GGPoker Brazil: how Brazilian players join the world's largest poker room

Brazil is one of the biggest poker nations on earth — home to six-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski, the BSOP circuit and hundreds of thousands of online regulars — and GGPoker accepts Brazilian players on its international site with a Portuguese-language client, a cashier in reais and Pix deposits. Poker here is a game of skill played for entertainment, and that is the spirit this guide is written in. It covers what Brazilian players need to know before signing up, including which company is on the other side of the agreement.

Is GGPoker legal in Brazil?

Poker has long been treated as a game of skill in Brazil, and playing online on an international room has never been an offence for players. Brazil's 2023 betting law (Lei 14.790) created a federal licensing regime for fixed-odds betting and online gaming, administered by the Ministry of Finance, and the market has been moving toward licensed operators since 2025. GGPoker currently serves Brazil on its international platform; check the operator's own terms for the latest position, as the rules are still settling. You must be at least 18 to play.

Which company you are signing up with

The international ggpoker.com platform that serves Brazil is operated by GG International Limited, incorporated in the Isle of Man, with its registered office at The Hubb, Queen Victoria House, Victoria Street, Douglas, IM1 2LF. It is licensed and regulated by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission under a licence issued under the Online Gambling Regulations Act 2001 on 15 October 2020. Isle of Man law governs the player agreement and gambling debts are enforceable there. These details are published in GGPoker's own terms and conditions.

This is the international entity, not a Brazilian-licensed one, and it is worth being exact about that while Brazil's federal regime settles. Elsewhere in the GG group the licensing is genuinely different — Germany's ggpoker.de is operated by NSUS Malta Limited on the German regulator's whitelist, and there are separately licensed GG brands for the Netherlands, Ontario, the United Kingdom and Romania. A shared brand does not mean a shared licence.

What Brazilian players get

GGPoker's client is available in Portuguese and the cashier supports Brazilian reais with Pix, the fastest way in and out. The tournament schedule is the largest online: WSOP Online bracelets in summer, the weekly GGMillion$, regular Bounty Hunters and GGMasters series, and satellites to live festivals. Cash games run at every level with Rush & Cash fast-fold and All-In Insurance, and the Fish Buffet programme returns a share of your rake. Brazilian time zones are well served — the evening schedule in São Paulo lines up with US prime time.

Signing up from Brazil

Register through the link on this page with your real name, CPF and address, verify your identity with a document photo, and deposit in BRL. The welcome offer for Brazil is applied automatically to the first deposit — read its terms, because offers of this kind release in stages as you generate rake, and the released amount is what can actually be withdrawn. Winnings from poker are taxable in Brazil as income from abroad and should be declared; a contador can advise on the details.

Treat poker as a form of entertainment with a cost, not as a source of income or a way to solve a financial problem. Results vary and losing sessions are part of the game, however well you play.

The Brazilian scene

Yuri Dzivielevski, André Akkari and a generation of online regulars have made Brazil a permanent presence at every WSOP and every big online series. Live, the BSOP (Brazilian Series of Poker) runs stops across the country with a flagship BSOP Millions in São Paulo, and the H2 Club in São Paulo is the country's best-known poker room. Our Brazil page has player profiles and the event calendar. The other rooms we list for Brazilian players are Ya Poker and CoinPoker; if gambling stops being fun, Jogadores Anônimos offers free help.

This page is general information, not legal or tax advice.