Best Bets for Today in New Zealand — A Punter's Working Guide

Updated October 2026

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Anyone searching for “best bets for today in New Zealand” is really after one of two things — a tip they can copy, or a way to read the day on their own. This guide does the second. It explains who can lawfully take your bet today, how a betting slip is actually priced, why no pick is ever certain, and where the harm-minimisation tools sit when the day goes the wrong way. The 28 June 2025 amendment to the Racing Industry Act 2020 reshaped the answer to the first of those questions: TAB NZ, through its TAB and Betcha brands, is the only operator that may lawfully offer racing and sports betting to a person in New Zealand, and the Department of Internal Affairs told providers serving New Zealand to withdraw with immediate effect on that date. With that on the table, what follows is the practical structure of a punt today — the form check, the market read, the bankroll discipline, the margin, and the close.

Current as of October 30, 2026. Verified against the Racing Industry Act 2020 (as amended by the Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025, in force from 28 June 2025) and the Department of Internal Affairs’ public statements on the online betting prohibition.

Responsible Gambling: Where the Day Stops Being Fun

The section sits first because it matters when everything else goes wrong. Any reader here for tips has not yet lost; the bettor who needs help has, and the page they reach must tell them where to go.

What the law already does for you

The Racing Industry Act 2020 requires TAB NZ to keep the risks of problem and underage gambling minimised, and TAB NZ pays a Problem Gambling Levy of 0.74% for the period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2028. That is the harm-minimisation charge built into the monopoly, and it is the closest New Zealand comes to a statutory duty of care for betting. The age for a TAB NZ bet is 18; betting under 18 is an offence under section 89 of the Racing Industry Act 2020, and the TAB NZ apps carry a 17+ App Store age rating while stating that customers must be 18 or over to bet. A land-based casino in New Zealand sets its floor at 20 — different rule, different venue, never to be merged.

The tools in the TAB NZ app

The TAB NZ app lists three safer-gambling controls a punter can set without ringing anyone: deposit limits, time-outs, and self-exclusion. A self-exclusion covers both TAB and Betcha because both brands sit under TAB NZ, and a period set on one carries across the other. The app also lists the free Gambling Helpline on 0800 654 655 and the text line on 8006, alongside Safer Gambling Aotearoa. There is no single national online-betting exclusion register; the register the 2026 casino law creates is for online casinos only and does not extend to sports and racing bets.

What an offshore operator does not give you

The Department of Internal Affairs warns that overseas operators may sit in jurisdictions with minimal consumer safeguards, may not return unspent credits, and may not pay out large wins. New Zealand law targets the operator, not the player: section 19(4) of the Gambling Act 2003 (inserted in 2025) says an individual may not be convicted for placing a bet with an offshore operator in breach of section 74AAA, and no published penalty for a player was found. The honest framing is that TAB NZ and Betcha are the only lawful option, with New Zealand harm-minimisation tools and a regulator’s complaint route, while an offshore brand carries none of that. Neither is “the safe choice” by default — but the safer of the two is the one your law recognises, and to leave that out is dishonest.

Predictions and Strategy: Building a Pick From the Form to the Slip

The second shelf walks through how a tip is actually constructed. None of the moves below turn a punt into a winning one — that part is decided on the field — but they keep a punt inside the discipline that makes betting a hobby rather than a habit.

The five inputs behind a tip

A punter reading form for today’s racing or sport pulls from five places, in roughly this order. Form is the recent record: last three starts, last six, track and distance, going, class. Statistics are the league numbers underneath the form: expected goals, tackle efficiency, serve points won, race-sectionals, speed maps. Line-ups are who actually turns up — a team sheet that names a resting All Black changes the picture for the whole match, and a scratcher in a six-horse field at Trentham collapses the quinella market. Head-to-head is the closed record between the two: rugby Tests, racing match-ups, head-to-heads in cricket. Odds are the market’s own read on all four — and the market is usually closer to the truth than any individual tipster, because it is built from thousands of bets and adjusts in seconds.

