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dice games and are usually attached to large hotels. Tere can only be one casino per 250,000 inhabitants in a village or city but no more than one casino per total population of 650,000 in a single province.
Casinos can also be placed onboard seagoing passenger ships and ferries. Minimum share capital for casinos is PLN4m plus a bank guarantee of PLN1.2m. Licences are valid for six years and once this has expired the casino must reapply for a licence. Gaming tax is 50 per cent on GGR.
When licences are due to expire the Ministry of Finance notifies the public and interested parties can apply. Once approved there is also a period in which applicants can appeal the decision.
Casino licensing fee is PLN1.5m (2019) whilst a poker tournament licence fee is PLN4,811. Tere
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are 143 game tables, 217 card tables, one dice game and 2,483 slots in the casinos in total and revenues in 2018 amounted to PLN4.66bn for the casino sector.
It has been a turbulent time for the casino sector with delays on the issuing of casino licences which resulted in several closures and lost taxes for the government. Century Casinos claims this has had an impact for the year ending 2018 figures.
Nikolaus Strohriegel, VP of Operations at Century Casinos, said: “Temporary closures of casinos due to delays in issuing casino licences have been negatively affecting all Polish casino operators. With legal online offer, increasing number of gaming arcades and a total number of about 50 casinos the Polish gaming market is saturated now.”
Te three main casinos operators are:
CASINO SP Z.o.o which has been operating casinos in Poland since 1989 under the Cristal Casino brand and has 15 casinos open.
CASINOS POLAND was the first company to open a casino in Poland. Te company began its operations back in 1989 when the gaming market began and the company was the first to receive a casino operator license.
In March 2007 Century Casinos subsidiary acquired shares within the company. Casinos Poland currently has eight casinos open and operates a total of 120 tables and 500 slots approximately across Poland.
Century’s casino include: three in Warsaw (Marriott Hotel, Hilton Hotel and Wawa at LIM Centre) and one each in Wroclaw (Double Tree
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