CA
Canada
Key rules
- Regime
- Provincial — Ontario's framework brings internet gaming operators into a regulated market
- Regulator
- Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario · iGaming Ontario
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legalite-en-ligne
- 24 pages
- 24 terms
- 44% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 24
- ADM Italy treats the control of gambling as reserved to the state, which has exercised it since 2000 through AAMS.
- ANJ The Autorité nationale des jeux is France's gambling regulator, an independent administrative authority instituted by the ordonnance of 2 October 2019
- Belgian 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
- Connecticut iGaming Connecticut channels regulated gaming through a narrow set of gatekeepers.
- Czech 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
- Delaware iGaming Delaware's state lottery, which operates within the Department of Finance, launched what it describes as the first authorised online gaming system in
- DGOJ The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego is the Spanish state body responsible for the regulation, authorisation, supervision, coordination,
- GGL Germany's 2021 Interstate Treaty on Gambling permits public gambling only with a permit from the competent German authority; organising or brokering
- GRAI The Gambling Regulation Act 2024, enacted on 23 October 2024, establishes the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, in Irish Údarás Rialála
- iGaming Ontario Ontario separates who regulates its online gambling market from who conducts it.
- Interactive Gambling Act An Australian federal law of 2001 that sets the rules for companies offering or advertising gambling services, covering gambling that takes place
- Kansspelautoriteit The Netherlands Gambling Authority licenses remote gambling under the Remote Gambling Act, the Wet Kansspelen op afstand, which together with its
- KYC verification Customer identity verification is the licence condition requiring a remote gambling operator to obtain and verify enough information to establish who
- Michigan iGaming The Michigan Gaming Control Board is the state body charged with ensuring fair and honest gaming in the interests of Michigan residents.
- Nevada 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
- New 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
- New 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,
- Pennsylvania iGaming The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board regulates interactive gaming in the Commonwealth and publishes the roster of operators authorised to offer it,
- Remote 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
- Self-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
- Spelinspektionen Sweden's Gambling Act (2018:1138) covers games played for money or prizes with monetary value that are provided in Sweden; online gambling not
- Spillemyndigheden The Danish Gambling Authority treats online casino as one licensed category, covering roulette, blackjack, baccarat, punto banco, poker, online bingo,
- SRIJ Portugal's gaming regulation and inspection service publishes the legal framework for online play, the Regime Jurídico dos Jogos e Apostas Online
- West Virginia iGaming West Virginia authorised interactive wagering, presented as iGaming, in fiscal year 2020, when the state legislature passed House Bill 2934.
tournois
- 11 pages
- 7 terms
- 42 vendors
- 12% of demand covered
75% maturity
Guides 4
- 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.
- Las 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.
- Monte 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.
- Rozvadov 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.
Terms 7
- Big 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
- Bounty A bounty is a prize collected for eliminating another entrant, run as a distinct tournament format under a casino's posted tournament rules.
- Freezeout non établi par la source citée
- ICM The independent chip model estimates what a player's standing in a tournament is worth in money.
- Late registration Alternates, players registering late, and re-entries will be sold full stacks.
- Re-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
- Satellite 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.
Suppliers 42
- ARIA Resort & Casino MGM resort on the Las Vegas Strip; 24-table poker room with daily tournaments.
- Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) PokerStars Live tour for Asia-Pacific; 2026 events (Manila, Korea, Championship) listed on the official APPT section.
- Asian Poker Tour (APT) Asian live tournament tour; series pages (Taipei, Incheon) and title sponsorship published on theasianpokertour.com.
- Baha Mar Nassau resort casino; weekly hold'em tournaments on the casino page, and host of WSOP Paradise per the wsop.com 2026 schedule.
- Battle of Malta Malta poker festival; the official site announces the 2026 edition (27 Oct–4 Nov) with a €2M GTD main event.
- Bellagio MGM resort on the Las Vegas Strip; poker room with cash games and a published poker host contact.
- Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa MGM property in Atlantic City; poker room with cash games and tournaments.
- Casino Barcelona
- Casino de Monte-Carlo Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer casino; table games include Ultimate Texas Hold'em, and the EPT schedule lists a Monte Carlo stop.
- Casino Malta St Julian's casino with a Poker Club; the official site announces hosting a WSOP Circuit stop.
- City of Dreams Macau Cotai resort complex with casino and hotels (Morpheus, Nüwa, Grand Hyatt).
- Commerce Casino Los Angeles card club; hold'em cash games and tournaments.
- Crown Melbourne Melbourne resort complex; gaming, hotels and entertainment on the official Crown site.
- Dusk Till Dawn Nottingham poker club; weekly guaranteed tournaments, and host of WSOP-C UK and the UK Poker Championships per its event list.
- European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars' European tour; 2026 stops include Paris, Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Prague.
- Grosvenor Casino The Victoria
- Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT)
- Hilton Prague
- Holland Casino Amsterdam Centrum
- Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas Caesars venue on the Las Vegas Strip; Hall of Fame Poker Room with 20 tables and daily tournaments, associated with the WSOP.
- Irish Poker Open Irish poker festival; schedule and live updates on the official site.
- King's Resort Rozvadov Casino resort in Rozvadov (CZ); its poker room hosts the WSOP Europe and multi-series festivals (Polish Poker Masters, Dutch Classics, IPS).
- Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino Kyrenia hotel-casino listed among the Merit group's casino venues; meritpoker.com lists it as a Merit Poker venue.
- Merit Poker Series Series across Merit casino venues (Merit Royal, Crystal Cove, Park); schedule and results on meritpoker.com.
- Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) US regional main-event tour; state championship events listed on msptpoker.com.
- Okada Manila Resort casino in Entertainment City, Manila; hotel, casino and event venues on the official site.
- Playground Card room in Kahnawake (Montreal area) with 65 poker tables; host of the WSOP Super Circuit Canada per the wsop.com schedule.
- PokerGO Tour Tour aggregating PokerGO events (PokerGO Cup, Poker Masters); leaderboard and schedule on pgt.com.
- PokerStars Open PokerStars live tour; 2026 stops include Campione, Philadelphia, Namur, Malaga and Aix-en-Provence.
- RunGood Poker Series US regional series operated by RunGoodGear; 2026 Passport announcements on rungood.com.
- Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood South Florida venue; poker room open 24/7 with more than 40 tables.
- The Star Sydney Sydney casino with a dedicated Star Poker offering; a WPT Australia stop at the venue is announced on worldpokertour.com.
- The Venetian Las Vegas Las Vegas resort; poker room with 50 tables across 14,000 sq ft, open 24 hours.
- Triton Poker Series High-stakes series operated by Triton M Limited; player rankings and festival news on tritonpokerseries.com.
- Winamax Poker Tour Winamax's live tour in France: 10 stages with online qualifiers and a final in Aix-en-Provence.
- World Poker Tour (WPT) International tour by WPT Enterprises; season schedule and stop announcements on worldpokertour.com.
- World Series of Poker (WSOP) Annual bracelet series in Las Vegas plus year-round circuit; schedules, rules and news published on wsop.com.
- WPT Prime WPT tour tier; championship stops with dates and buy-ins listed on the official WPT tours section.
- WSOP Circuit Multi-stop WSOP ring series across US and international venues; the schedule on wsop.com lists each stop.
- WSOP Europe European edition of the WSOP; per-year tournament pages on wsop.com carry the schedule and results.
- WSOP Paradise WSOP series held at Baha Mar, Nassau; the 2026 page on wsop.com carries the dates.
- Wynn Las Vegas Las Vegas Strip resort; poker room with cash games, tournaments and the Wynn Signature Series, with weekly guaranteed prize pools.
regles
- 7 pages
- 7 terms
- 37% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 7
- Blinds 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.
- Hand 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.
- Showdown 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.
- Side 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
- String 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
- TDA rules The standardised tournament rule set published by the Poker Tournament Directors Association, a voluntary trade association of the poker tournament
- Texas 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.
etude
- 5 pages
- 4 terms
- 18% of demand covered
79% maturity
Terms 4
- Equity 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
- Expected value Expected value is the probability-weighted average of the possible results of a decision, presented in university course material on poker theory as
- GTO Game-theoretically optimal play refers to a Nash equilibrium strategy: one where no player can raise their own expected utility by unilaterally
- Pot odds The ratio between the money already in the pot and the amount a player must pay to call in order to keep playing.
economie
- 2 pages
- 2 terms
- 3% of demand covered
72% maturity
Terms 2
- Buy-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.
- Rake 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
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US
United States
Key rules
- Regime
- State-by-state — New Jersey regulates Internet gaming through its Division of Gaming Enforcement
- Regulator
- New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement
Europe
- 12 countries
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Oceania 2
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BE
Belgium
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — a supplementary A+ licence is required for operating casino games online
- Regulator
- Commission des jeux de hasard / Kansspelcommissie
CZ
Czechia
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — a basic licence is the decision awarding permission to operate a type of gambling
- Regulator
- Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic
DK
Denmark
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — online casino games may only be offered with a licence issued by the Danish Gambling Authority
- Regulator
- Spillemyndigheden
FR
France
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — online poker offered by approved operators in a competitive market
- Regulator
- Autorité nationale des jeux (ANJ)
DE
Germany
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — permits cover online casino games, virtual slots and online poker explicitly
- Regulator
- Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL)
IE
Ireland
Key rules
- Regime
- New framework — the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 establishes an authority to license and regulate betting and gaming
- Regulator
- Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI)
IT
Italy
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed by concession — the State reserves control of gaming and entrusts its operation to private concession holders
- Regulator
- Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM)
NL
Netherlands
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — the Remote Gambling Act (2021) makes online gambling legal with a Ksa licence
- Regulator
- Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa)
PT
Portugal
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — the RJO (Decree-Law 66/2015) regulates the operation and practice of online games and bets
- Regulator
- Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ)
ES
Spain
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — state-scope gambling regulated, authorised and supervised nationally
- Regulator
- Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ)
SE
Sweden
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — a licence is required to provide gambling in accordance with the Gambling Act
- Regulator
- Spelinspektionen
GB
United Kingdom
Key rules
- Regime
- Licensed — the remote casino operating licence covers poker offered online
- Regulator
- Gambling Commission
Oceania
- 2 countries
AU
Australia
Key rules
- Regime
- Banned service class — the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 makes offering online casino services to people in Australia illegal
- Regulator
- Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
NZ
New Zealand
Key rules
- Regime
- Prohibited service class — the Gambling Act 2003 prohibits remote interactive gambling, with limited statutory exceptions
- Regulator
- Department of Internal Affairs