Unibet Poker Romania: ONJN licence L1260657W001792, and the 2026 tax brackets

Yes — you can play Unibet Poker from Romania, and it holds a Romanian licence to take you: number L1260657W001792, issued by the Supervisory Committee of the Oficiul Naţional pentru Jocuri de Noroc to Unibet (Germany) Limited, valid from 1 September 2026 until 31 August 2036. Romania is one of the easier markets to be precise about, because the regulator requires operators to print their licence details on the page and ANAF publishes the withholding brackets itself. Both are set out below.

Romania at a glance

Can you play Unibet Poker from Romania: Yes, on the licensed Romanian site.

Legal status of online poker: Legal and licensed. An operator needs its own ONJN remote gambling licence to offer poker to Romanian players, whatever licences it holds elsewhere.

Regulator: Oficiul Naţional pentru Jocuri de Noroc (ONJN), under the Ministry of Finance. Its Supervisory Committee issues the licences, it republishes the licensed-operator lists monthly, and it runs a national self-exclusion register.

Licence holder: Unibet (Germany) Limited, Level 6, The Centre, Tigne Point, Sliema TPO 0001, Malta, company number C 56247, Romanian tax code 35777957. ONJN licence L1260657W001792, valid 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2036.

Minimum age: 18, online and in licensed venues alike. Unibet's Romanian 18+ notice states the same.

Player tax: Withheld at source by the payer, as final tax, under Art. 110 alin. (2) and (5) of the Fiscal Code. The general brackets, per gross payment: 4% up to RON 10,000 inclusive; RON 400 plus 20% of the amount above RON 10,000 up to RON 66,750 inclusive; RON 11,750 plus 40% of the amount above RON 66,750. For casinos, poker clubs, slot machines and lotteries, ANAF's own 2026 guide applies a separate test with the same arithmetic result: nothing is withheld on winnings up to RON 66,750 per payment, and 40% applies to the amount above that. The threshold is tested at each payment, not cumulatively across the year, and for online play the withholding happens at each transfer out of the gaming account to a bank account.

Operators we verify for Romania: Unibet Poker, and GGPoker's Romanian product PlayGG at playgg.ro (WindGG International Limited, ONJN licence L1233892W001533). The international ggpoker.com site does not serve Romania.

Sources: unibet.ro footer, read 12 November 2026; ANAF's guide to the taxation of gambling income dated 25 September 2026 and an ANAF notice of 18 September 2025, both citing Art. 110 of the Fiscal Code as amended by Law 141/2025 — the two documents agree on every figure. General information, not legal or tax advice; confirm your own position with ANAF or an adviser.

What the licence is, and who holds it

The holder is a Maltese company, Unibet (Germany) Limited, operating in Romania under a Romanian remote licence rather than under its Maltese one. That distinction is the whole point of the Romanian regime: an operator needs its own ONJN remote gambling licence to offer poker to Romanian players legally, whatever other licences it holds elsewhere. Unibet's Romanian footer also lists UK Gambling Commission and Malta Gaming Authority licences, and the group's position is that those three authorisations stand behind the legality of its services.

The ONJN sits under the Ministry of Finance. Its Supervisory Committee issues the licences, it publishes the licensed-operator lists monthly, and it runs a national self-exclusion register. Because the lists are republished every month, a licence is one of the few facts about an online room that can actually be verified from a primary source on any given day.

What the Romanian poker offer looks like

Unibet runs a full poker section on the Romanian site: cash tables, a published tournament schedule, the Unibet Open live festival, the room's poker loyalty programme, a set of strategy guides and a poker promotions page with its own welcome offer. Any bonus terms should be read on the operator's page before you opt in — the headline figure is never the whole condition, and offers of this kind release in stages as rake is generated, with the released amount being what can actually be withdrawn.

Unibet Poker's design has long leaned towards recreational players rather than high-volume regulars, with anonymous tables and a prohibition on tracking software described on the group's other national sites. That is a feature if you are a casual player and a drawback if you grind.

The tax, in the terms a player actually needs

The practical shape of Romanian gambling tax for a poker player is the carve-out, and it is worth stating plainly because most summaries miss it. Under the general brackets of Art. 110 alin. (2) Cod fiscal a payment of RON 5,000 would carry 4%, and a payment of RON 30,000 would carry RON 400 plus 20% of RON 20,000. But ANAF's own 2026 guide treats casino, poker-club, slot-machine and lottery winnings separately: up to RON 66,750 per payment nothing is withheld, and above that the rate is 40% on the excess. The arithmetic is identical to running the third bracket and deducting RON 11,750, which is how the 2025 notice expresses the same rule.

Two details decide what you actually keep. The threshold is checked at every payment rather than summed over a year, so several payments below it each pass untaxed. And for online play the withholding is triggered by the transfer from your gaming account to your bank account, not by winning the pot — so the size of each withdrawal, not the size of each cash, is what the bracket is applied to. The tax is final once withheld, and the operator pays it to the state budget by the 25th of the following month.

This is general information, not tax advice, and the brackets have been revised more than once in recent years — the current ones come from Law 141/2025. Confirm your own position with ANAF or an adviser.

Live poker, and the rest of the market

For live poker, Romania's licensed club poker is a single licence holder, POKER TM S.R.L., covering three rooms in Bucharest, Iași and Craiova — the online room and the live scene are much further apart here than in most European markets.

The licence details above were read on Unibet's Romanian site on 12 November 2026.