Legit Online Casino What the Licence and the Limits Actually Prove in 2026

A legit online casino in Great Britain holds a Gambling Commission licence and can be found on the Commission's public register under the exact domain you are using. That licence carries the withdrawal rules, the £5 slot stake cap and the deposit limits that offshore sites simply do not have to follow.

I have spent years reading licence conditions for a living, and the word "legit" has become the most abused adjective in the trade. It arrives on a homepage in a serif font next to a padlock graphic, and it means whatever the marketing department decided it meant that quarter. Meanwhile the two things that actually settle the question — a licence number you can look up, and a complaints record you can count — are usually buried three clicks down or not there at all.

The point of this page is to move the word back onto solid ground. Not with a list of brands, because that list would be stale by the time it loaded, but with the tests that survive a redesign: who holds the licence, what the conditions oblige them to do with your money, what the regulators' own numbers say about how often operators get it wrong, and where the limits on stakes, deposits and withdrawals sit — because the site angle here is limits, and limits are where the honest operators separate from the clever ones.

There is a short answer and a long one. The short one is that a British licence is the only durable proof of legitimacy in this market, and everything else is reputation. The long one is the rest of this page.

What a Legit Casino Online Actually Is

The question "what is a legit online casino" has a legal answer rather than a moral one. Legitimacy in Great Britain means operating under a licence issued by the Gambling Commission. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes it an offence to provide facilities for gambling without an operating licence, carrying on summary conviction up to 51 weeks' imprisonment, a fine at level 5, or both. The Commission's own wording, published on 21 October 2024, is blunter still: it is illegal to offer commercial gambling services to consumers in Great Britain without a Commission licence, and that includes an operator holding a licence somewhere else.

That last clause matters more than most readers realise. The Commission cannot regulate a site that does not trade or advertise to Britain. Its remit runs to websites that trade or advertise here, and those must be licensed here. So the phrase "internationally licensed" on a banner is not a lesser tier of the same thing; it is a statement that no British regulator has any say over what happens next.

A licence is not a nice badge. It is a set of obligations with numbers attached. From 31 October 2025 every gambling business must prompt a customer to set a financial limit before their first deposit, must make it easy to review and change, must remind customers every six months to review their account and transaction information, and must offer limits through a free-text box at account level. Under RTS 12E, setting a limit must be presented as the default option, and a customer has to take an active step to decline one and confirm that decision. The default direction of travel is a limit, not a blank cheque.

There is also a ceiling on the games themselves. The £5 maximum stake per game cycle for online slots went live on 9 April 2025 for all adults, and the £2 limit for those aged 18 to 24 followed on 21 May 2025. Those figures came from the Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and apply to online slots only — roulette and blackjack are untouched. Offshore, no such thing exists. The stake is whatever the site can sell.

The Reference Point for UK Casinos

When I compare operators, I do not start from a ranking. I start from the British licence and treat it as the unit of account, because it is the only standard in this market that comes with a public register, an enforcement history and a set of withdrawal rules an operator cannot contract out of.

Under LCCP licence condition 17.1.1, a customer's withdrawal request must not result in a demand for extra information where the licensee could reasonably have asked for it earlier. The exception is narrow: information the operator is obliged to obtain at that moment under another legal obligation, such as anti-money-laundering rules. That condition is why the classic manoeuvre — accept deposits for six weeks, then ask for a utility bill the moment a withdrawal appears — is a compliance problem rather than a policy choice.

The reverse withdrawal function, which let a player cancel a pending payout and put the money back into play, was permanently banned for remote operators under RTS requirement 14B, in force from 31 October 2021. The Commission's stated reason was evidence that the function exposed engaged and vulnerable gamblers to the temptation to keep going. The accompanying guidance says that once a withdrawal is requested, the customer should not be offered the chance to deposit those funds, and that the withdrawal process should be as frictionless as possible.

Offshore, the same architecture is absent. That does not make every offshore site a swindle — some are large, well-capitalised businesses with segregated player funds and a proper alternative dispute resolution provider. It does mean the player's protection depends on the operator's own terms and on whatever regulator issued the paper, rather than on a British licence condition enforced by a British regulator that can and does suspend licences. On 3 April 2020 the Commission suspended the licences of two online operators for failing to integrate the self-exclusion scheme by the 31 March deadline. That is what teeth look like.

