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E-Sabong After 2022: The Orders, PAGCOR's Stance and Unlisted Lobbies

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Is e-sabong legal? Not as a product anyone may run or bet on: it has stayed under a nationwide suspension since 2022. A spoken halt started it on 3 May 2022; EO 9, signed as the written order that December, kept it in force.

Because the order follows the activity rather than the company, a cockfight-betting card on any casino menu, listed or not, falls inside it. The timeline and the checks below come from the government texts and PAGCOR’s own pages.

The e-sabong ban, order by order

DateWhat happened
1 Sep 2021A PAGCOR press statement tells the public that licensed e-sabong operators are listed on its site. History only.
3 May 2022On DILG Secretary Año’s advice, President Duterte tells e-sabong to stop at once; the instruction is spoken, not written.
27 May 2022The BSP releases Circular 2022-026: supervised institutions may deal only with government-authorized gambling businesses.
31 May 2022PNA reports that GCash, PayMaya and other e-wallets have taken e-sabong merchants off their apps.
28 Dec 2022Executive Order 9, continuing the suspension, is signed by President Marcos.
12 Sep 2024PAGCOR chairman Alejandro Tengco tells PNA a revival has not been studied and the EO will be followed.
16 Aug 2025GCash shuts its licensed gaming cash-in and cash-out services (BSP Memorandum M-2025-029).

A common mistake on betting sites is to credit the 2022 executive order to the May halt; the May instruction was spoken, and the written order came in December.

Section 1 of EO 9 keeps every e-sabong operation, auxiliary ones included, suspended, and spells out what that means in practice:

  1. Broadcasts: showing cockfights outside the cockpit, live or relayed.
  2. Off-site wagers: online, remote or off-cockpit bets on those streamed fights, whatever country the betting platform calls home.

Cockfights held under an existing licence are left out. Implementation sits with PAGCOR, with the DILG and the PNP acting against violators. Separately, PAGCOR’s home page warns that people who join unauthorized gaming expose themselves to legal penalties.

A sabong card on an unlisted lobby: listing versus licence

PAGCOR’s lists dated 29 October 2026 carry neither PHSKY nor phsky.la. Even a listed brand would not make a remote cockfight bet lawful, because EO 9 suspends the activity itself. Seals and licence wording in a lobby’s own footer are that lobby’s claims; the record is what PAGCOR itself publishes.

To check any brand:

  1. From the licensing section of pagcor.ph, download the accredited-administrator PDF, which names each registered brand and its web addresses.
  2. Search it for the brand, then for the exact address you plan to open.
  3. Cross-check on pagcorguarantee.ph, which sorts authorized online gaming websites by category.

The DS88 Sabong card page describes that lobby’s tab in detail.

Red flags to watch for on cockfight-betting offers

  1. A live fight with a bet slip beside it. That pairing is precisely what EO 9 suspends.
  2. PAGCOR’s seal but no matching entry on its list. PAGCOR’s June 2026 warning described offshore sites borrowing its logo and passing round fake licence certificates.
  3. Payment to a personal e-wallet account. Wallets cut e-sabong merchants off in 2022.
  4. Promises that the ban is over. Ask for the number and date of the order that lifted EO 9; a rumour is not an order.

For the vocabulary on these screens, see what meron and wala mean; for the arithmetic, sabong betting pools and the house cut. The online sabong overview has the wider picture.

How to Get Started

  1. Read the order's scope, not the tab

    The order follows the activity, streaming a fight beyond the cockpit and wagering on it from afar, not the company or the country behind it.

  2. Check the brand against PAGCOR's lists

    Run the brand name, then the domain, through PAGCOR's accredited-administrator list and pagcorguarantee.ph before believing any licence wording.

  3. Report what looks illegal

    Report illegal gaming sites to the CICC (cicc.gov.ph); PAGCOR's responsible-gaming page gives that route.

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Quick questions, clear answers

Is e-sabong legal in 2026?

The December 2022 order, EO 9, still frames it: e-sabong stays suspended nationwide. PAGCOR's position, given in September 2024, is to keep following that order without studying a revival; anyone claiming otherwise should be able to name the order that lifted it.

Who suspended e-sabong?

Two presidents, in two steps. Rodrigo Duterte halted it on 3 May 2022 by spoken instruction, on the DILG Secretary's recommendation; Ferdinand Marcos Jr put the suspension in writing with EO 9 on 28 December 2022.

Was e-sabong ever licensed?

Yes, before the suspension. In a press statement of 1 September 2021, PAGCOR said licensed e-sabong operators and their sites could be viewed on its website. That is history, not a current status.

Is betting on e-sabong punishable?

PAGCOR's standing public warning is that people who join unauthorized gaming may face legal penalties. With e-sabong suspended, no operator holds an authorization to run it.