Poker in Colombia — every listed room, the Winner Poker Series and how it is regulated

Colombia has one of the most active live poker scenes in Spanish-speaking South America, and it is unusually shaped. Twenty-two venues are listed as poker rooms, every one of which is now published on this site — and not one of them runs its own tournament calendar. Competitive poker here happens inside a single circuit, the Winner Poker Series, whose 2026 edition closed at Casino Hollywood Medellín on 2 November. The rest of the estate is cash tables and casino floors, including the largest listed poker room in the country, which is not a Winner Group venue at all.

Who regulates gambling in Colombia?

Games of chance in Colombia are regulated nationally by Coljuegos, the state industrial and commercial enterprise that administers the gambling monopoly, licenses operators and collects the levies that fund the country's subsidised health system. Colombian casinos are licensed businesses rather than a grey market, which is why the live tournament calendar is public and the guarantees are advertised openly.

This is general information, not legal advice. Rules change, and your own tax position depends on your circumstances — check with Coljuegos or a qualified adviser for anything that matters to you.

Online play: the authorised list is the list

Colombia licenses online gambling, and Coljuegos publishes the register of who holds an authorisation. Its own wording is plain: if you are of legal age and you live in Colombia, you may register on any page authorised by Coljuegos. The authorisation is granted to a Colombian-registered company for one named website.

As the register stood on 13 October 2026 it listed fourteen operators: Wplay.co, Betplay.com.co, Betsson.co, Zamba.co, Codere.com.co, Luckia.co, Sportium.com.co, Rushbet.co, rivalo.co, Yajuego.co, Bwin, Stake, Betano and mryoker.co. Every one is a general sportsbook-and-casino brand. Not one is a dedicated poker room, and the international poker networks that advertise to Colombian players are absent from the list under any of their corporate names.

Coljuegos also sets the practical conditions: the address registered on a player's account must be in Colombian territory, deposits go in by debit or credit card, rechargeable cards or cash at physical points such as Efecty, Baloto and Paga Todo, and the minimum age is the age of majority — 18.

One honest caveat. The register tells you which companies are authorised; it does not itself set out which products each authorisation covers, so whether a given authorised site may deal player-versus-player poker as opposed to casino games is a separate question we have not settled from that page.

The shape of the live estate

We have now read every Colombian room on the main directory listing, one page at a time, and published all twenty-two. The headline finding is worth stating before any of the detail: none of them publishes a tournament schedule, and only one publishes how many poker tables it has.

**The largest listed room is not a Winner Group one.** Luckia Casino Bogotá, in the north of the capital, lists six poker tables — the only table count published anywhere on the Colombian estate. Its hours run against the grain of the mall casinos: closed all day Sunday, then 14:00 to 06:00 Monday through Saturday. Luckia also appears in its own right on Coljuegos' online register. We could not confirm its stakes, because the operator's Colombian website refuses access from outside Colombia.

**Winner Group — which states it is part of CIRSA — runs the rooms that carry the country's poker reputation.** Its own poker page names three as interconnected, sharing a cash-game progressive that rises in real time plus a bad beat jackpot it advertises from 20 million pesos:

- **Casino Rio Bogotá** — Av 19 #122-64, in the north of the capital. - **Casino Rio Medellín** — Cl 34 #43-79, Antioquia. - **Casino Rock 'n Jazz Bogotá** — Cl. 82 #13-35, near Zona Rosa.

Two further Winner venues appear among the group's poker locations outside that jackpot network: **Casino Caribe Centro** at Cra. 7 #21-70 in central Bogotá, and **Casino Hollywood Bogotá** at Centro Comercial Bulevar Niza, Local 181. For **Casino Hollywood Medellín** — Cra. 43A #3 Sur 60, Local 101, El Poblado — the group's poker page marks the cash room as coming soon, which sits alongside rather than against the fact that it hosted the 2026 festival.

**Beyond those, the estate is a chain and a cluster.** The Casino Rio chain reaches Barranquilla, Cartagena, Cali, Pereira, Armenia and Sincelejo as well as the two big cities. The Broadway and Havana brands add rooms at Circular 5 and Highway 80 in Medellín, Sabaneta's Mayorca centre, and Bogotá's Gran Estación; several of them share one central switchboard number, which points to common ownership we have not confirmed from a corporate source and so do not name. **Casino Havana Cañaveral in Floridablanca, Santander, is the only listed room outside the Bogotá–Medellín axis and the chain cities** — which makes it the nearest option by a wide margin for anyone around Bucaramanga.

Three practical warnings from those pages. **Casino Havana 80 is flagged as temporarily closed**, the only room carrying that status — telephone before travelling. **Casino Havana 70 publishes round-the-clock hours**, but nothing on its page says the poker tables keep the building's hours. And as ever with casino poker, a table labelled poker is not always player-versus-player play; where we have not confirmed the format, the venue page says so rather than implying a game we have not verified.

The Winner Poker Series

The Winner Poker Series is the country's flagship circuit and, in practice, its tournament calendar. Winner Group called the Medellín stop the closing stage of the 2026 edition: it ran from 21 October to 2 November 2026 at Casino Hollywood Medellín, and we published all eight tournaments individually.

- **Main Event NLH** — 2,200,000 pesos, 800,000,000 advertised, six starting flights from 26 to 31 October, final day 2 November. - **NLH High Roller** — 3,000,000 pesos, 300,000,000 advertised, 23–25 October. - **Second Chance Mystery Bounty** — 1,500,000 pesos, 180,000,000 advertised, 31 October to 1 November. - **Progresivo K.O.** — 1,300,000 pesos, 150,000,000 advertised, 28–29 October. - **Mini High Roller PLO5 K.O.** — 1,400,000 pesos, 70,000,000 advertised, the only Omaha event on the schedule, 1–2 November. - **NLH Open** — 800,000 pesos, 200,000,000 advertised, three flights 21–23 October. - **Deep Stack Turbo** — 700,000 pesos, 50,000,000 advertised, 25–26 October. - **NLH Closing Turbo** — 700,000 pesos, 50,000,000 advertised, one day on 2 November.

Satellites were the cheaper route in, with re-entry: Open satellites at 85,000 pesos, Main Event satellites at 230,000 and High Roller satellites at 310,000.

**What happens next is not yet published.** As of 3 November 2026, the day after the final day, the organiser's own series page still described the Medellín stop in the future tense and carried no Main Event result and no 2027 calendar. We will not name a champion we have not seen confirmed. If you are planning a 2027 trip, this is the page to watch — there is no second circuit to fall back on.

A note on the guarantee figures

Every figure above is what the organiser advertised, not a banked prize pool. Worth knowing too: the eight individual event guarantees add up to 1,800,000,000 pesos, while the festival headline figure was 2,200,000,000. The two numbers come from different places in the organiser's own material and we have not reconciled them — so treat the headline as marketing and the per-event numbers as the ones to plan around.

Playing responsibly

Poker is entertainment and a game of skill played for stakes — it is not an income, a way out of debt or a route to a different life, and nobody should treat it as one. Set a budget before you sit down and stop when you reach it. Colombia has official gambling-help lines; if play stops being fun, use them.