How Long the Money Takes

The withdrawal statistics are the best evidence in this whole argument, and they are not marketing. Gambling Commission data covering June to September 2024 records 44.2 million withdrawals by customers of large online operators in that period. Of those, 96.3 per cent cleared automatically, 3.5 per cent cleared within 24 hours and 0.1 per cent took up to 48 hours. Earlier Commission data from some of the largest companies showed around 99 per cent of withdrawal requests approved, processed and fulfilled within 24 to 48 hours of the request.

Set against that, the complaints. By July 2024 the Commission said it continued to receive around 2,000 complaints a year about withdrawal delays, still the number one subject of complaints to its Contact Centre. Its Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25, covering 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, states that despite work with some operators, issues relating to withdrawals continue to be the cause of most complaints received. A 2026 blog adds that over a quarter of complaints reaching the Contact Centre concern identity verification — the concern people raise when documents are demanded only at the point of withdrawal.

The gap between 96.3 per cent automatic and 2,000 complaints a year is not a contradiction. It is an average concealing a tail, and the tail is where players live.

Note the direction of that last column. On a British licence, an unresolved dispute can be escalated free of charge to an approved alternative dispute resolution provider once eight weeks have passed or a deadlock letter has been issued. Off the British register, that route exists only if the operator has chosen to provide one — and a term is only worth what the body behind it will enforce.

Legit Online Casinos and the Limits You Agree To

If there is one thing this topic turns on, it is limits — the ones imposed on you, the ones you impose on yourself, and the ones written in small print to govern what you can take out. The British regime is unusual in regulating all three. It is also where offshore offers quietly diverge, because a welcome bonus with a 40× wagering requirement and a maximum cashout clause is, functionally, a limit dressed as a gift.

The first time you meet the limit regime on a British-licensed site, it is prompted. Before a first deposit you are asked to set a financial limit, with the free-text box at account level, and every six months the site must remind you to review your account and transaction information. Decline, and you have to actively confirm the refusal. Bonus terms run parallel: from 19 January 2026, licensees cannot offer mixed-product promotions requiring two or more types of gambling, and wagering requirements on bonus funds are capped at ten times. LCCP Social Responsibility Code 5.1.1 phrases the cap as a prohibition on requiring a customer to play through bonus funds more than ten times. The Commission chose the cap over an outright ban after consultation, noting that the limit "will take out extreme levels as some licensees currently apply up to 60 times wagering requirements".

Later, the limits change character. Financial vulnerability checks became a licensing requirement on remote gambling businesses in August 2024, initially at £500 net deposits over a rolling 30-day period, lowered to £150 net deposits over 30 days from 28 February 2025. Financial Risk Assessments are being introduced in stages following the Commission's announcement of 7 July 2026: the first stage applies to the largest operators at £5,000 net deposits in a rolling 24-hour period for customers aged 25 and over, and £2,500 for under-25s. At the final stage, FRAs will apply to customers aged 25 or older with net deposits above £1,000 in a rolling 24 hours or £3,000 over 90 days; for under-25s the thresholds are £750 in 24 hours or £2,000 over 90 days. The £5,000 first-stage figure is a spend pattern fewer than 0.5 per cent of customers exceed, and 97 per cent of customers above the thresholds in the pilot could be assessed without friction.

Two things are worth saying plainly at this point, because they are where I part company with most of what is written on the subject. One is that a deposit-limit prompt is a legitimate protection and also a speed bump, and a site that makes declining it awkward is not being careful with you — it is being hostile, one confirmation screen at a time. The other is that a wagering requirement is not a limit on what you can win; it is a limit on whether the win ever becomes yours. There is a difference, and the whole bonus industry lives in it.

Warning signs, in this area, are consistent. A bonus whose significant conditions are not one click away. A term capping the maximum amount withdrawable from bonus winnings. A clause giving the operator sole discretion to void winnings, which the Commission regards as unfair within the meaning of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. A withdrawal term that permits one request at a time. None of these are grey. They are the standard furniture of the offshore offer sheet, and they exist in the British market mostly as enforcement cases now.

Five Signs an Operator Can Be Trusted

Each of these takes a couple of minutes, and none of them requires an account.