What a value bet actually means

A value bet is a price that is bigger than the chance of the outcome justifies. The shape is simple: if a horse has a 50% chance of winning and is at $3.00, the price is fair ($3.00 × 50% = $1.50 returned for every $1 staked on average); if the same horse is at $4.00, the price is value because $4.00 × 50% = $2.00 returned for every $1 staked on average. The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price — it makes the price $1.90 when it is meant to be an even $2.00, and a value bet is the rare slip where the price is fat enough to absorb that margin and still beat the chance. That is also why no tip is ever certain. A value bet is an edge, not a promise; the actual outcome is set on the field, and the edge is paid out in the long run, never on any single race or match.

Bankroll discipline, in plain numbers

The single rule that keeps betting a hobby is to stake a fixed percentage of the bank — usually between 1% and 5% per bet, with 1-2% the standard for a serious bank and 5% the ceiling for a confident punt. The reason is mathematical: a flat 2% stake turns a bad week into a drawable one and a bad month into a recoverable one, while a stake that grows with confidence blows the bank on the first losing streak. A punter who doubles the stake after a loss is running a chase, not a system; a punter who halves the stake after a loss is running discipline. Both are choices, but only one of them survives a thousand bets.

The staking plan that actually fits

Three staking plans dominate the New Zealand form book. Level stakes stake the same amount on every bet, which is the cleanest discipline but the slowest growth on a winning run. Kelly stakes stake a percentage based on the edge you think you have — value-1.0, no edge — which is mathematically optimal but punishing in practice because most punters overestimate their edge. Percentage staking stakes a fixed percentage of the current bank, which compounds on a winning run and shrinks automatically on a losing one. Most serious punters use percentage staking at 1-2% of bank: it captures the compounding without demanding an exact edge number.

Why “best bets for today” never guarantees a win

Three honest reasons. First, the field is decided on grass, on a track, on a court — not on the form. A horse pulls a shoe, a player rolls an ankle, a serve hits the net cord. Second, the bookmaker’s margin is built into every price, so even a perfect read leaves a thin edge. Third, the market has already priced in most of the form — the value has to be a price that disagrees with the market’s own read, and on a busy day that disagreement is rarer than the tipsters make it sound. The job of a punter is to find those rare disagreements, stake them inside bankroll discipline, and accept the rest.

The takeaway

Form, statistics, line-ups, head-to-head, market odds — five inputs in that order. Value is a price bigger than the chance. Bankroll discipline is a percentage of bank, not a hunch. And no pick is ever certain because the bookmaker’s margin sits inside the price and the field is decided on it. A punter who reads this section before they place today’s bet will lose on most days — but they will lose slower, and slower loss is what makes tomorrow’s punt possible.

The Top 10 Bookmakers Reviewed for New Zealand Players

The third shelf is the comparison the page exists to give. Every operator below is rated against the same three questions: is the brand lawfully available to a punter in New Zealand, what does the brand offer that distinguishes it, and what is the verdict for the reader.

The landscape at a glance

Two of the ten are the lawful providers under the Racing Industry Act 2020; the other eight are offshore brands a New Zealand punter will meet through search results and affiliate pages but cannot use lawfully from New Zealand. The split is not a ranking; TAB NZ and Betcha are not on a points ladder against Curaçao and Anjouan brands. They sit on a different legal plane, and the table below names that plainly.

How the spread came out this way

TAB NZ sits at the top of the table for a legal reason, not a quality one: under section 74AAA, no other brand may lawfully take racing and sports bets from a person in New Zealand, so any list that mixes them with offshore brands is mixing the lawful and the unlawful, leaving a reader with no clear way to tell the difference. The table names the lawful plane of each row so the spread is honest before any judgement sits on top of it. Betcha, the other TAB NZ brand, runs the same legal status but a different product mix, which is why it sits as its own row. The eight offshore brands are listed because New Zealand punters meet them through search and affiliates; ranking them against TAB NZ implies a contest the law does not allow, so the verdict on each is the same in one respect — not lawful from New Zealand — and differs in the offering.

The offer question

Offshore brands advertise free bets, deposit matches, boosted odds and bonus bets the way every offshore sportsbook does. New Zealand law does not stop a player from seeing those ads or a brand from sending them; it stops the brand from accepting a bet from a person in New Zealand once they try to place one. A punter who sees a 100% deposit match on a Curaçao-licensed site and signs up from a New Zealand IP is using a brand the Department of Internal Affairs has told to withdraw, with no New Zealand complaints route if a withdrawal stalls and no recourse to the New Zealand harm-minimisation framework if a self-exclusion does not carry. The offers are real; the protection around them is not. That is the spread the table captures.

