GGPoker in Malta: the licence named, and how to verify it yourself

Malta is the licensing capital of online poker, so a Maltese player is in the unusual position of living in the jurisdiction that regulates rooms used by players in dozens of other countries. That makes the verification step easier here than almost anywhere, and it is worth taking.

This page sets out which company and licence actually sit behind GGPoker's international site, what the Malta Gaming Authority requires of the rooms it licenses, and how to confirm in about thirty seconds whether a particular site is one of them.

Which licence GGPoker's international site actually holds

This is the part Maltese players are most likely to get wrong, because so many rooms are Maltese. GGPoker's international platform is not one of them. Its own terms and conditions name the operator as GG International Limited, a company incorporated in the Isle of Man with its registered office at The Hubb, Queen Victoria House, Victoria Street, Douglas, IM1 2LF, 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.

Malta appears on the list of countries GGPoker's international registration accepts. So a Maltese player can register — but as a customer of an Isle of Man licensee, under Isle of Man law, not under an MGA licence. That matters because the dispute route described further down this page belongs to MGA licensees. Earlier versions of this page made no claim either way, because the operator's site was unreachable from here; the licence details above come from the terms themselves, obtained on 15 October 2026.

If you want to know whether any Maltese GG-group licence also exists alongside the Isle of Man one, do not take our word or a footer badge for it — use the regulator's own tool, below. Note too that the GG group operates different companies in different markets: Germany's ggpoker.de is NSUS Malta Limited on the German whitelist, and there are separately licensed GG brands for the Netherlands, Ontario, the United Kingdom and Romania. The brand is shared; the licence is not.

Check the licence in the regulator's own tool

The MGA runs a URL Checker at mgaurlchecker.mga.org.mt. You enter the address of a gaming site and it reports whether that site is licensed by the Authority. When we read it on 15 October 2026 it carried a "last updated" stamp from earlier that same day, so it reflects the current register rather than a snapshot.

Use it before depositing anywhere, including on any room we list. The Authority maintains a standing list of Unauthorised URLs precisely because false claims to an MGA licence are common — its own stated reason for checking suspicious websites is to protect players from misleading claims that a site holds one. A licence badge in a footer is a graphic. The URL Checker is the register.

What an MGA licence is worth to a player

The Authority runs a Player Support Unit that will take a complaint from any individual that an MGA licensee's gaming service is unlawful, or conducted in a way that is not safe, fair or transparent. That dispute route is the substantive benefit of a Maltese licence, and it is open to players outside Malta too — but only against MGA licensees, which is exactly why the licence question above is worth settling before you deposit rather than after.

Alongside the Licensee Register, the MGA publishes an Enforcement Register recording action it has taken and a Recognition Notice Register. The enforcement record being public is the part most players never look at and probably should.

The limits: the MGA's self-exclusion scheme covers land-based casinos in Malta, and is not a cross-operator online self-exclusion register of the kind the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium run. If you want an enforceable online block, Malta is not where you will find it.

Where the licence is heading

The Authority has been tightening the financial requirements rather than the marketing ones. It published a Capital Requirements Policy on 2 July 2025, presented as a foundation for reinforcing the sector, and on 12 March 2026 it set out its Supervisory Engagement Efforts for 2026. A licence that is harder to keep is generally worth more to the people playing on the rooms that keep it.

This page is general information, not legal advice. It was written from the Malta Gaming Authority's own player and licensee pages, read on 15 October 2026, and from GGPoker's own terms and conditions.