Table tennis betting in New Zealand, 2026 edition: the only lawful lanes, and what to weigh at the rest

Updated October 2026

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For most sports, an article like this opens with a list of bookmakers and spends a few thousand words ranking them. For table tennis in New Zealand, in 2026, that opening is misleading, because the choice is not what most readers expect it to be. An amendment to the Racing Industry Act 2020 took effect on 28 June 2025 and turned racing and sports betting in New Zealand into a closed monopoly held by TAB New Zealand, which trades through two online brands, TAB and Betcha. From that date, no other bookmaker has any lawful route to take sports or racing bets from a person in New Zealand, and the Department of Internal Affairs told offshore providers to withdraw with immediate effect. Anyone shopping “table tennis betting in New Zealand” today is, in practice, choosing between two products that come from the same operator and a handful of offshore brands that the law addresses to, not to the reader.

This page reads that situation from the bettor’s side. It explains what the Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025 actually changed, how TAB NZ runs its two faces (TAB and Betcha) and where the two diverge, what table tennis betting looks like inside that monopoly, and which positions an offshore brand can still fill — accepting that every offshore match between an international bookmaker and a New Zealand customer takes place in a legal grey area the operator, not the player, is meant to settle.

Data current as of October 30, 2026. Where the licences of TAB NZ and the offshore brands are stated, the page is cross-checked against the Department of Internal Affairs register and against TAB NZ’s own terms.

The shortlist: a New Zealand table tennis betting landscape

Ten names show up in nearly every league table of “table tennis betting sites” aimed at the New Zealand audience. Two of them are TAB NZ’s brands. The other eight are international sportsbooks that meet New Zealand players through search results, affiliate pages and app store listings, but that the Department of Internal Affairs frames as unlawful for the operator side of those bets.

The line that follows is what this page works through in the rest of the article. The comparison table below the line lays it out operator by operator.

TAB NZ and Betcha sit together at the top of the table because they are one operator group with two front ends, and the table respects that. The other eight brands are presented on the same axes as research supports: a New Zealand status statement drawn from the Racing Industry Act 2020, and what each brand’s own terms say about table tennis. Where a brand does not call table tennis out by name, that absence is the data point — research does not carry a finding for that brand on that row, and an empty cell is the truthful cell.

A note on what the table is not. It is not a leaderboard. It is not a recommendation to deposit with any of the rows that say “Not licensed in New Zealand”. It is the set of names a New Zealand punter meets in the wild, ranked so the only thing that matters — the legal status — is the first thing the eye lands on. The rest of this page works through what those rows actually deliver.

The fundamentals of table tennis as a betting sport

Table tennis is a small sport with a fast clock. A game goes to 11 points, with serve alternating every two points and, once both players are at 10-all, each player serving one point in turn until someone leads by two. The scoring rule was changed from 21 points to 11 in 2001. A match is the best of an odd number of games; competition matches are usually best of five or seven, which on a clean run takes a player to four wins but on a tight contest stretches the match to six or seven games. The official ITTF rulebook sets the court at the dimensions that come up almost any time equipment enters the betting discussion: a table 2.74 m long, 1.525 m wide and 76 cm high, with a 15.25 cm net, the ball 40 mm across and weighing 2.7 g.

The numbers matter because they shape what a price really means. A match that ends in three straight games is short and high-confidence; a match that goes to seven games is long, physically draining and full of swing points. The handicap market — where one player is set to give a one-and-a-half or two-and-a-half game start — exists because the straight win market flattens the difference between a three-game whitewash and a seven-game grind. The total points market exists because a match’s length maps onto a points tally that the bookmaker can quote over and under. Both markets take the shape of the sport and turn it into something a punter can price.