Overview and Core: What “Best Bets for Today” Actually Means Today

The fourth shelf is the primer — the words a punter needs before any of the strategy above makes sense.

What a betting slip is in New Zealand today

A slip at TAB NZ is one of two shapes. A fixed-odds bet is the standard: pick the outcome, take the price offered at the moment you bet, and lock the price in. A tote (or pool) bet is the racing-native alternative: pick the outcome, the price floats until the race starts, and the payout is the pool divided among winners. New Zealand racing has both, and the TAB NZ betting rules name the bet types: Win, Place, Each Way, Quinella, Exacta, Trifecta, First Four, Double, Treble, Daily Double, Running Double, Quaddie and Big6, plus Multis and Same Game Multis (a multi whose legs all come from the one event). A same-game multi on the All Blacks is one ticket; a multi spanning All Blacks, Black Caps and the Melbourne Cup is another. The slip is the same shape; the calculation under it is different.

What the betting actually does

Fixed-odds bets lock the price at placement, which means a market move after the bet does not change the payout. Tote bets float until the race starts, which means a late-money favourite shortens the price for everyone in the pool. Multi bets multiply the odds of the legs together — three legs at $1.80, $2.10 and $1.95 become one combined price of $7.37 — and the bet pays only if every leg lands, which is what makes a multi popular and what makes it expensive when a single leg fails.

What “best bets” actually picks

A “best bet” in the New Zealand form-guide tradition is the single pick the tipster rates highest on the day — usually one race, sometimes one match, occasionally a multi. The phrase does not mean the bet will win; it means the tipster rates the price above the chance. The slip the punter holds is the same one either way: a stake, a price, an outcome. The only difference between a “best bet” and any other bet is that the tipster has said this is the one most likely to win on the day. Some days the tipster is right; most days the tipster is not; and on the days the tipster is wrong, the punter’s bankroll discipline is what keeps the day from becoming a week.

The fundamentals, in three lines

A betting slip is a stake, a price and an outcome, settled when the result settles. The market reads the same inputs as the punter — form, statistics, line-ups, head-to-head — and prices the slip from there. The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price, so even a fair bet on a fair outcome pays less than the chance suggests. That is the engine; the rest of the page is the room around it.

Legality and Regulation: The Statute Behind the Slip

The fifth shelf is the legal frame the rest of the page stands on. It is the section a New Zealand punter reads so the slip in their hand is on the right side of the law.

The statute that changed the market on 28 June 2025

The Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025 inserted section 74AAA into the Racing Industry Act 2020: no person other than TAB NZ may offer racing betting, sports betting, or other racing or sports betting to a person in New Zealand, regardless of where that person is resident or incorporated. The change took effect on 28 June 2025, and the Department of Internal Affairs told providers serving New Zealand to withdraw with immediate effect. There is no licensing route for another bookmaker and no licence register for betting, because there is only one lawful operator. The law does not geo-block offshore websites — it puts liability on the offshore operator, not the player, which is the reason the page earlier said the honest framing is “the law targets the operator”.

TAB NZ and its partner Entain

TAB NZ’s partner Entain runs the TAB business under a 25-year agreement signed in 2023. The agreement gives Entain a 50/50 share of gross profits, with at least $150m a year going to TAB NZ for the first five years, and Entain pledged a one-off $100m payment to the racing sector. The partnership is the operating arrangement between TAB NZ (the statutory holder) and Entain (the commercial operator); it does not change who holds the lawful right to take a New Zealand bet, which is TAB NZ alone.

The two brands, and why they are not rivals

TAB and Betcha are the two online brands of TAB NZ. They share the same statutory holder, the same harm-minimisation tools, the same self-exclusion scope, and the same bank account. What they differ on is product mix: TAB carries the racing heritage, Trackside live race streaming, the form tools and Blackbook; Betcha carries the Multi Builder, the daily Toolbox of boosts and insurance, the Bet Social section where punters chat and follow tipsters, and the Playbook of tips and match analysis. A punter can hold both accounts and move between them; a punter is not choosing between two operators, they are choosing two product surfaces from the one operator.

