Official language: Spanish
Population: 3,477,779
Currency: Uruguayan Peso (UYU)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = 33.20670 UYU
1 GBP = 36.99221 UYU
1 USD = 24.38800 UYU

Poker in Uruguay
Poker is starting to become a very popular game in Uruguay. There are only 17 casinos across the entire country, but every one of them offers regular poker games, and most even offer weekly or monthly poker tournaments. The biggest casino in Uruguay is the Conrad Casino in Punda del Este, which offers 74 gaming tables, many of which are reserved for poker. In recent years, Uruguay has been a stop on the Latin American Poker Tour. In 2009, the Uruguay LAPT event was won by a Norwegian player, who took away nearly $300,000 in winnings after outlasting more than 325 other players at the Mantra Resort and Casino. As events like this take place in the country, the game becomes better known, and the demand for poker in Uruguay continues to increase.

Online Poker in Uruguay
Online poker is also becoming more popular among players in Uruguay. Local laws don't say anything about the legality of gambling over the internet. This means that there are no online poker sites in Uruguay, but it also means that players are free to use foreign internet poker sites that are run from other countries. These sites have their own restrictions in place, so not all of them will let players from Uruguay sign up and play online poker, but there are still dozens of sites that are open to Uruguayan players. These will offer a variety of round-the-clock poker games, plus large tournaments with big prizes. A few internet poker rooms even offer Spanish language games.