Who owns partypoker?

partypoker is owned by Entain plc, the London-listed betting group. partypoker.com is run by Entain companies, and LC International Limited holds UK Gambling Commission account 54743. In the United States the partypoker brand is run separately by BetMGM, the joint venture of Entain and MGM Resorts, on state sites such as nj.partypoker.com.

Ultimate owner	Entain plc (listed (LSE: ENT))
Operating company	LC International Limited, Gibraltar
Licenses	UKGC account 54743
Products	Poker
Website	partypoker.com
Also runs as	partypoker.de, partypoker.fr, partypoker.es, on.partypoker.ca
Sister casinos	33
Fines and actions	11
Owner proof	verified
Last checked	16 Oct 2026

In numbers

LC International Limited also runs 12 other gambling brands under the same company and licence.
Entain plc owns 34 brand families with 62 websites in our data.
11 regulator fines against the owner since 2015, about €719 million in total (converted to euros).

Who is behind it

Entain was formerly called GVC Holdings. It is based in the Isle of Man, and our data gives 2004 as its founding year. It also owns Ladbrokes, Coral and bwin. Because BetMGM runs the US partypoker sites, our data lists those sites under BetMGM.

License and what it means for you

The UK Gambling Commission is a strict regulator. Players in Great Britain get its rules on identity checks, safer-gambling tools and complaints, and GamStop self-exclusion covers all UK-licensed sites. partypoker also has country sites in Germany, France, Spain and Ontario under other Entain companies.

Sister sites

Entain owns 33 other brands in our data, 30 of them active. They include Ladbrokes, Coral, bwin, PartyCasino, Gala Casino and Foxy Bingo. A self-exclusion at partypoker may not cover them.

Fines and regulator actions

Our data lists 11 actions across Entain. In August 2022 LC International Ltd and Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming agreed a £17m settlement with the UK Gambling Commission over safer-gambling and anti-money-laundering failures: about £14m for online and £3m for retail. In June 2019 Sweden fined ElectraWorks Limited SEK 5.5 million for taking bets on matches with under-18 players. In December 2023 Entain agreed a £585m deferred prosecution agreement over bribery in a former Turkey-facing business.

Licences

Regulator	Type	Valid	Check it
UKGC account 54743	—	active	register

What these licences mean for you

Players in Great Britain get UK rules on identity checks, safer-gambling tools and complaints. GamStop self-exclusion covers all UK-licensed online sites. Self-exclusion: GamStop.

About Entain plc

Formerly GVC Holdings, Entain owns Ladbrokes, Coral, bwin, partypoker and a long list of European, Australian and Canadian brands. It co-owns BetMGM in the US with MGM Resorts. It has paid the largest UK gambling penalties on record, including a £585m bribery-related deferred prosecution agreement.

Headquarters: Isle of Man · Founded: 2004 · Ownership: listed (LSE: ENT)

How we know, and what we could not confirm

How we know: partypoker.com is run by Entain companies (Electraworks Limited / LC International Ltd). In the United States the partypoker brand is run by BetMGM, the Entain and MGM Resorts joint venture, on separate state sites such as nj.partypoker.com.

We have no company registration number for LC International Limited.

33 sister casinos

Same owner often means the same terms, the same support team and the same payout rules. A self-exclusion at one brand may not cover its sister sites.

Everything Entain plc owns, with fines and sources →

Regulator fines

Date	Company	Regulator / court	Amount	Reason
2025-01-23	Betent B.V. (BetCity)	Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands)	EUR 2,650,000	Duty-of-care failures toward ten young adults (one 21-year-old lost EUR 45,000 in two weeks); BetCity is owned by Entain. source
2024-12-17	Electraworks Ceuta, SA	Spain — DGOJ	EUR 217,200	Let a person registered in Spain's gambling self-exclusion register (RGIAJ) play. Nominal fine €362.000; reduced to €217.200 after the firm admitted liability and paid early. Case ES/2024/208; DGOJ lists it under 2025. source
2023-12-05	Entain plc	Crown Prosecution Service / HMRC (UK DPA)	GBP 585,000,000	Deferred prosecution agreement for failing to prevent bribery in former Turkey-facing business (2011-2017), under GVC ownership; plus £20m charity and £10m costs. source
2023-11-30	BetEnt B.V. (BetCity)	Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands)	EUR 3,000,000	Anti-money-laundering (Wwft) breaches: weak customer due diligence and transaction monitoring. source
2023-06-27	UAB Baltic Bet (Optibet)	Lithuania — LPT	EUR 16,705	Website content and search keyword ads for Optibet judged to encourage gambling (date is the report date). source
2023-04-20	Betent B.V. (BetCity)	Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands)	EUR 400,000	Advertising aimed at young adults (date = trade press report). source
2022-08	LC International Ltd and Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming (retail)	UK Gambling Commission	GBP 17,000,000	Record (at the time) settlement for social-responsibility and AML failures: ~£14m online, ~£3m retail. source
2022-01-26	STS S.A.	Poland — Ministry of Finance (GIIF)	PLN 2,950,000	AML breaches (no compliance officer appointed, risk assessment not provided, notification missing). Fine paid; court appeal was pending in 2024. Date is STS's disclosure; STS was acquired by Entain CEE in 2023. source
2019-06-26	ElectraWorks Limited	Spelinspektionen (Sweden)	SEK 5,500,000	Warning and fine for taking bets on matches with under-18 players. source
2019	Ladbrokes Coral Group	UK Gambling Commission	GBP 5,900,000	Earlier social-responsibility penalty package for Ladbrokes and Coral. source
2015-10-12	bwin.party (operating rights in Romania)	Romania — ONJN	—	The Romanian regulator annulled bwin.party's right to operate and put bwin.com, partycasino.com and partypoker.com on its blacklist for taking bets before final licensing (press reports). source

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Questions and answers

Who owns partypoker?

Entain plc. In the US, BetMGM runs the partypoker sites.

Is partypoker licensed?

Yes. LC International Limited holds UK Gambling Commission account 54743.

Has partypoker been fined?

Its UK licence holder was part of a £17m UK Gambling Commission settlement in 2022.

Sources

Last checked 16 Oct 2026. How we check facts. Gambling can be addictive. Help: BeGambleAware, GamStop, Gamblers Anonymous.