day. The range of hours is not published. | Y — at least 72 hours per the RG policy; the cooldown help article says 3 to 30 days. Cannot be reversed or shortened. The balance is withdrawable during a cool-off. (src) | Partly — BetRivers documents the state programme, for example Pennsylvania at 1 year, 5 years or lifetime, rather than an operator self-exclusion with its own durations. | Y — {state}support@betrivers.com, for example nysupport@ or ilsupport@ | Not published as self-serve. On joining a self-exclusion list the balance is mailed as a paper cheque. | Y, and documented in words: My Account → Responsible Gaming. (src) |
| Fliff | Y in policy, but not self-serve. Daily, weekly and monthly caps on Fliff Coins and Fliff Cash exist, but you must email a request, and Fliff states a limit is not in effect until it has implemented it and told you. | Not published. | Not published. | Y in policy — durations not published. | N — by email only. 1, 3 or 5 years; cannot be shortened, can be extended; applied "as soon as practically possible." | Y — support@getfliff.com | Must contact support — a written email request to support@getfliff.com. | No in-app responsible-gaming menu is documented. Every tool routes through a "Contact Us" email. |
| PrizePicks | Y — daily, weekly or monthly budget limits. A limit cannot be edited or deleted until its period has passed. | Not published as a loss limit; budget and entry-fee limits instead. | Not published. | Y — 1 to 30 days. | Y — 30 days or more, or LIFETIME. Not reversible, and returning after a non-lifetime term requires emailing support to unlock the account. | Y — support@prizepicks.com, attach a photo of your ID. | Self-serve — Settings, scroll to the bottom, "Delete Account." (src) | Partly. The deletion path is published tap by tap; the path to the RG limits is not. |
| Underdog | Y — on a rolling 30-day basis, not a calendar month. Published ceilings: under-21 $7,500 a month, 21+ $200,000, with Massachusetts, Maryland and Tennessee capped separately. A published article covers the waiting period before raising a limit. (src) | Partly — a general "Setting Limits" page; a distinct loss limit is not published. | Not published. | Y — Cool-Off at 3 days, 7 days, 1 month and further options. | Y — 1, 3, 5, 10 years, or lifetime. "Cannot be undone." (src) | Y — support@underdogsports.com, attach a photo of your ID. | Self-serve — close and withdraw at any time, typically within 10 business days; reopening needs support plus a government-issued ID. (src) | Not published as a tap path; a dedicated RG help collection exists. |
| Kalshi | Y — a "Personalized Funding Cap," calendar month only, with no daily or weekly option published. It takes effect immediately; an increase applies only from the next month; it cannot be lifted early. (src) | Not published. | Not published. | Y — a "Trading Break," described as "a day or more," with no duration menu published. (src) | Y — Voluntary Opt-Out, available on the web, in the app and through Kalshi's API. Durations not published. Cannot be lifted early, and open positions cannot be sold during it. (src) | Y — support@kalshi.com | Self-serve deactivation with reactivation possible; any break, opt-out or cap survives deactivation. (src) | Y — Profile → Risk Management. (src) |
| Polymarket (US) | Not published. | Not published. Polymarket's own documentation says the opposite: the orderbook "does not have trading size limits and matches willing buyers and sellers of any amount." (src) | Not published. | Not published. | Not published. Polymarket is named as in onboarding for the cross-platform programme at SelfExclude.io; no live integration is documented. | Y — support@polymarket.us | Not published. | No responsible-gambling page was found on polymarket.us, polymarket.com, docs.polymarket.us or help.polymarket.com. |
Download the full dataset (CSV) — one row per operator, with limit periods, nav paths, RG page dates, per-operator notes and a source URL in its own column for every cell.
What the table shows
Five of fourteen operators name a cool-off tool and publish no duration for it. DraftKings, Hard Rock Bet, Fliff, Kalshi and Polymarket all either describe a break without saying how long it can be, or offer none publicly at all. Hard Rock Bet is the sharpest case: it names six tools — deposit limit, wager limit, session limit, session reminder, timeout, self-exclusion — and publishes a duration for none of them. The durations that are published vary by a factor of more than a hundred, from PrizePicks' one-day minimum to FanDuel's and Fanatics' 365-day maximum. A person deciding between two books cannot compare on this, because most of the fourteen do not put the numbers where a non-customer can read them.
Ten of fourteen give you no published way to close your account by yourself. Only bet365, PrizePicks, Underdog and Kalshi document a self-serve closure. Everyone else either routes you to support — Fanatics and Fliff say so explicitly — or, in DraftKings' case, offers a control labelled "Close Account" that opens the self-exclusion flow, so the only documented way out is one that locks you out for years. Getting in takes minutes on every one of these products. Getting out, for most of them, means a conversation.
A loss limit — the one tool that caps what you actually lose — is published by three operators out of fourteen. DraftKings, BetMGM and Fanatics. Everyone else publishes a wager or spend limit instead, which caps turnover, not losses: you can hit a $500 weekly wager limit having lost $500, or having lost nothing. The two are routinely described in the same breath in operator marketing, and they are not the same protection.