The domain appears on the public register

Check the licence number on the site against the Commission's public register and confirm that the activities and domain names listed match what you are looking at. The Commission advises consumers to click through to the register for exactly this reason. A licence number that belongs to a sister brand, or a register entry listing a different domain, is the classic mismatch — the paper exists, but not for the site in front of you.

The withdrawal terms cannot be moved

Read the withdrawal section before depositing, and look for a stated processing time, a stated fee and no cap on the amount. The Commission's guidance is that operators may not impose any maximum limit on the amount a consumer may withdraw from their deposit balance; the example it gives of a prohibited term is "You may withdraw up to £50 per day and up to £500 per week". A page that states a maximum, or reserves the right to introduce one, has told you what it is.

The bonus conditions sit one click from the offer

Under LCCP Social Responsibility Code 5.1.9, significant conditions applying to marketing incentives must be provided transparently and prominently, and where displayed online, in full no further than one click away. Count the wagering multiple while you are there. On a British licence it cannot exceed ten times; the Commission's consultation note records that some licensees had been applying up to 60.

A real complaints route with a real deadline

A British-licensed operator must have arrangements for referring an unresolved dispute to an approved alternative dispute resolution provider, free of charge, if it is not settled to the customer's satisfaction within eight weeks of receipt. Licence holders should complete the whole complaints process, internal escalation included, within eight weeks of first receipt. The adjudicators' own figures are worth knowing: eCOGRA's report for 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025 records 911 disputes received, of which 150 valid disputes were categorised as "Deposits & Withdrawals", with an average of 31 days to resolve domestic disputes. IBAS's 2024-25 report records 3,721 domestic disputes, of which 217 were Banking/Financial Disputes, and an average domestic completion time of 20 days. Both are free to the consumer. A site with no named provider has removed that step.

The insolvency rating is written down, not implied

Customer funds held by a remote operator must be kept in a separate client bank account, separate from the operator's business accounts, and the business must state clearly in its terms which of the three customer-funds protection ratings applies — "not protected", "medium protection" or "high protection" — with the disclosure acknowledged before the customer can use funds for gambling. An operator rated "not protected" must remind customers once every six months that their funds are not protected in the event of insolvency, stating the value of funds held. Not everything counts either: money staked within an open bet is not customer funds and is not covered by any insolvency arrangement. If the rating is hard to find, treat that as the answer.

Where the British Licence Ends

GamStop is the scheme that keeps coming up, and the name is often typed "gamestop" — a slip the word "game" invites, and one worth getting right, because the thing itself is precise. GamStop Online is the UK's national online self-exclusion scheme, run by The National Online Self Exclusion Scheme Limited, and since 31 March 2020 all online gambling operators must be part of it as a condition of the licence granted to them by the Gambling Commission. The requirement sits in the Commission's Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice, social responsibility code provision 3.5.5, which states that licensees must participate in the national multi-operator self-exclusion scheme. In April 2020 the Commission added a requirement for operators to check their entire customer base for GamStop registration at least every 24 hours, which also stopped registered people receiving direct marketing.

The figures are large and rising. GamStop recorded 117,756 new registrations during 2025, and had 561,983 active exclusions at 31 December 2025 — over 562,000, on the Group's own count, with 58,675 registrations in the final six months of the year, an average of 319 a day. During the first half of 2026 registrations rose 16 per cent year on year, with May 2026 setting a monthly record of 12,236 sign-ups. As of July 2026 GamStop Online reported 614,738 consumers currently on the register, more than one in two of whom had opted for the maximum five-year exclusion.

Now the part that matters for anyone reading the word "legit" and hoping it means "flexible". Registering with GamStop Online blocks you from gambling with all online gambling companies licensed in Great Britain for six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal. Once registered, you cannot cancel or deactivate during the exclusion period, and the exclusion stays in place after the end of the chosen term unless you contact GamStop to remove it. GamStop Online registrations cannot be removed early; the Group's 2025 annual report devotes a section to its refusal to do so. Under the terms of use, you may only switch off auto-renewal during the last six months of a five-year period, and auto-renewal continues for up to four further five-year periods. If you do not deactivate after your chosen term, GamStop holds your data through a further automatic seven-year self-exclusion period during which operators are told you were previously excluded.

