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title: "Playing on Foreign Online Casinos from Georgia — the Legal Status"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/playing-on-foreign-online-casinos-from-georgia-the-legal-status-en"
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description: "The status of a foreign online casino: the supply of games in Georgia requires a permit; guarantees exist only in the licensed regime. Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-15"
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# Playing on Foreign Online Casinos from Georgia — the Legal Status

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/playing-on-foreign-online-casinos-from-georgia-the-legal-status-en

## 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.

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### Is such play lawful?

The norms regulate supply: the supply of games in Georgia requires a permit, and unpermitted supply is a violation.

### What does the player lose?

Submitted rules, payment deadlines, the claim procedure and state control — outside the framework these guarantees do not operate.

### What is essential product?

Platforms, bases and the financial system — everything influencing the results.

### And a dispute?

The means are determined by general rules and require separate analysis; the service stands outside the permit framework.