Exhibit 23.1

                          INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT


The Board of Directors
Optimal Group Inc. (the "Company")

We consent to incorporation by reference in the post-effective, amended
registration statement (No. 333-65530) S-8/A of the Company, filed on April 30,
2004, of our report dated April 30, 2004, relating to the consolidated balance
sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the related
consolidated statements of operations, deficit and cash flows for each of the
years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2003, which report appears in
the December 31, 2003 annual report on Form 10-K of the Company.


/s/ KPMG LLP

Chartered Accountants

April 30, 2004
Montreal, Canada