Online craps for Australian players: what the law actually allows in 2026

Updated September 2026

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Anyone searching for the best casinos for online craps in Australia arrives at a market that does not, in law, exist. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits the supply of online casino games — craps included — to anyone in Australia, and no state or territory issues a licence for them. What an Australian reader can lawfully use, in order of how close they sit to a digital craps experience, runs through licensed wagering services (which do not carry craps), licensed land-based casinos in the capital cities, and the regulated pub-and-club pokies network. The shortlist the rest of the world can publish for online craps does not apply here.

What follows is not a ranking and not a recommendation to play offshore. It is the page an Australian reader actually needs: how the prohibition works, which sites the ACMA has moved against for offering it anyway, what a craps table looks like in case the reader wants one, and where the regulated safeguards sit. Two figures carry the whole picture. Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, according to H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 report, and the share of gambling that flows through legal channels fell from 74% in 2021 to 64%. Offshore craps sites are a measurable slice of that loss.

Data current as of 23 September 2026, cross-checked against the ACMA’s formal-warning register and the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 as published.

Craps bonuses and what an “online craps bonus” really costs

Any bonus marketed around online craps sits in a market the IGA 2001 already rules out for Australian customers. The mechanics of that bonus still matter, though, because the same wagering language is what the reader meets on any unlicensed site that takes their deposit.

A craps bonus, like every casino bonus, attaches a turnover requirement — sometimes called a wagering requirement — to the bonus amount. The requirement is a multiple: a $100 bonus with a 40× turnover means $4,000 in bets must be placed before the bonus, and any winnings from it, can be withdrawn. The maths that decides whether the bonus is worth claiming sits on the other side of that multiplier: the house edge of the bet used to clear it. On a Pass Line bet at 1.41%, the expected loss from clearing $4,000 in turnover is roughly $56 — that is what the bonus actually costs a player who grinds it out with the cheapest bet on the table. The marketing word is “free”; the arithmetic says otherwise.

Three mechanics shape what the reader pays:

• Wagering multiple. The single number that sets the cost. Offshore craps bonuses commonly run from 30× to 60× the bonus amount. The higher the multiple, the more the house edge accumulates before the player is allowed out.
• Game contribution. Most bonuses count craps at 100% toward turnover, but many exclude it, or reduce it to 10–20%. A bonus that excludes craps is, in practice, a slots-only bonus with craps artwork.
• Maximum cashout. Some bonuses cap the winnings a player can withdraw — for example, a 10× cap on the bonus amount turns a $100 bonus into a maximum $1,000 payout regardless of how the session runs. That ceiling is where most “big win” screenshots come from, and where most withdrawals stall.

The combination matters more than any single line. A 35× bonus on craps with no cashout cap is a different offer from a 50× bonus with a 5× cashout cap, even though both are advertised as “craps welcome bonus”. The reader who reads only the headline pays for the one they did not read.

None of this changes the underlying problem for an Australian reader: the site offering the bonus is, by the ACMA’s own actions, operating outside Australian law. The bonus is real money the player can lose. The “free” part is the part the player does not get.

Craps as a game: paytables, dice and the bets that matter

Craps is a dice game played on a marked table. A single shooter throws two dice; the rest of the table bets on the outcome. The first roll of a new shooter’s hand is the come-out roll. A 7 or 11 wins the Pass Line immediately, a 2, 3 or 12 loses it immediately, and any other number (4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10) becomes the point. From that moment, the shooter rolls again and again until either the point number comes up first — which wins the Pass Line — or a 7 comes up first, which loses it.

That is the entire game in skeleton. Where the money sits is in the bets layered around it, and the bets divide cleanly into two camps.

The cheap bets. The Pass Line and Come bets carry a house edge of 1.41%, the Don’t Pass and Don’t Come 1.36%. A “free odds” bet placed behind a Pass or Don’t Pass bet pays at true odds — 0% house edge — which is the only wager on the table where the casino has no mathematical advantage at all. The standard craps playbook is to anchor on Pass or Don’t Pass, then stack free odds behind it for the bulk of the wager. The dollar cost per hour on these bets, with the dice averaging 100 rolls, lands well under what most other casino games charge.

