Poker no Brasil — poker in Brazil: the law after MP 1.394, the BSOP calendar and the playe

Is online poker legal in Brazil? Live poker is played openly and has long been treated as a game of skill, but the online position changed on 25 September 2026: Medida Provisoria 1.394 prohibits the exploitation, offering, intermediation and advertising of fixed-odds lotteries in national territory, including by foreign operators serving people in Brazil, and revokes most of Law 14.790 of 2023 — the law that had licensed them. Whether a peer-to-peer game such as poker sits inside that prohibition is not answered on the face of the measure, and we do not answer it for you.

That correction matters enough to lead with, because anything written about Brazilian online poker before October 2026 describes a licensing regime whose operative articles no longer exist. What follows is what the statute book says today, read from the published text of the measure and the Camara's consolidated text of the law it struck.

Live poker is untouched by any of it. The BSOP — the Campeonato Brasileiro de Poker, the Brazilian Series of Poker — remains the largest live tour in Latin America, and BSOP Millions is running from 13 to 28 November 2026 at the Complexo WTC in Sao Paulo. Poker here is a game of skill played for entertainment; nothing on this page is legal advice, and nothing on it suggests the game is a source of income.

At a glance

Legal status, live poker: Played openly; treated as a game of skill. Brazil licenses no land-based casinos, so live play happens in members' clubs and at touring festivals.

Legal status, online: Prohibited products. Medida Provisoria 1.394 of 25 September 2026 prohibits the exploitation, offering, intermediation and advertising of fixed-odds lotteries, covering bets on real sporting events and on virtual online-game events. Whether peer-to-peer poker is inside that definition is not settled on the face of the text.

Regulator: Not confirmed for online poker. The betting secretariat of the Ministry of Finance regulated the licensing regime created by Law 14.790; the articles establishing that regime were revoked on 25 September 2026, and the measure instead assigns enforcement duties across the Ministries of Finance and Justice, the Central Bank, Anatel and CGI.br.

Status of the measure: In force from publication, and before Congress. The Congresso Nacional's record shows publication in the Diario Oficial da Uniao of 25 September 2026, a deliberation window prorogued to 4 March 2027, an urgency regime from 9 November 2026, and the joint committee not yet installed. A provisional measure lapses if Congress does not convert it into law.

Minimum age: Not confirmed. The article of Law 14.790 that listed who was barred from betting was revoked by the same measure, so there is no longer a statutory figure to quote for online play.

Player tax: Not confirmed. The taxation article of Law 14.790 was revoked on 25 September 2026. For live tournament play, the BSOP's own rules state that prizes won by competitors resident in Brazil are transferred to the winner in full at the end of the event and that each prizewinner receives a booklet explaining how to pay and declare the tax themselves — that is the tour's statement of its own practice, not a reading of Brazilian tax law, and it is not a substitute for advice from the Receita Federal or an accountant.

Rooms we list: Our market configuration shows GGPoker as the primary room, with CoinPoker, YaPoker and WPT Global also available. That configuration predates the measure and we have flagged it internally for review; treat it as a record of what we listed, not as a statement that any of those rooms may lawfully be offered to you today.

This is general information, not legal advice. Confirm the position with Brazilian counsel, and confirm an operator's own status directly, before depositing anywhere.

A correction to this page

Until 12 November 2026 this page said that WPT Global's own terms list Brazil as an excluded territory and that we had therefore never listed the room here. Both halves were wrong. We re-read WPT Global's terms and conditions on 12 November 2026: the excluded-territories list under clause 2.5 runs from Alberta and Afghanistan to Yemen and Zimbabwe and does not name Brazil. We do hold an operator page for WPT Global in Brazil. The error was ours, it was introduced on this page the day before, and it is corrected here rather than quietly overwritten — a page that asks readers to check primary sources should show its own.

None of that changes the paragraph above it. The measure's advertising limb reaches the offering and promotion of the prohibited products whichever operator is named, and the question of whether peer-to-peer poker is one of those products is the open one.

What changed on 25 September 2026

Law 14.790 of December 2023 built a federal licensing regime for fixed-odds betting and online games, in force from 2025, with authorisations granted by the betting secretariat of the Ministry of Finance. For most of 2026 that was the answer to the legality question, and it is the answer most English-language summaries still give.

