Responsible Gambling

This site lists casinos licensed outside the United Kingdom. They sit outside GamStop and outside the Gambling Commission’s rulebook, which means the protections that apply automatically at a UK-licensed site do not apply at them. That is the whole of the trade, and it is worth stating on its own page.

If You Need Help Now

GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133. It is free, confidential and open around the clock. BeGambleAware provides information and referral into treatment. Neither organisation can close an account or hold a balance for you — they are support, not enforcement.

What Each Tool Actually Does

GamStop is a register. You sign up once, choose a period, and every UK Gambling Commission licensee is obliged to shut you out for its duration. It covers the British-licensed market and nothing beyond it. GamBlock is software you install and pay for; it stops gambling sites loading on the device it is installed on, and ends where that device ends. A bank-level gambling block is a third layer, offered by most UK high-street banks, and it reaches offshore merchant codes that GamStop does not.

What You Give Up at an Offshore Casino

There is no Gambling Commission to escalate a stalled withdrawal to, and no approved ADR body such as IBAS behind it — a dispute ends at the operator’s own support desk. The £5 per-spin stake cap for players aged 25 and over, the £2 cap for 18-24s and the mandatory 2.5-second gap between spins do not apply. Site-level deposit and loss limits exist at most of these operators, but they are not standardised, not externally audited, and not shared between sites.

If You Are Registered With GamStop

Keep the exclusion. These sites are not a route back into play — they are a way to lose the protection you chose for yourself. If the impulse to find a way around it is the reason you are reading this page, that is the signal to call 0808 8020 133 rather than to open an account.