Printed 2026 · figures read October 2026
Mobile slots turn a £20 credit into sixty-five sessions of the counted length
Sessions needed to serve the turnover on a £20 credit at forty times, measured against the average session the regulator counted in the quarter to March 2026: 124 presses, worth £12.40 of turnover at 10p apiece. October 2026 is when the terms were read.
The ranked cashiers, and the multiple each puts on a credit
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Betportal
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Licence Licensed in Anjouan, Comoros, no Great Britain licence, run by BetPortal Gaming Ltd and Excite Ultra Media Ltd, reference ALSI-202601040-FI2.
WinBeast
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Licence Licensed in Curaçao, no Great Britain licence, operator not named on the site.
EliteSpin
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Licence Licensed in Costa Rica, no Great Britain licence, run by PrimeTier Limited, opened 2026.
Crown Jewelz
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Licence Licensed in Curaçao, number not verified, no Great Britain licence, operator not named on the site.
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Not one of the offers printed above holds a Great Britain licence. Outside that licence a British player has none of its protection: Gamstop Online cannot shut the door, the ten-times limit on bonus wagering does not bind the operator, and no British complaints body will take up a dispute. You must be 18 or over to open an account anywhere in this rack.
Every figure in the rack is a term the operator itself publishes, read on 14 October 2026. The operator's terms in full are the ones that bind you.
A £20 credit served on a phone, priced to the pound
| What these offers ask | Under a British licence | |
|---|---|---|
| You put in | £20.00 | £20.00 |
| Handed over | £20.00 | £20.00 |
| Wagering | 40x | 10x |
| Cost per £1 kept | Nothing kept | £0.67 |
Forty is the figure on most offers of this kind, and a cashier may call its own figure reported rather than published. A stage opens at twenty pounds everywhere out here, in euros at some cashiers and in sterling at others, and a stage matched in full credits £20.00. Forty times that is £800 of turnover, which takes £32.00 where a reel gives back ninety-six in the hundred, so the turnover runs past what the credit is worth and no price goes in the left-hand cell. Ten beside it is where British rules stop, and that stopping point binds nobody out here. The cost is an average across many attempts, the game is taken as counting in full, and the turnover has to be finished inside the window a package allows.
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The offer is twenty pounds of credit and a phone measures it in sessions
£800 of turnover is what a £20 credit owes at forty times, and forty is the figure more of these cashiers print. On a handset that figure is better understood as time than as money, because a session on a phone is a counted thing: 124 presses on average in the quarter to March 2026, which at 10p a press is £12.40 of turnover. Sixty-five of those sessions cover the obligation, the last of them only in part.
Where the presses go is set by the terms rather than by the reader. Slots are the qualifying games on most offers of this kind. Others say slots as well, and record that a list of qualifying titles is not the same in every country, so a banner read in Britain does not settle which titles will count. Live tables, wheels and bingo rooms sit on the same app and shift the obligation not at all.
Serving that £800 is expected to take £32.00, because 4p of each staked pound stays behind where a reel gives back ninety-six in the hundred. The credit was £20.00. A shortfall of £12.00 follows, and the stage deposit of twenty pounds is what pays it.
Nothing out here holds a Great Britain licence. Anjouan issues some of these permissions, Costa Rica others, and Curaçao more than either. One consequence belongs in the opening paragraph and not in a closing note: the national exclusion scheme is built on the British licence, so a registration with it leaves every one of these reachable.
The rest of the shelf is priced on its own sheets. Online slots uk covers the design rules on a licensed reel, mobile casinos the other three product shelves on the same handset, and what you play everything in this section.
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The counted session shrank in every measure that was published twice
Four measures of a session were published for the quarter to March 2026 alongside the same measures a year earlier, and every one of them fell. That is the background a buyer should hold against any offer measured in presses.
| What was counted | Quarter to March 2026 | Twelve months before |
|---|---|---|
| Presses in one session | 124 | 136 |
| Minutes in one session | 15 | 17 |
| Taken by operators per session | £3.82 | £4.01 |
| Share of sessions running past an hour | 4.4% | 5.9% |
The aggregates behind those rows take a sentence each. 202 million sessions were counted across the quarter. 8.9 million of them ran past the hour. Presses came to 25.1 billion, a rise of seven per cent, and the takings to £773m, a rise of twelve. Accounts active in an average month came to 4.8 million.
One figure can be turned round to say something a buyer can use. If £3.82 is what a session leaves behind, and a reel keeps 4p in the pound, the turnover behind an average session is £95.50. Divide that by 124 presses and the implied stake is 77p. That is this press’s own arithmetic on an assumed payback of ninety-six per cent, not a counted figure, and it is worth printing because it is nearly eight times the 10p a cashier usually fixes a free spin at.