Two facts about ITTF structure matter for the calendar. The International Table Tennis Federation was founded in 1926, and table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988. Olympic and World Championship cycles dominate the calendar the way rugby internationals dominate the New Zealand one: the markets come in waves around those events, and the off-season is thin rather than empty. Any tab tennis betting line that surfaces inside New Zealand TAB, in this market or in others, leans on a fixture list that runs most of the year, with the deepest player fields around the ITTF World Tour, WTT events and the Olympics.

The legal frame: who may take the bet

What changed on 28 June 2025

The Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025 inserted section 74AAA into the Racing Industry Act 2020. In one sentence, the section rules that no person other than TAB New Zealand may offer racing betting, sports betting or other racing or sports betting to a person in New Zealand, regardless of where the offeror is resident or incorporated. The Department of Internal Affairs, which monitors compliance with the betting prohibition under section 92A of the same Act, told providers serving New Zealand to withdraw with immediate effect when the change came into force on 28 June 2025. There is no licence to apply for and no register of betting licences, because there is only one lawful provider. Greyhound racing is closing in stages from 1 August 2026, and from that date offshore operators may not take bets on greyhound races either.

What the monopoly covers and what it does not

The monopoly covers sports and racing. The Online Casino Gambling Act 2026, which is a separate statute, licenses online casino gambling only and does not change TAB NZ’s exclusive position on sports and racing: TAB New Zealand has won the right to apply for a casino licence, but that licence is a casino one and does not extend TAB NZ’s sports monopoly further. Betting on table tennis falls inside the sports monopoly and is thus TAB NZ’s territory.

How TAB NZ and Betcha are run

The two online brands come from the same operator. TAB New Zealand trades online as TAB and as Betcha; the brands are not rivals and must never be set against each other as if they were. New Zealand’s racing sector partnered with Entain under a 25-year agreement signed in 2023, and Entain runs the TAB business under that partnership — with a 50/50 share of gross profits, at least NZ$150m a year going to TAB NZ for the first five years and a one-off NZ$100m payment from Entain to the racing sector. Betcha launched as the second online brand on 6 August 2024, and the TAB app has been on the New Zealand App Store under the seller name New Zealand Racing Board since 8 September 2014.

Two brands are more than a logo change for the punter. The TAB app carries the racing-heavy interface — horse and harness racing, rugby union and rugby league, with Trackside live race streaming, racing form tools, Blackbook and Jockey Challenge features and a simplified wallet. Betcha was built as a sports-first app — sports markets with a racebook bolted on, and a heavier focus on events like NBA, NFL, MMA/UFC and esports. For table tennis, the difference is smaller than for some sports: both apps draw on the same TAB NZ sportsbook and the same market menu. The split matters most on a bettor who races frequently (TAB) or sports-bets frequently (Betcha). Either brand settles into the same TAB NZ account ecosystem, and the safer-gambling tools in the app — deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion — apply across the group.

The offshore side

The Racing Industry Act 2020 puts liability on 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. No source states a penalty for a New Zealand player. New Zealand does not block bookmaker websites, and the page must not write offshore betting as “illegal for the punter”. The honest framing is that the operator side is unlawful and the player side is unanswered by the statute, and that the Department of Internal Affairs warns the offshore route comes with “minimal consumer safeguards” overseas and no guarantee that large wins are paid out or unspent credits returned.

A separate register to flag. The register the 2026 online casino law will create is for online casinos, not for betting. There is no New Zealand online-betting exclusion register, and an exclusion at TAB NZ or Betcha does not automatically reach any offshore brand. A punter who self-excludes inside the TAB apps and then bets offshore has, in the regulator’s terms, not self-excluded.

Responsible gambling at the only lawful table

A monopoly makes the responsible-gambling frame harder to compare, because there is only one operator that the regulator reaches. TAB NZ offers three safer-gambling tools inside its app: deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion, and a single self-exclusion covers both TAB and Betcha because they are one account system. The TAB NZ app carries a 17+ age rating on the New Zealand App Store while stating on its own terms that customers must be 18 or over to bet — under 18 betting is an offence under section 89 of the Racing Industry Act 2020 — and TAB NZ accounts need a verified New Zealand address and ID before any withdrawal. Land-based casinos are 20, not 18, and the two ages must not be merged; the difference is one of the recurring traps in New Zealand gambling coverage.

