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57% of Brazilian bettors had already used unlicensed sites before the betting ban
A Blask panel from the 90 days before Friday’s order shows 57% of Brazilian bettors had already visited an unlicensed site.
On 25 September 2026 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Provisional Measure 1.394. The order bans fixed-odds sports betting and online casino, physical and virtual, and ends state licences too.
The illegal channel was already in the panel. 57% of Brazilians who opened a betting site between 26 June and 24 September, had already reached an unlicensed host — either alone or next to a .bet.br brand.
Blask tracked Indian bettors through India’s August 2025 ban and compared them with Brazilian bettors, who faced no ban at the time. Some people quit betting anyway. After accounting for that, the ban removed about one bettor in seven. The rest moved offshore. Applied to Brazil’s 25.2M licensed bettors, that projects about 21.6M still betting, nearly all offshore.
The offshore operators that took over India’s market are already reaching Brazilian users. In the 90 days to 24 September, 72 offshore sites each reached at least 25 Blask panellists in India and in Brazil.
Most of them are mirrors, extra domains a brand uses to get around blocking. 1win runs 65 of them in India and 8 in Brazil. Stake has 23 mirrors in India and 6 in Brazil, and Parimatch 12 and 3. One mirror network alone, one-vv, runs 31 numbered domains in India and 28 in Brazil.
One-vv is a network of mirrors.
Brazilian bettors will not need to search for a new route when licensed sites go dark on 6 October, it is already open.