The expensive bets. Any Craps — a one-roll bet on 2, 3 or 12 — carries a house edge of 11.11%. The Field bet runs at 5.56%. Any 7, a one-roll bet that a 7 appears on the next throw, sits at 16.67% and is widely called the worst bet on the table. Proposition bets in the centre of the layout (hardways, hops, the world) range from roughly 9% to over 16%. None of them are random curiosities — they are the bets the table is designed to make easy to place and hard to walk past.

Two variant forms sit beside the standard game. Crapless Craps removes 2, 3, 11 and 12 as come-out losing or winning numbers, leaving 11 as the only winning number alongside 7 — a structural change that raises every house edge on the table and turns the game into a worse proposition per roll. Street craps is the informal version played on a sidewalk or a kitchen floor, with no marked table and no casino staff: it is also, in most Australian jurisdictions, illegal even when no money is wagered.

The game’s history is American. Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville brought a simplified form of the English dice game Hazard to New Orleans around 1805; the simplified form was called “Pass”, from the French “pas”. Around 1907, Philadelphia dice maker John H. Winn introduced the Don’t Pass betting layout that still defines casino craps — a change that, paradoxically, gave casinos an incentive to use fair dice, because the Don’t Pass bet punishes the shooter and rewards the house when dice are weighted.

A craps session, then, is a contest between the cheapest bets on the layout and the layout itself. The cheapest bets make the casino’s edge negligible. The layout makes the bets that evaporate that edge easy to reach for. The reader who knows the difference loses less per hour than the one who does not.

The shortlist: brands the ACMA has acted against for offering craps online

A shortlist for “best casinos for online craps in Australia” cannot, in good conscience, name a place to play. What it can name — and what is on the public record — is the set of brands the ACMA itself has issued formal warnings over for offering prohibited online casino services to Australians. The list is not a recommendation. It is the inverse: each brand is here because the regulator has moved against it.

The table below uses the article-language no-data marker (—) where research does not carry a figure for a given cell. “Subject support” is the term research uses for whether a brand carries craps as a playable title; the ACMA register does not list games, and offshore operators do not file Australian disclosures, so most rows carry no figure.

What the table is actually showing is the operator side of the law the next section sets out. A “Subject support” cell of “listings only” means craps appears on the brand’s own catalogue page or on an aggregator listing — not that the brand offers craps to Australians under any Australian licence. The plain dash carries the same meaning more directly: there is no claim of an Australian licence for craps, anywhere on the brand’s page, that the ACMA has not contradicted.

The cumulative picture is what makes the table worth reading. Dama N.V. alone accounts for four of the eleven entries — RocketPlay, Level Up, Woo Casino and Spirit Casino — across four separate ACMA actions between 2022 and 2026. TechSolutions Group and its Consolutetish successor cover a fifth and sixth (Bizzo and National). The same offshore holding structures surface again and again, which is why the ACMA’s enforcement approach, formal warnings followed by ISP blocking requests, ends up repeatedly catching the same parent company under different brand names.

What an ACMA formal warning actually means

A formal warning under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 is a written notice from the regulator to a person or company that the ACMA considers is providing a prohibited interactive gambling service to customers in Australia. It is published on the ACMA’s website with the operator’s name, the brands covered and the date. It is not a fine and it is not a court order; it is the step the ACMA takes before asking Australian internet service providers to block the offending domain.

Three things follow if a brand ignores a formal warning. The ACMA can move to enforceable undertakings, which are court-enforceable. It can refer the matter to the Federal Court for civil penalty orders. And it can ask ISPs to add the domain to the blocking list maintained under section 313 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 — which is how Australian customers find the page on a blocked website rather than the page they were trying to reach. The individual player is not prosecuted under the IGA; the Act targets the provider. That is the one piece of good news in an otherwise unfavourable picture, and the reader should not lean on it.

Reading an offshore craps brand in plain English

The licences these brands display — Curaçao, Anjouan, occasionally Costa Rica — are licences to operate from those jurisdictions, not licences to take bets from Australians. The ACMA’s actions against these brands rest on the location of the customer, not the location of the licence holder: an offshore site offering online craps to a person in Australia is offering a prohibited service to that person, regardless of what its footer says. The brands in the table above carry one or more of those offshore licences; none of them carries an Australian licence for online casino games, because no such licence exists.

