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Who can bet at Fanatics Sportsbook

Bettors needn't be a resident of a legal U.S. betting jurisdiction to wager there, but they must be physically present in them to wager on the Fanatics Sportsbook platform after opening an account. Fanatics employs vigilant geolocation tracking technology to ensure that all wagers are placed in states and jurisdictions where it is legal to bet on sports.

While a handful of states have legalized wagering for bettors as young as 18, Fanatics Sportsbook has elected to restrict its wagering accounts to bettors aged 21 and over, which has become the prevailing national standard for sports betting.

Regardless of how old you are, you cannot bet on Fanatics Sportsbook if you have chosen to abstain from gambling by placing your name on a self-exclusion list. Furthermore, if you work for a sports league or team, you cannot bet on that sport.

Funding your Fanatics Sportsbook account

After registering for your mobile Fanatics Sportsbook account, you must deposit money into your account to take advantage of any welcome offers. Fanatics does not allow credit cards or gift cards for the funding of accounts, but it does accept the following methods of payment: debit card, check, wire transfer, Apple Pay, Venmo, PayPal, Trustly, or cash at a brick-and-mortar Fanatics sportsbook.

Withdrawing money from your Fanatics Sportsbook account can be done through bank transfer, check, wire transfer, Trustly, Venmo, and PayPal. Customer assistance is available 24/7 via live chat on the Fanatics Sportsbook app or website.

Featured signup bonus: $1,000 in credits via no-sweat bets

Fanatics makes your first 10 days of play extra special with its welcome bonus. Upon signing up and making a deposit of $5 or more, you’ll get one no-sweat bet up to $100 each day for your first 10 days. 

This means you can wager $100 each day and get bonus credits back if you lose. The no-sweat bets are flexible, however, so you can wager less than $100 if that’s too steep. 

One key detail is that the odds on the potential no-sweat bets must be -500 or longer. Hence, if the odds on the team or athlete you want to win or hit a certain prop target has odds of -500 into plus money (i.e., +220 and the like) to succeed, you're eligible to take advantage of the no-sweat bet offer. If those odds are -501 or shorter, however, your bet will not be eligible for the promotion.

Note that the Fanatics offer is different in the state of New York, where Fanatics players get $50 in bonus bets when they bet $5. 

These stipulations serve as helpful reminders to always review the terms and conditions of a given promotion and, better yet, to review a sportsbook's general terms and conditions at large. These constitute a contract between bettor and bookmaker and can vary by sportsbook; there's no one-size-fits-all approach.

Mobile focus and FanCash

While most of its rival sportsbooks function on multiple online platforms, Fanatics has chosen to focus exclusively on Android and iPhone interfaces with its mobile sportsbook, making it among the quickest and most user-friendly for handheld sports betting.

Fanatics Sportsbook offers competitively priced odds in a variety of sports betting markets, including same-game parlays, and features odds boosts on select bets. Furthermore, Fanatics Sportsbook bettors are able to earn up to 10% FanCash back on their bets, win or lose. FanCash rewards can be redeemed for not only bonus bets, but also Fanatics-manufactured jerseys, hats, and other merchandise.

Smorgasbord of sports betting options

Fanatics Sportsbook account holders are able to bet on sporting events big and small. This includes opportunities to wager on a variety of outcomes involving the NBA, NCAA, NFL, NHL, MLB, UFC, and WNBA, as well other major sports like auto racing, golf, soccer, and tennis. Fanatics Sportsbook also offers betting markets on a plethora of foreign leagues.

Several states have specific restrictions on college sports wagering, with the most common of these being prohibitions on betting on events involving in-state schools and placing prop bets on individual players.

Bet types

There are a multitude of bet types available at Fanatics Sportsbook. Some of the most accessible are described below.

If you simply want to be on your favorite team to win, you can definitely do that at Fanatics Sportsbook. This is what's called a moneyline bet, where you wager on which team will win, with your potential payout dependent on odds that dictate which team is likelier to prevail.