Set the offer against it. £800 of turnover is eight and a third average sessions at 77p a press. At 10p a press it is sixty-five of them. The multiple did not change; the stake did, and a buyer picks the stake.
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One counted session, priced at every stake a phone will take
24.8p is what an average session costs at the smallest spin value a British cashier occasionally fixes, and £24.80 is what it costs at the largest stake the law allows a single press. Same session, same 124 presses, a hundredfold between the two bills.
Three of those seven stakes come off a market pattern rather than a rule: a free spin is almost always fixed at 10p, sometimes at 20p and occasionally at 5p. The pattern matters here because it decides which bar a reader lands on without ever choosing it, since a spin handed over at a fixed value is a stake somebody else set.
The two largest bars are the statutory ceilings, and they are the only stakes on the drawing that a rule puts a stop to. Everything between them is a commercial choice by a cashier: neither the licence conditions nor the technical standards put any floor under a deposit or under a stake.
The useful reading runs across the bars rather than up them. £800 of turnover costs £32.00 whatever the stake, because the cost is a share of the turnover and not of the press. What a bigger stake buys is a shorter clock and not a smaller bill: 8,000 presses at 10p, 1,600 at 50p, 160 at £5.
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Two ceilings sit on a single press and the lower one is about age
£5 caps one press for a customer of 25 or more. For the band from 18 to 24 the figure is £2. Dates run the other way round from what a reader expects: the older ceiling landed on 9 April 2025 and the younger followed it on 21 May 2025, both under guidance of January 2025 that was last revised in the June.
The definition is drawn tightly and it is worth knowing where it stops. Three things have to be true at once: a casino game, played online, built on reels. Reel-based covers moving or changing images, whether drawn as reels or produced by some other device, provided the arrangement they land in is what decides a prize. So the ceiling follows a reel onto a phone, a tablet, a laptop or a television, and the guidance says plainly that it reaches online slots only, not a casino game like roulette or blackjack.
So the handset is not the thing being regulated. The product is. A reader who opens the same account on a phone and on a desktop meets the same £5, and a reader who switches from a reel to a wheel on the same phone leaves the ceiling behind entirely.
Device figures exist but they are old, and they are worth stating with the date attached. The fieldwork was done in 2020. Half of the people gambling online in it had used a smartphone. The share reached three in four for the 18 to 34 group and fell to 14 per cent at 65 and over. Laptops followed on 40 per cent, desktops on 26, tablets on 18, televisions on 3. Nothing more recent is published, so that split is six years old.
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The glass has to carry a running total, and only where a licence applies
Two figures must appear on screen while a licensed reel is turning, and they have had to since 17 January 2025: net spend and time spent, both in real time. That is the only in-session figure a British customer is entitled to, and on a phone it is the whole of the dashboard.
Five further design rules shape the same screen, and each one rides on the licence rather than on the software.
- No autoplay. The system has to take a separate commitment to each cycle. The single exception named is the automatic posting of blinds at peer-to-peer poker.
- No shortening the wait. A customer may not be allowed to bring the result forward, which removes turbo, quick spin and slam stop. A feature round that asks no new stake falls outside it, and reveal-all is allowed.
- No celebrating a loss. A return at or below the total staked may not be dressed up, so win sounds and win animations are not allowed on one.
- No two games at once. Split-screen and multi-screen play is barred at a casino, and operator-led simultaneous products went the same way on 17 January 2025.
- No pushing. A product must not encourage a customer to chase a loss, raise a stake, spend beyond what they had decided, or keep going once they have signalled a wish to stop. Each top-up must be begun by the customer.
None of those five reaches an offshore lobby, and the first of them is the one a reader notices. Without the running total, the only record of a session is whatever the account history shows afterwards, which is a different thing from a number on the glass while the money is moving.
A supplier has been penalised over the speed rule, which is the sharpest published evidence that it bites rather than decorates. £122,835 was the sum agreed on 25 June 2026 in place of a financial penalty, over sixteen titles that cycled quicker than the floor allows, the worst of them opening a fresh cycle 1.97 seconds in.
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What the licensed half of the strip is measuring
Ten is the ceiling over bonus staking that British rules imposed on 19 January 2026, a date moved once from December 2025. Ten was picked to cut off the far end of the range: multiples as high as sixty were in use beforehand, and one operator’s own breakdown put three quarters of its offers inside the one to ten range already.
On the same £20 credit that ceiling asks £200 of turnover, takes £8.00, leaves £12.00 standing and prices a kept pound at 67p. That is the comparison the right-hand cells carry across this site. It is not an offer a reader can open from this page, because cashiers of this kind sit outside the licence that imposes it.
