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Independent comparison desk · Great Britain

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Check the licence first.

Spin Watch House compares online casino brands that are licensed to serve players in Great Britain. Every factual claim on this page about who holds a licence, for which products, and since when is taken from the Gambling Commission’s public register, and each operator carries a link straight to its register entry so you can read the same source we did.

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Operators compared
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Scoring criteria, all register-based
20 Aug 2026
Register last read for this page

We do

  • Read the Gambling Commission register and publish exactly what it says about each operator.
  • Explain what a remote casino licence actually obliges an operator to do.
  • Score operators against a published method, and show our workings.
  • Say plainly when something cannot be verified, rather than filling the gap.

We do not

  • Offer gambling, hold funds, or run any kind of gaming account.
  • Own, or share ownership with, any operator listed here.
  • Publish bonus figures, game counts or provider line-ups we cannot source.
  • Speak for the Gambling Commission or handle disputes on your behalf.

What we compared

Four criteria, and every one of them is checkable

Most casino comparisons rank on offers. Offers change weekly, and a figure that was accurate on Tuesday is a misrepresentation by Friday. So we built the comparison on the one operator-specific dataset that is public, dated and authoritative: the Gambling Commission’s register of licensed gambling businesses.

That register tells you which legal company stands behind a trading name, which remote products it may lawfully offer, the day each of those permissions began, which web domains it has declared, and whether any of it is still active. It is a narrower picture than a full review, but none of it is guesswork.

The four criteria

  • Casino record (40%) — how long the remote casino permission has been continuously authorised.
  • Casino focus (20%) — how central casino is to what the licensee is authorised to do.
  • Product breadth (20%) — the other regulated products available on the same account.
  • Register clarity (20%) — exact domain match, declared trading name, licence status.

Weightings and worked examples are set out in full on our editorial policy page.

Commercial disclosure. The links below are affiliate links. If you open an account after following one, Spin Watch House may earn a commission from that operator at no cost to you. Commercial arrangements differ between operators and can influence which brands we are able to cover at all, so treat the running order as our opinion rather than an impartial league table. The licence facts beneath each entry are not opinion — they are copied from the register and linked to it. Gambling is 18+ and you can lose money.

The comparison

Five licensed operators, in our order

Register read 20 August 2026

82%
Match score

888 Casino

888 UK Limited has run the same licence account since November 2014, and casino, bingo and real-event betting were all authorised on that first day. Virtual-event betting followed in April 2020. In practice that means one registration covers four regulated products and the licensee has answered to the Commission continuously for close to twelve years. The register also shows much the largest estate in this group — sixteen active domains, including the 888poker and 888sport sites — so the casino sits inside a considerably wider operation.

Legal licensee
888 UK Limited
UKGC account
39028
Licence number
039028-R-319297-014
Casino authorised since
1 November 2014
Authorised remote products
Casino, bingo, betting on real events, betting on virtual events
Active declared domains
16

Verify on the UKGC register

Opens 888casino.com, operated by 888 UK Limited, in a new tab. Commercial link. 18+.

Go to 888casino.com
76%
Match score

BetMGM

The name is American; the British licence is not. betmgm.co.uk sits on the account of LeoVegas Gaming PLC, alongside leovegas.co.uk, betuk.com, 21.co.uk, pinkcasino.co.uk and slotboss.co.uk. Its remote casino permission dates from November 2014, matching 888 for length. Real-event betting was added in April 2016, bingo in February 2018, and virtual-event betting only in April 2025 — the most recent product addition anywhere in this comparison. If you assume the brand on the door is the company on the licence, this is the entry that corrects you.

Legal licensee
LeoVegas Gaming PLC
UKGC account
39198
Licence number
039198-R-319450-029
Casino authorised since
1 November 2014
Authorised remote products
Casino, bingo, betting on real events, betting on virtual events
Active declared domains
6

Verify on the UKGC register

Opens the casino section of betmgm.co.uk, operated by LeoVegas Gaming PLC, in a new tab. Commercial link. 18+.

