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Everything here was written from records this site already holds. If a sentence needed a figure the database did not have, we sourced the figure rather than writing the sentence — which is why there are 38 of these and not forty.
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6 SHOWNDoes PAGCOR still publish a register of IGL-licensed casinos?
A PDF titled the List of Internet Gaming Licensees still returns HTTP 200 on PAGCOR's own site in September 2026, nineteen months after the licence class it names stopped legally existing.
OPEN GUIDE02 / MARKETIs it actually legal for me to place an online bet from the Philippines?
Presidential Decree 1602 dates to 1978, decades before online betting existed, yet its bettor clause and a 2012 cybercrime law together decide whether a player's own bet is the offence.
OPEN GUIDE03 / MARKETWhat does a PAGCOR licence actually promise about getting paid?
Manila law firm Respicio & Co., in a commentary published 6 May 2026, names six lawful reasons a licensed Philippine casino can delay a withdrawal, and the point where a delay stops being one of them.
OPEN GUIDE04 / MARKETWhy doesn't searching a casino's own name find it in PAGCOR's register?
PAGCOR's own accredited-brands register lists OKBet under a company called Gavin Ventures, entry 13 of roughly sixty, in a file sorted by administrator rather than by the name printed on a casino's own homepage.
OPEN GUIDE05 / MARKETWhich PAGCOR register are you actually reading?
PAGCOR replaced its accredited gaming-system-administrator register on 12 August 2026. A second copy, live at a different address, is still headed 4 December 2025.
OPEN GUIDE06 / MARKETHow do you check whether a Philippine casino is really licensed?
PAGCOR publishes four public surfaces and a licence number in none of them. What it does publish is the list of domains each brand may operate, and that is the check that actually works.
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