The Luckiest Casinos in New Hampshire Revealed

Gambling, in some forms, became legal in New Hampshire back in 2019 and has since gone from strength to strength as an industry. In its first full fiscal year, the total gambling handle in the state, from a sportsbetting perspective, was $67 million, a figure that has since grown to a whopping $883 million in 2023. 

However, while New Hampshire is one of the leaders in the states when it comes to both sports betting and lotteries, casino locations are an entirely different story. In fact, New Hampshire does not allow either commercial casinos, land-based establishments, or online casino sites. So how does a state that doesn’t allow casinos to operate... have casinos? 

It’s a little bit complicated, but it can basically be summed up by a loophole in the state law. Through the use of charitable institutions, which are allowed to operate, otherwise outlawed, “games of chance," casinos can work. All profits generated by the casino are split between themselves, charities, and, of course, the state.

Casinos can operate as long as they satisfy these measures laid out by lawmakers in the state: 

• (a) Satisfy all criteria for membership in the charitable organization.
• (b) Pay all lawful fees or dues required by the charitable organization.
• (c) Not have become a member solely for the purpose of operating games of chance.

It’s not a huge industry, generating $80.29 million in 2023, according to Statista, making it the fifth lowest of all qualifying states. But IT IS an industry, even if it does operate thanks to ambiguity in the state’s official laws. However, the maximum bets at these casinos will be far lower than in most other states; the maximum bet is generally $50. 

But anyway, enough lurking in the weeds of New Hampshire’s controversial casino dealing, we like to have a bit more fun here at Casinos.com. We got to wondering where the luckiest “casino” in New Hampshire was, so we scraped all buildings with casino offerings in the state to find out which is the luckiest with help of Tripadvisor review data for luck-related keywords. 

We tracked mentions of "lucky," "won," "winning," "bonus," and other terms that could signal elements of luck. A small disclaimer here: this report is for entertainment purposes only!

Here are all the casinos we took a closer look at:

• The Brook
• Ocean Gaming Casino 
• Gate City Casino

The Brook emerged as the luckiest casino in New Hampshire, albeit with a very small sample size to go by. 27.59% of the 29 reviews presented keywords associated with luck, mainly “lucky” and "won.”

In fact, all three mentions of “lucky” were in relation to the restaurant Lucky’s on the premises, so it’s prob time to re-evaluate our findings. 

So we did! Below are the adjusted numbers for New Hampshire’s luckiest casino, placing Ocean Gaming Casino in Hampton on top of the list. 

“The people were incredibly friendly. I was shown how to play one game and I actually hit the jackpot. I was so excited I could hardly talk!” wrote lucky Linda. 

We usually delve into more details about other casinos in the list at this point, but the salient fact is that gambling at casinos in New Hampshire isn’t legal yet, unless there are some loopholes being taken advantage of. 

We suggest that if you really do want to get lucky at a casino, head to nearby states such as New York and Pennsylvania, which have legal, land-based casinos visited where reviewers have left thousands of reviews, which, in theory, should lead to more accurate data. 

Methodology 

Casinos.com utilized Tripadvisor reviews to do an in-depth analysis of phrases associated with luck to determine the luckiest and unluckiest casinos in the state of New Hampshire. We calculated the percentage of luck-rated mentions in the total Tripadvisor reviews.

Keywords tracked: Lucky, Luck, Winning, Big Win, Winner, Bonus, Profit, Success, Jackpot, Hand Pay

This data was collected in July 2024. 

Disclaimer 

The data in this article is intended for entertainment purposes only. Casinos.com does not claim any one casino to be “luckier” than another. Please don’t use the information presented in this article as gambling or betting advice, and as always, please bet responsibly. 

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