Who can wager at Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook

It's not necessary for bettors to be a resident of a legal U.S. betting jurisdiction to wager there, but they must be physically present in one to wager on the Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook platform after opening an account. To prevent fraud and wagering from locations where it's not expressly legal to do so, Hard Rock Bet utilizes state-of-the-art online security and geolocation technology.

Only bettors who are 21 and older can wager on the Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook platform, and regardless of how old you are, you cannot log into a Hard Rock Bet account if you have chosen to abstain from gambling by placing your name on a self-exclusion list.

Funding options and Customer Service

After registering for your online Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook account, you must deposit money into your account to take advantage of any welcome offers. The following forms of payment are acceptable for both depositing and withdrawing money at Hard Rock Bet: bank transfer, credit and debit cards, PayPal, ApplePay, and Venmo.

Hard Rock Bet is considered to be among the most seamless sportsbooks when it comes to moving money and resolving customer issues. To this end, in 2024 it launched a new online Help Center, where bettors can get automated assistance with common questions and categories of inquiry, as well as easy-to-find live chat and email buttons.

Also, whether for payment or wagering rules, it's important to always review a sportsbook's general terms and conditions. These constitute a contract between bettor and bookmaker and can vary by sportsbook.

Featured signup bonus: Bet $5, get $100 in bonus bets

New Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook players instantly get $100 in bonus bets when they wager $5 or more on odds of -200 or longer (i.e., -225 wouldn’t qualify, but -175 or +125 would). You receive the bonus bets as soon as you place your qualifying wager, and the $100 is split into five $20 wagers.

Hard Rock Rewards

Upon opening an account, Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook players are automatically enrolled in the operator's Loyalty Rewards program, where they immediately begin earning points that can be redeemed for anything from bonus bets to resort stays to a Tesla automobile.

The more points a player earns, the higher their tier, and there is a level of reciprocity with Hard Rock's international loyalty program, Unity by Hard Rock.

Sports to wager on at Hard Rock Bet

Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook offers wagering on hundreds of leagues in more than 20 sports, including Aussie Rules Football, baseball, basketball, boxing, cricket, cycling, darts, football, golf, handball, hockey, jai alai (Florida!), MMA, motorsports, rugby, soccer, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball.

Several states have specific restrictions on college sports wagering that are meant to preserve the integrity of competition and athletes' mental health, with the most common of these being prohibitions on wagering on events involving in-state schools and placing prop bets on individual players.

Bet types

In sports betting, you'll often hear mention of what's called a moneyline bet. The easiest way to think about this type of wager is as a win bet -- you're simply picking a team or individual athlete (like a boxer or tennis player) to defeat another team or individual athlete. Odds are assigned to each team or athlete based on how likely they are to prevail, and your payout will be dependent on these odds. For instance, if the Chiefs are -180 favorites to beat the Jets, you have to wager $180 at Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook to win $100 (equaling a final payout of $280). If Kansas City was a +180 underdog, you'd need to bet $100 to earn a profit of $180.

Another popular type of wager is a spread bet, or a bet on the point spread. Drawing from the same Chiefs-Jets scenario, if the Chiefs are favored by 5.5 points (or -5.5), a wager on them at Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook to cover would mean your bet would cash if they won by six points or more. If they won by five points or less (or simply lost the game), your bet would lose.

An over/under bet is a wager on whether you think two teams will combine to score more or fewer points than a total set by a sportsbook. Shifting gears to college basketball, let's say Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook sets the total for the Gonzaga-Kentucky game at 147. If the final score winds up being 75-73, an over bet would win. If it winds up at 74-72, an under bet would cash, and if it lands at 74-73, it's a push and all bets are refunded.

The most common type of futures bet involves wagering on a team to win a division, conference, league championship, or a certain amount of games (among other wagers) in advance of when the outcome is set to be determined. Hence, this type of wager is perfect for Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook customers who don't mind waiting to collect on a longer-term wager. Futures bets can also be made on players to reach specific statistical milestones or win a year-end award, like Most Valuable Player or Rookie of the Year.

For bettors who favor swift resolutions, there's always live betting – also known as in-play or in-game betting. Here, you can bet on lines that are adjusted in real time during the course of a game or wager on something as granular as which player will score first -- or next -- in a basketball game. This latter type of wager is often referred to as a microbet.