The funding side has a number that quietly drives everything. TAB NZ pays a Problem Gambling Levy of 0.74%, in force from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2028. That figure is the line that underwrites the free Gambling Helpline (0800 654 655, text 8006), the text line of 8006, and Safer Gambling Aotearoa — the support services that TAB NZ’s own app lists at the top of its safer-gambling page. The services are free, staffed and aimed at New Zealand readers, and they work regardless of which side of the law the bet came from. A punter who has placed a bet offshore and feels the bet has run away from them can ring the Gambling Helpline the same afternoon as a punter who has bet on TAB NZ, and that is a design choice the regulator has held to.

What the TAB NZ frame cannot reach is the offshore side. The Department of Internal Affairs publishes the warnings — minimal consumer safeguards, no return of unspent credits, no guarantee on big payouts — but it does not police those brands and it does not enforce a New Zealand self-exclusion through their websites. Self-exclusion inside TAB NZ is a strong tool inside TAB NZ and only inside TAB NZ. A punter who plans to use offshore brands on top of a TAB self-exclusion must treat the TAB exclusion as a layer, not a wall.

Live betting and cash-out on table tennis inside New Zealand

Table tennis lends itself to in-play work. A match can be 7-3 in the third game and swinging every point; the betting exchange on the longer rallies and the change of service can be priced in near-real time. The TAB NZ apps list live betting on covered sports, and the betting rules at TAB NZ’s terms page define in-play betting as available on listed events. No statutory restriction on in-play markets for table tennis betting has been published, and the practical shape of the offer inside TAB NZ is “live markets for major fixtures, lighter coverage for WTT qualifiers and satellite events”.

The shape of the live offering from the offshore brands varies. RTbet and BetAlright both list a Live Betting section on their sportsbook and have table tennis on their covered-sports list, so live table tennis lines appear inside their markets in major tournaments. Rooster.bet runs a Live section inside its sportsbook menu. Sportaza’s terms reserve cash-out specifically: the operator “offers cash out before an event or market is finalised”, and the function is available on listed pre-match and live bets. Thunderpick and Telbet are weaker candidates for in-play table tennis on the evidence: Thunderpick’s listing reads esports-first with a sportsbook sideline that runs to the Champions League and NFL, and Telbet’s review terms do not single table tennis out by name at all.

Two practical notes for the punter. The first is timing: live betting closes a price at the moment the book accepts the bet, and a serve that has already happened is a serve the bookmaker may already have priced into its model. The cleanest use of live betting is on tactical turning points — a change of side, a critical service game in a long-set match — rather than on every point. The second is cash-out: it is a feature that converts a winning position into a locked-in return, but it also usually locks in a worse price than the bet was originally offered at, because the bookmaker’s margin lives on both sides of the trade. A punter whose strategy depends on cash-out as a matter of course is paying twice for the same bet, once at the trade-in and once at the trade-out.

Table tennis bet types and how the odds carry them

Match winner

The basic bet: pick the player who wins more games than the other across the match. On a three-game sweep the price is the cleanest read on the favourite; on a five-game match it absorbs more variance. The TAB NZ market list at the time of the review supports match-winner pricing on listed tournament fixtures, and the same market appears under the Betcha brand on the same events.

Handicap (game handicap)

A handicap bet is settled on the games won minus the handicap. A -1.5 line on the favourite means that player has to win 3-0 (best-of-five) or 4-0 (best-of-seven) to settle the bet; a +1.5 line on the underdog means the bet wins if the underdog takes one game or wins outright. Sportaza offers Asian lines and interval markets as part of its terms — Asian lines behave on a half-point granularity and void (push) or split on the right margin, while interval markets are settled on the score within a 1, 5, 10 or 15-minute window. The 1 and 5-minute intervals are the natural cuts for table tennis, where one game is roughly ten minutes at the highest level.

