Official languages: Nepali
Population: 29,331,000
Currency: Nepalese Rupee (NPR)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = NPR
1 GBP = NPR
1 USD = NPR

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Poker in Nepal
Poker in Nepal is almost completely unknown since Nepalese citizens would prefer to play their own traditional card games if the government would only allow them. Some take great risks to their personal safety by visiting dangerous and illegal underground card rooms. Yet it’s virtually impossible to find even a dangerous illegal card room which offers poker. Even if a game existed between foreign residents, it would be a closely guarded secret and if you managed to hear about such a place, chances are, so did the police.

In Kathmandu, the capital and Nepal’s largest city, there are no poker games. It’s not because poker is disliked, is unpopular, or too few people know how to play it poker, but because all forms of gambling are illegal. Every casino game including poker is forbidden just as is blackjack and slots. The only option is to risk getting arrested, robbed or worse by going to multiple illegal casinos late at night and asking street thugs if they know of any poker games in Nepal.

Online Poker in Nepal
It would be easier to climb Mount Everest than to find online poker licensed in Nepal. It is quite possible that Nepalese internet poker rooms have been set up by some foreign residents or even a group of wealthy, western educated former courtiers. However if they are hosted inside the country, police can quickly shut them down and players will lose their entire balances. Also, the strong possibility of an fly-by-night con-artist absconding with your online poker deposit in Nepal would be quite high.

Foreign residents, tourists and Nepalese online poker players get to safely play online poker games only at reputable, licensed and registered internet poker rooms which are not located inside Nepal. These poker rooms are licensed in highly regulated western markets and the Nepalese government has no authority to demand anything of them or even attempt to shut them down. There are dozens of online poker sites who happily accept players from Nepal even if few offer poker in Nepali language.