A practical test the reader can apply: if the brand accepts credit cards, cryptocurrency, or both, it is operating outside Australia’s June 2024 payment rules, which banned credit cards and digital currency for licensed online wagering. The legal deposit routes for licensed Australian wagering are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. A site that wants a credit card number or a Bitcoin address is telling the reader, in plain terms, which side of the IGA it sits on.

How Australian online gambling actually works

The shape of the Australian market is set by what the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits and what it permits. The IGA, strengthened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting to a person physically in Australia. The penalty for an individual provider is up to A$220,000 per day; for a corporation, up to A$1.1 million per day. Those are not theoretical figures; they are the maximum the Federal Court can impose on a provider that the ACMA has prosecuted.

What remains licensable is wagering on races and sporting events placed before the event begins, lotteries and keno. In practice, online sports betting in Australia is licensed by the Northern Territory — the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission (NTRWC) regulates 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers, including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes, which are licensed in the Territory for tax reasons. The NTRWC has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin, which is itself a story about how lightly the licensable half of the Australian market is regulated.

What is missing from the licensable list is everything else: craps, roulette, blackjack, baccarat, online pokies. A reader who wants any of these games online in Australia is asking for something the regulator has spent twenty years trying to keep out of the market, and the regulator’s enforcement record in 2025–2026 is the most direct evidence of that.

The ACMA’s blocking rate since 2019

The ACMA’s preferred tool is the section 313 blocking request. It asks Australian ISPs to block access to an offshore site at the DNS level. The cumulative result, reported in June 2026, is that 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites had been blocked since the first blocking request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed gambling services had voluntarily left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017.

That is a blocking rate of roughly 1,751 sites across roughly 79 months — a band of about 22 sites blocked per month on average, with the rate rising sharply in the 2024–2026 period as the ACMA increased the size of its blocking rounds. The 26 June 2026 round alone asked ISPs to block 12 sites in one batch. The arithmetic the reader should hold onto is that the list is not shrinking; it is the size of a mid-sized newspaper’s website archive, added to every few weeks, and the ACMA publishes a fresh batch every reporting period.

The blocking rate matters because it is the visible signal of what the prohibition actually does. The IGA is a provider-side law, not a player-side law, so the only consequence the reader sees when they try to open one of these brands is that the page does not load. Behind the page, the ACMA is keeping a running count of how many pages that has happened to.

Penalties, payments and the June 2024 changes

The June 2024 payment reforms changed the deposits an Australian could lawfully make into a licensed wagering account. Credit cards and credit-related products were banned; digital currency was banned. The penalty for an Australian-licensed operator accepting those payment types is up to $234,750 per breach under the Criminal Code, with further civil penalties possible. The reforms do not, on their own, reach an offshore craps site that is happy to take a credit card from anyone who offers one — but they do mean the reader has a clean test for which side of the law any given site is on. The site that asks for a Visa is the site the IGA already targets.

A note on what the IGA does not do: it does not make it an offence for an Australian to place a bet with an offshore site. The reader is not at risk of prosecution for playing craps online. What the reader is at risk of is exactly what the regulator warns about — no Australian consumer protection, no local complaints body, no recourse if a withdrawal is refused, and a real chance the page itself stops loading one morning because the ACMA has added the domain to its blocking list with the reader’s balance still inside it.

The 2026 reform bill

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026. Its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027, which means the law exists but is not yet in force on a page written in the current year. The bill targets the marketing layer — the affiliate pages, the bonus codes, the inducements sent by SMS — rather than the games themselves, which the IGA already prohibits. For a page about craps specifically, the change that matters is the inducement piece: a craps bonus marketed by SMS to an Australian customer becomes a clearer breach under the 2026 act than it was under the original 2001 one.

Player protection: BetStop and the tools that actually apply

The reader who lands on this page because they have already been playing craps offshore has, in the regulated half of the Australian market, one tool that reaches them: BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register. BetStop went live in August 2023 and is run by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. A person registers with BetStop and is excluded from every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service simultaneously, for a minimum period of three months and up to a lifetime exclusion.

BetStop’s reach is exactly the licensable half of the market — sports betting, racing, lotteries and keno. It does not reach offshore online casino sites. A person who has registered with BetStop cannot place a bet with Sportsbet from their own account; the same person can still open an account with an offshore craps site that the ACMA has just issued a formal warning against, because that site is not connected to the register and has no obligation to check it.

