888poker in Portugal: Licence No. 016, read off the site and the register

888's Portuguese poker offer is one of only three licensed for poker in the country, and both halves of its paperwork can be checked in about two minutes. The regulator's register names the licence; the operator's own footer names the company. They agree.

The first thing to get right is the domain. Portugal is a ring-fenced licensing market, so the Portuguese product is not 888poker.com — it is **888.pt**, which carries casino and poker together under one brand simply called 888. A Portuguese player who signs up on the international domain is not playing on the Portuguese licence.

General information, not legal advice.

Is 888 licensed for poker in Portugal?

Yes, and the licence is specific about what it permits. The SRIJ register of licensed entities lists the brand 888 at www.888.pt, operated by 888 PORTUGAL LIMITED, under **Licence No. 016** for games of fortune or chance. The authorised game types on that licence are slot machines, tournament poker, non-banked Hold'em poker, non-banked Omaha poker, draw-less poker and French roulette.

The word to notice is *non-banked*. Portugal licenses dealer-banked card games and player-versus-player poker as different things, and 888's Hold'em and Omaha entries are in the non-banked column. This is real poker against other players, not a casino table game using poker hands.

Four endorsements have been added to the licence since it was issued. Endorsement No. 1 adds tournament poker, Hold'em and Omaha in a shared-liquidity regime; No. 2 extends the licence term; No. 3 records a change of registered office; No. 4 extends the term again.

Who you are actually contracting with

Read off the footer of 888.pt itself: the site is operated by **888 Portugal Limited, registration number C 79655**, a company registered in Malta with its registered office at Level 8, Tagliaferro Business Centre, 14 High Street, Sliema SLM 1549, Malta, contactable at suporte@888.pt. The footer also names **evoke Plc** as the group behind it — the renamed 888 Holdings. The same footer states that the right to supply and operate remote gambling in Portugal was granted to 888 Portugal Limited under Licence No. 016 issued by the SRIJ.

So the chain is: a Maltese company, holding a Portuguese licence, supervised by the Portuguese regulator, inside a UK-listed group. That is a longer chain than it looks, and it is the reason the Portuguese securities matter — the SRIJ holds €500,000 from each licensee specifically against the estimated balances in player accounts, plus €100,000 against the online gambling tax.

What shared liquidity means at the tables

Portugal on its own is a small poker market. The shared-liquidity endorsement is what makes the difference between a schedule that runs and one that does not, and it is worth understanding what it does and does not cover on this licence: tournament poker, Hold'em and Omaha are included. Anything outside those three formats sits on the national licence alone.

In practice that means tournament volume and the main cash variants are where a Portuguese account will find games, and more obscure formats are where it will not. If your game is a format the endorsement does not name, check the lobby before depositing rather than after.

Signing up

Registration happens on 888.pt. Portuguese licensees are required to verify a player's identity, so expect to supply identification documents before the account is fully usable. The SRIJ's own player pages do not publish a single minimum-age figure, so take the age condition from 888's Portuguese terms and conditions, which the footer links directly.

Two things worth reading before you deposit rather than after, both linked from the same footer: the Política de Bónus (bonus policy) and the Requisitos de Levantamento (withdrawal requirements). A welcome offer's value is decided entirely by those two documents, and a bonus whose terms you have not read is not a bonus you can price.

Taking a break

888.pt carries its own Jogo Responsável section and its own self-exclusion tool, but a self-exclusion requested on one licensed website blocks only that website. The SRIJ runs a central self-exclusion platform that blocks every online gambling site licensed in Portugal, with a minimum period of three months and an indefinite option. Ending an exclusion takes effect a month after you give notice. If you want a break that actually holds, use the regulator's platform, not the operator's.