WPT Global in Honduras: the online route for players a casino cannot admit

Honduras is the one market where the online room matters more than usual, because the country's casino law is written for foreign tourists. Article 6 of the 1977 casino statute, as reformed by Decreto 76-90, forbids a licensed casino from admitting as a player anyone who cannot prove foreign nationality with a passport. A Honduran resident therefore has no lawful route into a licensed casino game at home.

WPT Global accepts players from Honduras — we checked clause 2.5.2 of its own terms and its Excluded Territories list on 28 October 2026, and Honduras is not named. What follows is what you agree to. Poker is entertainment and a game of skill; read the terms before you deposit.

Is this legal from Honduras?

The Honduran casino statute, Decreto No. 488 of 8 July 1977, governs physical establishments: licences from the executive through the tourism secretariat, a first-category tourism venue with fixed investment above one million lempiras, inspectors, and the foreigners-only admission rule in article 6. It predates the internet and says nothing about online play, and there is no Honduran online-gaming licence. Decreto Ejecutivo 70-92 bans unlicensed gambling houses nationwide, which is a provision about premises.

So a Honduran playing online is not playing on a locally licensed site, because none exists; protection comes from wherever the operator is established, and there is no Honduran authority to escalate to. This is general information, not legal advice, and anyone who wants certainty about their own position should take Honduran advice.

Who you are signing up with

The public terms name Everstronglink Limitada as the operator of wptglobal.com, with Kashxa Limited, a Cyprus company in Nicosia, as payment agent. The contract is governed by the laws of Tobique with exclusive jurisdiction in its courts. Disputes go to customer care, then the management team, then alternative dispute resolution through MADRE, with an escalation route to the Tobique authority.

This page states no licensing authority. The public terms and an operator affiliate communication name different corporate entities, and we will not publish a licence claim we cannot reconcile from primary documents. Ask the operator who holds the licence and under which regulator before you deposit.

What players get, and the clause that surprises people

Cash games, tournaments and a sports book sit alongside the poker product. Two clauses decide how money leaves.

Clause 6.3.1 makes a deposit and at least one wager a precondition of any withdrawal. Clause 6.3.2 requires each deposit to be wagered in full at least once and requires you to generate rake or gross gaming revenue equal to at least ten per cent of the deposited amount before a withdrawal request is processed. Clause 6.3.7 reserves a thirty per cent processing fee on a withdrawal authorised before the full amount has been wagered.

Where a welcome offer is advertised, offers of this kind release in stages as rake is generated. The released amount is the withdrawable one; the advertised figure is not money in the account.

Also worth knowing: five US dollars or equivalent is the minimum withdrawal (6.3.10); withdrawals return to the depositing method (6.3.5); a verified withdrawal is targeted within 72 hours (6.3.8); thirteen consecutive months without a login makes the account inactive and exposes it to a ten-dollar fee every thirty days (7.1 and 7.2); and clause 7.4 lets the operator confiscate funds left in an account thirty days after notice if it withdraws from a market.

Signing up

Email address, country, username and password to register; legal name, full address, phone, gender and date of birth before any deposit or withdrawal. Latin script only — clause 2.1.1 excludes Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic characters. The account name must match the payment method, and depositing third-party funds risks forfeiture of the whole balance under clause 6.2.3. One account per person (2.1.5 and 4.7).

The service is for people over 18, or the higher local legal age where one applies (2.3.1); winnings are forfeited if verification shows a player was underage (2.3.4). Note that Honduras's own casino law no longer carries an age limit — Decreto 100-88 set 21, and Decreto 76-90 replaced the whole of article 6 without one — so on this question the operator's rule is the stricter and the operative one. Verification can include a live video interview, liveness detection and, in rare cases, play under webcam supervision (2.3.3). Bots and external player-assistance software are prohibited and running software may be scanned for AI or real-time-assistance tools (8.2, 8.3 and 12.5). Self-exclusion, temporary or permanent, is requested by email under clause 16.2.

Tax and alternatives

Clauses 6.3.4 and 13.1 put declaring and paying tax on winnings entirely on the player. The casino statute says nothing about taxing players' winnings — its article 8 taxes operators, at the greater of 700,000 lempiras a year or twenty per cent of gross income after prizes — and we have not verified the income-tax treatment of poker winnings for individuals from a primary source. Ask a Honduran accountant rather than a poker site.

WPT Global is the room we list first for Honduras. CoinPoker and YaPoker also appear in our "also available" row; we have not read either operator's restricted-territories clause from its own terms, so we make no eligibility claim for them here.

Sources

WPT Global terms and conditions at wptglobal.com — clauses 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5.2 with the Excluded Territories list, 4.7, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1 to 7.4, 8.2, 8.3, 10.5, 10.6, 12.5, 13.1 and 16.2, read 28 October 2026. Tribunal Superior de Cuentas (tsc.gob.hn), Ley de Casinos de Juegos de Envite o Azar, Decreto 488 of 1977 with its amendments — articles 3, 4, 6 and 8, read 28 October 2026.