Figures read 26 October 2026 Bill U11, first printing
No KYC casinos: nothing consults the register, and 125 free rounds come to £7.20
A count of a hundred and twenty-five, each round staking the 10p this bill assumes, carries a face of £12.50, and £12.00 of that arrives as balance once a 96 per cent return is taken out of it. Ten times demanded of the £12.00 costs £4.80, leaving £7.20. The same count bought outright stakes £12.50 and hands back £12.00, so it costs 50p and owes nothing afterwards. £7.70 lies between the two findings, which is 77 rounds at the same stake. The check this key names settles three things, and a register leans on the second.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Money in before a reel turns | nothing | £12.50 | £12.50 |
| Staked across 125 rounds | £12.50 | £12.50 | none |
| Handed back at 96 per cent | £12.00 | £12.00 | none |
| Taken by a ten-times demand | £4.80 | nothing owed | minus £4.80 |
| What it comes to | £7.20 | minus 50p | £7.70, or 77 rounds |
What the free round comes to £7.20 The cashier stakes all hundred and twenty-five, £12.00 reaches the balance, and six tenths of it survives a demand of ten times. What the paid round comes to minus 50p The identical count with a reader’s own tenth of a pound on every turn, where the return is the entire cost and no demand follows. The gap, in money and in rounds £7.70, 77 rounds One subtraction, then the answer restated as the number of further turns it would buy at the stake used here.
Free rounds and what each asks in return
Paid placements are what these addresses are. A registration made through one brings this publisher a fee. Neither quote knows which address is which, and no figure on a bout would differ if it did.
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01Free Play Arena
Betportal
Thirty-five times, three deposits
What the free side comes tonothing150 rounds at 10c, across a play-through of 35 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus 60cthe identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds60cthe two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 6 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted150 roundsWorth of one round10cstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated300% over three deposits, ceiling €1,000The face of it€15.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through35 timesthe bonusCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstatedFive times the bonusLargest stake while it runs€5.00capping the stake closes off part of whatever range a lobby offers, and keeps it closed while the credit lastsQualifying payment€20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus €15.00 €15.00 What the staking hands back €14.40 €14.40 none What the play-through takes minus €20.16 nothing owed minus €20.16 What it comes to nothing minus 60c 60c, or 6 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Anjouan, Comoros, by BetPortal Gaming Ltd, with Excite Ultra Media Ltd, under number ALSI-202601040-FI2.
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02Free Play Arena
WinBeast
Five deposits, with a free bet
What the free side comes tonothing500 rounds at 10c, across a play-through of 40 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus €2.00the identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds€2.00the two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 20 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted500 roundsWorth of one round10cstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated50% to 100% over five deposits, each ceiling €1,000, with a €650 free betThe face of it€50.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through40 timesthe bonus and the winnings from the spinsCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstated€100 a batch of spinsQualifying payment€20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus €50.00 €50.00 What the staking hands back €48.00 €48.00 none What the play-through takes minus €76.80 nothing owed minus €76.80 What it comes to nothing minus €2.00 €2.00, or 20 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Curaçao, behind a company the site declines to name.
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03Free Play Arena
EliteSpin
Forty times, five deposits
What the free side comes tonothing500 rounds at 10p, across a play-through of 40 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus £2.00the identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds£2.00the two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 20 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted500 roundsWorth of one round10pstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated50% to 100% over five deposits, each ceiling £1,000The face of it£50.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through40 timesthe bonus and the winnings from the spinsCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstatedFive times the bonusQualifying payment£20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus £50.00 £50.00 What the staking hands back £48.00 £48.00 none What the play-through takes minus £76.80 nothing owed minus £76.80 What it comes to nothing minus £2.00 £2.00, or 20 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Costa Rica, by PrimeTier Limited.
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04Free Play Arena
Nightluck
No play-through published
What the free side comes toNOT STRUCKNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.What the same play costs paid forNOT STRUCKNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.The distance, in money and in roundsUNPRICEDone of the two sides is short of a figure, so nothing is subtracted here and nothing is struckOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds countedunpublishedWorth of one round10pstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated100% of the first deposit, ceiling £300The face of itunpublishedAsked in return
Play-throughunpublishedThe offer page sends a reader to the terms for the multiple and prints no figure itselfCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsunpublishedQualifying payment£10.00100 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.
No licence for Great Britain
The site names no jurisdiction for its licence, behind a company the site declines to name.
