Official language: Polish
Population: 38,116,000
Currency: Zloty (PLN)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = 4.1599 PLN
1 GBP = 4.5844 PLN
1 USD = 2.7786 PLN

Poker in Poland
There are dozens of large casinos throughout Poland and nearly every one of them offers some kind of poker game. Poland also has thousands of smaller gambling halls, but these are only allowed to offer gambling machines, so players are forced to use the large casinos to play live poker games.

While poker is available in Poland, it has been slow to catch on. As of January 2009, the Poker Channel will be available in Poland though Vectra, the nation's biggest cable provider. This is sure to increase public exposure to the game. Another recent event in the Polish poker world was the PokerStars EPT Polish Open – a stop on the professional European poker circuit – which took place in Warsaw in November 2008.

Online Poker in Poland
Online poker in Poland is not legal. Actually, there are no Polish poker sites on the internet since the government does not license online gambling. Polish players are also banned from playing at foreign online poker sites, but the ban is difficult to enforce since the Polish government has no jurisdiction where the sites are hosted. Players enjoy playing online poker despite the ban.

Polish casinos would like to see internet poker and other forms of online gambling in Poland legalized. The Polish government has also expressed an interest in licensing and regulating internet gambling for the purpose of financial gain through taxation. While legalization is still in the early planning stages, the next year or two could see big changes for online poker in Poland.