Consumer Warning

When you use an online casino based in Costa Rica, you are playing at your own risk and you are at the mercy of the online casino's good faith to fulfill its representations. Casinos may decide at their own discretion not to pay what you have earned and there is no way you can collect those monies since it is illegal in Costa Rica to collect money based on gambling.

Changing the Costa Rican laws so that people can hold online casinos liable if they do not fulfill their responsibilities and representations to their customers is almost culturally impossible due to the attitudes of the Catholic Church that are against gambling.

Currently, the Costa Rican Congress is discussing a new casino law (Ley de Casinos) to regulate casinos hosted in hotels. The law intends to regulate the gambling industry in Costa Rica. Congress is debating whether to ban a few of the current casino games or to make gambling legal in Costa Rica.