How a country page filters the casino list
Each country page starts from the casinos this site publishes. The page drops a casino whose restricted-country list names that country.
The restricted-country list is a field on the casino. It is separate from the country that issued the casino's licence. A licence from Curaçao can still block the United Kingdom or Germany, and the page follows the block.
A casino with an empty restriction list stays on every country page. The ranking under that filter is the site ranking, narrowed to the remaining set. Position 1 is the highest-ranked casino in the set, not a separate score for the country.
The hub is the one place on this site where the casino list is not narrowed by country. Its casinos follow the overall site order, and each country page narrows that same order to the casinos open to its market. A casino's place on the hub is therefore its position across the site, and it says nothing about its service in one country.
Read the hub for the wider picture and a country page for the list that applies to you. A casino that ranks high on the hub can still be missing from your country's page, because its restricted-country list names your country.
How to read a country card
Each country card on the hub carries a short line naming the local payment methods and, where we hold one, the statute. Chile's line reads 'Pesos, WebPay and Mach.' and the Czech Republic's reads 'Koruna payments and the 2016 Act.'
A card with no statute in its line is a gap in our record for that market, not a verdict on the market. The card links to the country page, which holds the fuller list of casinos, the law record and the payment bars.
The payment methods on a card count casinos open to that country, so a method appears on a card only when a casino open to that market lists it. A method missing from a card can still exist in that market. Check the casino's cashier before you sign up.
Use the card to pick a market, then use the country page to decide. The hub summarises; the country page carries the casinos and the law record in full.
Google Play, an APK, or the browser
Google's real-money gambling policy is a country table plus a licence test. The app has to come from an operator licensed in the same country as the Play listing.
Applied to our country pages, that table covers Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, Ghana, Hungary, the Netherlands, Nigeria for some states, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye and the United Kingdom. A country outside the table does not get a Play listing for casino apps.
An Android file outside Play is an APK, and the file should come from the casino's own domain. The difference between the two phone platforms, including where an iPhone app is a store app and where it is the mobile site, is in our Android vs iOS mobile casino guide.
The app route on this hub follows Google's table, which is a country list. A reader in a listed country can still meet a casino that holds only an offshore licence. In that case the app is an APK from the casino's own domain, or the casino's site in the phone browser, and the country page says which route applies to the casinos it lists.
Law stays on the country page
This hub does not give one legal status for mobile casinos. Online casino law is national. Some countries in the list license remote casinos. Other countries prohibit them.
A licensed market names a regulator, a statute and a minimum age. A casino that accepts players from a prohibiting country still answers to the regulator that issued its licence, often in another country.
Players can face penalties the casino does not, when the local statute reaches the player. The risks of a market with no local licence are in our unregulated mobile gambling guide.
The hub names a statute only where a country has a record of its own. A national record carries a regulator, a minimum age and a licensing model, and those fields change from one market to the next. Read them on the country page, where they sit next to the casinos open to that market.
A licensed market on this site
The United Kingdom card on this hub already names the Gambling Act 2005. That statute is the licence framework the United Kingdom page is built around.
The United Kingdom is also one of the countries on Google's table for real-money casino apps. An operator licensed only abroad still reaches UK players through an APK or the browser, because Play requires a local licence.
The counts, the law table and the payment bars for that market are on the United Kingdom mobile casinos page.
A reader who wants the full United Kingdom picture should read that country page. It holds the licensing model, the payment bars and the regulator's rules in one place. This hub keeps only the summary a reader needs to choose the market.
What the rest-of-world record holds
This site's market is rest of world. Rest of world is a catch-all market, not a country with its own gambling act. National facts stay on each country page.
The minimum online age on the rest-of-world record is 18. That number is the default for the catch-all. A country page replaces it when that country has its own minimum-age fact.
The bonus rule on the rest-of-world record is No specific restriction. A country that caps stakes or bans inducements carries that rule on its own page, in place of this default.
The helpline on the rest-of-world record is Gamble Aware. National helplines stay on the country pages that name them. The rest-of-world market has no single self-exclusion register, so a player uses the register named on the country page, or the casino's own time-out.
The rest-of-world defaults describe a market with no national record. They are the fallback the hub prints when a country has no statute of its own, and they do not describe a licence or a legal position. A country page replaces a default with its own rule as soon as it has one.
A reader who wants to check the default rules can start with the minimum age and the bonus rule. The helpline sits beside them for players who want support, and a country page replaces it with a national line where one exists.
A rest-of-world player should not treat the default as the answer for a specific country. Pick the country page first, and read the rules on that page before the defaults on this one.
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