What the Gambling Commission and DIA actually do

The Department of Internal Affairs is the gambling regulator under the Gambling Act 2003 and monitors compliance with the betting prohibition under the Racing Industry Act 2020, section 92A. The Gambling Commission sits alongside it for casino gambling; the betting prohibition sits with DIA alone. The Advertising Standards Authority’s Gambling Advertising Code applies to betting advertisements: ads must not target children (under 14) or young people (14 to under 18) — judged by context, appeal and expected audience, with 25% or more of the audience counting as significant where accurate data exists — and must be truthful with terms available. The Code is the line an advert for under New Zealand rules; offshore brands serving New Zealand punters in breach of section 74AAA are outside its reach.

What may be bet on, and what may not

The ban covers racing betting, sports betting, and “other racing or sports betting” offered to a person in New Zealand, regardless of where the event takes place. Virtual (computer-simulated) sport is treated by the 2026 online casino law as casino gambling, not sports betting, which puts it under a different permit. Whether esports betting counts as “sports betting” under the Racing Industry Act is not established in statute, so a punt on a CS2 match at TAB NZ is a question for the TAB NZ betting rules, not a question the law settles. Greyhound racing is closing in stages from 1 August 2026, and from that date offshore operators may not take bets on greyhound races either. Bets on politics and novelty markets are not established at TAB NZ.

The tax and the duty

For the player, Inland Revenue guidance says recreational gambling winnings are generally not taxable, and prize money from TAB horse, dog and trotting races is not taxable. A punter who bets as a business is a different case, and the general advice — not tax advice — is to consult Inland Revenue or an accountant. For the operator, TAB NZ pays the Problem Gambling Levy of 0.74%; overseas operators supplying New Zealand residents pay online gambling duty of 12% of profits since 1 July 2024, rising to 16% from 1 January 2027. A duty being payable does not make an offer lawful — never read a tax payment as evidence a brand is legal in New Zealand.

The Bookmakers Reviewed

Each write-up below carries a verdict on the brand for a New Zealand reader, against the legal plane the table already named.

TAB — the lawful bookmaker, the racing heritage

TAB NZ is the only provider lawfully offering racing and sports betting to a person in New Zealand under section 74AAA of the Racing Industry Act 2020. The TAB app covers horse and harness racing, rugby union and rugby league, and other sports, both pre-match and live; carries Trackside live race streaming with in-app betting; and ships racing form, Blackbook and Jockey Challenge tools, plus a simplified wallet for deposits and withdrawals. The age for a TAB NZ bet is 18; the App Store age rating is 17+ because the platform requires 18+ to bet. The TAB NZ app lists deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion in the safer-gambling controls, and the same exclusions carry across to Betcha because the two brands share the same statutory holder. The verdict for the New Zealand reader: this is the only place a New Zealand punter can place a bet today with a New Zealand harm-minimisation framework, a regulator’s complaint route, and a 0.74% Problem Gambling Levy built in. A punter who wants to bet from New Zealand legally is betting here or not at all.

Betcha — the same lawful plane, a younger product mix

Betcha is the second online brand of TAB NZ, the same statutory holder as TAB, and consequently on the same legal plane. The product mix is the differentiator. The Multi Builder builds a multi from one event, across events, or by copying a trending multi from the Bet Social feed; live leg tracking shows which leg of a multi is winning in real time; and the Same Game Multi grid lets a punter stack legs from one match. The daily Toolbox carries odds boosts and insurance on bets that do not land; the Bet Social section lets a punter chat, follow tipsters, and share bets or pools; and the Playbook carries tips and match analysis for the day’s fixtures. This brand mirrors the TAB’s legal status, but offers a distinct product surface for the punter who prioritises social interaction and in-play tracking.

LegendPlay — Anjouan-licensed, not lawful from New Zealand

LegendPlay holds an Anjouan Gaming Authority licence, which gives it no right to take bets from people in New Zealand under section 74AAA. The sportsbook lists Sports, Live Betting and Virtual Sports sections, with football, tennis, basketball and ice hockey among the listed sports. The product range is real; the New Zealand harm-minimisation framework, the regulator’s complaint route, and the operator’s obligation to keep the risks of problem gambling minimised do not reach a brand sitting outside the New Zealand prohibition. A New Zealand punter meets this via search results, but it remains a site the Department of Internal Affairs has instructed to withdraw.

