Poker With Crypto, Country by Country
What the law says about playing poker online where you live: who may offer it, whether the player breaks the law, the tax on winnings, and whether the rooms we write about take players from there.
Poker with crypto from Argentina
Argentina has no federal law on online gambling, so each province makes its own rules. Buenos Aires province legalised online casinos first, in 2018.
ReadPoker with crypto from Australia
Australia's Interactive Gambling Act makes it an offence to offer online poker to people in Australia, not to play it. WePlay refuses Australian residents.
ReadPoker with crypto from Brazil
Brazil licensed betting from 2025 without online poker, then banned fixed-odds betting and online games by provisional measure on 25 September 2026.
ReadPoker with crypto from Canada
Canada's Criminal Code lets each province run a lottery scheme, Ontario has licensed private online sites since 2022, and most players pay no tax on winnings.
ReadPoker with crypto from France
France has licensed online poker since June 2010, the ANJ blocks illegal sites, and skilled habitual players who earn significant income are taxed.
ReadPoker with crypto from Germany
Germany licenses online poker under its 2021 State Treaty, and taking part in unlicensed gambling is an offence under section 285 of the Criminal Code.
ReadPoker with crypto from India
India's Online Gaming Act of 2025 bans online money games, whether they rest on skill or chance, and punishes offering, advertising and facilitating payments.
ReadPoker with crypto from Italy
In Italy public gaming runs under ADM licences, and a 1989 law punishes taking part in unlicensed games and advertising games accepted abroad.
ReadPoker with crypto from Japan
Gambling is a crime for the player in Japan under the Penal Code, and since September 2025 a law also bans setting up and advertising online casinos.
ReadPoker with crypto from Mexico
Online gambling in Mexico runs under federal SEGOB permits, based on a 1947 law and its 2004 regulation, which lets licensed betting centres take bets online.
ReadPoker with crypto from the Netherlands
Dutch online poker is licensed under the Remote Gambling Act, prizes from unlicensed sites need your own tax return, and WePlay refuses Dutch residents.
ReadPoker with crypto from Norway
Only Norsk Tipping may offer online gambling in Norway and foreign sites are blocked, yet a player commits no offence. The NOK 10,000 tax rule and more.
ReadPoker with crypto from the Philippines
Only PAGCOR-licensed platforms may take bets from residents, players must be 21, and offshore sites are illegal for the player. What it means for crypto poker.
ReadPoker with crypto from Poland
In Poland, online gambling outside the state monopoly is essentially illegal, and the Fiscal Penal Code fines a player for taking part in it from Poland.
ReadPoker with crypto from Russia
Since 2009 Russia has allowed casino gambling only in four gambling zones, and the limits apply online too. Online, only licensed bookmakers may take bets.
ReadPoker with crypto from South Korea
South Korea's Criminal Act fines a person who gambles up to 10 million won, and habitual gambling carries up to three years in prison.
ReadPoker with crypto from Spain
Spain licenses online poker under its 2011 law, fines unlicensed operators up to 50 million euros, taxes winnings, and WePlay refuses Spanish residents.
ReadPoker with crypto from Sweden
Sweden has licensed online gambling since 2019. Winnings from games licensed in Sweden are tax-free, and Skatteverket taxes some others at 30%.
ReadPoker with crypto from Thailand
Online gambling is illegal in Thailand under the 1935 Gambling Act, players included. What the Act says, and what became of the casino bill and poker permits.
ReadPoker with crypto from Ukraine
Ukraine banned gambling in 2009 and legalised it again under licences in July 2020, online poker included. WePlay's terms exclude Ukrainian residents.
ReadPoker with crypto from the United Kingdom
Offering gambling in Great Britain needs a Gambling Commission licence, advertising unlawful gambling is an offence, and WePlay refuses UK residents.
ReadPoker with crypto from the United States
Online poker is licensed state by state in the US, six states have joined an agreement to share player pools, and the IRS taxes every win.
ReadPoker with crypto from Vietnam
Gambling is illegal in Vietnam apart from the lottery and a few exceptions, and the leader of one online betting ring was sentenced to nine years in prison.
ReadWe are players, not lawyers, and each page names its sources at the bottom. The law where you live decides, not the country where a room is licensed. Is crypto poker legal? says what to check in a country we have not written about yet.