Go to betmgm.co.uk
73%
Match score

Star Sports

Star Racing Limited is the long-standing name here in one very specific sense: its permission to take bets on real events runs from July 2010, years before anyone else in this group held anything at all. Casino, bingo and virtual-event betting were all added together in June 2018. The casino is therefore a later extension of a bookmaker rather than the other way round, and the site is arranged accordingly — the casino lives at a section of the site rather than on the front page. Four domains are active on the account, all Star Sports addresses.

Legal licensee
Star Racing Limited
UKGC account
9177
Licence number
009177-R-104555-019
Casino authorised since
1 June 2018
Authorised remote products
Casino, bingo, betting on real events (since 2010), betting on virtual events
Active declared domains
4

Verify on the UKGC register

Opens starsportsbet.co.uk, operated by Star Racing Limited, in a new tab. Commercial link. 18+.

Go to starsportsbet.co.uk
67%
Match score

Lottomart

Maple International Ventures Limited took three permissions on a single day in July 2018: remote casino, real-event betting, and — unusually for this group — linked gambling software. That third one is a supply-side authorisation rather than a consumer product, and no other licensee compared here holds it. The account is also the tightest of the five, with two active domains and nothing else attached. There is no bingo permission, so the product range is narrower than the top three despite the extra licence line.

Legal licensee
Maple International Ventures Limited
UKGC account
51833
Licence number
051833-R-329042-007
Casino authorised since
20 July 2018
Authorised remote products
Casino, betting on real events, linked gambling software
Active declared domains
2

Verify on the UKGC register

Opens lottomart.com, operated by Maple International Ventures Limited, in a new tab. Commercial link. 18+.

Go to lottomart.com
58%
Match score

Los Vegas

One permission, and nothing else. SuprPlay Limited holds a remote casino licence dating from September 2017 with no betting or bingo authorisation at all, which makes losvegas.bet the only pure casino account in this comparison. The same licensee is behind voodoodreams.com, duelz.com and nyspins.com. Its score is the lowest here and it is worth being blunt about why: our model rewards breadth and length of record, and a casino-only licensee that started in 2017 scores badly on both. That is a judgement about fit with our criteria, not about safety. The licence is as active as everyone else’s on this page.

Legal licensee
SuprPlay Limited
UKGC account
48695
Licence number
048695-R-327029-012
Casino authorised since
27 September 2017
Authorised remote products
Casino only
Active declared domains
4

Verify on the UKGC register

Opens losvegas.bet, operated by SuprPlay Limited, in a new tab. Commercial link. 18+.

Go to losvegas.bet

See all five side by side in one table

Product mix

Grouped by what they are actually licensed to do

Ranking is a blunt instrument. Sorted by permission rather than score, the five split into groups that tell you rather more about what you would be signing up to.

Four regulated products on one account

888 Casino · BetMGM · Star Sports

Casino, bingo, real-event betting and virtual-event betting all sit under a single licence account. One registration, one set of account controls, and one place where your deposit limits and self-exclusion apply across everything.

Casino and nothing else

Los Vegas

SuprPlay Limited holds a remote casino permission and no other. If sports betting or bingo matters to you, this account cannot lawfully provide it — which is a clean answer rather than a shortcoming.

Casino plus a supply-side permission

Lottomart

Maple International Ventures Limited holds a linked gambling software permission alongside casino and real-event betting. It is a licence type aimed at the supply chain rather than at players, and it is the only one of its kind in this group.

Longest continuous casino authorisation

888 Casino · BetMGM

Both remote casino permissions run from 1 November 2014, the date the current remote licensing regime took effect for operators serving Britain. Neither has lapsed since.