Total points (over/under)

The total points market on a whole match quotes a number of points across all games and lets the punter pick over or under. The natural cut sits between the modal match length at a tournament and the upper tail of longer matches. Best-of-five matches tend to settle around the low hundreds of points for a clean finish and the mid-hundreds for a tight contest; bookmakers quote total-points markets accordingly. The number is less important than the punter’s read on game length.

Multi / Same Game Multi

A multi is a single bet whose legs come from different events or from one event — TAB NZ’s terms name Multis and Same Game Multis, the latter built from one match. Price multiplication is the simple rule: the price of a two-leg multi is the product of the two legs, the price of a three-leg multi is the product of the three, and so on. A multi’s edge comes from correlation: a Same Game Multi on a player to win, plus under a total-points line, asks for that player to win efficiently rather than to grind, and that combined view pays for the negative correlation between the two legs. The catch is that one void leg voids the whole betslip, and Sportaza’s terms say this explicitly — the slip is over if the book voids any leg, because a partial refund on a six-leg multi does not match what the punter bought.

Bonus bets

TAB NZ lists “bonus bets” as part of its promotions. A bonus bet is a credit the book issues against the punter’s deposit or stake; the bonus value is real money once wagering clears, but the stake of a bonus bet is usually not paid back with a win. A five-leg multi that pays a bonus bet of NZ$10 on a winner settles as NZ$10 × (odds − 1) — so a multi at decimal odds 10.00 returns NZ$90, not NZ$100. That rule is consistent across bookmakers and is the single largest source of miscounted returns in bonus-bet coverage.

Boosted odds

A boosted-odds promotion gives the punter a higher price than the standard price on a chosen event. TAB NZ lists boosted-odds features, and Ivibet’s menu shows “Boosted Odds” as one of its top-level entries next to Sports Betting, Live Betting, Racing, Forecasts and Copy Bets. A boosted price is genuine economic value when the boost lifts the price above the punter’s own line on the event; it is a marketing offer when the boost just brings the price to a level the punter’s model already saw elsewhere.

How the odds carry the bookmaker’s margin

A bookmaker’s price on a market is the sum of implied probabilities plus the bookmaker’s margin. For a two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 on each side, the implied probability of each side is 1 ÷ 1.90 = 0.5263, so the two probabilities sum to 1.0526, and the bookmaker’s margin is 1 − (1 ÷ 1.0526) = 5.0%. Five per cent of the unit staked is what the bookmaker keeps of every unit bet on this market, on average, before any settlement cost. A margin of five per cent is on the cheaper end of in-play table tennis pricing; tighter markets on the outright sides of major tournaments may run below three per cent, and exotic props can push ten per cent and beyond.

Strategies that work, and the ones that don’t

A reader looking for “best table tennis betting tips today” lands on the same kind of advice column wherever the search came from. Most of it is reframed hockeysticks: systems that look like math, dressed up in graphs, that explain how to win after the fact. The honest grounding in table tennis betting is the boring version.

Bankroll discipline. A punter who stakes two per cent of a fixed bankroll per bet is a punter who survives a losing run. A punter who stakes ten per cent is a punter one bad week from zeroing. The two figures are the same discipline in two different skins and they are the single biggest predictor of whether a punter is still punting three months later.

Form and head-to-head. Table tennis form is closer to tennis form than to football form: a player’s swing is small, a player’s service routine is personal, and a player’s mental game on the big stage is part of the price. Head-to-heads matter, and recent head-to-heads matter more than career head-to-heads — a three-year-old match between two players who have both changed coaches reads as background, not as signal.

Match length. Best-of-five and best-of-seven matches pull in different directions. A best-of-five can be won by a hot favourite on a clean run; a best-of-seven gives the underdog more games to win. The handicap market that suits the format is the one that goes with the format, and a punter who prices a -1.5 handicap on a one-sided best-of-five match and then watches a -2.5 handicap on a best-of-seven match using the same reasoning has mispriced the second bet at the line level.