Prop bets and parlay wagers have both become extremely popular in the U.S. A prop bet (or side bet) is a wager on something that has no direct link to the final outcome of a game or event, such as how many total bases a hitter in baseball might log in a given game, or how many receiving yards a tight end in football might accumulate. Prop betting tends to get particularly creative during major sporting events like the Super Bowl, when some sportsbooks will even offer odds on whether the coin toss will wind up landing on heads or tails.

Parlays are a single wager in which two or more bets -- or legs -- are combined into one. For example, if you combine Jalen Brunson scoring more than 24.5 points with the Knicks to cover as 4.5-point favorites, both of those outcomes must prove successful for your bet to cash. That would qualify as a same-game parlay (SGP), but parlays can include legs from different sporting events or even different sports altogether.

Flex Parlays and other special betting features

The more legs you add to a parlay, the longer the odds are that it will cash. Granted, longer-legged parlays are potentially more lucrative, but Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook's Flex Parlay feature offers bettors a creative hedge.

To create a Flex Parlay at Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook, you'll need to choose a minimum of four legs (maximum of 10) before selecting the "flex" tab at the top of the betslip. From there, you'll manually move a price slider to the left or right. By moving the slider to the left, the payout for an imperfect parlay ticket -- getting three or four out of five legs correct, for instance -- goes up, while the payout for getting all five legs correct goes down, and vice versa.

Also on the parlay front, Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook offers an SGP Max option that expands same-game parlay bets beyond the parameters of a single game. Frankly, this is no different from creating a regular parlay (up to 20 legs, in this instance), albeit with the SGP branding that's become lodged in the American sports betting lexicon.

As with most things in life, sports wagering gets easier the more you educate yourself about its ins and outs. Thankfully, the Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook app contains a Discover page that gives bettors access to betting trends and popular wagers on the app. 

Included on the Discover page are features like Follow or Fade, which shows where the public money is going on a given game or event; Overs Club, which highlights games where Hard Rock Bet has taken a substantial amount of action on the over in a specific game; Trending Games, which simply shows which games are attracting the most betting action (there's a similar feature for most-bet player props); and Hot Dogs, a compilation of the most-bet underdogs to win straight up on the moneyline.

Retail Hard Rock Bet sportsbooks

With multiple Hard Rock properties already located across the United States when the repeal of PASPA cleared the way for sports betting to spread beyond the borders of Nevada, the company was well-positioned to open brick-and-mortar sportsbooks within the walls of its existing venues -- and that's exactly what it's done.

First and foremost, there are six retail Hard Rock Sportsbooks in Florida. Three of these -- Seminole Classic Casino Hollywood, Seminole Hotel Casino Immolate, and Seminole Casino Brighton -- feature kiosks but no live tellers, while the other three -- Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, and Seminole Hard Rock & Casino Tampa -- feature both kiosks and live tellers and an exciting sports bar atmosphere in which to watch games.

Outside of Florida, there are six additional Hard Rock Sportsbooks: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol (Virginia), Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati, Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana (in the city of Gary), Hard Rock Casino Rockford (Illinois), and Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort (Arizona, east of Flagstaff).

Responsible gambling initiatives

As a member of the Responsible Gambling Coalition, with integrity monitoring provided by IC360, Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook is fully committed to preserving player safety and a responsible gambling environment. In addition to various wagering education tools, round-the-clock customer support, and easy-to-view snapshots of an account holder's wagering history, Hard Rock Bet provides sports bettors with a plethora of responsible gambling tools to support healthy wagering habits.

Deposit and wager limits allow sports bettors to voluntarily restrict the amount they can deposit or wager in a day, week, or month, while session limits allow customers to establish similar guardrails for the amount of time they can spend on Hard Rock Bet's mobile app or desktop sportsbook in a single session. With this voluntary measure, customers are automatically logged out of Hard Rock Bet when they reach their session limit. A softer variation of this tool is a session reminder, which alerts customers when they've reached a pre-set time threshold without logging them out.

Hard Rock Bet customers who realize they are struggling to restrict their gambling can close their accounts for a set period through a timeout, during which they can log into -- but not wager on -- their account and will not receive any marketing communications containing bonus offers and the like. A more serious, yet still voluntary, step is self-exclusion, where customers can close their accounts for a set timeframe, during which they will not be able to log on.

If you ever feel like your gambling has gotten out of control, call 1-800-GAMBLER or a state hotline to receive immediate help or learn about your options for assistance.

Hard Rock Bet offers comprehensive responsible gambling tools and resources, including limits on access time, deposits, and wagering amounts. Must be 21+ to wager. Terms and conditions apply to all offers. Please see Hard Rock Bet for details. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER.