Online craps in Australia in 2026: why the shortlist this page is supposed to deliver does not exist

Updated September 2026

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Data current as of 24 September 2026, verified against the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s published register of formal warnings and blocking requests.

Any page that promises “the best casinos for online craps in Australia” is selling something the Australian market does not have. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits offering online casino games, including craps, to anyone physically present in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for it. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has spent seven years acting against the offshore operators that take Australian customers anyway. A ranked, recommended list of craps casinos licensed in Australia would be a fiction, and the rest of this page is the case for treating it as one.

What the page can do is set out the gap clearly, name the brands the ACMA has acted against for offering exactly this product, explain what a craps table actually looks like and how its bets compare, and point a reader in Australia toward the gambling that is licensed and the help that exists for someone in trouble. That is what follows.

What the ACMA has acted against for offering online craps and similar games

Eleven operators sit on the ACMA’s published register of formal warnings because they offered prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. The table below records what the ACMA itself has published: the brand as it appears on the warning, the operating company named in the same warning, and the date the warning was issued. None of these sites is licensed anywhere in Australia for casino-style games, and a licence displayed in a footer is from another jurisdiction entirely.

Three things stand out in the table. First, Dama N.V. and its successor Pulsup Ltd account for four of the eleven brands, which makes the same corporate group the most frequent subject of formal warnings in the ACMA’s recent record. Second, only two of the eleven brands have any provider-index footprint at all, and even those references are listings that say nothing about whether the listed titles are actually available to an Australian customer. Third, every row in this table is one the ACMA itself put on the record. The page has not ranked, scored or recommended any of them.

A formal warning is not the heaviest tool the ACMA has. The heavier one is a blocking request to Australian internet service providers. In the round reported on 26 June 2026, the ACMA asked ISPs to block twelve further sites — 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino — taking the running total of blocked illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites to 1,751 since the first blocking request in November 2019. Since enforcement was strengthened in 2017, more than 230 unlicensed services have left the Australian market. The rate at which this happens is the page’s own calculation, set out below.

The pace of enforcement: a blocking-rate reading

The numbers from the ACMA register give a single, blunt rate. From the first blocking request in November 2019 to the round reported on 26 June 2026, 1,751 sites have been blocked. That span covers roughly 79 months. Dividing one by the other gives an order-of-magnitude read of around 22 blocked sites per month on average across the whole period, and that average flatters the recent picture: the rounds have grown larger, the formal-warning list has grown longer, and the rate that matters now is the rate the ACMA is actually working at, not the smoothed average across the whole enforcement window.

Stated as a band: the ACMA has been blocking illegal gambling and affiliate marketing sites at a pace of roughly 20 to 25 per month on average over the seven years since November 2019, with single rounds of twelve or more sites now routine. The point of the band is that it does not overstate a rate that has been accelerating, and it does not understate one that has been sustained. A reader who sees one brand blocked this month should expect another round of formal warnings and blocking requests within weeks, not within years.

The underlying estimate from H2 Gambling Capital, cited in 2025, is that Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and that the share of gambling going through legal channels fell from 74% in 2021 to 64%. Enforcement has not closed that gap. What it has done is kept the visible part of the offshore market moving: a brand blocked in one round is often replaced by a sister site in the next, and the same operating companies reappear under different brand names. The register above shows exactly that pattern.

What online craps actually is, before any licence question

Craps is a dice game played on a marked table. A new shooter picks up two dice and throws them; the first throw is the “come-out roll”. A come-out roll of 7 or 11 wins immediately for a Pass Line bet. A come-out roll of 2, 3 or 12 loses immediately for the same bet. Any other number — 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 — becomes “the point”, and the shooter keeps throwing until either the point comes up again, in which case Pass Line bets win, or a 7 comes up first, in which case Pass Line bets lose. The Don’t Pass bet is the mirror: it wins on 2 or 3 come-out, loses on 7 or 11, ties on 12, and wins if a 7 is rolled before the point after a point is established.

The bet that matters most for anyone trying the game is the Pass Line, and the bet that matters most for anyone avoiding the worst bets on the table is the Any Craps wager, which loses on most rolls and pays only on 2, 3 or 12. House edges on the standard bets, drawn from Wizard of Odds, are 1.41% on Pass and Come, 1.36% on Don’t Pass and Don’t Come, 11.11% on Any Craps, 5.56% on the Field and 16.67% on Any 7. Any 7 is the single worst wager on the layout. Pass and Come are the standard bets; the “free odds” bet taken behind a Pass or Don’t Pass wager carries a 0% house edge because it pays at true odds, and that is the only bet on the table where the casino takes no built-in cut.

The modern game developed in the United States as a simplification of the older English and French dice game Hazard. Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville is credited with bringing Hazard to New Orleans around 1805, where the simplified game became known as “Pass”, from the French word for pace or step. Around 1907 the Philadelphia dice maker John H. Winn introduced the Don’t Pass layout that still appears on every craps table in the world, a change that gave casinos a reason to use fair dice because they could now offer both sides of the main wager. Variants exist — Crapless Craps removes the come-out losers on 2, 3, 11 and 12, and “street craps” is played without a marked table or casino staff — but every variant on an Australian-facing site is the same product from a regulatory point of view: an online casino game.

Why no Australian licence covers online craps

The federal prohibition sits in the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. Offering an online casino-style game, including craps, to a person in Australia is an offence. The 2017 amendments strengthened the regime and gave the ACMA its current enforcement powers. Penalties are A$220,000 per day for individuals and A$1.1 million per day for corporations, and they fall on the provider, not on the player. The player is not prosecuted for placing a bet, but neither does the player have any Australian consumer protection if the offshore site refuses a withdrawal, cancels a bonus or simply disappears.

What is licensable in Australia is wagering on racing and sporting events placed before the event, lotteries and keno. In practice the racing and sports bookmakers — Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes among them — are licensed by the Northern Territory, through the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission. The Commission regulates 52 online bookmakers, has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin. That is the licensed wagering market an Australian reader can actually use, and it does not include craps.

A footer on an offshore site that says “licensed in Curaçao” or “licensed in Anjouan” is a foreign licence, not an Australian one. None of the eleven brands above holds an Australian licence for online casino games, because no such licence exists. A reader who treats the footer as a substitute for Australian approval is the reader the ACMA’s blocking list was built around.

What player protection actually exists in Australia

The main tool is BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register. It went live in August 2023 and binds every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service — the licensed bookmakers, not the offshore casino sites. A person registered with BetStop cannot open new accounts with licensed Australian wagering operators, and existing accounts are closed. The register does not, however, bind an offshore casino that has no Australian licence to begin with. For a reader who has been playing on the brands listed above, BetStop will close off the licensed Australian bookmakers but will not close off the offshore site they were on.

The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, free, available 24 hours a day, with online chat at Gambling Help Online. Anyone chasing losses, betting more than they can afford, or trying to stop and finding they cannot should call or chat. The helpline is the right first call for a reader who has been playing craps on an offshore site and is trying to stop. A formal warning from the ACMA does nothing for that person; a self-exclusion and a conversation with a counsellor do.

Under reforms to the Interactive Gambling Act, credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency have been banned as payment methods for licensed online wagering since 11 June 2024. Operators accepting those methods from Australian customers face penalties up to A$247,500. Legal deposit routes for licensed wagering are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. An offshore site asking for a credit card or a crypto deposit is operating outside the Australian rules. A reader who sees a “deposit with Bitcoin” button on a craps site is seeing a site that is, by definition, not covered by the Australian consumer protections being discussed here.

Bonuses and free spins attached to online craps

The promotional language attached to online craps — “100% match”, “free spins”, “no deposit bonus” — runs on the same mechanics as bonuses on any other casino game. A match bonus credits a percentage of the deposit as bonus funds; those funds are released only after a wagering requirement is met. The wagering requirement is stated as a multiple — 35x, 40x, 50x — applied to the bonus, or sometimes to the deposit plus the bonus. Free spins are credited in fixed numbers at a fixed stake, and any winnings from them carry their own wagering multiple.

For craps specifically, the wagering requirement is the figure to look at, because the game itself has a known house edge. A 40x wagering requirement on a A$100 bonus means A$4,000 of bets must be placed before the bonus becomes withdrawable. Pass Line at 1.41% house edge across A$4,000 of bets gives an expected loss of roughly A$56, and that expected loss is the real cost of clearing the bonus if only the bonus amount is wagered. The bonus is not “free”; it is a marketing spend the player pays for in expected losses on the wagering requirement.

Three things make this worse than it looks. First, the wagering requirement is often calculated on deposit plus bonus rather than bonus alone, which doubles the turnover required for a 100% match. Second, the contribution rate for table games including craps is sometimes reduced — a site may count only 10% or 20% of craps bets toward the wagering requirement, which means the same A$4,000 of turnover requires A$20,000 or A$40,000 of craps bets. Third, most bonuses carry a maximum cashout cap, and a win above the cap is forfeited on withdrawal. None of these conditions is hidden, but all of them sit in the small print rather than the headline.

For an Australian reader, the bonus question is mostly academic: the offshore sites offering these bonuses are the same sites on the ACMA’s register, and accepting a bonus from one of them places the player’s funds inside an account that can be blocked by an ISP at any time. A bonus balance inside a blocked site is a balance the player cannot reach.

Gameplay detail: what an Australian-facing craps table actually contains

The table layout is the same across variants. The centre of the felt carries the proposition bets — Any Seven, Any Craps, the Hardways, the Horn, the Field. The two long sides carry the Pass Line, Don’t Pass, Come and Don’t Come boxes, with the free-odds bar behind them. The stickman runs the dice at one end; the boxman sits at the other; dealers stand between. Online, the layout is reproduced on screen, the dice are animated or pre-recorded, and the player clicks chips onto the boxes.

The catalogue of craps titles on offshore sites is narrow. Most carry a single live-dealer craps table from one provider and a handful of RNG versions under different names. The live version is closer to the land-based game: the shooter throws real dice, the camera shows the result, and the bet settlement is automatic. The RNG versions are a software simulation; the dice rolls come from a random number generator, and the speed of play is set by the site. RNG craps plays much faster than live craps, and the faster pace is what the wagering requirement above is timed against.

Three other games often appear beside craps on the same offshore site, and a reader browsing for craps will usually see them on the homepage. Baccarat’s house edge is 1.06% on the Banker bet, 1.24% on Player and 14.36% on Tie, and the variant most often played is punto banco, developed in Havana in the 1940s and dealt from a six- or eight-deck shoe with both hands played out by fixed drawing rules. Blackjack under liberal Las Vegas Strip rules has a house edge of about 0.28%, and Atlantic City rules about 0.43%; Spanish 21, Double Exposure, Blackjack Switch and Super Fun 21 are the standard variants. Roulette, slots and “live game shows” round out the catalogue. None of these is an Australian-licensed product. The licence a footer claims is from somewhere else.

For a reader in Australia who wants to play a table game at all, the licensed path is land-based. Crown Melbourne offers three baccarat variants — Traditional Baccarat, Crown Baccarat and 2 to 1 Baccarat — approved by the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, which replaced the VCGLR as Victoria’s casino regulator on 1 July 2022. The NSW Casino Control Act 1992, section 66, requires every table game at a NSW casino to be approved by the regulator, with a copy of the approved rules available to patrons on request. The Crown Melbourne blackjack log shows the regulator approving rule changes — “Perfect Pairs” renamed to “Crown Pairs” on 23 December 2024, a “Free Bet” option with a “Pot of Gold” side bet added on 25 March 2024. That is what licensed looks like: a regulator named on the page, an approval log a member of the public can read, and a casino whose name a reader can verify.

Where the offshore brands actually sit: an operator-by-operator reading

The eleven brands on the ACMA register are not interchangeable. They differ in how recently they were warned, in whether the same corporate group has been warned before, and in what the ACMA’s own record shows about their behaviour. The list below is ordered as the research presents it, and each entry closes on a verdict that reflects only what the ACMA’s record and the published facts establish.

RocketPlay. Warned under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, with the ACMA naming Pulsup Ltd in March 2026; the same brand was earlier warned when it sat under Dama N.V. in May 2022. A brand that has changed operator once and been warned under both is a brand the regulator has had to warn twice. For a reader in Australia, this is the same product under a different company name, and the ACMA’s record says so.