Tournament tier. The ITTF World Tour, the WTT events and the Olympic cycle set the strongest fields. Below them, satellite and challenger events run with mixed fields, and the pricing at the sportsbook is less reliable because less of the betting public is pricing the same names. A punter who knows a lower-tier player is paying for that knowledge with vig — the bookmaker’s margin is wider here than on a major.

Reckon with the schedule. A player who has flown across ten time zones to play is a different price from a player who slept in their own bed, and the in-running markets on the first round of a tournament often price the jet-lag effect well. That is a useful edge over a season-long punters who never read the form. It is also the edge that decays fastest — within a week the rankings and the betting markets re-price it.

Two things do not work. The first is a tipster service that “guarantees” winning tips on table tennis. No service can do that: it is mathematically impossible, because each match is priced against an underlying distribution of outcomes and any system that wins every bet is a system that bookmakers is already closed down. The second is the “double-up after a loss” progression that many tipster pages advertise — it works once, fails once, and the failure tends to come at the wrong size. Bankroll discipline is duller, cheaper and slower, and it is the only strategy with a positive expected value against the bookmaker’s margin over time.

Sports and tournaments: where the fixtures come from

Table tennis has a calendar that runs most of the year. Inside TAB NZ, the betting menu pulls from the ITTF calendar at large: World Championships, World Cup, WTT events and the World Tour at the top; continental championships below them; WTT Contender and WTT Star events at the lower tier. Olympics on the four-year cycle is the largest concentration of betting interest, and the men’s and women’s singles draws are the deepest of the four-year betting cycles.

The two ITTF structure facts that shape the calendar are stable: the ITTF was founded in 1926, and table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988. The deeper fields have to fit the Olympic cycle, and the entire tour orders itself around that cycle. For a New Zealand punter, the Olympic and World Championship cycles are the only points where the betting market on table tennis reaches rugby-grade depth, and outside those cycles the menu runs thinner.

The WTT era is the wider touring structure currently in use. WTT Finals, WTT Champions, WTT Star Contender and WTT Contender events carry the rankings points and the deepest fields, with WTT Feeder and lower-tier events as the second tier. Outside the WTT umbrella, the ITTF World Championships and the World Cup run on their own four-year arc. Most punters will meet most of their betting interest through the WTT umbrella and the Olympic cycle; the rest of the calendar is the offshore bookmakers’ edge, because they price every event regardless of size, and that depth does not show on the TAB NZ menu the same way.

How to read TAB NZ’s table tennis price

A New Zealand punter who runs an account at TAB NZ needs a working method for reading a price. The short version of that method is: price the favourite, price the dog, price the handicap on each side, and price the total points. Where the four prices agree, the market agrees with the punter. Where they disagree, the discrepancy is the edge and the inconsistency.

Two simple checks. The first is to convert the TAB NZ decimal odds to a probability on each side and add them up — implied probabilities plus the bookmaker’s margin must sum to a number above 1.00, and a sum above 1.10 is a thin market, while a sum between 1.02 and 1.06 is a competitive one. The second is the handicap check: the line that matches the punter’s view on the games handicap has to clear the favourite’s straight-win price by enough margin that the handicap adds value, not just bias. Half-point handicaps (-1.5, +1.5, -2.5, +2.5) are the everyday line; quarter-point handicaps split on the closest margin and offer partial payout. A punter who locks onto half-points has a cleaner read.

That method has nothing to do with handicapping the player. It has everything to do with handicapping the bookmaker, and the bookmaker’s only edge is the margin. A punter who treats TAB NZ as a market and not a tipster is a punter who can read the page as it sits.

