Licensed casinos in the Philippines: the PAGCOR list, the four casino zones and Casino Filipino

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) licenses private casinos and also runs its own, under the Casino Filipino name. Its Licensed Casinos page publishes the rulebooks for licensees, not a directory of casinos. The PAGCOR document that names the licensed casino companies with their web addresses is its list of registered brands and domains of licensed casinos, dated 29 October 2026, which has nine rows. You must be 21+ to enter a casino (entry rules, ID and dress code).

The nine licensed casinos on PAGCOR's list

PAGCOR's List of Registered Brands and Domain Names/URLs of Licensed Casinos (as of 29 October 2026; re-read 9 November 2026) heads its company column "Integrated Resort". Each row is a casino licensee with an online brand registered to it. Names below are as PAGCOR prints them; the brand column is the "main brand" on the same row.

No.	Company (as printed)	Casino (as printed)	Online brand on the list
1	BB International Leisure and Resort Development Corporation	Midori Clark Casino	Midori Online
2	Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels, Inc.	Solaire Resorts and Casino	Solaire Online
3	Donggwang Clark Corporation	D'Heights Resort and Casino Clark	D'Heights Online
4	Marina Square Properties Inc. and New Coast Leisure, Inc.	Lavie Resort and Casino Manila	Lavie Resort & Casino Manila
5	MJC Investments Corp.	Winford Manila Resort and Casino	Winford
6	Stotsenberg Leisure Park & Hotel Corporation and Frontier Capital Group Limited	Casino Plus	Casino Plus
7	Tiger Resort, Leisure and Entertainment, Inc.	"doing business under the Name and Style of" Okada Manila	Okada Online
8	Travellers International Hotel Group, Inc.	"doing business under the name and style of" Newport World Resorts	Newport Epic World
9	Universal Hotels and Resorts, Inc.	NuSTAR Resort & Casino	Casino Maxx

The list ends with "NOTHING FOLLOWS". It does not say which licence group (below) each casino belongs to or give addresses. Only the web addresses printed on this list are licensed for these brands; a site using a resort's name at any other address is not (how to read the list; best PAGCOR-licensed online casinos).

The four groups of casino licensees

PAGCOR's industry data and manuals sort licensed casinos into four groups. The Casino Regulatory Manual for Licensed Land-Based Casinos (Revision 0, effective 13 August 2025) sets a minimum hotel size before a casino may open, by group:

Group	Minimum hotel room keys before opening	Weighted average room size
Entertainment City licensees	800	at least 40 sqm
Clark Special Economic Zone licensees	160	at least 30 sqm
Fiesta Casino licensees	120	at least 40 sqm
Greenfield Zone licensees	240	at least 30 sqm

The same manual defines a licensee as the entity issued "a Provisional License, Regular Casino Gaming License, or Authority to Operate" by PAGCOR, and caps all gaming areas at 7.5% of the resort's auditable gross floor area. For slot machines it sets a total return to player of "a minimum of ninety percent (90%) to less than ninety seven percent (97%)", with the casino choosing the figure within that range.

PAGCOR's casino manuals

The Licensed Casinos page (read 9 November 2026) links these rulebooks:

• Casino Regulatory Manual for Licensed Land-Based Casinos (Revision 0, effective 13 August 2025). Its executive summary says it "consolidates previously separate manuals into a single, comprehensive framework applicable to all licensed casinos".
• Regulatory Framework for Offenses and Penalties for Licensed Land-Based Casinos, plus advisories (one amends the consolidated manual), forms, training rules and PAGCOR's technical standards for electronic gaming machines.

PAGCOR's older zone manuals remain online as PDFs but are no longer linked from that page: Entertainment City licensees, version 4.0 (January 2016); Clark Special Economic Zone licensees, version 2.0 (January 2016); Fiesta Casino licensees, version 2.0 (January 2016); and Greenfield Zone licensees, version 1.0 (October 2021).

Where casino revenue comes from

PAGCOR's industry data reports gross gaming revenue (GGR) for licensed casinos by group, and for its own casinos as "PAGCOR Operated".

Sector	July–Sept 2026	Share of licensed-casino GGR	Calendar 2025
Entertainment City / NCR	₱36.84 billion	81.2%	₱148.72 billion
Clark	₱6.58 billion	14.5%	₱25.10 billion
Greenfield Zone	₱1.70 billion	3.7%	₱7.50 billion
Fiesta	₱0.26 billion	0.6%	₱1.18 billion
Total licensed casinos	₱45.38 billion	100%	₱182.50 billion
PAGCOR-operated casinos	₱3.03 billion	n/a	₱12.52 billion
Electronic games	₱31.97 billion	n/a	₱185.26 billion
Total industry	₱83.73 billion	n/a	₱396.14 billion

Sources: 3Q 2026 data and CY 2025 data, "based on PAGCOR records as submitted to GCG".

• Licensed casinos earned 54.2% of all gaming revenue in July to September 2026, and 46.1% in 2025. In 2025 electronic games (₱185.26 billion) earned slightly more than licensed casinos.
• The first row is labelled "Entertainment City / NCR", so it is not Entertainment City alone.
• Against July to September 2025, licensed-casino GGR was almost flat (down 0.4%). Clark rose 8.0%; Entertainment City / NCR fell 1.6%, Greenfield Zone 4.1% and PAGCOR-operated casinos 4.8%.

Casino Filipino: the casinos PAGCOR runs itself

Casino Filipino is PAGCOR's own brand rather than a private licensee, and PAGCOR's Licensed Casinos page links to the Casino Filipino website and its list of branches and satellites. According to Philstar (14 October 2026), PAGCOR has 35 casinos in its network, 12 run entirely by the agency and 23 under revenue-sharing deals with private partners, and aims to exit casino operations in the third or fourth quarter of 2027 by privatizing Casino Filipino, subject to government approval (what the privatization means). PAGCOR-operated casinos earned about 3.6% of industry GGR in July to September 2026 (our arithmetic).

Before you go

• Rules on who may enter (age, government employees, people on PAGCOR's restricted list) apply at every casino above and at Casino Filipino (entry requirements).
• Self-exclusion orders, according to PAGCOR's exclusion page, are implemented "across all sites, licensed and operated by PAGCOR" (self-exclusion and free help).
• To check an online casino rather than a resort, use PAGCOR's lists of registered domains (licence checker).