Level Up Casino. Warned under the IGA in May 2022, with Dama N.V. named as the operator. The brand appears on a BGaming provider index, which is a listing that says a studio supplies games to the site, not that the site is licensed in any reader’s country. The ACMA warning is the only Australian-side fact on the record.

Woo Casino. Warned under the IGA in March 2025, with Dama N.V. again the named operator. The Dama group accounts for four of the eleven brands here, and Woo is one of them. A reader choosing between Dama brands on the basis of which one might be safer is choosing between brands the regulator has already acted against.

Spirit Casino. Warned under the IGA in May 2025, with Dama N.V. named. Same operator group, two months after Woo. The pattern is that Dama absorbs warnings without exiting the market.

National Casino. Warned under the IGA in July 2025, with Consolutetish S.R.L. named. A different corporate group from Dama, but the same kind of product offered to the same kind of Australian customer. A reference on a Wikipedia page is the only third-party footprint this brand carries.

Bizzo Casino. Warned under the IGA in July 2025, with Consolutetish S.R.L. named. The same brand was the subject of an earlier warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. in 2022, which makes Bizzo a brand that has been warned under two different operators. The ACMA has had to act twice on the same brand.

Ignition Casino. Warned under the IGA in July 2025, with Bamboo Media named. One of the smaller footprints on the register; no third-party provider listings, no Australian-side footprint other than the warning itself.

Instant Casino. Warned under the IGA in February 2025, with EOD Code SRL named. One of the more recent warnings at the time of writing and the only brand on the register warned specifically under the EOD Code corporate group.

Jackbit. Warned under the IGA in April 2026, with Ryker B.V. named as the operator of both Jackbit and CasinOK. Two brands, one warning, one operator group.

Casino Intense. Warned under the IGA in April 2025, with Sterplay Holding Ltd named. Referenced by ABC News and the ACMA register, not by any provider catalogue. A brand whose only Australian-side footprint is the warning itself.

Sky Crown. Warned under the IGA, with Hollycorn N.V. named as the operator of both Sky Crown and Blue Leo in the same warning. Two brands, one operator, one warning — the same pattern as Jackbit, on a different corporate group.

The point across all eleven is the same. The ACMA’s record shows these brands offering prohibited games to Australians; the operators named in the warnings are mostly small Curaçao-registered companies, sometimes clustered in groups; and the provider footprint on most of them is thin or nonexistent. None is licensed in Australia, and none has been recommended, ranked or endorsed anywhere on this page.

The “this page does not recommend” caveat, restated plainly

The reason this page does not produce a numbered ranking is that no honest ranking is possible. A ranking would require comparing brands on bonuses, RTP, payout speed and game catalogue — facts the research did not surface, because the only sources for them are affiliate marketing pages. Even if those facts were available, they would describe a product that cannot lawfully be offered to the reader. Recommending an offshore casino to an Australian reader is recommending an unlicensed, ISP-blockable site at which the reader has no consumer protection if a withdrawal is refused, and no recourse to BetStop or the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. The page’s job is to say so, not to dress the product up.

The page is also not a review of the eleven brands’ game quality, software, customer service or withdrawal times, because the only sources for those would be the brands themselves and their affiliates. The page confines itself to what the ACMA has published, what the ACMA’s blocking record shows, what the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 says, and what Australian-licensed wagering and self-exclusion actually offer. Anything else would be marketing dressed up as comparison.

Where an Australian reader who wants to play craps can actually go

Three paths exist for a reader who wants to play craps at all.

The first is licensed land-based casinos. Crown Melbourne, The Star Sydney, The Star Gold Coast, Crown Perth, Adelaide Casino and the casino at Sky City Darwin run table games, and craps is among the games offered in some of them, subject to the regulator’s approval of the rules. NSW requires every table game to be approved under section 66 of the Casino Control Act 1992; Victoria requires the VGCCC to approve every table-game rule and every change to it. A reader who walks into one of these venues, produces identification, and plays at a marked table is inside the licensed system. The minimum age is 18.

The second is licensed Australian wagering operators. Sportsbet, Bet365, Ladbrokes and their peers are licensed by the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission for racing and sports betting placed before the event. They do not offer craps, because they cannot. They do offer a licensed alternative for the Australian reader who wants to bet on something.