Terms read 22 October 2026
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Three quantities on a bout were worked out here. Everything else was transcribed. The free quote comes off E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g), where W is whatever play-through the terms demand, g is the proportion of a qualifying stake that counts towards it, RTP is the return assumed of an ordinary slot, and B is whatever is left standing by the time the condition applies. A batch of rounds surrenders part of itself before that point, every round having staked its value and taken the return against it, while a credited sum surrenders nothing at all yet, nothing having gone through the machine. Past break-even the charge exceeds whatever it is charged against, and the free quote settles at nothing rather than below it, nothing being removable beyond what turned up.
The paid side is cost = N × s × (1 − RTP), and it is the figure that makes this bill different from every other ranking in this network. The identical count of rounds at the identical stake, with the reader's own money behind them, hands the margin over once and owes nothing afterwards, there being no credit to turn over and no ceiling to come under. So the two sides are not two readings of one offer. They are one play at two prices, and the distance between them is what the word free is worth on that bout, said as a sum and said again as a count of rounds, because a reader counts in rounds and pays in money.
Read the reckoning downwards and the distance column adds up to the finding. It opens at whatever the paid side has to put in before a round turns, loses whatever the free side gives up that the paid side does not, and closes at the answer, so the bout can be checked without any of it being worked again. A step where both sides move alike leaves the distance reading none, which says the return treats the two the same way there and the distance is made somewhere else.
On a bout whose free half is a demo, both of its own figures are nought and neither one is approximate. Cash has no route out of a demo, so a demo balance showing five hundred pounds settles at nought, and the distance comes out at exactly what buying the rounds costs. Those noughts are findings rather than figures somebody held back. Where a figure really is absent, one of three words takes its place instead. Stated means a condition written out in sentences, which costs something and offers nothing to subtract. Unpublished means a condition written down nowhere whatever. Unpriced means a count published clearly enough, with nothing anywhere putting a value on one of them. None of the three conceals an approximation, and nobody here is credited with a figure they never supplied.
Two figures on every bout belong to this publisher and are stated rather than read. The return both sides are worked at is a general industry figure for an ordinary slot: it is an assumption of this publisher's, it is not read off any title or off anybody who builds one, and a line that spends it says so where it spends it. The worth of one round is the other, and it is spent only where no operator has put a worth on one of its own, nobody publishing a minimum or a maximum for that and no rule setting either. Every bout spending that figure prints whose figure it is. Everything else in a bout was quoted out of an operator's own terms on the day recorded at its foot.
Four duties written by a Great Britain licence come down on the free column of a bout. None of the four comes down on the paid column, because nothing is advanced there for a condition to attach itself to, and that lopsidedness is the argument of the whole bill. Limb 3(a) of Social Responsibility Code 5.1.1 took effect on 19 January 2026 and forbids a holder to ask that bonus funds be played through more than ten times over. Read the play-through term above against that: anything beyond ten times is a term no British holder could have published. Whether a free round counts as bonus funds for the purposes of that limit has not been published in either direction, so this publisher asserts neither reading of it. Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 215, made on 25 February 2025, inserted regulation 5(2), under which no individual may stake more than £5 on a single game cycle of an online slot, falling to £2 under the age of 25. That limit fastens itself to the operating licence rather than to any game, so beyond the licence a lobby offers whatever stake range it pleases with nothing standing over the top of it. Requirement 3C of the remote technical standards obliges a holder to make the rules of a game available before anybody commits money to it. Both quotes above rest on an assumed return rather than a published one, and that duty is the reason an assumption is needed at all out here. Membership of Gamstop Online is a condition of holding the British licence, so the scheme stretches exactly as far as the licence stretches and no further. An offer licensed beyond it sits outside by construction, and a registration somebody has already completed does not reach this offer. Free and confidential help is on the National Gambling Helpline, 0808 8020 133, answering 24 hours a day on every day of the year.
Any condition quoted on a bout appears in the words of whoever published it, and every bout states the day somebody read it. The furthest back of those days on this bill is 22 October 2026. What binds a reader is an operator's own terms, entire, and never a line of this.
1
What a hundred and twenty-five free rounds stake, and what £12.00 becomes
A count becomes money only after two quantities are fixed. The first is what one turn stakes, 10p here this bill’s own figure. The other is what the reels hand back, and for that this bill uses 96 per cent, an industry-wide figure for an ordinary slot and not one read off any title stated here, read nowhere. A hundred and twenty-five turns at 10p put £12.50 across the reels, and at 96 per cent £12.00 of that comes back as balance. None of the £12.50 leaves the reader’s pocket, so the face is the cashier’s money and the £12.00 is the reader’s to keep or to lose to a condition.
