What the VPN clause lets a casino do to you
The same clause read in all 24 binding contracts on 2026-09-22. This is a page about the terms, not about the tool. It does not tell you how to reach a site that has blocked your country, and the reason it does not is on the page.
24 operators20 documents read11 prohibit the tool12 claim the moneycollected 2026-09-22
The answer that matters is not whether it works. It is what the contract you accepted says happens when it is noticed. In 12 of these 24 contracts, the stated answer includes keeping your money, and in 10 of them that decision is written as a discretion, which means it is taken after the fact, by the party holding the balance, with no standard you can hold them to.
A geo-block is usually there because the operator is not licensed to serve that country. Getting past it does not make you a customer with rights in that country. It makes you a person with a balance in an account the operator can close, in a jurisdiction whose regulator has no reason to hear from you. There is no complaint you can bring afterwards that does not begin by admitting the breach.
The four figures
20 of the 24 documents could be retrieved and read. BC.GAME, Roobet, Duelbits and Coins.game could not, and are counted in no figure above.
Half of them ban the tool rather than the conduct
Stake, Shuffle, Winz.io, Flush, Gamdom, Sportsbet.io, Rollbit, Bitcasino, mBit, Bets.io and Lucky Block prohibit VPNs, proxies or location masking in their binding terms. That is 11 of 24, and 11 of the 20 documents we could actually read.
The drafting matters more than the count. Winz clause 2.5 and Flush clause 3.4 are the same sentence bar a comma: You may not use a VPN, proxy or similar services or devices that mask or manipulate the identification of your real location.
Neither says anything about where the player is. On the face of those two contracts, a player sitting in a country the operator serves, running a VPN for the reason most people run one, is in breach. Whether an operator would ever act on that is a different question from what it has written down that it may do, and only the second one is knowable in advance.
Only 8 of 24 draw the distinction at all. Stake’s clause 14.4 bites only on an attempt made with the intent to circumvent geo-blocking or jurisdiction restrictions
. Gamdom’s is limited to tools used to bypass geographical restrictions
. Sportsbet.io never uses the words VPN or proxy and instead covers any third party software to access our sites from Restricted Jurisdictions
. Thunderpick goes further than any of them, and gets its own section below.
The harshest clause on the register
Cloudbet never names a VPN, a proxy or Tor anywhere in its terms. What it punishes is the result, and the remedy at clause 11.4 is the widest of the 24. In full:
Further, Cloudbet reserves the right to close your account and confiscate the remaining balance of your account without further explanation if you have circumvented our terms and conditions by betting from a prohibited jurisdiction.
Read what it does not contain. There is no distinction between your deposit and your winnings: it is the remaining balance, all of it. There is no notice period. There is no stated process. And the phrase without further explanation
is not an omission, it is a term: the right to give no reasons has been written into the contract as a right. Clause 10.28 separately forbids any conduct that is designed to circumvent, undermine, or exploit Cloudbet’s systems, limits, policies, or terms
, and clause 10.29 lets Cloudbet void bets, close accounts and forfeit balances on reasonable suspicion of breaching it.
Because no tool is named, a player cannot tell from the document whether a privacy VPN used from a country Cloudbet serves is caught. That ambiguity sits in the operator’s favour and it costs nothing to leave there.
Four contracts say nothing, and three of those products say plenty
Cloudbet, BetFury, Wild.io and Rakebit have no VPN, proxy or Tor clause anywhere in their terms. Their full documents were retrieved and searched for VPN, proxy, Tor, anonymise, mask, conceal, spoof and falsify. BetFury’s Restricted use section lists nine prohibited uses and none concerns location. Wild.io’s twenty sections contain no masking prohibition of any kind. Rakebit’s single use of the word proxy is multiple account strategy/proxy account strategy
in its bonus abuse list, which is about accounts and not connections.
Silence is not permission, and this is the contradiction the sweep exists to surface. Three of those four operators address VPNs in their own product interface while their contracts say nothing. Wild.io’s own interface strings, served on the same page load as the terms we read, tell a blocked player:
Unfortunately this game is not available in your region. If you are currently traveling, for your online safety, you can use a VPN.
Rakebit’s geo-block modal is blunter:
If you are using VPN try to turn it off or change configuration.
The third of the three we noted in the product but did not capture in a form we can quote exactly, so it is not quoted here and not named. That is a limit of our record on one date, not a finding that only two do it.
An interface string is not a term. It does not bind the operator, it is not part of the contract, and it can be changed between page loads without a version history. So a player who takes the product’s advice is relying on something the company can deny having said, while the enforceable part of the relationship stays silent on the subject. Wild.io’s terms do contain a consequence, and it is the money: Wild.io cannot guarantee successful processing of withdrawals or refunds in the event that a player breaches this Restricted Countries policy.
A refusal to guarantee payment is not a claim on your balance, which makes Wild.io’s position milder than Cloudbet’s and less knowable than either.
Jackbit is a fifth case and belongs in neither group. Its terms reserve the power to carry out detection of geo-location and IP masking
without ever prohibiting either, and attach no consequence to detecting them. It has taken the surveillance and skipped the rule.
The honest outlier
Thunderpick is the only operator of the 24 whose terms expressly permit the tool. 8 separate the tool from the conduct, and this is the one that does it by saying plainly that the tool is allowed rather than by drafting around it. Clause 3.1:
We take measures to identify a player's location and we block customers from wagering from certain jurisdictions. We allow the use of VPNs to help secure your connection. However, please note that using a VPN may affect the performance, availability, or functionality of certain features. Connections from all non-restricted locations can access Thunderpick normally without the need for a VPN.
