Revolut & Gambling in Poland

⚠️ Straight answer up front: online casino games — slots, roulette, blackjack, poker — are a state monopoly in Poland, held exclusively by Totalizator Sportowy through its Total Casino platform. No other operator, Polish or foreign, can legally offer these games online to Polish residents. This page exists to explain that clearly rather than write around it, which is also why you won't find our usual comparison link here — we're not going to point Polish readers toward casino products that aren't legal for anyone but the state operator to offer.

Poland's 2009 Gambling Act, amended in 2017, gives Totalizator Sportowy — a state-owned operator — exclusive rights to online casino games, poker and lottery products. The only vertical genuinely open to private operators is sports betting (and mutual/pari-mutuel betting), licensed by the Ministry of Finance under a punitive 12% turnover tax. The Ministry maintains a public blacklist of unlicensed gambling domains, and major Polish payment providers — including BLIK, used by roughly 80% of licensed-market customers — have cut off cooperation with unlicensed operators following a regulatory warning, making it significantly harder for offshore casinos to process Polish payments through mainstream rails.

Despite the enforcement, the grey market remains sizeable: industry estimates put unlicensed operators at around 40% of Poland's online casino segment. Using a VPN to reach an offshore casino isn't explicitly criminalised for the player, but it sits in a legal grey area, and a bill introduced in early 2026 would make it a criminal offence for influencers specifically to promote illegal online gambling.

Unlike most European markets on this hub, Poland doesn't run a centralised self-exclusion register — exclusion is set per-operator, so registering with one licensed site doesn't block you from others the way GAMSTOP or CRUKS would elsewhere. Separately, winnings above a threshold (roughly PLN 2,280) are taxed — recent changes put the rate at 15% since January 2026 — deducted automatically by licensed operators rather than filed separately by the player.

Poland is an EU member and Revolut offers its full standard product range there. That's entirely separate from the legal question above — Revolut works the same in Poland regardless of what gambling content Polish law does or doesn't allow operators to offer around it.

See our responsible gambling page for general guidance and support resources.