Can you play Unibet Poker in the Netherlands? Licence, age, tax and the lobby

Yes — you can play Unibet Poker in the Netherlands. Unibet states in the licensing notice it is required to publish on unibet.nl that the Kansspelautoriteit granted it a licence to offer online gambling in the Netherlands on 8 June 2022, roughly eight months after the regulated market opened.

For a Dutch player that date matters less than what the licence carries with it, so this page sets out the obligations, what the Dutch poker lobby contains, and how to check a licence claim without taking anyone's word for it.

**Can you play it in the Netherlands:** Yes, on the Dutch site. Unibet publishes a Kansspelautoriteit licence notice naming 8 June 2022 as the grant date.

**Regulator:** Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), the Netherlands Gambling Authority. It runs the Kansspelwijzer, a public checker for any site's Dutch licence.

**Minimum age:** 18. The Wet op de kansspelen sets eighteen for every licensed gambling form it names, and licensed rooms must restrict advertising and bonuses to adults. No provision of the Act sets 21.

**Player tax:** None on a Dutch-licensed room. Kansspelbelasting is 37.8 per cent (Wet op de kansspelbelasting art. 5, in force from 1 January 2026), but for licensed providers, remote gambling included, the operator is the taxpayer rather than the winner.

**Self-exclusion:** Cruks checks are mandatory before play. A player can register a gokstop at cruksregister.nl, which closes every licensed Dutch operator to them.

**Poker offer:** Cash tables, a published tournament schedule, poker promotions, strategy guides and the Unibet Open live festival.

Is Unibet licensed in the Netherlands?

Unibet says so on unibet.nl, in the licensing notice it is required to publish: the site holds a Kansspelautoriteit licence permitting it to offer online gambling services legally in the Netherlands, granted on 8 June 2022. The same notice carries the standard Dutch warning that taking part in gambling can be addictive.

You do not have to rely on the operator's own statement. The Ksa points players at the Kansspelwijzer, its official checker, and tells them to look up the app, website or casino before playing rather than after. That is the primary source for any licence claim, including this one.

What a Dutch licence obliges the room to do

The Dutch regime is built around player protection rather than around the size of the bonus. A licensed room must connect to Cruks — the Centraal register uitsluiting kansspelen, the national self-exclusion register — and check you against it before you play. Any player who wants to stop can register a gokstop in Cruks themselves, through cruksregister.nl, and every licensed Dutch operator is then closed to them. The Ksa also signposts OpenOverGokken for anyone worried about their own gambling or someone else's.

Identity verification and deposit limits set at registration follow from the same licence, and advertising and bonuses are restricted to adults. None of this is optional for a licensed room, which is the practical difference between a Dutch-licensed site and an international one.

What the Dutch poker lobby offers

Unibet runs a full poker section on the Dutch site rather than a token one. Alongside the cash tables there is a published tournament schedule, a poker promotions page, a set of strategy guides, and — the part regular players care about — the Unibet Open, the room's own live festival, which has its own section on the site.

Unibet Poker's long-standing design choice is worth knowing before you sit down: the room has built its reputation on recreational-friendly tables rather than on volume play, and its UK pages describe anonymous seating and a ban on tracking software. Expect the Dutch client to feel closer to that than to a high-volume grinder's room.

Tax, in detail

Kansspelbelasting stands at 37.8 per cent under article 5 of the Wet op de kansspelbelasting, in the text in force from 1 January 2026. Who pays it depends on the licence. For licensed casino, slot, betting, totalisator and remote-gambling operators the tax falls on the operator, calculated on the difference between stakes taken and prizes paid out, and the winner is not taxed on the prize at all. A Dutch resident who wins from a remote game outside that licensed category is taxed personally instead, on the positive difference between prizes won and stakes placed over a calendar month.

In plain terms: on Unibet's Dutch site your winnings are yours. That is one of the quieter arguments for staying inside the licensed market.

Where to play live while you are there

Live poker in the Netherlands is a Holland Casino monopoly. The Master Classics of Poker runs in Amsterdam from 13 to 21 November 2026, the Rounders Poker Festival in Rotterdam from 11 to 19 December with EUR 250,000 guaranteed in its Main Event, and the Dutch Open Poker Series in Breda from 12 to 17 January 2027.

Everything here is general information, not legal or tax advice, and licence details change. Unibet's Dutch licensing notice and the Ksa's player pages were read on 15 October 2026; the tax and age figures were read from the consolidated statutes on 11 November 2026. If you are checking a figure that matters to you, the Kansspelwijzer is the place to confirm a licence and a Dutch tax adviser the place to confirm a tax position.