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Betfred Blackjack Player Wins £1.7m in the High Court
The Judgment, And Where To Read It The case is Green v Petfre (Gibraltar) Ltd (t/a Betfred), "Neutral Citation Number: [2021] EWHC 842 (QB)", heard in the High Court of Justice…
Why a Small House Edge Costs More Than a Player Expects
What A House Edge Measures The Gambling Commission's consumer guidance on gaming machine payouts, a page last updated on 16 June 2021, defines the term in its own words: “This is…
Three 2018 Gambling Commission Penalty Packages Totalling £13.95m
The Announcement Of 29 November 2018 On 29 November 2018 the Gambling Commission published an enforcement announcement that began: "Online casino companies and their senior…
How to Check an Operator's Licence and Its Game Supplier
The Two Checks Behind A Licence Claim A licence claim on a casino site is a claim, and so is the name of the company said to supply its games.
Sweden: PlayOJO Paradise Hotel Sponsorship
The Sponsorship, Dated SkillOnNet, the platform company behind PlayOJO, published the announcement on its own corporate site under the date 10 September 2018, with the release…
YouTube's Rules on Gambling Content and Google Ads
What This Page Reported This page was written as a news post about gambling channels being removed from YouTube in 2018, and it is left as a record of that moment rather than…
Switzerland Voters: Yes to Online Gambling, and Censorship?
The Referendum Of 10 June 2018 On 10 June 2018 Swiss voters accepted the federal money gaming act, the Bundesgesetz über Geldspiele (Geldspielgesetz, BGS).
Poland Gambling Monopoly Chooses Playtech
What Playtech Announced, And When Playtech dated its own announcement 1 March 2018. Its press release states that "Playtech was awarded the exclusive contract with the…
Poland's State Online Casino and the 2018 Delay
The Delay Ended In 2018 Poland's state online casino was late in launching. It is not late any more.
The 2017 Freeplays Tax Change and What It Did Not Do
The Rules That Now Govern A Casino Bonus Two Gambling Commission requirements, published in its response to the Autumn 2023 consultation on changes to the Licence Conditions and…
Age Rules for Free-to-Play Casino Games and Gambling Ads
What The Commission Published In 2017 And 2018 The Gambling Commission publishes, and still publishes, its own open letter of 9 October 2017 to the editor of The Sunday Times.
How Casino Gamblers Lose More Money Than They Mean To
What A House Edge Is Every casino game is built with a margin, and the regulator names it.
Oldest Online Casinos: What the Record Can and Cannot Settle
Where The Record Actually Begins The early history of online gambling is usually told through company claims, and those are the weakest kind of evidence for a date.
Online Slots Bonuses: How to Work Out What One Costs
What Changed On 19 January 2026 The Gambling Commission's response to its autumn 2023 consultation on socially responsible incentives sets a cap on wagering requirements.
Bitcoin and Online Casinos: What the Rules Require
Why This Page Makes No Forecast This page began life as a prediction about where cryptocurrency gambling was heading.
Archie Karas: What the Regulatory Record Actually Shows
What The Public Record Shows Almost nothing in the popular telling of Archie Karas's early-1990s run in Las Vegas can be sourced.
Gambling Motivation and Superstition in One Casino Survey
The Study, And Its Date The study this page reports exists and can be read on its publisher’s own site.
Detecting At-Risk Gamblers: What One Study Did and Did Not Find
The Study This Page Reports, And Its Date The paper behind this page exists and can be read on its publisher’s own site.
Slots Payout Rates: Everything You Need to Know
What A Return To Player Figure Is The Gambling Commission's consumer guidance on gaming machine payouts, a page last updated on 16 June 2021, describes the figure plainly…
Record Online Slot Jackpots and How a Progressive Is Funded
The Record, As A Record Keeper States It Guinness World Records holds a title for this. Its entry reads: "The largest jackpot payout in an online slot machine game is €17,879,645…
More About Casino News & Guides
Guides and News Are Two Different Things
Two kinds of writing belong here, and they age differently. A guide explains how something works — how a wagering requirement is calculated, how a bank transfer reaches a cashier, what a licence class covers — and it holds for as long as the mechanics hold. A news item reports something that happened on a day: a rule made, a licence granted or withdrawn, a penalty imposed.
A Commencement Date Can Itself Move
The clearest reason a dated article is not a current record is that even the dates move. When the Gambling Commission announced its new rules on promotional offers it gave a commencement date, and then changed it — the same page carries the note "EDIT: The date for implementation has been changed from 19 December 2025 to 19 January 2026." An article written in the week before that edit was accurate when it was published and wrong afterwards, through no fault of its own.
So the route from an article to the position that applies now runs through the subject rather than through the archive. A market, an operator, a game or a payment method each has its own page, carrying the primary source the position was read from and the date that source was last checked. Where an article and a subject page differ, the subject page is the one that has been re-verified.