AceBet Restricted States: 11 Where Coin Buys Are Void

AceBet.cc tells players its service is available in all 50 US states, and its own terms of service void Gold Coin purchases made from 11 of them, refunding the money "minus an administrative fee of up to 10%".

Both documents were live on AceBet's domain when we read them on August 14, 2026. The 11 states named in clause 3.2 are California, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and Washington. Buy coins from any of them and the operator's paperwork says you get most of your money back, not all of it, plus whatever your bank charges to reverse the payment.

What does AceBet's availability page say?

The page is linked from the site footer as "Service Availability". It opens:

"Our platform is available in most US states. Below you can see the complete list of states where our service is currently accessible."

Under the heading "Available States" it then lists Alabama through Wyoming without a single omission. We checked the list against all 50 state names: every one is there. Nothing on the page marks any state as restricted, coins-only or excluded. The only qualification is a paragraph headed "Regional Restrictions":

"Some regions may have limitations or restrictions on certain features. If your state appears on the list above but you're experiencing issues accessing our service, please contact our support team for assistance."

A player in California or New York reading that page comes away with one impression: the site is open to them, and any trouble getting in is a support ticket.

What do the terms say happens if you buy from those states?

Clause 3.2 of the terms of service, in the document's own capitals:

"GOLD COIN PURCHASES MADE FROM WITHIN THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, IDAHO, LOUISIANA, MICHIGAN, MONTANA, NEVADA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, TENNESSEE AND WASHINGTON IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE VOIDED AND REFUNDED, MINUS AN ADMINISTRATIVE FEE OF UP TO 10% OF THE TOTAL PURCHASES MADE BY THE PLAYER, IN ADDITION TO ANY CHARGES THAT MAY BE LEVIED BY THE BANK OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTION MANAGING THE AFOREMENTIONED REVERSAL."

The same 11 states are defined in the terms as "Excluded Territories", and the player warranties include a flat promise that "You will not access the Games or Website while located in one of the Excluded Territories." The separate promotional play rules carry the identical list, with the sweepstakes "only open to legal residents of the United States (including the District of Columbia but excluding outlying territories and the States of California, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Washington)".

Three documents, one operator, one set of states:

Those date stamps cannot both be read literally. The promotional play rules are stamped January 2025 but already exclude Tennessee, which banned the model on May 22, 2026, and Louisiana, whose ban took effect on August 1, 2026. A document is not stamped 16 months before the events it accounts for, so the version line is not the date the state list was last edited. We cannot tell from the outside when it was.

One thing we also cannot tell from the outside is whether AceBet's geolocation stops a player in those 11 states from registering and paying in the first place. A clause like 3.2 exists because some players get through, by VPN or otherwise, and it sets out what the operator will do with their money when they do. We did not create an account or attempt a purchase from any state.

Which ban states are missing from AceBet's exclusion list?

The 11 excluded states are not the same set as the states that have banned this model. Three states that banned it this year are absent from every exclusion list on the site and present on the availability page:

Delaware is on the available list too, and is also where AceBet mails its free-entry cards: the sweepstakes address in the promotional rules is in Dover. Delaware has no ban statute, but its Division of Gaming Enforcement ordered VGW Luckyland out of the state effective April 2, 2025, and RealPrize and LoneStar ended Sweeps Coins for Delaware players on August 21.

Operators lagging behind a ban date in their published paperwork is a pattern we have documented before, including operators still listing Oklahoma weeks before its ban lands and McLuck publishing three different restricted-state lists at once. What is different here is the direction of the error and the price on it: the permissive document is the marketing one, and the strict one names a fee.

Is it legal to offer sweeps casinos in California?

Not in California, and the statute is specific. AB 831 added Penal Code section 337o, which makes it "unlawful for any person or entity to operate, conduct, or offer an online sweepstakes game in this state", with a fine of $1,000 to $25,000, up to a year in county jail, or both. It reaches past the operator to any "financial institution, payment processor, geolocation provider, gaming content supplier, platform provider, or media affiliate" that knowingly supports the activity. The bill was chaptered on October 11, 2025 and took effect on January 1, 2026. That affiliate clause is why our own California page carries no offers, and why AceBet appears on no ranked list of ours.