That is the structural gap. The reader who wants to stop betting on craps cannot use BetStop to stop betting on craps, because BetStop does not cover craps. The tools that do reach the offshore half of the market are not state-supplied; they are the reader’s own.

The National Gambling Helpline

For anyone reading this from Australia who is chasing losses or finding it hard to stop, the National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858 — free, 24 hours a day, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. The service is funded by the Commonwealth and run by the states; it covers problem gambling support, financial counselling referrals and connection to face-to-face services in the caller’s state or territory. It is the one number on this page that does not depend on which side of the IGA the underlying activity is on.

State and territory problem gambling services sit alongside the national line. Each state operates its own face-to-face counselling network, its own self-exclusion orders for land-based venues, and (in several states) its own pre-commitment system for pokies. The reader who has been playing at a Crown casino, a Star casino or a licensed club can use those systems directly; the reader who has been playing offshore cannot.

What the protections look like on the licensable side

Three things apply to an Australian-licensed wagering service that do not apply to an offshore craps site:

• Pre-commitment and deposit limits. Australian-licensed online bookmakers must offer deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion as built-in account features. The limits are set by the customer and enforced by the operator.
• Advertising rules. Wagering advertising on Australian-licensed services is restricted to certain hours and certain channels, and must carry responsible-gambling messaging. The 2026 reform bill tightens this further from January 2027.
• Complaints and dispute resolution. Australian-licensed wagering services sit under the Australian Financial Complaints Authority for dispute resolution, and the relevant state or territory gambling regulator for compliance issues. The reader who is refused a withdrawal by a licensed operator has somewhere to take the complaint. The reader who is refused a withdrawal by an offshore craps site has, in practice, nowhere.

The offshore site is the option where every protection the reader has ever been offered is silently switched off.

Reading the Australian market in 2026: what the ACMA has done this year

The ACMA’s enforcement pattern through 2025–2026 is the closest thing the Australian reader has to a market report for offshore craps. A formal warning is the regulator’s first move; a blocking request is the second. The third, for repeat offenders, is referral to the Federal Court.

The chronology of named actions against the brands in the table is short and worth reading straight through:

• February 2025. Formal warning to EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino.
• March 2025. Formal warning to Dama N.V. over Woo Casino.
• April 2025. Formal warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd over Casino Intense.
• May 2025. Formal warning to Dama N.V. over Spirit Casino.
• July 2025. Formal warnings to Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino and to Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino and Bizzo Casino. Bizzo had already been the subject of a 2022 formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V.
• March 2026. Formal warning to Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay.
• April 2026. Formal warning to Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK.
• 26 June 2026. Blocking request for 12 sites in one round, taking the cumulative total to 1,751 blocked domains since November 2019.

Two patterns sit inside that list. First, the same holding companies recur: Dama N.V. four times across four brands in roughly four years, TechSolutions / Consolutetish twice. Second, the ACMA is publishing more actions per year as it ramps up — five named warnings in 2025 alone, against two in the same period of 2022. The trend is more enforcement, not less.

The cumulative figure of 1,751 blocked sites since November 2019 is the regulator’s own scoreboard. It is not a count of the offshore market; it is a count of the offshore market the regulator has acted against. The reader who treats it as a measure of how much offshore gambling exists will overstate the problem. The reader who treats it as a measure of how actively the regulator pursues the offshore market will read it correctly.

Where Australian readers can play craps legally

The honest answer is: on the felt, at a licensed casino, in person. Craps is offered at Crown Melbourne under rules approved by the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission; it is offered at The Star Sydney under the NSW Casino Control Act 1992, which requires the regulator to approve the rules of every table game before it can be played. Crown’s online offering is restricted to sports betting under its NT wagering licence; The Star’s online offering has wound down. None of Australia’s licensed casinos offers craps online.

A reader who wants a regulated, in-person craps experience in Australia books in to Crown Melbourne or The Star Sydney. A reader who wants the digital experience Australia does not license has the offshore sites in the table above — and the rest of this page tells them what that costs.

Choosing a path: who each option actually suits

Three paths sit in front of an Australian reader who has reached this page. Each suits a different reader, and each carries its own cost.

Path one: the licensed wagering account. A reader who wants to bet on Australian sport, Australian racing and the major international events has a fully regulated market. Sportsbet, Bet365, Ladbrokes and the rest of the NTRWC’s 52-licensee roster offer pre-event betting, in compliance with the IGA, with deposit limits, BetStop coverage and AFCA dispute resolution. Craps is not among the products. This path suits the reader who is happy to keep casino play off the table.