Glorion — no New Zealand-recognised licence

Glorion names no licence that applies in New Zealand. The sportsbook carries pre-match and live betting, virtual sports, horse racing and esports, with markets grouped into popular, niche, indoor and outdoor sports, plus entertainment events such as award shows and elections. Support is available by Live Chat and by email, and the site accepts customers over 18 years of age only — a floor, not a New Zealand licence. The entertainment breadth is genuine; the legal plane is equivalent to every other offshore brand, and this page will not frame it otherwise.

22Bet — Curaçao licence, not lawful from New Zealand

22Bet names a Curaçao licence (8048/JAZ), holder TechSolutions Group N.V., which gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand under section 74AAA. The sportsbook takes single bets, accumulators, systems and chains, with live betting carrying real-time odds and score updates. The variety of bet types is wider than what TAB NZ publishes in its betting rules, and the live-betting refresh rate is a real feature on a Curaçao-licensed brand. It remains a Curaçao-licensed operation without the New Zealand complaints pathway that a local punter relies on while experiencing a payout dispute.

Alawin — no New Zealand-recognised licence

Alawin names no licence that applies in New Zealand. The sportsbook covers football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball, with Live Betting, Virtual Sports and esports also offered. The breadth of US sports is what differentiates it on the table; the legal plane is equivalent to every other offshore brand. This platform serves international markets and operates without an authorisation from New Zealand regulators.

Spinbara — site is reachable, one casino game restricted

Spinbara names no licence that applies in New Zealand, and the brand’s general terms and conditions state that the Planet of the Apes video slot is unavailable in New Zealand — a restriction that applies to that single casino game and not to the site as a whole. The sportsbook is available; the relevant legal question is whether the site accepts a bet from a person in New Zealand, which section 74AAA answers in the negative. This terms-and-conditions snippet provides detail on game restrictions but does not shift the operator’s legal standing, which remains comparable to all other offshore entities listed.

Millioner — no New Zealand-recognised licence

Millioner names no licence that applies in New Zealand. The sportsbook offers pre-match and live events on football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball, with separate Live Betting and Virtual Sports sections. The North American sports depth matches Alawin’s, and the Live and Virtual split is a clean product surface. This brand serves as a benchmark for what is available offshore, while highlighting the regulatory gap between such operators and the New Zealand prohibition.

Rooster.bet — Tobique licence, not lawful from New Zealand

Rooster.bet names a Tobique Gaming Commission e-gaming licence (No. 0000002), holder Novatrix SRL, which gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. The sportsbook carries Live, Sports Promotions, Results, Schedule, E-sports and Predictions sections, and shows odds in six formats. The Predictions tab is the closest thing on this list to a tipster-in-house; the legal plane is equivalent to every other offshore brand in the comparison. Any advice found on a Tobique-licensed site operates outside the oversight that a New Zealand punter can verify or hold accountable.

BigClash — Curaçao licence, esports depth, not lawful from New Zealand

BigClash names a Curaçao licence (8048/JAZ), which gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. The sportsbook offers pre-match and live sports betting across international and local leagues, plus virtual sports and esports betting on FPS and MOBA titles. The esports depth is the differentiator on this list: most offshore brands cover the major sports and add esports as an afterthought, while BigClash puts FPS and MOBA betting alongside the standard sports menu. This brand lacks the New Zealand complaints framework, leaving the punter without recourse if a dispute arises.

The Margin, the Odds, and What a Two-Way Market Actually Pays

The arithmetic the strategy section promised earlier lands here, in one worked example for a two-way market. A two-way market is a market with two outcomes that pay if they happen — a head-to-head in tennis, a head-to-head in basketball, a win-or-lose betting call on a rugby Test. A 1X2 market on a football match is not two-way because it has three outcomes; the same math applies but with three legs, and the page has kept the worked example at two for legibility.

The shape of the math

A two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 is the example to walk through. The payout share is the proportion of every dollar staked that the bookmaker returns across the two outcomes in the long run, and for this pair it is calculated as one divided by (1/1.90 plus 1/1.90), which is one divided by approximately 1.0526, which is approximately 0.95, or 95%. The margin is what the bookmaker keeps of every dollar staked, which is 100% minus the payout share, which is 5% in this example. The result is a band of 4-6% margin as a benchmark book at the prices given, with the 5% the midpoint of the range.