The tax side, briefly

For a recreational punter, Inland Revenue’s general position is that gambling winnings are not taxable and TAB horse, dog and trotting prize money is not taxable. A punter who bets as a business is a different case, and “consult Inland Revenue or an accountant” is the general-information line. Operator side: TAB NZ pays the Problem Gambling Levy of 0.74%, and overseas operators supplying New Zealand residents pay an online gambling duty — 12% of profits since 1 July 2024, rising to 16% from 1 January 2027 — but the duty being payable does not make an offer lawful. A duty is a tax on a transaction; it is not a licence to take the bet. The point-of-consumption charge on offshore racing and sports bets ceased on 30 June 2026.

The simplest framing the page can give: do not pay tax on the back of a tipster’s word, and do not assume a tax receipt is a lawfulness stamp. Pay what the law says, ask Inland Revenue on the line items that are unclear, and treat the operator’s licence status as a separate question entirely.

What an offshore brand costs in practice

A New Zealand punter who opens an account with an offshore bookmaker pays for that choice. Some of those costs are visible, others are not, and the page works through the ones that are.

The visible costs are the bookmaker’s terms. BetNinja’s reviewed offer is a 100% sports bonus match up to EUR 100 on the first deposit. Telbet’s reviewed welcome offer is a 200% bonus up to 1 BTC plus 50 free spins and a 5 USDT free bet on the Russian-language site. Sportaza lists bonus terms with cash-out rules and the void-leg-voids-slip rule. Each brand names a free-bet or bonus-bet promotion that sits on top of the headline marketing line, and the terms underneath the line determine what the offer actually does.

The less-visible costs sit on the enforcement side. The Department of Internal Affairs warns of “minimal consumer safeguards” — no New Zealand complaints route, no harm-minimisation framework, no guarantee the operator will pay a large win or refund an unused credit. A punter who has a payout dispute with TAB NZ takes the dispute to TAB NZ’s complaint process and then to the regulator that knows TAB NZ. A punter who has a payout dispute with an Anjouan-licensed or Curaçao-licensed operator takes the dispute to that operator and that operator’s regulator, in another language and another time zone, with no New Zealand escalation line in the picture.

For an offshore brand this review terms supports, the recommendation to the reader is identical: open and fund at your own risk, do not stake what you cannot afford to lose, and tell Inland Revenue what you have done if the sum is large enough to look like a business. That line is the same line the law has held since 2025, and the page does not have a softer version of it.

Reading the table tennis markets in the apps

The TAB NZ apps carry the betting interface that gets used. The TAB app is the racing-led product with a sportsbook attached, Trackside live-streaming on racing days and form-heavy tabs. The Betcha app is the sports-led product with a racebook attached, leaner on racing form and heavier on the basketball, NFL and MMA markets. On table tennis specifically, the menus mirror each other and use the same TAB NZ sportsbook data, so the betting experience itself is closer than the brand split suggests.

Sport-specific notes for the punter inside TAB. Pre-match and live markets on listed fixtures carry the standard set of bet types — match winner, game handicap, total points, set betting where the book applies it, and Same Game Multis on the bigger matches. The app’s safer-gambling tools (deposit limits, time-outs, self-exclusion) sit under the player’s account tab, and a self-exclusion cuts the player off the TAB side and the Betcha side at once. The Blackbook and Jockey Challenge tabs are racing-led and don’t apply to table tennis, but the same tracker logic gets reused for player notes on the sportsbook side as in standard bookmaker form tools.

Betcha’s app carries fewer racing tabs and may sit more comfortably in the hand for a sports-only punter. A punter who already has a TAB NZ account can usually drop into Betcha with the same login through the single sign-on tab, but operators tune these all the time, so the practical move is to check the welcome screen.

The seven other names in the table

Thunderpick

Thunderpick is built around esports, with CS2, League of Legends, Dota 2 and Valorant as the menu’s centre of gravity and a sportsbook on the side that runs from the Champions League to the NFL. The reviewed terms mention a cash-out feature; table tennis is not listed as a covered market. For a New Zealand punter, Thunderpick is an esports brand first, and the table tennis side of it is the kind of fallback market that arrives in the live betting section in a major tournament. It is not a place to start a serious table tennis book.