An offshore site is not a way round that, and any site presenting itself as one is telling you something about how it treats every other rule. GamStop Online blocks access to gambling websites and apps licensed in Great Britain only, and is unable to prevent access to services run by organisations that do not participate in the scheme. Offshore sites holding no Commission licence are not connected to GamStop and not covered by it, since the obligations apply only to Commission-licensed operators — a point stated by trade sources rather than on a regulator page, though it follows directly from GamStop's own terms of use.

The Commission is alive to the pattern. On 20 January 2025 it issued an industry warning notice about casino games supplied by licensed operators appearing on unlicensed websites available to British consumers, noting that such sites often target customers who have self-excluded via GamStop. That is the whole business model in one sentence.

Help is free and it is not conditional on being a customer of anything. The National Gambling Helpline, run by GamCare, is on 0808 8020 133, twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, and the same number reaches live chat and WhatsApp. There is also Gamblers Anonymous England, Wales and Ulster on 0330 094 0322, GamFam for families, and the NHS National Gambling Clinic on 020 7381 7722, which accepts self-referrals for young people aged 13 to 18 anywhere in England and for adults aged 18 or over in Greater London and the South East.

Are Online Casinos Legit? Sorting the Claims

The word gets stretched in every direction, so it is worth separating the claims that can be checked from the ones that cannot. "Licensed" is checkable. "Trusted" is a reputation, and reputations are bought in this market. "Fair" has a test — random number generators certified by an approved independent testing facility — but the certificate is worth exactly as much as the regulator that required it.

The enforcement record is the best available proxy for diligence, and it is public. Since April 2024 the Commission's Illegal Markets team has issued 3,140 cease and desist and disruption notices, comprising 2,032 cease and desist notices, 774 registrar referrals, 402 host referrals and 3 payment provider referrals, referred 447,778 Bing and Google URLs, and secured 287,961 URL removals. Across 160 illegal gambling websites for which traffic data existed, engagement fell an average of 32 per cent after disruption activity. By method, registrar blocks and website suspensions produced the largest average fall in engagement, 91 per cent each, ahead of GEO IP blocking at 60 per cent, Bing removal at 52 per cent and Google removal at 30 per cent. The Commission's own conclusion is that search-engine removal makes a site harder to find but does not fully block access.

Scale, honestly told, is contested. Commission analysis published 5 November 2026 estimates that across the whole population including non-gamblers, 0.6 per cent of respondents engaged with illegal gambling websites in the past four weeks and a further 0.4 per cent in the past 12 months, while 94.4 per cent showed no indication of using one; among those who had gambled online in the past four weeks, the estimate rises to 2.5 per cent. Market-intelligence firm H2 Gambling Capital estimates the amount staked with illegal operators in the UK reached £16.6 billion in 2025, up from about £5 billion in 2019, with the proportion of gambling happening legally falling from 97 per cent in 2019 to 92 per cent in 2025. Industry and campaign estimates differ by a factor of several. I would treat all of them as directional and none as settled — with one exception, which is that the Commission's methodology explicitly does not capture activity hidden by VPNs, so every figure in this paragraph is a floor, not a ceiling.

Which Regulators Sit Behind the Offshore Licences

Anyone weighing an offshore site should know what the paper on the footer actually is. Four names recur.

Curaçao. The National Ordinance on Games of Chance took effect on 24 December 2024, making the Curaçao Gaming Authority the direct licensing and supervisory authority and ending the old master-licence and sub-licence model; the legacy "orange" sub-licence certificates of operation ended on 15 October 2025, and a historic /JAZ number or legacy seal must not be treated as proof that an operator currently holds a valid licence. The total annual B2C fee is EUR 47,450, made up of a EUR 24,490 licence fee to the National Treasury and a EUR 22,960 supervisory fee. Verification is by seal: clicking a Certificate of Operation Seal must redirect to the authority's certificate site, and if the certificate behind the seal displays a different domain from the site being accessed, that site is displaying another operator's certificate.

