GamStop is a blunt instrument. One click and you’re locked out of every UK-licensed site for months or years, with no appeals process and no way to shorten it. That’s the point, of course. But it also pushes a lot of players toward an online casino not on gamstop – a site licensed in Curaçao,…
Block yourself from every UK-licensed betting site and the block holds – you can’t ring support and ask them to undo it. That’s the entire point of the national scheme. What it can’t reach is the sprawling market of non gamstop casinos, operators licensed in Curaçao, Malta or Anjouan, taking UK players without ever joining…
Gamstop is a wall, and walls have always had people walking around them. The UK’s self-exclusion register is free, blunt and compulsory for every licence holder in the country – sign up once and an entire market shuts its doors. The casinos that sit outside that market, the ones behind those slots not on gamstop…