PokerStars licensed countries: entity and product evidence

PokerStars has a substantial regulated footprint, but the useful answer is not a single list of countries. Atlas currently records 16 PokerStars country or subnational relationships. Eleven are recorded as licensed, three are marked not listed in the particular official register checked, and Romania and New Jersey are under review. Romania awaits post-expiry renewal evidence; New Jersey concerns the former standalone service after its market-access agreement expired. Each result belongs to one territory, one evidence source and one review date.

That distinction matters because a website can be reachable from a place where the relevant regulator does not list the brand. It also matters because the company named on a licence is often not called PokerStars. A defensible check starts with the jurisdiction and then joins the legal entity, exact domain, licensed product and status shown by the authority.

PokerStars is the name players recognise. Regulators, however, issue permissions to legal entities. The current British register contains Stars Interactive Limited. Portugal names Reel Europe Limited. France names Reel Malta Limited, Italy connects pokerstars.it to TSG Italy Srl, Denmark names Reel Denmark Limited, and Sweden links pokerstars.se to TSG Interactive PLC.

These are not interchangeable labels. A Reel Europe record in Portugal does not prove the status of a French, Italian or British service. The same is true in reverse. Searching only for the brand can miss the strongest evidence; copying an entity from the wrong country can create a false match.

The word licensed is incomplete without the activity. SRIJ lists pokerstars.pt under Reel Europe Limited for poker and named casino games. ANJ lists the French PokerStars family under Reel Malta Limited for sports betting and games of skill, while France does not use that competitive register to authorise online casino games. Germany's whitelist records online poker, virtual slots and sports betting under separate entity-product entries, while Denmark records online casino and betting for its named PokerStars domains.

Belgium shows an even narrower relationship. pokerstars.be appears in the A+ dataset beside Gambling Management SA/NV and Casino de Namur. That is evidence for the Belgian online-casino class. It should not be restated as a blanket Belgian permission for every PokerStars product or domain.

Germany: Reel Germany Limited holds the poker and virtual-slot entries. Cyan Blue International Limited holds pokerstars.de/sports, with an initial permission dated 17 June 2024. The 9 October check corrects an omission; it does not establish a new October permission.

Portugal provides a particularly readable chain: brand PokerStars, website pokerstars.pt, operator Reel Europe Limited and licence 005 for the listed games. Italy uses a different structure. ADM connects concession 16023 and TSG Italy Srl to www.pokerstars.it; a separate product check is still needed before describing the permitted game mix.

France names Reel Malta Limited, the approved PokerStars-family domains and the permitted categories. The June 2025 ANJ decision renewed the poker approval for pokerstars.fr and pokerstarsmobile.fr for five years, while the live operator list also records the current sports-betting category and related domains. Denmark names Reel Denmark Limited, four consumer domains and separate online-casino and betting permissions. New Jersey demonstrates why a listing must be read alongside later evidence. The indexed DGE directory retains pokerstarsnj.com under Resorts, but Resorts' Q2 filing says the market-access agreement expired on 15 May 2026. The last located TSG/Resorts waiver ended on 1 June. PokerStars poker now operates through FanDuel; these records do not establish current standalone PokerStars permission.

The 11 licensed relationships cover Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Estonia and Malta. Romania remains under review because its last confirmed ONJN term ended on 31 August. New Jersey is under review because the legacy domain listing does not resolve the later market-access expiry and move to FanDuel. These are Atlas evidence relationships, not a claim that those markets use the same company, website or product rules. Italy's indexed ADM table checked on 26 September lists TSG Italy Srl, www.pokerstars.it and concession 16023. Direct access returned 403 and the snapshot was reported crawled the preceding week. PokerStars' operator agreement separately corroborates poker and casino; the concise ADM row does not enumerate products.

The count therefore answers a precise question: in how many current Atlas relationships did the reviewed official evidence support a licensed status for PokerStars? It does not answer where a person can open an account today, whether every game is available, or whether the service accepts players from a particular location.

Atlas marks PokerStars as not listed in the current GRAI betting register checked for Ireland. The finding is limited to that register and its current betting-licence scope; Ireland's transition to the new regime is still product-sensitive. It is not a shortcut to a general statement about every form of gaming or every prior permission.

Pennsylvania is also narrow. PokerStars is absent from the current PGCB poker directory reviewed by Atlas, so the former relationship is no longer presented as a current directory match. Alderney is likewise an AGCC-register finding. Neither result describes the United States as a whole or PokerStars globally.

Begin with the place and product you actually need to verify. Open the relevant regulator's current register and search PokerStars, known entities and the exact consumer domain. Record the account, concession or licence number where one is published, then confirm the activity, status and term. Save the source URL and the date you checked it.

If there is no exact match, record what was searched and keep the conclusion as narrow as the source. Then check whether the jurisdiction has separate registers for poker, casino, betting or subnational markets. The Atlas licence checker, PokerStars operator profile and country pages can help organise the search, but the authority record remains the deciding source.

This guide is not legal advice, an endorsement or a test of account eligibility. It does not infer legality from website access, marketing, app-store availability or the use of a familiar logo. Player location, age, product rules and account terms can still prevent access even where a local licence exists.

It also does not turn a Malta authorisation into permission to target every other country. National and subnational regulators make their own decisions. The correct unit of analysis remains the local chain of jurisdiction, entity, domain, product and licence.

Atlas reconciled this guide on 27 September 2026. The New Jersey under-review finding is based on evidence checked on 26 September, including Resorts' expiry disclosure and the conflicting legacy directory listing. That review date does not represent a renewed standalone permission. Romania remains under review after its term ended on 31 August; neither finding is a revocation or illegality claim.

The 9 October update rechecks Germany alone. Its next scheduled review is 8 November 2026, or earlier after a material whitelist change. The other 15 relationships retain their existing evidence dates and deadlines. If an authority record changes, the newest official source takes priority over this article and over any older Atlas snapshot.