Self-exclusion in Alaska

How to put yourself on Alaska's self-exclusion list, what it covers, and what it does not.

Programme: None. Alaska runs no state self-exclusion programme. Gaming in Alaska is administered by the Department of Revenue's Tax Division, whose Charitable Gaming Section permits and regulates charitable games only, and neither its Charitable Gaming pages nor its Charitable Gaming FAQ mention self-exclusion, voluntary exclusion or any player-ban mechanism. The programme is built around permits and licences issued to organisations, not around players at all.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Covers online betting: No state programme covers it, because no state programme exists. The Tax Division's charitable gaming regime is about permits for organisations running pull-tabs, bingo, raffles and similar games; it contains no player exclusion mechanism of any kind, online or otherwise.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Covers casinos and shops: No state programme covers it. What exists in Alaska is charitable gaming under permit: the Tax Division explains that a permit 'may be issued to a qualified organization or a municipality', that an operator licence 'may be issued to a for-profit business to conduct gaming activities on behalf of permit holders', and that a vendor registration lets a bar or liquor store 'sell pull-tabs on behalf of a permittee'. There is no casino licensing regime and no statewide list of excluded players.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Covers the lottery: There is no Alaska state lottery self-exclusion programme. The Department of Revenue's Tax Division is the state's gaming authority, and the only gaming it permits and regulates is charitable gaming - pull-tabs, bingo, raffles, classics, fish and moose derbies and Calcutta pools. No state lottery product, and no exclusion mechanism for one, appears anywhere on its pages.Read carefully what this says and does not say. We confirmed that the state's own gaming authority runs nothing resembling lottery self-exclusion. We did not find an official Alaska page that states in terms 'Alaska has no state lottery', so we have not written that sentence as a sourced fact - it is simply that no lottery appears in the Tax Division's remit. Proposals to create an Alaska lottery corporation have been floated in the past; we did not verify the status of any of them and you should not assume from this page either that one exists or that one does not. The Tax Division will tell you: Juneau 907-465-2320, Anchorage 907-269-6620.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
How long you can choose: Not applicable: with no state list there are no state term lengths.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Can it be undone: Not applicable: there is no state exclusion to reverse.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
What happens when it ends: Not applicable: there is no state exclusion, so nothing expires. Anything you arrange with an individual gambling operator - an online account closure, or a ban at a charitable gaming hall - ends on that operator's terms, which the state does not set or publish.Worth being blunt about: because there is no state register, nobody is keeping a clock on your behalf and nobody will write to you. If you arrange a block with an operator or a bank, you are the only record of when it was set and when it lapses.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026
How you sign up: There is no state process to enrol in. The practical routes in Alaska are operator-level and bank-level: close the gambling account with the operator itself, and ask your bank or card issuer for a gambling block.tax.alaska.gov, checked 3 October 2026

Worth knowing before you start

Alaska has no state self-exclusion scheme, and that is a settled answer rather than a hole in our research - the state's gaming authority is a tax office that issues permits to charities, and players do not feature in it. So the tools that work for someone in Alaska are the ones that do not depend on a state register at all. Bank and card-level gambling blocks are the strongest of them, because they sit between you and every operator at once rather than relying on any one company's list. Blocking software on your phone and computer is the second layer. Closing accounts permanently with each operator you have used is the third, and it is worth asking for closure rather than deactivation, because the two are different and operators blur them. If you gamble on trips outside Alaska, the state you travel to may well have a real statutory self-exclusion list you can join - that is the one route that gives you something enforceable, and it is worth using if a particular casino or a particular state is where your gambling actually happens. A last practical point: because no Alaska body holds a list, no Alaska body can tell you later whether you are excluded. Keep your own written record of every block you set and every account you close.

Done? The rest of the hour: blockers, a bank block, closing the accounts, telling one person.

Every fact on this page was read from an official source and dated. The oldest of them was checked on 3 October 2026. Tell us if something here is wrong.