AceBet's rules put the question back on the reader: "It is the sole responsibility of a Participant to determine whether the Sweepstakes is legal and compliant with all regulations in the jurisdiction in which the Participant resides." Our state-by-state legality guide is the version of that homework we have already done.

How does AceBet give out Sweeps Coins without a purchase?

By post, at 7.5 Sweeps Coins per request. The rules require a plain white unruled card or paper at least 4 by 6 inches, unfolded, in a stamped envelope marked "Sweepstakes Entries", carrying your full legal name, account email, registered address, account ID and a set declaration, sent to a Dover, Delaware address. One card per outer envelope. Illegible handwriting voids the entry, judged by the promoter alone, and each submission is valid for 60 days from your last login. That is a stricter mail route than most, and our guide to getting sweeps coins without paying explains where the postal method fits against daily bonuses.

Two other routes are live on the site. We found each of these strings in the homepage's own served markup on August 14: a "Surveys and Offers" section in the navigation, and a "Physical Cards" tab reading "Collect and ship your physical items" with a "Request Shipping" action. The trade site Sweepsy reported on August 12 that AceBet attaches bonus Sweeps Coins to physical trading-card purchases, and on August 13 that its survey tab pays out in Sweeps Coins too, and in both pieces said AceBet is marketing that structure to players in states where conventional operators have withdrawn, naming California and New York. We have not tested either route, and Sweepsy is a single source for the marketing claim.

If that reporting is right, it runs into a third AceBet document. The promotional play rules make the sweepstakes "only open to legal residents of the United States (including the District of Columbia but excluding outlying territories and the States of California, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Washington)". Sweeps Coins from a survey or a card pack are still sweepstakes entries. On AceBet's own rules a California or New York resident is not eligible to enter, however those coins arrived and whether or not anyone paid for them.

Who owns and operates AceBet?

Two named companies, which is worth knowing before you send anyone your identity documents. The site footer says "Acebet.cc is owned and operated by Trey Mark Services Limited, a company incorporated in Cyprus with a registered office at Belapais, 4, Office 101, Strovolos, Nicosia 2057, Cyprus, registration number HE481956". The terms of service are an agreement with a differently named entity, Trey Mark Holdings Ltd, which is also the sweepstakes sponsor and the addressee for postal entries. The site's age gate is 18, not 21.

AceBet is not one of the 33 brands we review, we hold no test account there, and we did not contact the company before publishing. This article reports what the operator publishes about itself. Our method for reading operator paperwork is the same one applied here, the newer operators that have been through it are on our new sweepstakes casinos page, and the brands that survive it in full are on our ranked list of sweepstakes casinos.

Sources & documents

• AceBet Service Availability page - read August 14, 2026; all 50 states listed under "Available States", no exclusions marked
• AceBet terms of service - read August 14, 2026; clause 3.2, the "Excluded Territories" definition and the player warranties. Version 1.0, last-update line reading January 21, 2026
• AceBet promotional play rules - read August 14, 2026; eligibility, the postal entry method and the 7.5 Sweeps Coins figure. Version 1.0, date line reading "jan 21, 2025"
• AceBet homepage - read August 14, 2026; the "Physical Cards", "Collect and ship your physical items", "Request Shipping" and "Surveys and Offers" strings quoted above were each located in the page's own served markup, as was the Cyprus ownership line and the 18+ age notice
• Delaware Division of Gaming Enforcement cease-and-desist against VGW Luckyland, Inc. - state announcement, order effective April 2, 2025, read August 14, 2026
• California AB 831 bill text and status history - read August 14, 2026; Penal Code section 337o and the October 11, 2025 chaptering
• Sweepsy on AceBet and physical card purchases, August 12, 2026, and on its survey and offer route, August 13, 2026 - single-source trade reporting, cited as such

AceBet's robots.txt disallows several AI crawlers by name; the pages above are the site's own published policy documents, fetched as an ordinary browser and quoted verbatim. This article makes no allegation that AceBet has failed to pay anyone or has broken any law. It reports a conflict between documents the operator publishes itself, and what one of those documents says will happen to a purchase.

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