Anjouan. Internet gaming is regulated under the laws of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, part of the Union of the Comoros, on a framework founded on 2005 legislation. Published fees are EUR 17,828 for B2C licence issuance and the same for annual renewal, with EUR 500 per additional domain. The regulator says licences carry no territorial restrictions under Anjouan law, but also, in a statement of 10 June 2026, that an Anjouan Internet Gaming Licence "is not, and has never been presented as, a universal authorisation to operate in every country in the world". That is the regulator itself conceding that the licence does not make a site lawful where it is not licensed. An ABC News investigation published on 31 December 2025 reported that Anjouan Licensing Services claims to have issued more than 1,300 gambling licences at around EUR 17,000 per licence per year, and quoted Comorian officials disputing the arrangement's legality.

Kahnawà:ke. The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission was established in 1996, enacted its Regulations concerning Interactive Gaming on 8 July 1999, and describes itself as having regulated interactive gaming longer than almost any other jurisdiction. Licensed operators must be hosted at Mohawk Internet Technologies, a data centre in the Mohawk Territory. Its rules require a licensee's relationship with players to be contractual and free of unfair or unreasonable terms, require sites to let a player set limits including zero, and state that its own voluntary self-exclusion is permanent and irrevocable — with a player who breaches a self-exclusion prohibition forfeiting deposited or won funds to a third-party charity selected by the Commission. Fee changes announced on 13 August 2026 raise the client provider authorisation application fee from USD 35,000 to USD 40,000 from 1 January 2027, while the annual fee stays at USD 20,000.

Malta. The Malta Gaming Authority requires a B2C Gaming Service Licence to offer a gaming service from Malta, to a Maltese person, or through a Maltese legal entity. Fees are a one-time non-refundable application fee of EUR 5,000, a non-refundable fixed annual licence fee of EUR 25,000, and gaming tax of 5 per cent of gaming revenue. Minimum issued and paid-up share capital is EUR 100,000 for Type 1 and Type 2 B2C licences. The authority also publishes a list of Unauthorised URLs, declaring that it has no connection with those domains and that any reference to the MGA or a Maltese licence on them is false and misleading.

And then there is Costa Rica, which does not belong in that list. Costa Rica operates no comprehensive gambling licensing regime and has no formal framework for issuing gambling licences; the "data processing license" sometimes cited in the trade is not a licence in the strict legal sense. Its Legislative Assembly rejected Bill No. 25,057 in early 2026, which would have introduced a mandatory licensing regime. Under Costa Rican law games of chance where the outcome depends primarily on luck are generally prohibited, and only land-based casinos integrated into qualifying hotels are authorised. A site claiming a Costa Rican licence is claiming something that does not exist.

The Numbers Off the Sites, On the Sites

Two sets of figures are worth carrying around when reading a response to the question "which UK online casino is legit for real money".

The first is the shape of the register itself. Of the exclusion periods selected by GamStop Online registrants in 2025, 29 per cent chose six months, 24 per cent chose one year, 25 per cent chose five years and 22 per cent chose auto-renewal. Across all age groups, only one in four had self-excluded for six months, and more than one in two had opted for the maximum five-year term. Under-25s accounted for nearly one in three of all self-exclusions in the first half of 2026, a 26 per cent year-on-year increase. Whatever else those numbers mean, they do not describe a market where people drift back easily. They describe one where the exit, once chosen, is serious, and where a good number of people are choosing the longest one available.

The second is the money in play. Total Great Britain gambling industry gross gambling yield was £17.5 billion in the year April 2025 to March 2026, a 4.4 per cent increase on the previous financial year. The remote casino, betting and bingo sector accounted for £8.3 billion, up 6.9 per cent. Total online gross gambling yield for January to March 2026 was £1.55 billion, up 7 per cent year on year, with total bets and spins up 7 per cent to 26.8 billion and average monthly active accounts of 13.4 million, down 1 per cent. Online slots gross gambling yield rose 12 per cent year on year to £773 million for the quarter, on 25.1 billion spins. That dataset covers roughly 70 per cent of the online market — the largest operators — and should not be compared with the Commission's separate industry statistics.

Read together, those two sets say something the marketing pages do not. In the year to March 2025, gross gambling yield for the remote casino sector was £5.0 billion, of which £4.2 billion came from slot games. The Commission's 2026 risk assessment rates the remote casino sector as high risk for money laundering, unchanged from the previous rating, and reports an increase in the scale and sophistication of attempts to bypass customer due diligence using false documentation, deepfake videos and face swaps generated by AI. Set that against deposit limits that a customer must be prompted to set before their first deposit and can then raise in a few taps, and the honest conclusion is that a limit only works if the person setting it means it.

