Wisconsin Has No Commercial Casinos, No Legal Betting App and 23 Tribal Casinos. Here Is How to Pick One.
The state's Division of Gaming counts 13,846 slot machines, 167 table games and 171 sports betting kiosks across 23 tribal casinos that won $1.38 billion last fiscal year. Which have live dealers, which have poker, which are smoke-free, and what the new Beloit casino and the Kenosha proposal mean.
Published 2026-11-02.
Potawatomi Casino Hotel is 1.9 miles from Milwaukee City Hall, has a 500-room hotel, a 14-table poker room, live craps and baccarat, and a casino floor that is smoke-free apart from two lounges. It is also, like every other casino in Wisconsin, on tribal land, because the state has never licensed a commercial one.The Wisconsin Department of Administration's gaming report for the year to September 2025 counts 23 Class III casinos run by eleven of the state's twelve federally recognized nations, with 13,846 slot machines, 167 table games and 171 sports wagering kiosks between them. They won $1.376 billion and paid the state $72.8 million. There is no FanDuel or DraftKings app anywhere in the state, no commercial casino and no legal slot machine outside a tribal building; the department's own FAQ says so in those terms.
Milwaukee: Potawatomi, the city's only casino, for the hotel, the poker room and the sportsbook. Green Bay: Oneida, with eight poker tables and the state's first sportsbook. The Dells: Ho-Chunk Wisconsin Dells, 302 rooms, dealer-run tables and a smoke-free floor. The Illinois line: Ho-Chunk's new Beloit casino, open in 2026 with 1,300 slots and 44 tables and a hotel still to come. Up north the casinos are lodges with 50 to 160 rooms attached to lakes; pick by the fishing, not the slot count. Table hours, not table games, are what will catch you out.
Eleven compacts and no commercial anything
Wisconsin's gaming compacts are perpetual, negotiated nation by nation, and each pays the state differently; the state's payment summary shows $57.6 million in fiscal 2022 rising to $66.3 million in 2024 and $72.8 million in 2025, with the nations allowed to deduct what they pay local governments first. The eleven are the Bad River, Forest County Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac du Flambeau, Menominee, Oneida, Red Cliff, Sokaogon Chippewa, St. Croix Chippewa and Stockbridge-Munsee. The federal law behind compacts is the same everywhere; what is different here is that there is nothing else.
Sports betting arrived by compact amendment, one nation at a time, starting with the Oneida amendment executed July 1, 2021. By the end of fiscal 2025 six nations ran retail sportsbooks: Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac du Flambeau, Oneida, St. Croix, Sokaogon and Potawatomi. Ho-Chunk, Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee are authorized but had not opened one; Red Cliff and Bad River have no sports amendment at all. Oneida runs the state's only mobile betting, and its app works only while you stand on Oneida land in Brown and Outagamie counties. Everything else is a kiosk or a counter inside a casino.
Milwaukee and Green Bay
Potawatomi's current shape dates from May 3, 2024, when the Forest County Potawatomi opened a 6,500-square-foot sportsbook with more than 20 kiosks and 10 ticket writers alongside a 4,400-square-foot poker room of 14 tables. The poker page now says 15 tables, open 24 hours Thursday through Saturday. The live pit runs EZ Baccarat, blackjack, craps, Mississippi Stud, roulette and Ultimate Texas Hold'em, with electronic blackjack and craps as well. The hotel is 19 floors and 500 rooms, which the casino calls the second-largest in Milwaukee. The card is Potawatomi Rewards; the Fire Keeper's Club name you may remember is gone from the website. Two smoking lounges remain, one on the mezzanine with 169 games and two blackjack tables, one on the first floor with about 100 games; everything else, hotel and restaurants included, is smoke-free. In June 2026 the sportsbook became the official sportsbook partner of the Green Bay Packers, and the casino warns that I-94 construction next door runs through late 2026. Chicago is 88 road miles south.
Oneida Casino is five sites around Green Bay's airport and west side, with the main casino and the Oneida Casino Hotel on Airport Drive, 8 miles from downtown and about 4 from Lambeau Field. The main floor has slots around the clock, live tables from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. (craps from noon, high-stakes tables from 6:30 p.m.), and an eight-table poker room open Wednesday through Saturday. The sportsbook calls itself Wisconsin's first and takes bets at kiosks at four sites, at cashiers at two, and on its app within the reservation.Ho-Chunk, from the Dells to Beloit
The Ho-Chunk Nation runs more casinos than anyone else in the state, and they are not interchangeable.
Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells, off I-90/94 in Baraboo, is the resort: 302 rooms and suites, dealer-run blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat and the poker variants, a 100 percent smoke-free floor including vaping, and no sportsbook yet. Madison is 55 road miles, Chicago 195. Ho-Chunk Madison, 10 miles from the Capitol, calls itself the only facility in Wisconsin dedicated to Class II gaming, which in practice means 1,300 bingo-based machines, no tables and no hotel. Black River Falls has a hotel and blackjack; Wittenberg has 86 rooms and electronic tables only; Nekoosa's FAQ says its table games are closed indefinitely; Tomah is about 100 slots by the highway. All are smoke-free and all share the Rewards Club.Beloit is the new one, and its arrival was quiet. The Interior Department took 31.87 acres at the Illinois line into trust for gaming on May 12, 2022, after Governor Evers concurred in March 2021; the 2022 proposal described 2,200 machines, 50 tables, a 300-room hotel, a convention center and a waterpark. The state's January 2026 casino map still did not show it. By the fall of 2026 the property's own site posted operating hours, dining open daily, a Millionaire Maker promotion starting October 31, 2026, 1,300 slots and 44 table games including live poker, with the hotel, now described as 312 rooms with a rooftop lounge, still in the future tense. We could not find a dated grand-opening announcement, so we will say what we can: it is open, it is 24/7 on tables, and the hotel is not built. For anyone in Rockford or the far north suburbs of Chicago it is a new option that did not exist a year ago.
The north woods
North of Highway 29 the casinos are lodges, and the question is which lake.
Lake of the Torches in Lac du Flambeau has more than 100 rooms, live Roll to Win craps alongside blackjack and Three Card Poker, and a DraftKings retail book with six kiosks and a window; tables run 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., later on weekends. Sevenwinds in Hayward, the Lac Courte Oreilles casino, has 75 rooms, the Champions Sportsbook, and live craps and roulette on Friday and Saturday evenings only. The St. Croix Chippewa run three: Turtle Lake with 161 rooms and live craps, roulette and blackjack, 76 road miles from Minneapolis; Danbury with 47 rooms and the same live games, 108 miles from Minneapolis; and Hertel, which is 250 slots and an RV park. Those three are the Twin Cities' Wisconsin casinos, and our casinos near Minneapolis page compares them with Minnesota's.On Lake Superior, Legendary Waters at Red Cliff has 47 rooms and Bad River Lodge near Ashland has a smoke-free floor that closes at 2 a.m.; neither has a sportsbook, because neither nation amended its compact. Inland, Mole Lake in Crandon has 75 rooms, electronic tables and sportsbook kiosks; the Stockbridge-Munsee's North Star Mohican in Bowler runs blackjack and poker variants around the clock; Menominee Casino Resort in Keshena has a smoke-free hotel; and Potawatomi Carter in Wabeno shares the Milwaukee casino's card.
| Casino | Hotel rooms (property site) | Live dealers | Poker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potawatomi, Milwaukee | 500 | yes | 14 to 15 tables |
| Oneida, Green Bay | not published | yes, 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. | 8 tables, Wed to Sat |
| Ho-Chunk Wisconsin Dells | 302 | yes | no |
| Ho-Chunk Beloit | not yet built | yes, 24/7 | live hold'em |
| St. Croix Turtle Lake | 161 | yes | no |
| Lake of the Torches | 100-plus | yes, evenings | no |
Where the usual advice is wrong
The usual advice, especially from Illinois, is that Wisconsin casinos are slot halls and you should cross the line south for real tables. That was true once and is not now: Potawatomi, Oneida, the Dells, Beloit, Turtle Lake, Danbury and Lake of the Torches all run dealers, and the state's own report counts 167 live tables.
What the advice gets right by accident is hours. Illinois tables run around the clock; in Wisconsin, Oneida's close at 4 a.m. and open at 10, Lake of the Torches runs 3 to 11, Sevenwinds deals craps two nights a week, and Nekoosa's tables are shut indefinitely. The casino you want may have exactly the game you want and not at the hour you arrive. Check the table-games page, not the homepage, before you drive.
The other correction is for Kenosha. The Menominee's casino proposal there is back in the federal process: the Bureau of Indian Affairs published an environmental assessment on March 9, 2026 for a casino and hotel on 59 acres between 60th and 75th streets along I-94, took comments until April 27, and as of November 2026 lists the two-part determination as pending. It would still need the governor's concurrence. The 2009 version of this project was disapproved outright. Do not plan a trip around it, and do not let a Kenosha hotel tell you otherwise.
If gambling has stopped being something you decide the cost of in advance, the Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling's line is 1-800-GAMBLE-5 (1-800-426-2535) and 1-800-GAMBLER works anywhere.
Topics
- wisconsin
- tribal
- potawatomi
- ho-chunk
- milwaukee
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