Medida Provisoria 1.394 was published in the Diario Oficial da Uniao of 25 September 2026. Its first article prohibits the exploitation, offering, intermediation and advertising of fixed-odds lotteries in national territory, and it reaches foreign operators offering them to people in Brazil. Authorisations granted under Law 14.790 were extinguished thirty days after publication, with no refund of the authorisation fee. Operators were given ten days to make their sites and applications unreachable. Open bets with no result were voided and stakes refunded in full, while bets already settled keep their prizes; payment institutions were given seven days to return player funds, with unclaimed money routed to a Caixa Economica Federal account. Advertising, sponsorship and marketing are banned across all media, with ten days to take material down, and a breach is treated as abusive advertising under the Consumer Defence Code.

The measure's revocation article strikes Chapter V of Law 13.756/2018, Article 68 of Law 15.421/2026, and articles 1 to 40, 43 to 48 and 54 of Law 14.790/2023. The Camara's consolidated text of that law now carries the revocation note against each of them, including the taxation article and the article listing who was barred from betting. That is why two cells in the table above read "not confirmed": the figures that used to fill them were in articles that no longer exist.

One distinction is worth carrying into any reading of this. The measure is written about fixed-odds lotteries — a book quoting a price and taking the other side of a wager. Poker is a game played between players, where the house takes rake rather than a position. Law 14.790 used to supply a definition of "jogo online" that might have settled the question, and the same measure revoked it. So the honest answer about online poker specifically is that the prohibition's reach over it has not been settled on the face of the text, and anyone who tells you otherwise in either direction is going beyond the document.

What is on the calendar

None of the above affects live play. BSOP Millions is the season finale and the biggest tournament festival in the southern hemisphere, running 13-28 November 2026 at the Complexo WTC in Sao Paulo. Its spine is four Torneio Gold events: the BSOP Main Event at R$ 5,000 with R$ 10,000,000 guaranteed, the BSOP Championship at R$ 25,000 with R$ 15,000,000 guaranteed, the Millionaire Maker at R$ 1,200 with R$ 5,000,000 guaranteed, and the Super Million at R$ 2,500 with R$ 1,000,000 guaranteed. A guarantee is a minimum prize pool, not an expected return for anyone entering.

The grid read on 11 November 2026 shows how the field is built. The Main Event is spread over ten Day 1 flights, 1A to 1J, two a day from 16 to 20 November, each starting with 40,000 chips. The Championship has four flights from 21 to 24 November, starting with 100,000 chips and the longest blind levels on the schedule — 60 and then 90 minutes. The Start-Up Mystery Million, R$ 1,500 with a R$ 1,000,000 bounty envelope at the top of its pool, opens the festival with eight flights in four days.

Around them sits a high roller programme unusual for Latin America — R$ 250,000, R$ 100,000, R$ 75,000 and several R$ 50,000 events, most with rake-free satellites on the same grid — and a mixed-game schedule deeper than most European festivals offer: 8-Game, HORSE, Triple Stud, Teros, two twenty-game dealer's-choice events and a nine-game cup. Below them are the field events at R$ 500 to R$ 2,500: the Meia Milha, the Uma Milha, the Mini Main Event, a Monster Stack, a Seniors event, a Ladies event and a BSOP Primeira Vez for first-time entrants. Four events are played for the Instituto Garra charity, where a voluntary donation of ten per cent of the buy-in at the cash desk earns twenty per cent extra starting chips.

The tour re-numbers and occasionally re-prices that grid as a festival approaches, so check a buy-in against the tour's own schedule before you travel. Our Brazil tournament pages carry each event with its date, start time, buy-in, starting stack, blind-level length and late-registration deadline as the tour prints them, and the season's earlier stops are kept as records once they conclude.

Where the action is

Sao Paulo is the centre of Brazilian poker, and the Complexo WTC is where the biggest festivals are staged. Brazil licenses no land-based casinos, so live poker outside the touring festivals is played in members' clubs — Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Florianopolis all have club scenes, and the biggest Sao Paulo clubs run month-long festivals of their own alongside the BSOP. The tour also visits resorts: BSOP Summer opens the 2027 season at Sauipe Resorts, Costa do Sauipe, from 22 to 30 January 2027, with date windows published but no buy-ins yet.

Brazilian players

The names to know are Yuri Dzivielevski, Brunno Botteon, Joao Simao, Vivian Saliba, Andre Akkari, Felipe Ramos and Pedro Padilha, the fourth Brazilian to win a Triton title, in September 2026. Their results are on our player pages as sporting records. They are a record of what those players achieved, not a forecast of what anyone else should expect.