What a condition leaves is E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g). B stands for the £12.00 reaching the balance, W for whatever multiple is demanded of it, RTP for the return, g for the contribution a qualifying title makes. At ten times and full contribution, four tenths of the £12.00 goes and £7.20 stays. Put the other way round, ten times the £12.00 calls for £120.00 of turnover, and a return keeping 4p in each pound takes £4.80 out of that.
| Turnover demanded | What it costs to put through | What is left of £12.00 |
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| Nothing at all | nothing | £12.00 |
| Ten times | £4.80 | £7.20 |
| Twenty times | £9.60 | £2.40 |
| Twenty-five times | £12.00 | nothing |
£7.20 is the smallest free column a British licensee could lawfully leave on £12.00, ten times being the heaviest demand such a licence permits rule sheet, claims 58 and 91, in force since January 2026. A demand of five times would leave £9.60 and one of two times would leave £11.04, so every lighter reading of the term pushes the figure up, and the bill stands on the heavy end because that is the end a published rule fixes. Where no British licence is held, the bound is not a bound: the column runs from £12.00 at no demand down to nought past twenty-five times, with no lawful stop at either end.
A cashier that asks nothing about who a customer is holds no Great Britain licence, and three such duties carry figures against the sums above. The condition requires identity to be established up front, before any gambling happens, and it fixes a floor under what the cashier has to know rule sheet, claim 10; the same duty covers rounds a cashier has funded exactly as it covers rounds a reader has funded rule sheet, claim 18, so it is worth the whole £7.20 and the whole 50p alike. A licensed cashier is barred from holding its questions back until a payout is wanted rule sheet, claim 11, which is worth the £7.20 again, since a sum that cannot be drawn is not a sum. And every company Britain licenses for online play has to be in Gamstop Online rule sheet, claim 181, a membership no cashier of this description carries.
2
The same hundred and twenty-five, bought at a tenth of a pound
Now take the identical count, paid for: 10p of the reader’s money on every turn. £12.50 goes across the reels and £12.00 comes back at the return assumed here, so the hundred and twenty-five cost 50p. That 50p is the whole of the margin over that many turns and there is nothing else in the column: no credit was advanced, so no multiple attaches to the winnings, and a ceiling on multiples has nothing to bind.
The paid column is the quiet half of this page and the more important half. It reads 50p whether the cashier behind it sits inside the British licensing system or outside it, because the only quantity in it is the return. Nothing a register does, and nothing a check on identity does, changes a figure made of a count, a stake and a percentage. So the whole of what the register protects lives in the other column, and the £7.20 is the only figure on this bill that an absent protection can move.
£7.20 free against 50p paid leaves £7.70, and £7.70 at 10p a round buys 77 more rounds. Both halves had to be worked to get there. A page that prints the free figure and stops has said that something is worth £7.20 without saying what the alternative costs, and the alternative here costs less than a fifteenth of it.
a hundred and twenty-five rounds worth £7.20 staked by the cashier and 50p to buy, £7.70 between them, which is 77 rounds at 10p
3
One check, three jobs, and the job this key turns on
The regulator names three purposes for the check and they do different work, so they are worth taking apart. One is age. One is that the account belongs to the person whose details it carries. The third, sitting between them, is whether the person applying has already excluded themselves rule sheet, claim 14.
The third purpose is the one this key turns on, and the reason is mechanical rather than moral. A list of people who have asked to be stopped halts nobody by existing. It halts people by being consulted when an account opens and at intervals after that, and a company that never asks for a name has nothing to consult it with. The absence in the key is therefore not a convenience sitting in front of an untouched protection: the consulting and the protecting are one act.
| What the check establishes | Where the duty is recorded | What its absence costs a reader |
|---|---|---|
| That a player is old enough | claim 14, with claim 10 for the condition | the age bar over the whole £12.50 of face |
| Whether a player stands on the register | claim 14, with claim 181 for the scheme | a protection the reader may have chosen |
| That a player is the person named | claim 10, condition 17.1.1 | any later claim on the £7.20 |
| What the condition asks for | claim 10, the minimum particulars | a name, an address, a birth date |
Two further limbs of the same licence condition price out on this bill. One requires the cashier to set out, before a deposit, which papers may be wanted and when rule sheet, claim 12, which turns the asking into a scheduled thing. The other carries the duty across free play: verification runs ahead of bonus rounds and ahead of the no-stakes versions of a licensee’s games alike rule sheet, claims 18 and 19. Every offer this publication prices sits on top of that, and the key takes it away.