Only two operators publish how long the cooling-off on a limit increase actually lasts. BetMGM — one day for daily limits, seven for weekly, thirty for monthly — and bet365, at a flat seven days. DraftKings says a waiting period exists and that its length depends on the limit type and the state, without publishing the values. FanDuel, Caesars, Hard Rock Bet and BetRivers publish nothing. This is the number that decides whether a limit is a real brake or a speed bump, and twelve of fourteen leave it out.
The two prediction markets are not equivalent to each other, and one of them publishes nothing. Kalshi has a funding cap, a trading break, a voluntary opt-out reachable through its API, and membership of a cross-platform self-exclusion scheme run by an integrity firm — while publishing no duration for either of its break tools. Polymarket US, a CFTC-designated contract market that launched in the United States in May 2026 and is available in most states, has no responsible-gambling page we could find, no published deposit limit, no break, no session tool and no self-exclusion. Its public documentation states affirmatively that the orderbook has no trading size limits.
Not one of the fourteen responsible-gaming pages carries a visible last-modified date. Two operators publish a date adjacent to the topic — PrizePicks in an annual responsible-gaming report, Hard Rock Bet in a dated news post announcing its RG site — but no operator dates the page that tells you what the tools do. That is why this table is versioned by quarter: nobody else is versioning it.
How we built this
Public sources only. Every cell was taken from a source any member of the public can open without an account: the operator's own responsible-gaming page, help center, terms of service or state-specific legal pages; app-store listings; regulator filings; and press. We did not create accounts, we did not log in, and we did not use anyone's credentials. That is a deliberate limit, and it is also the point: if a fact about how to protect yourself is only visible after you have deposited money, it is not published, and we have recorded it as such.
"Not published" is a finding, not a gap. Where an operator names a tool but omits its durations, periods, or the length of a cooling-off, the cell says so. Where an operator publishes nothing at all on an attribute, the cell says so. Forty-seven of the 154 core cells in the dataset — roughly three in ten — are blanks the operators left. We have not filled any of them with an estimate, a range from a review site, or an inference.
Third-party review sites were excluded. A number of the facts in this table are easy to find on affiliate and review sites, often with more precision than the operator gives. We did not use them. Affiliate sites are paid by operators, their figures are frequently stale, and a fact that exists only on an affiliate page is, for our purposes, not published by the operator. Where a duration appears widely on review sites but nowhere on the operator's own pages — Hard Rock Bet's timeout lengths, for example, or BetRivers' time-limit range — the cell reads "not published."
Quarterly re-verification. This table is versioned by quarter and re-checked every quarter, with the date of each check recorded. The purpose of versioning is to make change visible: if an operator moves self-exclusion deeper into its menus, removes a duration from a page, or starts publishing one, the difference between two quarters shows it. Q3 2026 is the baseline.
Screenshot policy, from Q4 2026. This version is documentary: it records what operators publish, not what the apps do. A future version will add a screenshot layer contributed by people who already hold accounts, showing the real tap path to each tool and the duration menus the public pages omit. That layer will be verified, not crowdsourced open-endedly: every screenshot will carry a date, an operator, a state, an app version and a named reviewer, and no contributed claim will enter the table without one. We will never ask anyone to open an account to collect data for us.
Corrections. If we have an operator wrong, we want to fix it and we will log the fix. Email support@betttr.net with the cell, the correct value and a public URL. Corrections from operators are welcome and will be published with the same prominence as the original entry.
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Frequently asked questions
Which sportsbook has the best responsible-gambling tools?
On what is published, DraftKings and Fanatics document the widest range — both offer a loss limit as well as a wager limit, which most operators do not — and bet365 is the only one with a documented self-serve way to close your account that is not a multi-year self-exclusion. But "best published" is not the same as "best in practice," and this table only measures the first. Polymarket US is the clear bottom of the table: no responsible-gambling page was found at all. If you are choosing a book on this basis, the honest answer is that a tool you set on the operator's own app can usually be undone by you on a bad night, while a state self-exclusion or a device-level block cannot.
What does "not published" mean — does the tool not exist?
No. It means the operator does not say. Several of these tools almost certainly exist inside the apps with duration menus we cannot see from outside. "Not published" is a statement about transparency, not about the product. We think it matters on its own: someone deciding whether a book is safe enough to use, or a regulator comparing operators, or a family member helping someone set limits, can only work from what is public. A protection you have to sign up and deposit to discover is one you cannot factor into the decision to sign up.
How is this different from a sportsbook review site?
Review sites are usually paid by the operators they rank, through affiliate commissions on every signup they send. We take none, and we excluded review sites as sources even where they had better numbers than the operator did. This page also does not rank anyone or recommend a sportsbook. It records what each operator publishes, cites the URL, and versions the result quarterly so changes are visible.
I want to stop, not compare. Where do I start?
Not with an operator's own tools, which you can usually switch off. Start with your state's self-exclusion programme or the national programme, which the operator cannot undo, and see our self-exclusion directory for how to enrol in your state and which operators accept a written request by email. If you want to talk to someone now, the National Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), available 24/7. Betttr makes an app for stopping gambling and staying stopped — a four-step blocker, a community recovering together, and daily tools — and it is on the App Store.
Source: each operator's own responsible-gaming pages, help centers and terms of service, retrieved September 20, 2026; Betttr's self-exclusion directory for the written-request column; CFTC filings for Polymarket US. Every source URL is in the CSV. Betttr LLC makes Betttr; every operator in this table is independent of us and none of them funds this work.