Is online poker legal in Serbia? Licence, age, the tax exemption and where to play

Yes - online poker is legal in Serbia. It is licensed in its own right as a category of special games of chance under the Law on Games of Chance, regulated by the Games of Chance Administration, and the minimum age is 18.

The rule most players elsewhere would envy: winnings from licensed games of chance, remote gambling included, are exempt from personal income tax altogether. The catch is which games that exemption attaches to - read the tax section below before you assume it covers the room you play on.

Serbia at a glance

Legal status: Legal and licensed. Online poker is licensed as a category of special games of chance under the Law on Games of Chance (Official Gazette 18/2020, amended 94/2024), rather than being folded into online casino.

Regulator: The Games of Chance Administration, a unit of the Ministry of Finance.

Minimum age: 18, enforced with identity verification.

Player tax: None on winnings from licensed special games of chance or licensed remote gambling - they are exempt from personal income tax. Lottery winnings above roughly EUR 1,200 attract 20 per cent. The exemption attaches to licensed games, so check an operator's licence status before assuming it applies to you. General information, not tax advice.

Operators that serve the market: WPT Global and CoinPoker. Serbia is not among the excluded territories in WPT Global's own terms and conditions. Neither holds a Serbian licence, which is the ordinary position here - see the licensing barrier below.

Live poker: Not yet verified from a primary source on this site.

The legal position

Gambling in Serbia is governed by the Law on Games of Chance (Official Gazette 18/2020, amended 94/2024) and regulated by the Games of Chance Administration, a unit of the Ministry of Finance.

Online poker is licensed here, as a category of special games of chance - player-versus-player gaming has its own place in the framework rather than being folded into online casino. Licensees need technical infrastructure physically located in Serbia and accessible to the regulator.

The barrier is on the operator side, not the player's. A foreign company cannot hold a Serbian licence directly; it must establish a Serbian legal entity, put up capital of around EUR 250,000 and pay substantial monthly fees. That is why the domestic licensed market is small and most Serbian players use international sites.

The minimum age is 18, strictly enforced with identity verification.

The tax rule worth knowing, and its limit

Lottery winnings above roughly EUR 1,200 attract 20 per cent personal income tax. Winnings from licensed special games of chance and licensed remote gambling are exempt. For a poker player using a licensed operator, that is as clean a position as exists anywhere in Europe.

The limit matters as much as the rule: that exemption attaches to licensed games. Because the licensing barrier keeps most international rooms outside the Serbian system, a player on an offshore site cannot simply assume the exemption follows them there. It is one of the few concrete reasons to prefer a licensed room, and it is worth confirming an operator's status rather than inferring it. General information, not tax advice.

The players

Serbia's record is disproportionate to its size. Andjelko Andrejevic tops the list with $7.27m, an APPT Macau Super High Roller title and a 2025 WSOP bracelet. Danilo Velasevic is 191st in the world and a Triton regular, with $1,825,600 for second at Triton Jeju in March 2026 - and he still lives in Belgrade.

Luka Bojovic finished fifth in the 2025 WSOP Main Event for $2,400,000, the best Serbian result in the tournament's history, and Milos Skrbic was ninth in 2019 for $1,000,000. Two Main Event final tables from one small country in six years is not a coincidence.

Where a welcome offer is mentioned anywhere on this site, note that offers of this kind release in stages as rake is generated - the released amount is what can actually be withdrawn, not the headline figure.