Party Casino Review

Origins and Ownership

PartyCasino's own site states that the casino was launched in 1997 under the name Starluck Casino and that it is now part of Entain plc. The regulator's record is consistent with that: the Gambling Commission's register shows a single licensee, LC International Limited, trading as both party casino and ladbrokes, and Entain's own corporate site names Ladbrokes among its United Kingdom and Ireland brands. Entain's history page records the Group's acquisition of bwin.party Digital Entertainment plc, the company the party brands came from, and separately the Group's renaming from GVC Holdings to Entain plc. The 1997 date is the operator's own claim rather than a regulator's record.

Licensing

For Great Britain the licensee is LC International Limited. The register entry for account 54743 - the same Commission account Ladbrokes trades under - carries remote casino licence 054743-R-330863-015, active from 1 July 2019. The register's Domain names table for that account lists partycasino.com as an active domain, and its Trading names table lists party casino as an active trading name, which together is how the site is tied to the licence rather than to the brand name alone. The register gives the licensee's head office as Suite 6, Atlantic Suites, Gibraltar.

PartyCasino's own footer names a second company: the site is operated by ElectraWorks Limited of the same Gibraltar address, licensed by the Government of Gibraltar under licence numbers 050 and 051. Those numbers are the operator's own statement rather than a Gibraltar register entry. Readers should note that the site's marketing copy says it is fully regulated by the UK Gambling Commission while its legal footer names only the Gibraltar licence; the Commission's own register settles it, and the British licence is on that register under LC International Limited rather than ElectraWorks Limited.

Markets

The licences on record cover Great Britain and Gibraltar. PartyCasino's help centre routes players to separate terms and conditions for the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the European Union and EEA, Canada, and the rest of the world, which is the shape of a brand licensed market by market.

Minimum Age

The Commission puts the Great Britain minimum at 18 in most cases, and counts online gambling among the activities that age governs. PartyCasino's own age clause could not be read, so this is the regulator's figure for the British market rather than the operator's own term.