Belgium

Belgium is located in Europe. The country shares borders with both Germany and, in addition to sharing maritime borders with the United Kingdom. The official currency is the Euro, having changed from the Belgian Franc in 2002. There are three official Belgian languages in Belgium, Dutch, French and German. Belgium introduced legalized online gambling in 2012 when the country issued licenses to three online poker sites, and to the surprise of many world spectators, created a blacklist poker sites as well.

It was reported on Belgian National Television that 160,000 Belgian residents gambled to the tune of €160 million after the country legalized gambling on the internet at a handful of legally licensed online poker and other gambling sites. What does that boil down to? Well, Belgian’s like to play poker and other casino games online. Belgium players will need to keep in mind that they as citizens are as responsible for ensuring that the sites they play at are legally licensed in Belgium as the sites themselves; in fact, playing at an unlicensed online poker site in Belgium is a crime.

In addition to this list of licensed poker sites that the Belgian Licensing Authority has deemed to be legal poker sites that can lawfully offer poker games to residents of Belgium, there are also poker sites who’ve earned a spot on the country’s list of infamous places to gamble. These infamous poker game providers are blacklisted countrywide and as such are blocked by the country’s top 4 internet service providers

Belgian Currency Poker Sites

Since the Euro is the official currency of Belgium, finding a poker site that accommodates Belgian currency is a pretty simple task. Several, or really most, online poker sites accept deposits in Euro’s. There are also, though not quite as many, poker sites that spread games in Euro’s. PokerStars is one of those sites, so if that’s what you’re looking for in a Belgium poker site, that might be a good place for you to start.

German Language Poker Sites

The three official languages of Belgium are as we mentioned above, Dutch, French and German. There is poker software available in all of these languages. We also have a page dedicated to Dutch poker sites, France poker sites, and German poker sites that includes more information and perhaps further options.

Belgian Poker Tax

Poker profits which qualify under the Belgium tax code as “occasional or accidental winnings outside of a professional activity” are taxed at a rate of 33% as various income.

Well Known Belgian Poker Players

The following players aren’t just the well-known poker players in Belgium, they’re also on the top of the Hendon Mob database of top earning poker players in the entire country such as David Kitai, Pierre Neuville and Kevin Vandersmissen to name a few.

Belgian Deposit and Withdrawal Options

Thanks to the legality of online poker in Belgium there are a plethora of online banking options available to poker players that are looking to move money into a Belgium poker account, as well as those looking to withdraw funds from their accounts. Options include online eWallet’s like Neteller, Skrill and PayPal that allow players to store their money online, as well as to send it back and forth between friends, family, land based accounts, and of course to make deposits and purchases of any number of things online.

Another popular choice for making deposits involves the use of prepaid deposit options like PaySafeCard and uKash vouchers.The following includes several of the most popular and commonly used methods of making both withdrawals from and deposits to internet poker accounts.