Legal Status: What the Law Regulates
Assessing the status of playing at a foreign online casino begins from the exact text of the law. The fifth article of the Law of Georgia on Organizing Lotteries, Gambling and Profitable Games establishes: the conduct on the territory of Georgia of every type of gambling and/or profitable game, as well as the supply of gambling and/or profitable games, requires a permit. Conduct or supply without a permit, as well as non-fulfillment of permit conditions, is considered a violation of the law and entails liability determined by the legislation.
This norm concerns precisely the supply side — the operator, the supplier, the provision of the service. An honest conclusion is important: the norms discussed regulate the regime of organizing and supplying the game, and the player's personal liability cannot be read from their text — accordingly, the practical question for the player is different: what guarantees does a game have that proceeds outside the licensed regime.
What Supply Means
The third article of the law defines supply broadly: the supply of gambling and/or profitable games is the direct or indirect supply, on the basis of a permit, of essential products or services to the organizer of the game and/or to a person outside the territory of Georgia, which may influence the results of the game. Essential products include the random number generation platform, the jackpot platform, the gaming platform — including the server on which the result of the game is determined — the player base and the financial system.
Thus, a foreign platform's service oriented toward Georgian players, where it fits these definitions, is assessed precisely within this permit framework — and the framework prohibits this type of service without a permit.