The condition on the band

The band is the band because the example is illustrative. Real two-way markets at TAB NZ carry margins that vary by sport, by event and by time-to-start: an All Blacks match an hour before kick-off reads tighter than a State of Origin futures market three months out, and a Super Rugby Pacific match between two evenly ranked teams reads tighter than a mismatch between a top-four and a bottom-six side. The 4-6% band is what a benchmark two-way book looks like, not the margin for every market at TAB NZ on any given day.

What the margin does to a punter’s edge

A value bet is a price that is bigger than the chance of the outcome justifies. The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price, so even a perfect read on the form pays out slightly less than the chance suggests. A punter who finds an edge of 5% on a price at TAB NZ is not beating the bookmaker, they are breaking even; an edge of 10% on the same price is the minimum that pays the punter for the time spent reading form. The margin is the reason no tip is ever certain — the price already prices in the bookmaker’s take, and the punter’s edge is what sits on top of that. A 5% margin defines a benchmark book; a 7% margin is a tighter book that demands more edge from the punter; an 8% margin is a one-sided book and a sign the market is thin.

The takeaway in one line

A two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90 pays back roughly 95 cents of every dollar staked across the two outcomes, and keeps roughly 5 cents of every dollar as the bookmaker’s margin — a fair book, neither generous nor stingy, and the benchmark a punter reads other markets against.

Frequently Asked Questions

The five questions below are the ones a New Zealand punter reading this guide is most likely to ask, with the answers the page itself supports. None of the answers promises a win.

What bets are best to take today?

The honest answer is that no one can tell you, because the outcome of every race, match and game is decided on the field. The closest a guide can come is to read form, statistics, line-ups, head-to-head and market odds in that order, find a price bigger than the chance justifies, and stake it inside bankroll discipline — usually 1-2% of bank per bet. The shape of the pick matters less than the discipline around it, and the discipline matters more than any single day’s result.

What is the betting line on the Super Bowl today?

The Super Bowl line is whatever TAB NZ is offering at the moment you check, because fixed-odds bets lock the price at placement. The line will move between now and kick-off as the market reads the form and the line-ups, and a punter who bets early locks in the morning price while a punter who bets late locks in the kick-off price. Both are real bets; neither is more correct than the other; the only wrong bet is the one that exceeds the punter’s staking discipline.

What is a value bet and why is no tip ever certain?

A value bet is a price bigger than the chance of the outcome justifies — if a horse has a 50% chance of winning and is at $4.00 instead of $3.00, the price is value. No tip is certain because the field is decided on grass, on a court, on a track; a horse pulls a shoe, a player rolls an ankle, a serve hits the net cord. The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price and prices in the bookmaker’s take, so even a perfect read leaves a thin edge, and on any single day the edge does not always pay out.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The margin is the proportion of every dollar staked that the bookmaker keeps in the long run. For a two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90, the payout share across both outcomes is roughly 95% and the margin is roughly 5%. The margin is what makes a “fair” bet less than fair, what makes a value bet valuable, and what makes a thin market thin — a market with a 7% margin demands more edge from the punter than a market with a 5% margin, and a market with an 8% margin is a sign the market is one-sided.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

For a single fixed-odds bet, the return is stake × odds and the net profit is stake × (odds − 1). A $10 bet at $2.50 returns $25 and pays $15 in profit; a $10 bet at $1.90 returns $19 and pays $9 in profit. For a multi bet, the odds of the legs multiply into one combined price — three legs at $1.80, $2.10 and $1.95 become one combined price of $7.37, and the multi pays only if every leg lands.

Which bookmaker may lawfully take sports and racing bets in New Zealand?

TAB NZ, through its TAB and Betcha brands, is the only operator that may lawfully take racing and sports bets from a person in New Zealand, under section 74AAA of the Racing Industry Act 2020, in force since 28 June 2025. There is no licensing route for another bookmaker and no licence register for betting, because there is only one lawful operator; an offshore brand serving a New Zealand punter is breaking New Zealand law, and the Department of Internal Affairs has told providers to withdraw.

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