The exclusion scheme is the part of that difference with numbers attached, so here it is in figures rather than in principle.
- 614,738 people were registered on the count published 16 July 2026, with new registrations up sixteen per cent across the first half of the year and May 2026 setting a monthly record of 12,236.
- Registrations by under-25s rose 26 per cent, and that age group accounts for close to one in three of all self-exclusions.
- Over half of registrants took the full five years. A quarter across all ages took six months, a share that rises to 38 per cent among under-25s, and men were more than seven in ten of the new registrations.
- A check runs at least daily. Since April 2020 an operator has had to compare its customer base against the scheme every 24 hours, which is why a registration also stops the marketing.
Every one of those figures describes a scheme that is defined by the British licence and nothing else. A registration cannot be ended early, nor does it fall away by itself when the minimum period expires, and deactivation afterwards needs contact with the contact centre plus a wait of 24 hours at minimum. None of that machinery touches a cashier out here, and the scheme states as much itself.
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Forty times twenty pounds, set out as a sum
Below, the whole obligation is served on reels at 10p a press, which is the stake a cashier usually fixes, with the game counting in full and no ceiling applied to the winnings.
Forty times a twenty pound credit, worked through
- Credit handed over on the stage £20.00
- Turnover owed at that forty times £20.00 × 40 = £800.00
- Taken by the reels, 4p in each staked pound £800.00 × 0.04 = £32.00
- The credit, measured after that £20.00 − £32.00 = −£12.00
- Counted sessions the turnover occupies at 10p £800.00 ÷ £12.40 = 64.5
- What a kept pound costs, column by column Nothing survives it, against £0.67
The right-hand answer runs those lines at ten instead: £200.00 of turnover, £8.00 taken, £12.00 of credit still standing, 67p a kept pound, and just over sixteen counted sessions in place of sixty-five. Four further things are absent from both columns, and all of them push the bill up: a term counting a game at a fraction of its stake, a ceiling over what the credit may pay, a window shutting before the turnover is done, and the ordinary truth that a single attempt usually finishes at nothing.
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Questions about a slots session on a handset
- What does a mobile slots bonus cost to clear on one of these?
- £32.00 of expected cost on a £20 credit. Most cashiers of this kind put forty on a credit, which makes £800 of turnover, and 4p of every staked pound stays behind where a reel gives back ninety-six in the hundred. The credit was £20.00, so serving it costs more than it is worth, and the stage deposit covers the difference.
- How many sessions does that turnover take?
- Sixty-five at 10p a press. An average session held 124 presses in the quarter to March 2026, which is £12.40 of turnover, and £800 divided by £12.40 is sixty-four and a half. At the counted fifteen minutes a session that is sixteen hours and a quarter of play.
- Does raising the stake make the bonus cheaper?
- No, because the cost is a share of the turnover rather than of the press. £800 of turnover takes £32.00 at any stake. A bigger stake buys a shorter clock instead: 8,000 presses at 10p, 1,600 at 50p, 160 at the £5 ceiling. The bill holds still and the time collapses.
- What is the biggest stake one press may carry?
- £5 for a customer of 25 or more, and £2 for the band from 18 to 24. The older ceiling landed on 9 April 2025 and the younger followed on 21 May 2025. Both cap a single game cycle on a casino game that is played online and built on reels, and the guidance confirms the ceilings reach online slots only, leaving a wheel or a card table untouched.
- What has to be on the screen while a licensed reel turns?
- Net spend and time spent, both in real time, which operators have had to display since 17 January 2025. That is the only in-session figure a British customer is entitled to. Nothing out here holds the licence that requires it, so the session leaves no running total at all.
- Can a phone speed the reels up?
- Not at a licensed site. A customer may not be given any way of bringing the result forward, which removes turbo, quick spin and slam stop, and autoplay is barred because the system has to take a separate commitment to each cycle. One supplier agreed a sum of £122,835 on 25 June 2026 over sixteen titles that cycled quicker than the floor allows.
- Do these cashiers count a live table towards the wagering?
- No. Slots are the qualifying games on most of them, and the rest name slots too while recording that a list of qualifying titles is not the same in every country. Nothing else on the app shifts the obligation at all, so the whole £800 goes through reels.
- Why print a British figure beside an offshore offer?
- Because it prices what the missing licence is worth. The same £20 credit at ten, the British ceiling since 19 January 2026, asks £200 of turnover, takes £8.00, leaves £12.00 standing and puts a kept pound at 67p. No cashier of this kind holds that licence, so the exclusion scheme does not close them, a complaint carries no eight week deadline, no independent adjudicator stands behind them, and nothing here can be enforced against their terms.