BetAlright

BetAlright is a sportsbook that lists football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball, with Live Betting and Virtual Sports sections. The brand does not name a New Zealand licence; the operator is operated offshore and is not in the lawful side of section 74AAA. BetAlright is the kind of mid-size sportsbook where the table tennis menu is present and worth a look in the WTT windows, but where the deepest price will still belong to TAB NZ inside New Zealand and to the major international books outside it.

Telbet

Telbet brands itself as a crypto casino and sportsbook, with a welcome offer of 200% up to 1 BTC plus 50 free spins and a 5 USDT free bet on the Russian-language site reviewed. The reviewed terms are casino-heavy. A table tennis punter at Telbet is a punter who has decided that the crypto-only settlement and the offshore ledger are part of the appeal — Telbet does not frame itself as a sportsbook-first brand, and the table tennis depth on the platform will not match a sports-first operator.

BetNinja

BetNinja’s sports offer is a 100% sports deposit match up to EUR 100, with a casino welcome of EUR 1,000 bonus plus 100 free spins. The sportsbook’s covered sports list was not named in the reviewed terms. The welcome structure is more useful as a casino brand reading than as a sportsbook reading, and the table tennis offering is likely narrower than a TAB NZ or RTbet-style book.

Rooster.bet

Rooster.bet’s sportsbook has Live, Sports Promotions, Results, Schedule, E-sports and Predictions sections and shows odds in six formats. The sportsbook menu runs as a standard pre-match and live book; table tennis lines appear in major tournaments. As a brand, Rooster.bet fits the standard mid-size international sportsbook shape, with the added note that it is licensed under a Tobique Gaming Commission e-gaming licence (No. 0000002), held by Novatrix SRL — a Tobique licence is not a New Zealand licence and gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand.

RTbet

RTbet’s sportsbook covers football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball, with live betting and virtual sports. RTbet carries the standard international sportsbook shape with one of the closer-fit table tennis menus in the offshore bracket. For a New Zealand punter who still chooses to bet offshore, RTbet is on the same shelf as BetAlright, and the choice between the two is usually the choice between RTbet’s broader live schedule and BetAlright’s simpler menu.

Sportaza

Sportaza’s terms reserve cash out (settled before an event or market is finalised), Bet Builder (a single void leg voids the whole betslip), multiples, Asian lines and interval markets in 1, 5, 10 or 15-minute ranges. The 1-minute intervals are a perfect table tennis fit. Sportaza carries the most polished market-structure pitch in the offshore bracket and is a better-case brand to compare against TAB NZ on the marketing pages — though it sits in the same legal position as the others, and the comparison does not change that.

Glorion

Glorion offers pre-match and live betting, virtual sports, horse racing and esports, with markets grouped into popular, niche, indoor and outdoor categories plus entertainment events such as award shows and elections. The “indoor” category is where table tennis lines sit, and on the major tournaments the pricing is competitive enough to bring a market call. Glorion’s entertainment-events line is a reminder that “table tennis” as a sport is a thin line on a menu that runs wider than the sport itself.

What to remember

The market has changed for good. New Zealand punters in 2026 are betting into a monopoly that was made law on 28 June 2025, and the lawful side of the bet is TAB NZ’s two brands, TAB and Betcha. Offshore brands are still listed and still sign up New Zealand customers, but the law has been written against the operator side of those bets, and the punter side has nothing in the statute that says either “you’re safe” or “you’re not safe”. The honest read is that the safest action is the one the regulator points at, and that an offshore account is a punt the punter owns by themselves.

