888 Casino casino review
888 Casino holds a licence from the UK Gambling Commission, a top-tier regulator, and scores 8.1 out of 10 for trust against other casinos licensed by top-tier regulators. Its fastest withdrawal is 3 days via PayPal, measured end to end from the withdrawal request to money in hand — not the operator's processing window alone. The minimum deposit is £10 (≈$12.7 at our 2026-07-16 rate). Regulators have taken 5 published actions against 888 Casino or its predecessors, which we count against the score, and we are still checking the remaining regulators in its markets.
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The record
- Licence
- UK Gambling Commission (888 UK Limited, account 39028 - Remote Casino, active from 1 Nov 2014); Malta Gaming Authority (Virtual Digital Services Limited, MGA/CRP/121/2006, 888casino.com among authorised URLs); Gibraltar Licensing Authority (888 Holdings plc / Cassava Enterprises (Gibraltar) Limited, Gaming RGL No. 022)
- Owner
- Established
- 1997 (domain registered 25.1 years ago)
- Minimum deposit
- £10 (≈$12.7 at our 2026-07-16 rate)
How long the money actually takes
These are end-to-end times: from the moment you request a withdrawal to the moment it is spendable, including the operator's own review window. They are not the "instant" figure a cashier screen shows.
| Method | Time to your hands |
|---|---|
| PayPal fastest | 3 days |
| Trustly | 3 days |
| Visa | 5 days |
| Mastercard | 5 days |
| Apple Pay | 5 days |
| Bank Transfer | 5 business days |
The welcome offer
We show this because you will be offered it. It is not part of any score on this site: a large bonus tells you what a casino spends on acquiring you, not how it treats you afterwards. What these terms actually cost, measured across every offer we hold.
UK: 100% deposit match up to £100 on first deposit (10x wagering, £100 winnings cap)
- Market
- gb. Terms differ by market; this offer is not available everywhere
- Wagering
- 10 on bonus
- Maximum cashout
- £100
What regulators have done about 888 Casino
These are the actions we have found so far. We have not yet finished checking every regulator in this brand's markets, so treat this as a partial record. There may be more. Its trust score reflects what is listed here.
| Date | Regulator | Against | Amount | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | 888 UK Limited | GBP 86,843 | Per the UKGC regulatory sanctions register (decision date 18 November 2025), following an investigation into a key event submission by 888 UK Limited, the Commission found the licensee breached Social Responsibility Code Provision 3.5.3 - Self-exclusion, paragraph 3 (remote) - and imposed an £86,843 financial penalty under section 121(1) of the Act. The register notes the failure was due to human error, did not affect the controls preventing self-excluded customers from logging in or gambling, and that the licensee self-identified, reported and remediated the issue. Recorded as DIRECT: 888 UK Limited is the operating licensee for 888 Casino in GB. source |
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | 888 UK Limited | GBP 33,075 | Per the UKGC regulatory sanctions register (decision date 7 August 2025), following an investigation into a key event submission by 888 UK Limited outside a licence review, the Commission found the licensee failed to comply with paragraph 3 of SRCP Condition 3.9.1 - Identification of individual customers (remote) - which requires companies to treat customers holding accounts across group companies as multiple-account holders. The Commission imposed a £33,075 financial penalty under section 121(1) of the Act. The register notes the licensee self-identified and proactively reported the breach and co-operated. Recorded as DIRECT. source |
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | 888 UK Limited | GBP 23,000 | Per the UKGC regulatory sanctions register (decision date 19 August 2024), following an investigation into a key event submission by 888 UK Limited (trading as 888), the Commission found the licensee breached licence condition 6.1.2 - Use of Credit Cards - and imposed a £23,000 financial penalty under section 121(1) of the Gambling Act 2005. The register notes the licensee self-identified and proactively reported the breach, took immediate remedial action, and co-operated throughout. Recorded as DIRECT: 888 UK Limited is the operating licensee for 888 Casino in GB. source |
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | 888 UK Limited | GBP 9,400,000 | The Gambling Commission announced on 1 March 2022 that 888 UK Limited (account 39028, licensee for 888 Casino in GB) would pay a £9.4m fine after an investigation revealed social responsibility and anti-money-laundering failings, and issued an official warning plus a requirement for extensive independent auditing. Social responsibility failures included carrying out financial checks only after a customer had deposited £40,000, not intervening with a customer who lost £37,000 in six weeks, and giving an NHS worker earning £1,400/month a £1,300 monthly deposit cap. AML failures included allowing customers to deposit £40,000 before source-of-funds checks, accepting verbal income assurances, and letting one customer spend £65,835 in five months without SOF checks. This was 888 UK Limited's second UKGC enforcement action after the 2017 penalty. Recorded as DIRECT. source |
