Best Online Casinos in Qatar

While we’ll share with you all the legal Qatar gambling peculiarities in the corresponding section below in this article, we find it essential to tell you right away that gambling is considered illegal in this Islamic state. In such a way, in this prosperous state with high-income economy, there’s absolutely no chance for you to visit land based casinos, play poker, and take part in sports betting activities and lotteries.

However, there are still a few exceptions that let you enjoy gambling in Qatar. For instance, there’s a handful of legal raffles facilities scattered across the state. Legal raffles are organized by the Qatar Duty-Free Raffle. To take part in the Qatar Duty-Free Raffle competitions, you need to buy an entrance ticket, which costs about QAR 950. Good thing about these tickets is that you can buy them everywhere, even at the airport and online.

Nowadays, there are the following legal online raffles you can take part in:

• Millionaire Raffle with the entrance ticket of QAR 950 (US$ 262.43);
• Car Raffles with the entrance ticket of QAR 650.00 (US$ 179.56) and a chance to win either BMW M850i xDrive Coupe or McLaren 720S.
• Bike Raffle with the entrance ticket of QAR 100.00 (US$ 27.62) and a chance to win a Harley Davidson Sportster Custom XL1200C.

Another legal gambling option for Qatar citizens is organized by the international telecommunications company Vodafone. There’s a ‘World of Prizes’ competition held yearly, usually from the middle of October till the middle of April. All prepaid and postpaid Vodafone subscribers aged 18 and older are eligible for the yearly ‘World of Prizes’ competition. Starting from the middle of October, all the eligible Vodafone subscribers receive an SMS that basically serves as an invitation to take part in the ‘World of Prizes’ competition. If you want to participate, you just need to reply to this invitation SMS and be offered to answer general knowledge trivia questions on various topics in order to accumulate points. Basically, the more points you get, the higher your winning chances are.

If you are interested in participating in ‘World of Prizes’, there are two competitions to consider choosing between. The first competition is FREE, which means that you don’t have to pay for your participation. Every day participants of the FREE competition can get up to 5 questions and a chance to take part in the draw with the grand prize of QR 25,000, which is approximately $6,865.78. The second competition is PREMIUM. Participants of the PREMIUM competition can get up to 5 questions per day (mind that each set of 5 questions costs QR 5 in the PREMIUM competition) and get a chance to win different kinds of luxurious prizes, such as an Audi Car that costs around QR 100,000.

Another popular gambling activity in this Islamic state is camel racing. It’s quite lucrative since camel owners can get six figures financial rewards after the race. Camel races were used to be held with four year children as jockeys. However, different countries including the USA were against exploitation of such young children in this sport, so in 2004 Qatar substituted four year jockeys with robot jockeys.

To tell you more, there are premises towards subsequent changes in Qatar legislation regarding gambling. Because of the Law 11 of 2004 that prohibits all forms of gambling except for the above mentioned exceptions such as Qatar Duty-Free Raffle competitions and Vodafone ‘World of Prizes’, there might be complications with Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Evidently, this event might become quite profitable for the state economy if there’s no legal ban on sports betting. For instance, when Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, the estimated global betting turnover was about €7.2 billion (QAR 29.9 billion). As you can see, it’s quite prosperous to host such events. For this reason, this Islamic state might want to change their antigambling laws. Besides, FIFA is quite a powerful organization that managed to change the alcohol banning law in Brazil during the 2012 World Cup, so it may well be authorized to make legal changes again in 2022. This may result in some positive changes in Qatar’s gambling legislature, specifically the legalization of sports betting. This may also cause the end of legal prohibition of all forms of gambling, including land based casinos, online gambling and so on. So, let’s hope this will happen soon.

Since Qatar is an Islamic state where gambling is forbidden by the law, there are no land based casinos available for gambling in Qatar.

• Qatar is considered to be the wealthiest country in the world with 124,927 USD per capita. In such a way, this Islamic state is wealthier than Luxemburg and Macau, which is the world famous Chinese gambling are.
• Qatar is believed to have the best airlines in the world. By the way, there’s a giant teddy bear that welcomes everyone who arrives at the Hamad International Airport. The Teddy bear is known as the Lamp Bear. It was created by Urs Fischer, a Swiss artist. You can find the Lamp Bear right in the middle of the airport. There’s also a chance to take a selfie with it, which isn’t free, of course.
• This Islamic state is scientifically recognized as the safest state in the world with only 0.1% chance of earthquakes. This percentage is the lowest in the world.
• There are no mountains and hills in the country, so it’s considered to be the second flattest country in the world after The Maldives.
• Just like it’s in Greenland, San Marino, and Oman, there are absolutely no forests in Qatar.
• 99% of Qatar citizens lives in the capital of Doha, while the rest of Qatar population live is a desert.
• In Qatar, you can watch camel races with robot jockeys.
• Petrol is extremely cheap in this Islamic state, it’s even cheaper than two Starbucks lattes.
• There’s an artificial island known as the Pearl. The island was created right on the top of the most famous place where Qatar people were diving for pearls before they found their natural reserves of oil and gas.