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Guides

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Written and kept up to date by our own desk. We start at the cashier, we check the licence number against the regulator’s own register, and we print a figure only where the operator states it in terms we can read. How we check.

This section is about rules, not offers. Who licenses an operator, what the licence obliges it to do, and what it must check before releasing money. The same account behaves differently from another country, and the pages below say where.

Everything here is written from the regulator’s own published material and the operator’s own terms. Where a rule differs by country, the country is named. Where a limit is set by an individual operator rather than by law, it says so instead of printing a figure that looks official.

What sits behind a licence number

A licence is the one claim on a casino’s own site that can be checked from outside it. The number resolves to an entry in a public register, the register names the company behind the brand, and the entry says which products that company may sell. Awards, badges and «trusted since» lines in a footer have no register behind them, so this site does not count them as evidence of anything.

More from the archive

Older reviews and country pages we keep online.

Self-exclusion coverage

Which block actually reaches the sites on this page

Every brand we list holds a UK licence, so one GAMSTOP registration closes all of them. Registers from other countries do not reach across — that is the single most common misreading of «pay N play» coverage.

  • GAMSTOP Covers the brands on this pageMandatory for every UKGC-licensed site. One sign-up blocks all of them at once.
  • GamStop + bank block Covers the brands on this pageMost UK banks now add a gambling block on the card itself, separate from GAMSTOP.
  • Spelpaus Does not cover themSwedish scheme. A UK licence does not connect to it.
  • CRUKS Does not cover themDutch register. Not linked to UK operators.
  • ROFUS Does not cover themDanish register. Not linked to UK operators.
  • OASIS Does not cover themGerman register. Not linked to UK operators.

Scheme scope as stated by each register’s own operator; GAMSTOP participation is a condition of the UKGC licence (LCCP SR 3.5.5).

Everything in this section

Every page we keep in this part of the site.

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