Widest brand estate behind the door

888 Casino, 16 domains · Lottomart, 2

Declared domains are a rough measure of how many consumer brands one licensee runs. It is worth knowing: a self-exclusion or a deposit limit set with a licensee generally reaches every brand on that account, not just the one you joined through.

Method

Where the percentages come from

The match score is our own editorial figure. It is not a rating awarded by anyone official, it says nothing about whether you will win or lose, and it is not a safety mark — every operator on this page holds the same category of active remote casino authorisation from the same regulator.

What it does is measure fit against four register-derived criteria, weighted as set out above. A long, unbroken casino record earns the most; a licensee whose register entry names its trading brand and matches the domain exactly earns the clarity points; breadth of authorised product and how central casino is to the account make up the rest. Nothing enters the calculation that we cannot point at in a public record.

Because the inputs are dates and permissions rather than promotions, the numbers move slowly. They will change when a licence changes — a new permission, a lapsed activity, a domain removed from a record — and not otherwise. The full weighting table and a worked example are on the editorial policy page.

Questions

Reasonable things to ask us

Myth: the brand name on the website is the company that holds the licence

It very often is not. Of the five brands here, betmgm.co.uk is licensed to LeoVegas Gaming PLC, losvegas.bet to SuprPlay Limited, and lottomart.com to Maple International Ventures Limited. None of those company names appears in the brand. The licensee is the entity that answers to the Commission and the entity you are contracting with, so it is worth knowing which one it is before you deposit.

Fact: you can confirm all of it yourself in about two minutes

The register is public, free and searchable by domain name. Search the address you are about to visit, read the licensee, and check that the licence status says Active and that Casino appears under the Remote activities. Every operator on this page carries a direct link to its own register record, and those links go to gamblingcommission.gov.uk, not to us.

What does a match score of 58% actually mean?

That the operator fits our four criteria less closely than the others here — nothing more. Los Vegas scores 58% because its licensee holds one permission rather than four and has held it since 2017 rather than 2014, and our model weights breadth and length heavily. It is not a warning. If you specifically want a casino-only account, the same facts that produce a 58% might be exactly what you are after.

Why is there nothing here about bonuses, games or payment methods?

Because we cannot verify those things to the standard we hold ourselves to. Promotional terms, provider line-ups and payment options change without notice and differ by account, region and device. Publishing a figure that is wrong by the time you read it would be worse than publishing nothing, so we publish nothing and point you at the operator’s own terms instead. Read those before you deposit — particularly any wagering conditions attached to an offer.

Does Spin Watch House get paid when I use these links?

Yes. The operator links on this page are affiliate links and we may receive a commission if you open an account through one. That is how the site is funded and it is why the running order should be read as our view rather than as a neutral ranking. It costs you nothing and it does not change the terms you get. The register facts underneath each entry are unaffected by any of it, which is rather the point of building the comparison on them. Our affiliate disclosure sets out the arrangement in full.

Can you help me with a complaint about one of these operators?

No, and we would be misleading you if we suggested otherwise. We have no regulatory powers and no relationship with an operator’s complaints team. Raise a complaint with the operator first; if you are not satisfied, GB-licensed operators must offer free access to an approved alternative dispute resolution provider, and the Gambling Commission’s own site explains how that works. If the issue is about your gambling rather than about an operator, the support services below are the right place to start.

Safety & support

Gambling is 18 and over, and it will cost most people money

Casino games are built to return less than they take over time. That is the business model, not a flaw in it, and no strategy, system or run of luck changes the underlying maths. Gambling is entertainment you pay for. It is not income, it is not an investment, and it is not a way out of financial trouble.

  • You must be 18 or over to gamble in Great Britain. Operators must verify your name, address and date of birth before you can deposit or play.
  • Every GB-licensed operator must offer deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion. Setting them takes a minute and they work.
  • GAMSTOP blocks you from every online operator licensed here with a single registration, not one site at a time.
  • If gambling has stopped being enjoyable, free and confidential help is available today — you do not need to be in crisis to use it.

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