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Online poker regulation by jurisdiction
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See all →Barcelona poker stop — getting there, staying, playing
Barcelona is a tier-1 stop of the European tournament calendar: the European Poker Tour's official 2026 schedule lists a Barcelona stop, and Casino Barcelona is the stop's venue in this site's coverage universe. This guide is deliberately short, and says why: the venue's own site refused this site's verification channel, so no venue fact could be read on-piece. What remains is what the tour's official page establishes — and a precise list of what to verify where.
Read → guideLas Vegas poker stop — getting there, staying, playing
Las Vegas is the densest tier-1 stop of the live tournament map: five rooms of the coverage universe sit within a few kilometres of Strip. This guide names what each room's official page states about itself and what to verify there before travelling. It quotes no price, no rate and no schedule that a cited document does not carry — where a number lives on an official page, the guide sends you to that page instead of copying it.
Read → guideMonte Carlo poker stop — getting there, staying, playing
Monte Carlo is a fixture of the European tournament calendar: the European Poker Tour's official 2026 schedule lists a Monte Carlo stop, and the Casino de Monte-Carlo — the Société des Bains de Mer's landmark casino — is the stop's venue entry in this site's coverage universe. This guide states what those two official pages carry, and defers every moving detail to them.
Read → guideRozvadov poker stop — getting there, staying, playing
Rozvadov is a village on the Czech-German border whose casino resort, King's Resort, hosts the WSOP Europe — the European bracelet series — alongside a year-round festival calendar. This guide states what the venue's official page says about reaching and staying at the stop, and what the rule documents in the sources panel establish about playing there. It quotes no price and no schedule: those live on the official pages it points to.
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See all →Pot odds calculator
Work out the pot odds you are being offered on a call, and the minimum equity your hand needs for that call to break even. The maths runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is sent or stored.
Read → calculatorICM deal calculator
Convert final-table chip stacks into a dollar equity estimate for a deal, using the Independent Chip Model (ICM, the Malmuth-Harville method). Enter each remaining player's stack and the payouts for the places still being played for.
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Italy treats the control of gambling as reserved to the state, which has exercised it since 2000 through AAMS.
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The Autorité nationale des jeux is France's gambling regulator, an independent administrative authority instituted by the ordonnance of 2 October 2019 and in place since June 2020.
Read → glossaryBelgian Gaming Commission
Belgium's Gaming Commission licenses gambling by class. Operating a casino requires a class A licence, valid fifteen years and capped at nine; all nine are currently granted, so no new application is possible.
Read → glossaryBig blind ante
In tournaments using this format, a single ante is posted by the player in the big blind instead of every player anteing each hand, as cardroom rules for the format set it out.
Read → glossaryBlinds
A blind is a required bet made before any cards are dealt, used in button games to stimulate action and initiate play, as a standard cardroom rulebook sets out.
Read → glossaryBounty
A bounty is a prize collected for eliminating another entrant, run as a distinct tournament format under a casino's posted tournament rules.
Read → glossaryBuy-in
The cost to enter a tournament, or the minimum amount needed to sit down in a cash game at a specific table. Usually twenty times the big blind.
Read → glossaryConnecticut iGaming
Connecticut channels regulated gaming through a narrow set of gatekeepers.
Read → glossaryCzech Gambling Act
Act No. 186/2016 sets the Czech framework for gambling: which game types exist, the conditions for operating them, responsible-gambling measures, and the competences of the administrative authorities.
Read → glossaryDelaware iGaming
Delaware's state lottery, which operates within the Department of Finance, launched what it describes as the first authorised online gaming system in the country, known as iGaming, on 7 November 2013.
Read → glossaryDGOJ
The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego is the Spanish state body responsible for the regulation, authorisation, supervision, coordination, control and, where necessary, sanctioning of gambling activities at national level.
Read → glossaryEquity
Equity is the share of the pot a player expects to earn, computed under the assumption that no further betting occurs and using only the cards in that player's hand together with the cards already revealed on the board.
Read → glossaryExpected value
Expected value is the probability-weighted average of the possible results of a decision, presented in university course material on poker theory as the general rule by which betting lines are compared.
Read → glossaryFreezeout
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Read → glossaryGGL
Germany's 2021 Interstate Treaty on Gambling permits public gambling only with a permit from the competent German authority; organising or brokering without one is prohibited, as is advertising unauthorised gambling.
Read → glossaryGRAI
The Gambling Regulation Act 2024, enacted on 23 October 2024, establishes the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, in Irish Údarás Rialála Cearrbhachais na hÉireann, to license and regulate betting, gaming, certain lotteries and the sale or supply of gambling-related products and services.
Read → glossaryGTO
Game-theoretically optimal play refers to a Nash equilibrium strategy: one where no player can raise their own expected utility by unilaterally switching to a different strategy.
Read → glossaryHand rankings
Hand rankings order the five-card combinations that decide a pot, as set out in a state-approved cardroom game description for Texas Hold'em.
