Is RAIZE Poker legitimate? What we can and cannot verify
Who actually operates it, and under what licence
| Operating company | 3-102-943085 S.R.L. (Republic of Costa Rica) |
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| Registration | 3-102-943085 |
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| Regulator | Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. |
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| Licence number | ALSI-202511038-FI2 |
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Taken from the operator's own published terms — RAIZE — site footer (operator's own site) (operator's own site, checked August 31, 2026)
What can be independently checked
- RAIZE names its operating company, company registration number, registered office in Costa Rica, regulator and licence number in its own footer — more corporate and licensing detail than any other operator covered on this site publishes. — RAIZE — site footer (operator's own site, checked August 31, 2026)
- Published stakes span $0.05/$0.10–$25/$50 No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10/$0.25–$10/$25 PLO-4 and $0.25/$0.50–$25/$50 PLO-5. — RAIZE — game variants (operator's own site, checked August 31, 2026)
- Funding is BTC, ETH and USDT on-chain plus Visa and Mastercard — not crypto-only. — RAIZE — funding section (operator's own site, checked August 31, 2026)
What RAIZE Poker says about itself
Reproduced because it is what the operator states, not because we have confirmed it.
- RAIZE describes itself as “the world’s first certified live-dealer poker network” and states that its studio and shuffle carry GLI certification, and that liveness and facial checks run on join. — RAIZE — homepage claims (operator's own site, checked August 31, 2026)
Our assessment — this part is opinion
RAIZE is the most transparent operator covered on this site, and it is not close. Entity, registration number, registered address, regulator, licence number and an independent lab certification are all published on its own pages, which means a reader can check the claims rather than trust them.
The live-dealer design is a real answer to real worries rather than a marketing angle: with a physical deck and a dealer on camera there is no shuffle to audit, and identity checks at the point of sitting down are a stronger anti-bot control than after-the-fact investigation.
The honest counterweights are that an Anjouan licence is light-touch regulation rather than UKGC-grade protection, that live dealing means fewer tables and fewer hands per hour than software dealing, and that the anti-bot guarantee is paid for with biometric checks. None of those are hidden, which is rather the point.
Trust section last checked August 31, 2026. Licences lapse and companies change hands — if you are about to deposit, verify the current position yourself rather than trusting any review, including this one.