None of which says anything about what any particular cashier asks for. It is a statement about one duty, the three things it settles, and what the arithmetic above comes to when the duty is not there.
4
What the check is worth in money, measured on this bill
A duty is easier to argue over than to price, so here is the price. The free column closes at £7.20, and £7.20 is a balance rather than money. It becomes money when somebody pays it out, and under a British licence the point at which that is asked for is not the point at which documents may first be demanded rule sheet, claim 11. The regulator’s advice to players turns it round: questions about money laundering are to be put promptly, not held back for the cashier’s desk, and a payout stalled for want of papers may itself put the licensee in breach rule sheet, claims 15 and 16.
Hold that against the two columns and the asymmetry is the finding. The 50p has already gone when the reels stop, taken a few pence at a time by the return, and no later decision can withhold it or give it back. The £7.20 is the reverse: a figure that somebody has to hand over, at some point, on somebody’s judgement. Those duties are what converts that judgement into an obligation with a published standard behind it, and without them £7.20 is an expectation rather than an entitlement.
So the two columns are not alike in risk even where the arithmetic treats them alike. A reader weighing £7.20 against 50p is weighing a sum contingent on a payout against a sum already spent, and the ordinary way of saying this, that a free round is worth having, walks straight past the difference. Under a licence the contingency has rules round it. Without one, the £7.20 carries the demand priced in part one and the payout question priced here, while the 50p carries neither.
The regulator is also specific about what it will not do when a payout fails to arrive. It calls itself something other than an ombudsman, with no power to settle a gambling dispute or get anybody’s money back, and none to deal with withdrawals or with faults in a game rule sheet, claim 46. What it does instead is approve the independent bodies a licensee has to escalate to rule sheet, claim 43, and hold the whole complaint to eight weeks before that rule sheet, claim 39. Both of those travel with the licence and stop where it stops.
5
The weighting nobody prints, and the figures this bill has not got
The g in the expression is the one letter a reader is least likely to have met, and it moves the answer more than the multiple does. A qualifying title may count a stake at its full value towards clearing a demand or at some fraction of it, and the rules contemplate a figure as low as 30p in the pound rule sheet, claim 96. This bill puts g at full value, which reads an unprinted term as generously as it can honestly be read, and says so here rather than once at the top.
At 30p in the pound, the weighting a licensee may count, ten times the £12.00 owes £120.00 towards clearing and calls for £400.00 of turnover, which costs £16.00 where £12.00 exists. E floors at nought, since nothing a reader never deposited can leave them short. Halfway between, at 50p in the pound, the same £120.00 needs £240.00 of turnover and costs £9.60, so £2.40 of the balance survives instead of £7.20. One unprinted percentage therefore moves this page’s free column by £4.80 without the multiple shifting by one.
| What a qualifying stake counts | Turnover the demand needs | What survives of £12.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Full value | £120.00 | £7.20 |
| 50p in the pound | £240.00 | £2.40 |
| 30p in the pound | £400.00 | nothing |
No source read for this bill publishes a multiple, a weighting or a payout floor for a cashier that asks nothing of a customer’s identity. The ten times standing in the sums is a British bound applied to this bill’s own count and stake, and nothing more than that: a ceiling a licensee may not exceed, named as a ceiling, and binding nobody this key describes. The honest statement is not that the gap is wider or narrower outside the licence. It is that outside the licence the gap is bounded nowhere at either end, and the £7.70 standing over these sums is a figure this publisher has settled on and declared rather than one anybody is obliged to meet.
6
A demo under the same key, and why both of its columns read nought
A demo wants no subtraction at all, and it is the only play on this bill that does not. Whatever a demo balance displays, nothing comes out of it, no mechanism existing by which money leaves one. Not a thinner payout, not one hedged with conditions, and not a quantity withheld from publication. So every line of the free side reads nought, the paid side reads nought beside it, and the distance is nought too. Those three noughts are the answer and not a gap in the working.
This key makes the demo case sharper, not softer. On a British licensee the identity check stands in front of the no-stakes version of a game as well as the staked one rule sheet, claim 18, the regulator having recorded that it sees nothing legitimate in children reaching such games rule sheet, claim 19. A check placed ahead of a play worth nought is not a toll on winnings, which is the clearest evidence of what the check is for, and it means the arithmetic cannot be the reason anybody would want it absent.