Another popular type of wager at Fanatics Sportsbook is betting on the point spread in a given game. Let's say the Lakers are playing the Clippers in Los Angeles during the NBA regular season, and the Clippers are favored by 3.5 points. If you want to back the Lakers to beat the spread, your bet will cash if they lose by three points or less. But if it's the Clippers you like in this betting scenario, they'll need to win by four or more points to cover the spread and for you to come out a winner.

Think the battle of L.A. will be a high-scoring affair? Then you might want to be the "over" in what's called a "totals" bet. More commonly known as an "over/under" wager, this involves betting on whether you think the combined score of both teams in any sport will be more or less than a total that Fanatics Sportsbook sets. So if the line in the Lakers-Clippers game is 221.5 points, an "over" bet of 222 or more would cash, while the same would be true for an "under" bet of 221 or fewer points.

Prop bets involve focusing on a specific statistical category involving a player or team. Do you think James Harden will have more than 9.5 assists against the Lakers? That's one prop bet you can make, while another example is which team will score 30 points first. Perhaps the best-known prop betting bonanza is the Super Bowl, where some sportsbooks will offer betting markets on situations as frivolous as whether the pregame coin toss will land on heads or tails.

At opposite ends of the betting spectrum are futures and live bets. Futures bettors play the long game: If they think they've got a pretty good idea of which team will win the World Series well before the All-Star Break, they can bet on that team to do so and sit back and wait to see what happens several months later. Live bets -- also known as "in-game" or "in-play" bets -- involve such scenarios as betting on the outcome of the next drive in football or the next at-bat in baseball.

Parlay pandemonium

One type of sports bet that's become all the rage in the U.S. is the parlay. Parlay wagers involve multiple bets, or legs – all of which must hit in order to yield a profit. 

Let's say it's Sunday in Denver and you cook up a three-leg parlay wherein the Broncos, Nuggets, and Avalanche all must win for your bet to cash. The odds of this happening are nowhere near as good as just betting on one of these teams to win, but because of that, the potential payout is far more lucrative.

A popular subset of parlay wagering is the single-game parlay, also known as a same-game parlay or SGP. The same basic parlay principles apply, only all of the legs are restricted to a single sporting event. Here, you might construct a parlay involving Broncos quarterback Bo Nix exceeding a certain amount of passing yards alongside a Denver win and a bet on the point total.

Fanatics Sportsbook recently introduced a significant expansion of parlay offerings, including a live cash-out feature that allows bettors to take the money and run before all their legs have played out.

Retail sportsbooks

In January 2023, Fanatics opened its first retail sportsbook at the home field of the Washington Commanders in Maryland, and it remains the only brick-and-mortar sportsbook inside an NFL stadium.

In Ohio, Fanatics has sportsbooks located next to the home venues of MLB's Cleveland Guardians and the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets.

Fanatics Sportsbook is the exclusive betting partner for the Connecticut Lottery and has several retail sportsbooks and betting kiosks throughout the state, including at the XL Center in Hartford and Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport.

In addition, Fanatics has transformed former PointsBet sportsbooks in Maryland and Illinois -- including one at Hawthorne Race Course near Chicago -- into Fanatics-branded sportsbooks and, in September 2024, opened Fanatics Sportsbook at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The first true sports brand to open a retail sportsbook on Atlantic City's boardwalk, it offers sports bettors and casual fans an optimal viewing experience with 140 feet of LED television walls.

Responsible gambling initiatives

Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG), which operates an online casino embedded within its Fanatics Sportsbook app, is a platinum member of the National Council on Problem Gambling and considers responsible gambling to be central to the sports betting experience. 

To this end, if a customer who is suffering from a gambling problem chooses to self-exclude themselves from one FGB product, they will automatically be excluded from all FBG products. Furthermore, Fanatics will enforce a minimum gambling age of 21 on its products even if the state that a gambler is playing in allows wagering for people under the age of 21.

Fanatics has also pledged not to pursue any sports betting deals or sponsorships with collegiate athletic departments and has forged a partnership with Birches Health to interact with bettors who are showing signs of problematic play. Among the responsible gambling offerings included in this partnership are a betting budget calculator and access to counseling.

If you ever feel as though your gambling habits are getting out of control, call 1-800-GAMBLER or a state hotline for help.