Poker rooms in Guatemala: why this page lists none yet
This page is empty on purpose. Guatemala has gaming floors, and plenty of travel sites will happily name them for you. What none of them does is show a game list, a table count or a tournament schedule published by the venue itself — and that is the bar a room has to clear before it appears here as a poker room.
Venues for Guatemala are being added.
What we checked, and on what date
On 28 October 2026 we looked for a Guatemalan venue publishing its own poker offer. Casino City's Guatemalan edition, updated 10 October 2025, names several properties in Guatemala City and one in Quetzaltenango, and states that casinos are prohibited in Guatemala while a number of venues operate casino games alongside video lottery terminals, with licences revoked and many venues closed in 2006. Travel and casino directories carry addresses and photographs for the same properties. None of them, and no venue site we could reach, published a poker schedule, a table count or a cash-game listing.
Why a directory entry is not enough
The word poker does a lot of work on a casino floor, and most of it is not the game a tournament player means. Three-card poker, Ultimate Texas Hold'em and the various stud variants are dealt against the house: the dealer is your opponent, the odds are fixed, and no amount of skill at reading an opponent applies. Those games are common across Central America, and a directory that lists "poker" among a property's games is as likely to mean one of them as it is to mean a cash game between players.
So we apply a simple test. A venue is published as a poker room when its own pages — a room page, a schedule, a tournament calendar — show player-versus-player play. On that test, Guatemala currently has no published room, and we would rather say so than pad the page.
Guatemala's wider position
The country has no gambling statute, no licensing authority and no gaming regulator, so there is no permit a Guatemalan room could point to even if it wanted to, and no official register for us to read. The reform bill presented to the Direccion Legislativa in September 2025, Bill 6645, is a Penal Code amendment creating offences around slot machines and gambling-related tax evasion; it would not create a licence for a card room. The market page for Guatemala sets that out in more detail.
What would change this page
A Guatemalan venue that publishes its own cash-game stakes or a tournament calendar, in any language. One readable schedule is enough for a venue record, and a confirmed negative — a floor that spreads only dealer-banked card games, or a room that has closed — is just as publishable and often more useful to someone planning a trip.
Sources read for this page
Casino City Guatemala edition, Guatemalan casino and card room gaming, updated 10 October 2025; Focus Gaming News Latinoamerica on Bill 6645, 24 September 2025. Both read 28 October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Are there poker rooms in Guatemala?
Gaming floors operate in Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango, but we have not been able to verify a single player-versus-player poker room. No Guatemalan venue we could find publishes its own game list, table count or tournament schedule, so none is listed here.
Why not just list the casinos the directories name?
Because a directory listing "poker" among a property's games frequently means a dealer-banked variant such as three-card poker or Ultimate Texas Hold'em, which is not poker between players. We publish a venue as a poker room only when its own pages show player-versus-player cash games or tournaments.
Is it legal to run a casino in Guatemala?
Guatemala has no gambling statute and no licensing authority. Casino City's Guatemalan edition describes casinos as prohibited while a number of venues operate casino games alongside video lottery terminals, and records licences revoked and venues closed in 2006. This is general information, not legal advice.
Where can Guatemalan players find a game instead?
In practice, online. Guatemala is not on WPT Global's Excluded Territories list as read on 28 October 2026, so Guatemalan players can register there; the operator page for the market sets out the terms, including the rake condition that governs withdrawals.