The third is not playing at all, and that is the answer for a reader who has been chasing craps losses on an offshore site. The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, free, 24/7. Gambling Help Online runs chat. BetStop binds licensed Australian wagering operators once a person registers. None of these tools will unblock an offshore site or recover a balance inside one, and a reader who has both money on a blocked site and a self-exclusion need should call the helpline first.

What changes when the reforms come into force

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026. Its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027. The bill tightens what licensed operators can say and how they can promote their products to Australians; it does not legalise online casino games or open the door to a licensed online craps site. The product remains prohibited. The marketing around it becomes more tightly policed.

A reader reading this page after 1 January 2027 will see the same prohibition, the same offshore enforcement, the same licensed alternatives. What changes is the advertising around the licensed wagering market. The page’s analysis does not turn on that date, because the underlying question — can an Australian legally play online craps — does not turn on it either.

A short note on what this page did not find

Two pieces of information the page would normally carry are not on it. First, no bonus terms for the eleven brands: the only sources would have been the brands’ own affiliate pages, and a bonus that an Australian cannot lawfully claim at a licensed site is not a bonus this page is willing to describe. Second, no payout times, no game counts and no RTP figures for the eleven brands: the only sources would have been the same affiliate pages, and the same rule applies.

Both omissions are deliberate. A reader who needs those figures has them available elsewhere, and should treat them as marketing rather than research. A reader who needs the Australian regulatory position has it on this page, drawn from the ACMA register, the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and the published blocking record.

Closing

The honest summary is short. Online craps is prohibited in Australia under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. Eleven offshore operators have been formally warned by the ACMA for offering it. The ACMA has asked ISPs to block more than 1,750 illegal sites since November 2019, and the rate is accelerating. Australians lose roughly A$3.9 billion a year to illegal sites, and the share going through legal channels has fallen from 74% to 64%. The licensed alternative for table games in Australia is land-based; the licensed alternative for betting on events is wagering through an NT-licensed bookmaker; the licensed alternative for a reader who has lost control is BetStop and the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858.

A page that promised a ranked top eleven and delivered the above has done the job a casino comparison for an Australian reader should do. The product asked about cannot lawfully be supplied. The lawful alternatives exist, and they are the part of the page that gives a reader something to do next.

Frequently asked questions

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

Pass and Come both carry a house edge of 1.41% on every dollar wagered, drawn from Wizard of Odds’ published table. Don’t Pass and Don’t Come are marginally better at 1.36%, while Any Craps runs at 11.11% and Any 7 at 16.67%, which makes Any 7 the worst single wager on the layout.

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

A Pass Line bet wins immediately on a come-out roll of 7 or 11, loses immediately on 2, 3 or 12, and wins if the shooter rolls the established point again before a 7. A Don’t Pass bet is the mirror: it wins on 2 or 3, loses on 7 or 11, ties on 12, and wins if a 7 comes up before the point after the point is set.

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

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits offering online casino games, including craps, to anyone in Australia. Penalties reach A$220,000 per day for individuals and A$1.1 million per day for corporations, and the ACMA enforces the prohibition through formal warnings and ISP blocking requests rather than prosecuting the player.

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

Any Craps wins only on 2, 3 or 12 and loses on every other roll, with a house edge of 11.11%. The bet pays 7:1 on a win, but the frequency of wins is far lower than the frequency of losses, and the expected return over a long session is several times worse than a Pass Line bet at 1.41%.

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

Yes, at casinos operated under state or territory legislation, including Crown Melbourne, The Star Sydney, The Star Gold Coast, Crown Perth, Adelaide Casino and Sky City Darwin. Table games must be approved by the relevant regulator — the VGCCC in Victoria, Liquor and Gaming NSW in NSW — and the approved rules are available on request.

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

Call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, free and available 24 hours a day, or use the chat at Gambling Help Online. Register with BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, which binds every Australian-licensed wagering service. An offshore site on the ACMA register is not bound by BetStop and can be blocked with a balance still inside it; the helpline is the right first call.

Created by the ”Casino Ratings Info” editorial team.