| (exact) | UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) | 888 UK Limited | GBP 7,800,000 | The Gambling Commission announced on 31 August 2017 that 888 UK Limited - the UKGC licensee (account 39028) operating 888 Casino in Great Britain - would pay a record penalty package of over £7.8m for serious failings in handling vulnerable customers. Due to a technical failure, over 7,000 customers who had self-excluded from the casino/poker/sport platform could still access their bingo accounts, depositing £3.5m and gambling for over 13 months. 888 also failed to recognise problem-gambling behaviour by a customer who staked over £1.3m, including £55k stolen from an employer. The package comprised repayment of £3.5m of self-excluded customer deposits, £62k compensation to the defrauded employer, and £4.25m to socially responsible causes, plus an ordered independent audit. Recorded as DIRECT: 888 UK Limited is the operating licensee for 888 Casino in GB. source |
Actions against a sister brand or a wider group are listed for context but do not affect this brand's score. Only actions against the brand itself or the company it grew out of do.
Where each of these facts came from
Every claim above is tied to the document we read it in. If a fact has no source here, it is not on this page — we drop unsourced data rather than publish it.
| Fact | Source | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| bonus headline | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| bonus market | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| countries allowed | en.wikipedia.org | 2026-07-17 |
| domain age years | www.whois.com | 2026-07-17 |
| established year | www.evokeplc.com | 2026-07-17 |
| established year | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| game providers | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| license authority | authorisation.mga.org.mt | 2026-07-17 |
| license authority | www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk | 2026-07-17 |
| license authority | www.gibraltar.gov.gi | 2026-07-17 |
| license status | authorisation.mga.org.mt | 2026-07-17 |
| license status | www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk | 2026-07-17 |
| max cashout | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| min deposit | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| owner company | en.wikipedia.org | 2026-07-17 |
| owner company | www.evokeplc.com | 2026-07-17 |
| payment methods | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| payout hours by method | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| wagering | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
| wagering scope | www.racingpost.com | 2026-07-17 |
Questions people ask about 888 Casino
Is 888 Casino licensed, and by which regulator?
888 Casino is licensed by UK Gambling Commission. The licence was active when we checked the regulator’s own public register on 18 July 2026. You can check it yourself in the register entry we used.
Who owns 888 Casino?
888 Casino is owned through evoke plc (ultimate parent), listed on LSE: EVOK. Ownership of these companies changes by takeover faster than most registers update, so we date it: this is the structure we recorded on 18 July 2026. Source: the filing we read.
Which other casinos share an owner with 888 Casino?
888 Casino shares a corporate owner with 1 other casino we have mapped: William Hill. This matters more than a trivia answer: a regulator’s finding against one brand in a group tells you something about the company running all of them, and a self-exclusion you set at one brand does not automatically stop at that brand.
Has 888 Casino been fined by a gambling regulator?
Yes. We have recorded 5 published enforcement actions against 888 Casino or the company it operates under. The most recent was by UK Gambling Commission on 18 November 2025, a GBP 86,843 penalty. Read the regulator’s published decision. Every action we hold is listed with its date, amount and source further up this page.
How long does a withdrawal from 888 Casino actually take?
The fastest route we recorded is PayPal at 3 days. The slowest is Bank Transfer at 5 business days. These are end-to-end times: from requesting the money to it being spendable, including the operator’s own review window. They are not the “instant” figure a cashier screen shows, which times only the last step. Source: the operator’s published terms.
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