Online Gambling Sites in Honduras - October 2024

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Gambling Laws in Honduras

Land-based gambling in Honduras is legal in much of its variety. The Honduran gambling legislation is composed of several laws among which the central place is taken by The Law 488-1977 (Ley de Casinos, Juegos de Envite o Azar) which regulates all sorts of land-based games of chance in the country. This law, however, does not prescribe special regulations for online gambling in Honduras. Thus, online gambling in Honduras remains widely unregulated. Due to the unregulated status, there are various central and South American gaming providers, especially sportsbooks that target players in Honduras. The official body supervising the functioning of the land-based gambling sector is the General Directorate for Games of Chance and Draws (Dirección General de Juegos y Sorteos). According to Honduras gambling laws minors, under 18 years of age are prohibited to participate in gambling activities.    

Is Online Gambling Legal in Honduras?

All forms of online gambling are unregulated in Honduras.

Online Casinos in Honduras

As of 2019, there are only 5 casinos in the country operating in Honduras, all of them within hotels: the Honduras Maya Hotel & Casino, Hotel Copantl Sula & Casinos, Hotel, and Casino Excelsior, the Crowe Plaza and Barcel Palma Real Beach Casino in La Ceiba. The casino in the Maya Hotel in Tegucigalpa is the biggest one in respect of the gambling facilities. All of the casinos are more for entertainment purposes in the country’s tourist areas. None of these casinos, however, has launched yet an online casino in Honduras. Foreign internet casino sites are easily accessible from Honduras.

Online Poker in Honduras

Poker in Honduras is legal and part of the regular offer or the land-based casino operating the country. Besides the casino poker, the Honduran National Poker Federation (FNP) and the Rounders Poker Club are the two main institutions organizing the poker “scene” in the country outside the regular casinos. Regarding online poker, however, there are no specific Honduras online poker laws. There are also no specialized, licensed, online poker sites in Honduras, as of March 2019. Foreign online poker sites can easily be accessed from the country.

Online lottery in Honduras

The Honduran lottery is the most developed gambling provider in the country operating the market. Its origin date back to 1832 when it was founded by Marco Aurelio Soto. In 1876 it was taken under control of the Honduran presidency and was renamed Loteria del Hospital General de Tegucigalpa, changing also its main purpose towards collecting funds for running the general hospital in the capital. In 1957 the military government made changes in the structuring of the lottery, changing again its name into Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI), under which name it is currently active. In the same year, PANI launched the two most famous lottery games in Honduras: the minor lottery called La Chica and the mayor lottery called “La Grande”. Until today these are the two favorite gambling games of Hondurans. However, PANI has not introduced a possibility for playing online lotteries in Honduras, as of March 2019. As there are no specific Honduran online lottery laws, the online lotto sector in the country is rather unregulated, with many unlicensed international lotto sites still having free access to the Honduras market.

Online bingo in Honduras

There are no specific Honduran online bingo laws. Therefore, online bingo in Honduras is also considered to be unregulated. As of March 2019, there are also no specialized sites for online bingo in Honduras. Bingo rooms, licensed elsewhere, can easily be accessed from the country.

Online sports betting in Honduras

There are only a few land-based locations in the country where one can make a bet, most of which belong to betCRIS, a company originally licensed in Costa Rica. This company however has not yet launched its online sportsbook site in Honduras. In the lack of specialized legal sportsbooks offering online sports betting in Honduras, many illegal providers, mainly coming from the Central and South American market, target players from Honduras.

Online daily fantasy sports in Honduras

Online DFS sites in Honduras do not have a legally regulated status. There is an ongoing debate on the status of this type of game, but considering the legality of online sports betting in the country it is very probable that internet Daily Fantasy Sports would soon receive a legal status in Honduras.