Two notes that travel beyond the table tennis page. The first is a recurring caveat the regulator publishes: minimal consumer safeguards, no guarantee on big payouts, no return of unused credits. A New Zealand punter who reads those three lines is reading the same lines Inland Revenue, the Department of Internal Affairs and Safer Gambling Aotearoa have all published, and the consistency is the message. The second is the operator-only liability framing. 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. There is no published penalty for a player. That is the legal frame the page works inside.

Frequently asked questions

What does the page on table tennis betting in New Zealand cover?

The page walks through the post-2025 New Zealand betting market as it applies to table tennis: the section 74AAA monopoly, the two TAB NZ brands (TAB and Betcha), what the live and pre-match offer looks like inside that monopoly, how table tennis bet types carry the bookmaker’s margin, and how the offshore brands stack up against it. The closing sections cover the seven non-TAB NZ names in the landscape (Thunderpick, BetAlright, Telbet, BetNinja, Rooster.bet, RTbet, Sportaza and Glorion) and what each does on table tennis.

Who may lawfully take sports and racing bets in New Zealand?

TAB New Zealand, through its two online brands TAB and Betcha, since the Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025 (section 74AAA of the Racing Industry Act 2020) took effect on 28 June 2025. The Department of Internal Affairs told offshore providers to withdraw with immediate effect, and there is no licence to apply for because there is only one lawful provider.

How does a TAB NZ or Betcha account differ from an offshore account?

A TAB NZ or Betcha account sits inside New Zealand law and is reached by the Department of Internal Affairs: a verified New Zealand address and ID are required before any withdrawal, the safer-gambling tools (deposit limits, time-outs, self-exclusion) are built into the apps, and the Problem Gambling Levy (0.74%) funds the Gambling Helpline and Safer Gambling Aotearoa. An offshore account sits under an overseas regulator; the Department of Internal Affairs warns that safeguards are minimal, unspent credits may not be returned and large wins may not be paid out.

How is the return on a winning bet worked out?

The return is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A NZ$10 stake at decimal odds of 2.50 returns NZ$25, so the stake plus the net profit is NZ$15. For a combination bet (a multi) the odds multiply across the legs, so a two-leg multi at 1.80 and 2.20 has a combined price of 3.96, and a NZ$10 stake returns NZ$39.60. Bonus bets generally do not return the stake: a NZ$10 bonus bet at 5.00 returns NZ$40 (not NZ$50), because the stake is not refunded.

What is the bookmaker’s margin on a market, and how is it shown in the odds?

The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every unit staked that the bookmaker keeps on average before settlement. On a two-way market at decimal odds 1.90 / 1.90, the implied probability on each side is 1 ÷ 1.90 = 0.5263, the implied probabilities sum to 1.0526, and the margin is 1 − (1 ÷ 1.0526) = 5.0%. Five per cent is on the cheaper end of table tennis in-play pricing; a market over 1.10 in implied sum is thin, while one between 1.02 and 1.06 is competitive. A tighter margin means better value on every bet placed on that market.

Where are the betting apps that show table tennis betting in New Zealand?

Inside New Zealand the TAB app (published on the App Store under the seller name New Zealand Racing Board) and the Betcha app (Entain New Zealand Limited) are the two lawful routes. The TAB app has been on the App Store since 8 September 2014, the Betcha app since 6 August 2024. Offshore, the apps this page reviews in detail (Thunderpick, BetAlright, Telbet, BetNinja, Rooster.bet, RTbet, Sportaza and Glorion) sit outside the New Zealand licence frame, and the page reads them against the same axes without endorsing them as New Zealand options.

What safer-gambling tools sit inside the TAB NZ and Betcha apps?

Three: deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion. A self-exclusion covers the TAB brand and the Betcha brand at once because they run off one account system. The Gambling Helpline (0800 654 655, text 8006) and Safer Gambling Aotearoa are the free support services. The TAB app carries a 17+ age rating on the App Store while stating that customers must be 18 or over — land-based casinos are 20, not 18, and the two ages must not be merged. There is no single national online-betting exclusion register, so a self-exclusion inside TAB NZ does not reach the offshore brands.

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