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 14 PokerStars country or subnational relationships. Eleven are matched to current licence evidence; three are marked not listed in the particular official register checked. 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, and Denmark publishes Reel Denmark Limited with its approved domains.

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. Denmark's current holder page names both online casino and betting permissions.

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.

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 on one holder page.

The 11 current matches cover Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia, Malta and Romania. They are Atlas evidence relationships, not a claim that those markets use the same company, website or product rules. Some authority records are brand-and-domain lists; others are company registers, concession tables or product-specific licence datasets.

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 interactive-gaming operator directory reviewed by Atlas, so the former relationship is no longer presented as a current directory match. The result applies to Pennsylvania, not the United States as a whole and certainly not to 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 reviewed the cited official sources on 17 August 2026 and will check this high-risk operator guide again within 30 days. An earlier review is triggered by a licence renewal, surrender, enforcement decision, domain change or material update to an official register.

The table and counts are dated research outputs. If an authority record changes, the newest official source takes priority over this article and over any older Atlas snapshot.