Luxembourg online casinos for Real Money

Gambling (in general) has been legal in Luxembourg since 1977. The Grand Duchy has a handful of legalised and regulated casino establishments, and there is the Loterie Nationale (the only legal lottery provider in Luxembourg) that offers tickets both online and offline. All this stems from the 1977 Gambling Law.

Online gambling only recently became legal in Luxembourg. While there were never any punishments for Luxembourgers who wished to bet online, the market was fully unregulated. In 2021, the Luxembourg government decided that the 1977 Gambling Law should also encompass online gambling and made amendments to that law accordingly.

It is worth noting that the only licensed provider of online gambling games in the country is the Loterie Nationale. All other gambling enterprises are unlicensed and unregulated. However, that doesn’t make them illegal. As mentioned, online gambling is legal but not regulated. This means that Luxembourgers can effectively wager at any online casino that tickles their fancy. Luxembourg is one of the freest and most open countries regarding online betting, then.

Even if Luxembourg was to implement a licensing body and fully regulate the market, there wouldn’t be much point in doing so. Luxembourg’s population (at just over half a million citizens) is far too small to attract major gambling enterprises to apply for licenses in the tiny European country. Having it unregulated is arguably the smartest choice here.

The Loterie Nationale is the only company endorsed by the Luxembourg government to officially offer gambling games. Licenses are supposed to be handed out by the Ministry of Justice. It is regulated internally, effectively meaning that most other forms of gambling (which, again, are legal) in Luxembourg remain unregulated. Despite this, there are sorts of dos and don’ts when it comes to betting at casinos.

Officially, Luxembourgers can sign up and play at any online casino that tweaks their interest. There are no rules forbidding you from doing so and no punishment in place. However, EU law sort of stipulates that citizens should play at an EU-licensed casino. Of course, most consider this to mean UK casinos are fair game, too, even though they’ve formally left the EU.

While we recommend Luxembourgers to play at EU and UK-licensed casino sites, they can readily choose a Curacao-licensed casino if they wish or any other sort of gambling domain with no issues experienced whatsoever. Most of the offshore casinos that cater to players in Luxembourg will offer gameplay in at least one of the languages familiar to Luxembourgers, and most will provide the euro as their currency of choice, to boot.

Because they can play at seemingly any site, Luxembourgers need to be a bit careful when signing up for a site. You don’t want to get caught out by playing at a scam, rogue or blacklisted casino. There are some of these out there, and the lack of any real licensing body makes these tricky to come across.

Luxembourgers aren’t that fussy when it comes to gambling games. Some prefer to play slots, others table games. There are plenty of takers when it comes to sports betting, and a few poker players have come from Luxembourg to boot. The only types of gambling that aren’t a-okay seem to be blood sports betting (which is banned) and cryptocurrency betting and loot boxes, both of which are unregulated but not illegal.

There aren’t really any major casino software providers coming out of Luxembourg. Instead, almost all the casinos that cater to players there will feature software from other countries, many of which are based in the European Union and the UK. These developers include Microgaming, NetEnt, Playtech, Pragmatic Play, Yggdrasil Gaming- you name it.

Luxembourger casinos are almost always going to be based offshore, either in another EU country, the United Kingdom, or beyond, licensed out of places like Curacao. These casino sites won’t just accept players from Luxembourg but also those from other countries. Some casinos may offer gameplay in languages that Luxembourgers find appealing, while some may only offer English-language action. On the upside, almost all online casinos accept the euro – or at least, the ones catering to players in Luxembourg should do.

Players in Luxembourg will still need to go through the KYC process when they withdraw. However, because of the open and flexible gambling laws in the country, there is no need to worry about having to reside in a specific country or anything like that.