Chilean Online Gaming

Chile's lotteries offer their lottery products online; however, online casinos are prohibited by law no. 19.995.

Chile does not actively prevent its players from playing at offshore casinos. Over the past few years, the Chilean government has shown signs it wants to create its own domestically regulated online gaming industry.

In 2012, Chile's lottery asked the government to permit online casinos. And in 2012 and 2013, Chilean lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would create and grant a limited number of online casino licenses to operators in Chile.

The legislation has yet to pass.

In September 2008, GTECH signed a seven-year contract with Chile's lottery, Polla Chilena, to provide a new online lottery system among many other lottery and sports betting products and services. The online solution gives Polla Chilena the ability to process lottery transactions through the internet. The agreement also introduces instant games to Polla Chilena as well as a sports-betting solution to the country.