7
A register works by being read, and somebody is obliged to read it
£7.20 of this bill’s free column rests on a protection that works one way only, by being looked up. The scheme doing the looking up is Gamstop Online, under that name since November 2025 rule sheet, claim 180, and six readings of it carry the whole of what this part has to say.
| What is being read | The reading | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Its own name | Gamstop Online, so named November 2025 | claim 180 |
| What it shuts off | accounts at the firms taking part | claim 178 |
| Who has to be in it | whoever Britain licenses for online play | claim 181 |
| How often it is read | every account held, once a day | claim 182 |
| How many names it holds | 614,738 names in July 2026 | claim 189 |
| How far it says it reaches | the firms inside it and no others | claim 183 |
Of the six lines, the fourth is the one to hold on to. A list stops nobody by existing; it stops people because a firm is required to put every account it holds against it, over and over, and the requirement arrives with the licence. Membership became a licence condition in the spring of 2020, and the daily reading started a month after rule sheet, claim 182. Nothing on this bill makes that requirement reach any further than the licence does.
The last line is the scheme’s own sentence about itself rather than anybody’s inference, and a reader of this page needs it more than the other five. Its help covers the firms inside it. Of the firms outside it, it says it has no power to stand between them and a person who has registered rule sheet, claim 183. That is a stated boundary on a protection, written by the body that offers the protection, and not a gap somebody has spotted from outside.
A registration is also harder to undo than to make, and the terms set out how, which is worth a reader knowing before rather than after rule sheet, claims 184 to 187. Four readings of the same document: what periods are offered, what will not end one early, what happens if nothing is done, and how long a former registration is still reported.
| What the terms deal with | What they say |
|---|---|
| The periods on offer | six months, a year, or five |
| Ending one early | not before the minimum has run |
| Doing nothing at the end | nothing, so it continues by default |
| After a deactivation | seven further years of being reported |
Put the halves of this bill side by side and one sentence holds the finding. The 50p is settled by a return and nothing reaches it. The £7.20 hangs on a demand nobody prints, a weighting nobody prints, a payout nobody is bound to make, and a grievance route nobody is bound to provide. £7.70 is the arithmetic between them, and every single thing that makes the larger figure real is fastened to a licence, which is fastened to the register, which works by being read.
Questions
- What do 125 free rounds come to where nobody checks who a player is
- £7.20 where the British ceiling is used, and no bounded figure where no British licence is held. A face of £12.50 at 10p a round yields £12.00 of balance at 96 per cent; the ten-times demand costs £4.80, and twenty-five times clears the balance out.
- What do the same 125 rounds cost when the reader pays for them
- 50p in expectation. £12.50 goes across the count and £12.00 comes back, so 50p is all the return takes over 125 turns. No credit was advanced, so no multiple and no ceiling appear in the figure.
- Why does this page stand its free column on ten times
- Ten times is the only published number bounding a wagering requirement from above, and it has bound British licence holders since January 2026. Being the heaviest demand such a licence permits, it yields the smallest free column and so the narrowest distance: £7.70 is the least this count beats paying by rather than an average of anything.
- What is the identity check there to do
- Three separate things, on the regulator’s own account: establish age, establish whether the applicant has already excluded themselves, and establish that they are the person named. The middle one is what this key turns on, a list of people who asked to be stopped being useless unless somebody consults it.
- Does the check reach free rounds and demo play too
- Under a British licence, yes. The rule covers play funded by a bonus, and it also runs ahead of the no-stakes versions of a licensee’s games. So the check sits in front of a play worth nothing as firmly as in front of one worth £7.20.
- Can documents be demanded only once a payout is wanted
- Not under a British licence. A payout request may not be made the occasion for questions the cashier could reasonably have put earlier, money-laundering enquiries are to be made promptly, and a withdrawal delayed for want of papers may itself breach the condition.
- Why is the paid column the same on either side of the register
- Its only ingredients are the count, the stake and the return. 125 rounds at 10p stake £12.50 and give back £12.00, so the cost is 50p wherever the cashier is regulated. Everything a licence protects therefore sits in the free column, which is why £7.20 is the figure at risk and 50p is not.
- What becomes of the £7.20 if nobody pays it out
- The regulator states that it is no kind of ombudsman and has no power to settle such a dispute or recover money. What it requires instead is an eight-week complaints process ending in escalation to a body it approves. Both duties come with the British licence, so neither reaches a cashier holding none, and the £7.20 then has nowhere to be argued.