CoinPoker in Thailand: Thailand is not on the restricted list, and Thailand licenses nobod

Two separate questions get muddled on pages like this one, and keeping them apart is the whole value of reading the source. Does the operator accept players from Thailand? And does Thailand permit the operator? The answers point in opposite directions.

We read CoinPoker's terms and conditions from the operator's own document on 14 October 2026 and checked the restricted-territory clause name by name. Thailand is not on it. Thailand's own law, meanwhile, licenses no online poker of any kind and has not since 1935. This page sets out both halves, and what is left to you in between. It is general information, not legal advice.

Thailand is not on CoinPoker's restricted list

The definition sits in clause 3.1(m), which treats a Restricted Territory as any jurisdiction where the platform is restricted by law, regulations or policies, and then names a list "including but not limited to": Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, China, Comoros, Cuba, Eritrea, Estonia, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Lithuania, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the UAE, the United Kingdom, the United States and its dependencies, military bases and territories, the Virgin Islands, the Netherlands and Yemen. It also catches any country sanctioned by the UN Security Council or by OFAC, and reserves the right to add "such other countries as may be determined by the Company from time to time".

Thailand is not named, and neither is any mainland South-East Asian country. China is — which is worth knowing if you are reading this from the region rather than from Thailand itself.

The clause is explicitly open-ended, which is why the date at the top of this page matters more than the answer. A country absent today can be added without notice.

Thailand licenses no online poker, and that has not changed

As our Thailand page sets out, the Gambling Act B.E. 2478 (1935) prohibits virtually all gambling in the country, with the state lottery and betting at licensed horse-racing tracks as the exceptions. Card games played for money fall under the Act. Online gambling is caught by the same law and by the Computer Crimes Act, under which gambling sites are blocked.

A bill to permit casino-entertainment complexes was debated in 2025 and had not become law, so there is no licensing regime for an online room to enter even if it wanted to. Individual online players are rarely prosecuted, but rarely prosecuted is not the same as lawful.

So the shape of the answer is this: the operator has not excluded Thailand, Thailand has not licensed the operator, and there is no Thai authority that could. If the question matters to you, ask a Thai lawyer — not a poker site, and not us.

CoinPoker says the same thing in its own words. Clause 4.3 states that the company does not provide legal advice about the legality of online gaming in your jurisdiction, and that determining whether your participation is lawful is entirely your responsibility.

Who runs the room, and where a dispute would go

Clause 1.1 names the operator as Precise Interactive Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of Panama. Clause 1.2 states that it holds a valid gaming licence issued by the Anjouan gaming licensing authority, in the Union of Comoros. The terms we read give no company registration number, no registered address and no licence number — we looked for all three.

Governing law and venue are both Panama: clause 31.1 applies the laws of Panama to the terms and to any dispute, and clause 31.2 gives the competent courts of Panama exclusive jurisdiction.

A Thai player's contract is therefore with a Panamanian company, licensed in the Comoros, litigated in Panama, in a market where no local regulator exists to appeal to. And one line in the restricted list sharpens the point: Comoros itself is a named Restricted Territory, so the operator does not serve the jurisdiction that licenses it.

Deposits, age and the practical picture

Thai banks block gambling merchant codes, which is the main reason a crypto-funded room appears in this market at all. CoinPoker runs on cryptocurrency deposits rather than conventional banking: that removes the payment obstacle, and it also removes the chargeback and deposit-protection machinery a card would bring.

Clause 4.1(a) requires a player to be at least 18, or such higher minimum age as the laws of their own jurisdiction require, and to keep meeting that requirement throughout.

Tax, and what Thai players actually do

We are not going to state how a win would be treated. Thailand has no tax on gambling winnings as such, but income earned abroad by a resident can be assessable when remitted, and an individual's position is a question for a Thai adviser rather than for a page like this one.

For live poker the honest answer is travel, and it always has been: Poipet and the Cambodian resorts, Manila, Macau and Jeju. Thailand's best players — Punnat Punsri above all — built their records on the Triton series and the Asian Poker Tour, not at home, and our player pages are where that record sits.

What this page will not print

No bonus amounts, no rake-race prize pools, no guarantee figures. Promotional terms are varied at the operator's discretion and a number verified weeks ago can be wrong today. Read the current offer on the operator's own promotions page on the day you sign up, and read it against the terms rather than against somebody's summary of them.