Answers to Common Questions About Legitimacy

What is a legit online casino, in one test?

Holds a Gambling Commission licence, appears on the public register under the exact domain being used, and lists activities and domain names that match. That is the minimum, and it is the only test that cannot be faked by design. Everything else — a padlock icon, a corporate address, a seal image that does not redirect to a verifying page — is decoration. On 21 October 2024 the Commission said plainly that offering commercial gambling services to Great Britain consumers without a Commission licence is illegal, and that this includes operators licensed elsewhere.

Is there any legit online casino that takes players from Britain without a UK licence?

Offshore operators do accept British players, and section 33 applies to remote gambling where at least one piece of remote gambling equipment used is situated in Great Britain, or where the provider knows or should know the facilities are likely to be used here. So the liability sits with the operator, not the player. What the player loses is the protection: no British licence conditions, no guaranteed free ADR, no GamStop coverage. Trade sources state that offshore sites holding no Commission licence are not connected to GamStop — unconfirmed on a regulator page, but consistent with GamStop's own terms.

How do you know if an online casino is legit before depositing?

Three things, all checkable in under five minutes. Register entry matching the domain. Withdrawal terms stating a processing time and fee, with no maximum limit on what can be withdrawn from a deposit balance — the Commission's example of a prohibited term is a daily and weekly cap. And a named alternative dispute resolution provider, since an unresolved dispute can be referred there free of charge after eight weeks or a deadlock letter. Terms that reserve sole discretion to void winnings are unfair under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and that is a licence matter, not a house style.

Are online casino legit bonuses worth the wagering?

On a British licence, wagering requirements on bonus funds are capped at ten times from 19 January 2026, and mixed-product promotions requiring two or more types of gambling are banned. That is a real improvement: the Commission consulted on banning wagering outright, choosing a cap of ten partly because some licensees had been applying up to 60. Offshore, multipliers typically run higher and maximum cashout clauses are common. The deciding figure is not the headline amount but the product of multiplier and cap: an offer with a big headline and a capped cashout has already decided what you can keep.

Do legit casinos online report payouts, or is it all screenshots?

Genuine payout data comes from regulators and adjudicators, not from banners. Commission data for June to September 2024 covering 44.2 million withdrawals by large operators found 96.3 per cent cleared automatically, 3.5 per cent within 24 hours and 0.1 per cent took up to 48 hours. Meanwhile around 2,000 complaints a year concerned withdrawal delays as of July 2024, still the top complaint subject, and the Commission's 2024-25 annual report says withdrawal issues remain the cause of most complaints it receives. Averages hide tails; ask what happens in the tail, not at the median.

What protection is left if an operator goes under?

British rules require customer funds to be held in a separate client bank account, separate from the operator's business accounts, and the business must state which of three ratings applies: not protected, medium protection or high protection. An operator rated not protected must remind customers every six months that their funds are not protected in insolvency, stating the value held. Keeping funds in a client account does not guarantee repayment, and operators are legally allowed to hold customer money in overseas bank accounts. Money staked within an open bet is not customer funds and is not covered at all.

The Short Version, With the Numbers Left In

The long version comes down to this: the only durable proof of legitimacy in this market is a British licence, because a licence is a bundle of obligations with numbers in it — a £5 slot stake cap and £2 for under-25s, a ten-times ceiling on bonus wagering, a mandatory prompt to set a deposit limit before the first deposit, a ban on reverse withdrawals since 31 October 2021, and a payout record in which 96.3 per cent of 44.2 million withdrawals cleared automatically. Everything else is reputation, and reputation is a marketing budget with a longer memory.

The part I would leave a reader with is the asymmetry. British licensed operators are required to participate in a national self-exclusion scheme under social responsibility code provision 3.5.5, and since 31 March 2020 that is a condition of holding the licence at all. GamStop had 561,983 active exclusions at 31 December 2025, and by July 2026 the register stood at 614,738, with more than one in two of those people having chosen the longest term on the menu. A site outside that scheme has not escaped the limit. It has just moved it to the one place where nobody can enforce it — and if that line ever needs repeating, the National Gambling Helpline is on 0808 8020 133, day and night.