Path two: the land-based casino. Crown Melbourne, The Star Sydney, Crown Perth, Crown Adelaide, The Star Gold Coast and Treasury Brisbane offer table games including craps under state-based casino control legislation, with the rules of every game approved by the relevant state regulator. Craps on the felt is the legal form of the game in Australia. This path suits the reader who can travel and wants the full table experience with consumer protection.

Path three: an offshore craps site. The brands in the table above are accessible to an Australian reader at the time of writing, and offer craps among other games. None of them is licensed in Australia. None of them is connected to BetStop. None of them offers Australian consumer protection. The reader choosing this path trades every safeguard for access to a game Australia has decided not to license, and the regulator’s monthly blocking rounds are the price of that access being unstable. This path suits a reader who has weighed the trade-off and is making the choice with eyes open.

There is no fourth path that does not cut across one of these three. Affiliate marketing pages that point an Australian reader to an offshore sign-up bonus are not a path; they are advertising for path three.

The financial picture in plain terms

A reader who places $100 on a Pass Line bet at an Australian land-based casino and leaves the table after one hour of average play has lost, on a 1.41% edge with the dice averaging 100 rolls, roughly $1.41 in expected loss per $100 of Pass Line action. The free odds behind it carry no edge. The same $100 of action at an offshore site has the same mathematical cost — but the cost of any dispute over the withdrawal is borne entirely by the reader, in a jurisdiction the reader does not live in, with no Australian body to complain to.

The H2 Gambling Capital figure of A$3.9 billion a year in losses to illegal gambling sites in Australia, and the fall in the legal share of gambling from 74% in 2021 to 64%, are the aggregate version of that arithmetic. The reader who chooses path three is one of the tens of thousands whose stake makes up that figure.

Frequently asked questions about online craps in Australia

What house edge does the Pass/Come bet carry in craps?

The Pass and Come bets both carry a house edge of 1.41%, making them the cheapest standard wagers on a craps table after the free-odds bet. Don’t Pass and Don’t Come are fractionally cheaper at 1.36%, and a free-odds bet placed behind either has no house edge at all — it pays at true odds.

What is the difference between a Pass Line and a Don’t Pass bet in craps?

A Pass Line bet wins on a come-out roll of 7 or 11, loses on 2, 3 or 12, and wins if the shooter rolls the point number again before a 7. A Don’t Pass bet does the opposite: it loses on 7 or 11, wins on 2 or 3, pushes on 12, and wins if the shooter rolls a 7 before the point. The two bets sit on opposite sides of the same dice, which is why most players at a craps table are on Pass and most experienced players quietly anchor on Don’t Pass.

Is it legal for an online casino to offer craps to players in Australia?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as strengthened by the 2017 amendments, makes it an offence to provide online casino games — including craps — to a person physically in Australia. The penalty is up to A$220,000 per day for an individual provider and up to A$1.1 million per day for a corporation. The individual player is not prosecuted under the Act; the law targets the operator.

Why is the Any Craps bet considered a poor-value wager?

The Any Craps bet — a one-roll wager on a 2, 3 or 12 — carries a house edge of 11.11%, which is roughly eight times the edge on a Pass Line bet. It pays 7:1, which sounds generous against three winning numbers out of 36, but the true odds are 8:1. That gap is the house edge, and it makes Any Craps one of the more expensive single-roll bets on the table.

Can craps be played at a licensed Australian land-based casino?

Yes. Craps is offered at Crown Melbourne under rules approved by the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, and at The Star Sydney under the NSW Casino Control Act 1992. Other Australian casinos — Crown Perth, Crown Adelaide, The Star Gold Coast, Treasury Brisbane — operate under their own state casino control legislation and offer table games from approved rule sets. No Australian casino offers craps online.

What should someone do if they are chasing craps losses online?

The first call is the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 — free, 24/7, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. The helpline covers problem gambling support, financial counselling and connection to state-based face-to-face services. BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, blocks access to Australian-licensed wagering services for a chosen exclusion period; it does not cover offshore craps sites, so a reader who has been playing offshore should pair BetStop registration with the helpline and, where possible, a state-based financial counselling service.

Created by the ”Casino Safety Info” editorial team.