Poker in Slovakia: the whitelist is 22 domestic operators, and no poker room

Slovakia regulates gambling through a single authority, the Úrad pre reguláciu hazardných hier (ÚRHH, the Office for the Regulation of Gambling), based at Križkova 949/9 in Bratislava. Its own pages are unusually direct: a game may be operated only under a licence it has granted, it publishes the list of websites that hold one, and it publishes the list of offers that do not.

We have now read that whitelist in full, and it answers the question most visitors arrive with. The list of legal online gambling sites in Slovakia contains **22 companies, every one of them Slovak-registered and on a .sk domain, and not a single international poker room**.

What follows is general information drawn from the regulator's own documents, not legal advice.

What the law covers

The governing statute is Act No. 30/2019 Z. z. on gambling. The regulator's definition is broad: a game counts as gambling where a player pays a stake or places a bet and, on meeting conditions set in advance, can win a prize, and where the outcome depends wholly or partly on chance or on a result not known beforehand. The Act sorts gambling into named categories — lottery games, charitable lotteries, table games, betting games, games on gaming machines, games on video lottery terminals, games on technical devices operated directly by players, games on other technical devices, and a residual class of other games meeting the definition.

Gambling may be operated only on the basis of a granted or issued licence, under the conditions set by the Act and in the licence itself, and in line with an approved game plan — a defined set of rules covering the rules of the game, how stakes are accepted and their size, and how a bet is placed.

The whitelist, read in full

The ÚRHH publishes its list of legal gambling websites as a spreadsheet headed *Legálne internetové kasína a internetové kurzové stávky v Slovenskej republike* — legal internet casinos and internet fixed-odds betting in the Slovak Republic. The version we read is marked as the position valid at 1 January 2026, and it gives each licensee's company name, approved website, licence type, licence number and validity dates.

There are only **two online licence types** in it: a licence to operate internet games in an internet casino, and a licence to operate fixed-odds betting in an internet betting shop. There is no separate online poker licence. Online poker in Slovakia falls inside the internet-casino licence, so a licensed internet casino may lawfully offer it — and the whitelist will never tell you which of them actually does.

The licensed websites, as the file lists them:

online.casinoadmiral.sk (CBG), doxxbet.sk (DOXXbet), eurogold.sk (EUROGOLD), ifortuna.sk (FORTUNA SK), nike.sk (NIKÉ), olybet.sk (OLYMPIC CASINO SLOVAKIA), monacobet.sk (PERIX), doublestar.sk (Program), g4g.sk (Slovak Games), casino.slovmatic.sk (SLOV-MATIC), synottip.sk (SYNOT TIP), etipos.sk (TIPOS, the national lottery company), tipsport.sk (TIPSPORT SK), kajotintacto.sk (K-BET7), cardwin.sk (Aureola), gameworldbet.sk (GameWorld), magnusbet.sk (MAGNUS GAME), mirage777.sk (ASCOMP), sazkahry.sk (Allwyn Slovensko), casinorebuystars.sk (Online Rebuy Stars) and chance.sk (CHANCE SK).

Licence terms run five or ten years. TIPSPORT SK holds licence 000001/2020, the first issued under the current regime, valid from 15 January 2020 to 14 January 2030. The newest entry is CHANCE SK's internet-casino licence 000817/2025, running from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2035.

One oddity worth flagging rather than smoothing over: EUROGOLD's licence 000345/2020 is shown with a validity period ending 26 November 2025, yet the sheet is dated as the position at 1 January 2026. Either the row is stale or the licence was extended without the file recording it. Treat that single entry as needing confirmation from the regulator.

What this means if you want to play poker online

No international poker room — none of the global brands — appears on the Slovak whitelist. Every licensee is a domestic company operating a .sk site, and the list is dominated by betting and casino operators rather than card rooms.

So a Slovak player has a clear but narrow picture. Playing on a whitelisted .sk internet casino is playing inside the Slovak regime, with the regulator's own blocking and self-exclusion machinery behind it. Playing on an international poker site is playing outside it: Slovakia maintains a list of prohibited offers, and internet service providers and mobile operators are required to block access to the sites on it. The ÚRHH stated on 24 September 2026 that failing in that duty can draw a fine of up to €500,000, and a separate notice from November 2025 warns that promoting illegal gambling can cost sports federations and associations up to €250,000.

We are not going to tell you that a poker room is licensed here when the regulator's own list says otherwise. If you want to check any site for yourself, the whitelist and the prohibited-offer list are both published free on the ÚRHH's website, and they are more current than any guide.

Minimum age, and who else is excluded

The floor is 18. Slovakia then goes further than most European countries by maintaining a statutory Register vylúčených osôb (RVO), a register of persons excluded from gambling — and the exclusions are not all voluntary. Under § 34(2) of the gambling act the register covers people aged 18 or over who form a household for the purposes of material-need assistance; who have asked to be excluded themselves; who have been diagnosed with pathological gambling under the international classification of diseases; who are in full-time first-degree, second-degree or combined-degree university study and have been awarded a social scholarship; who have been banned from gambling by a court; who have been ordered by a court, or a court-approved agreement, to pay maintenance for a dependent child entitled to substitute maintenance; and against whom criminal proceedings have been started for neglect of compulsory maintenance.

That is worth reading twice if you are a student on a social scholarship or paying court-ordered maintenance: the bar applies by law, not by choice. Demand for voluntary self-exclusion is substantial too — the ÚRHH reported in 2025 that more than 20,000 people had applied to be entered in the register.

Scale, and where to get help

For 2025 the regulator reported that Slovaks staked €26.77 billion and spent more than €1.5 billion on gambling; the comparable 2024 figures were €24.2 billion staked and €1.45 billion spent. Those cover all gambling verticals together, not poker, but they are the regulator's own numbers rather than an industry estimate.

Slovakia funds a dedicated gambling help line on **0800 131 000**, free to call, operated around the clock by the Odborný liečebný ústav psychiatrický at Predná Hora. From abroad the chargeable number is +421 587 875 800. A separate information line for the register of excluded persons runs on 0800 127 000 on weekday mornings and early afternoons, with rvo@urhh.sk outside those hours.

Poker is entertainment. Play with money you can afford to lose, and use the self-exclusion register if the game stops being a choice.