Read → glossaryICM
The independent chip model estimates what a player's standing in a tournament is worth in money.
Read → glossaryiGaming Ontario
Ontario separates who regulates its online gambling market from who conducts it.
Read → glossaryInteractive Gambling Act
An Australian federal law of 2001 that sets the rules for companies offering or advertising gambling services, covering gambling that takes place online through a website or app and via telephone.
Read → glossaryKansspelautoriteit
The Netherlands Gambling Authority licenses remote gambling under the Remote Gambling Act, the Wet Kansspelen op afstand, which together with its subordinate legislation and policy rules came into force on 1 April 2021.
Read → glossaryKYC verification
Customer identity verification is the licence condition requiring a remote gambling operator to obtain and verify enough information to establish who a customer is before that customer may gamble, as codified in Britain's licence conditions and codes of practice.
Read → glossaryLate registration
Alternates, players registering late, and re-entries will be sold full stacks.
Read → glossaryMichigan iGaming
The Michigan Gaming Control Board is the state body charged with ensuring fair and honest gaming in the interests of Michigan residents.
Read → glossaryNevada online poker
Nevada treats interactive gaming as a distinct licence category in the fee and tax schedule administered by the Nevada Gaming Commission and the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Read → glossaryNew Jersey internet gaming
New Jersey regulates internet gambling at state level through the Division of Gaming Enforcement, a unit of the Attorney General's Office that enforces the state's casino gaming laws and publishes both the internet gaming regulations and the list of approved internet gaming sites.
Read → glossaryNew Zealand Gambling Act
The Gambling Act 2003 was the first New Zealand law to regulate remote interactive gambling, and its stance is prohibitive: such gambling is banned, with narrow exceptions for the Lotteries Commission, the Racing Board and sales promotion schemes taking the form of a lottery.
Read → glossaryPennsylvania iGaming
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board regulates interactive gaming in the Commonwealth and publishes the roster of operators authorised to offer it, so that a player can confirm before wagering that a site is board-regulated.
Read → glossaryPot odds
The ratio between the money already in the pot and the amount a player must pay to call in order to keep playing.
Read → glossaryRake
Rake is the fee a cardroom operator takes from the pot in exchange for supplying a dealer, a table and a place to play, defined that way in Florida's cardroom statute as either a set amount or a percentage.
Read → glossaryRe-entry
Under the standardised TDA tournament rules, a re-entry is treated like a fresh entry: re-entrants are sold full starting stacks and randomly draw a table and seat from the same pool as new players, and are dealt in except between the small blind and the button.
Read → glossaryRemote gambling licence
In Great Britain, an operator needs a licence from the Gambling Commission to provide online gambling facilities to consumers, regardless of where in the world the business is based, and likewise whenever any part of its remote gambling equipment is located in Great Britain.
Read → glossarySatellite
A satellite is a qualifying tournament whose prizes must include a buy-in to a larger tournament, as North Dakota's gaming rules define it.
Read → glossarySelf-exclusion
Self-exclusion is a formal agreement a person enters into not to gamble, described by Britain's gambling regulator as a tool for those who recognise their gambling is harming them.
Read → glossaryShowdown
The showdown decides the winner when more than one player still contends for the pot after every betting round is finished, as a casino poker room's rule book sets it out.
Read → glossarySide pot
A side pot is the separate pot formed when a player facing a bet larger than their table stakes calls all in, as Colorado's gaming rule for player-banked card games describes it.
Read → glossarySpelinspektionen
Sweden's Gambling Act (2018:1138) covers games played for money or prizes with monetary value that are provided in Sweden; online gambling not directed at the Swedish market is treated as falling outside it.
Read → glossarySpillemyndigheden
The Danish Gambling Authority treats online casino as one licensed category, covering roulette, blackjack, baccarat, punto banco, poker, online bingo, gambling on gaming machines and other games mixing skill and chance, which Danish law calls combination games.
Read → glossarySRIJ
Portugal's gaming regulation and inspection service publishes the legal framework for online play, the Regime Jurídico dos Jogos e Apostas Online approved by Decree-Law 66/2015 of 29 April, which governs the operation and the playing of online games and bets in the country.
Read → glossaryString bet
A string bet or raise is an attempt to bet or raise in multiple movements that includes a return to one's own stack without first declaring the intention verbally, or a visual deception meant to draw action out of turn before the action is complete, as a licensed poker room's standard operating procedures define it.
Read → glossaryTDA rules
The standardised tournament rule set published by the Poker Tournament Directors Association, a voluntary trade association of the poker tournament industry dedicated to adopting a uniform set of poker tournament rules worldwide.
Read → glossaryTexas hold'em
The flop game in which each player receives two down cards as a personal hand, known as hole cards, followed by a round of betting.
Read → glossaryWest Virginia iGaming
West Virginia authorised interactive wagering, presented as iGaming, in fiscal year 2020, when the state legislature passed House Bill 2934.
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