It should be said plainly that this is the right way to draft it, and that it is not a soft clause. Circumvention is still punished at clause 3.2, and punished in mandatory terms rather than reserved ones: Any attempt on your part to circumvent these restrictions by any means will result in your accounts closure and any balance considered forfeit.
The same clause offers an honest traveller a route out that nobody else on the register offers, which is to tell them in advance and have the balance returned.
That combination is what good drafting looks like here: a permitted tool, a prohibited act, a stated consequence and a declared way to stay inside the rules. A player reading it knows where they stand before anything happens, which is the whole point of writing a contract down. We have a commercial relationship with Thunderpick, disclosed at the foot of this page, and the clause reads the same either way because it is quoted in full with its source.
Reserved, or stated
10 of 24 write the remedy as something they may do rather than something that happens: we may
, reserves the right
, at our discretion
. The ceiling under a discretion is high. Shuffle’s clause 6.2 lists fifteen things it may do on a breach, including voiding wagers, forfeiting bonuses and winnings, and deduct our reasonable administrative costs from the remaining balance before any return of funds
. Flush may cancel and/or void any of your bets and withhold any money in your account (including the deposit)
.
Two operators state the consequence instead of reserving it, and that cuts both ways. Sportsbet.io clause 3.3 says winnings will be confiscated
while the deposited balance is returned. Thunderpick says a circumventing account’s balance is forfeit. Both are harsher on their face than a discretion and better for the reader, because a stated consequence is knowable before you act and a discretion is only knowable afterwards.
Gamdom has the mildest remedy of the operators that prohibit the tool at all. It contemplates restricting an account during a review, closing it in serious or repeated cases, and In some circumstances, your remaining deposit balance may be returned to you, subject to KYC.
It does not claim the balance outright, which on this register is unusual enough to record.
The clause in all 24 contracts
| Operator | Prohibits | Stated consequence | Discretionary | Privacy separated from evasion | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bets.io | Yes | account closed, withdrawal refused, balance forfeited, deposit forfeited | Yes | Yes | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| Bitcasino | Yes | account closed, balance forfeited, withdrawal refused | No | Yes | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| Flush | Yes | account closed, bets voided, balance forfeited, deposit forfeited, withdrawal refused | Yes | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Gamdom | Yes | account closed, withdrawal refused | Yes | Yes | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Lucky Block | Yes | account closed, bets voided, balance forfeited, deposit forfeited | Yes | No | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| mBit | Yes | account closed, balance forfeited | Yes | Yes | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| Rollbit | Yes | account closed, bets voided, balance forfeited | Yes | Yes | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| Shuffle | Yes | account closed, bets voided, balance forfeited, withdrawal refused | Yes | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Sportsbet.io | Yes | account closed, balance forfeited, withdrawal refused | No | Yes | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Stake | Yes | account closed, bets voided, balance forfeited | Yes | Yes | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Winz.io | Yes | account closed, withdrawal refused, deposit forfeited | Yes | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| FortuneJack | No | none stated in the terms | No | No | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| Jackbit | No | none stated in the terms | No | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Metaspins | No | none stated in the terms | No | No | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| Thunderpick | No | account closed, balance forfeited | No | Yes | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Vave | No | withdrawal refused | No | No | terms read 2026-10-02 |
| BetFury | No | none stated in the terms | No | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Cloudbet | No | account closed, balance forfeited, bets voided | Yes | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Rakebit | No | none stated in the terms | No | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| Wild.io | No | withdrawal refused | No | No | terms read 2026-09-22 |
| BC.GAME | not retrieved | document not retrieved | not retrieved | not retrieved | terms read |
| Coins.game | not retrieved | document not retrieved | not retrieved | not retrieved | terms read |
| Duelbits | not retrieved | document not retrieved | not retrieved | not retrieved | terms read |
| Roobet | not retrieved | document not retrieved | not retrieved | not retrieved | terms read |
Every clause, verbatim
| Operator | The clause, as written |
|---|---|
| Bets.io | “We cannot guarantee that any returns, deposits, winnings, or bonuses, which residents of the countries restricted hereunder have gained or accrued using any means of encrypted connections over the Internet with the purpose to falsify their geolocation, would not be forfeited and may not be reclaimed by us on demand. Such actions on the part of the Players will be regarded as a violation of these Terms and Conditions and we reserve the right not to open, suspend, close your account, withhold payment of your winnings and apply such funds on account of any damages caused by you.”Clause 8.2. The words VPN and proxy do not appear; the clause names "encrypted connections" used "with the purpose to falsify their geolocation", and only for residents of the restricted countries in clause 2.6. Deposits are named among the amounts that may be forfeited, and withheld winnings may be applied "on account of any damages". Every remedy is a reserved right. Clause 2.8 adds that the casino "cannot guarantee successful processing of withdrawals or refunds" for a player who breaches the restricted-countries policy. |
| Bitcasino | “By registering an account with us and using the Website you confirm that you're not located in or from a Restricted Jurisdiction and are not using any third party software to access our sites from Restricted Jurisdictions.”Clause 3.2, word for word the Sportsbet.io clause; the two share a corporate group. The words VPN and proxy do not appear; the prohibition is on 'any third party software' used to reach the site from a Restricted Jurisdiction. Clause 3.3 sets the consequence in the indicative: 'your account may be closed by us immediately; any winnings and rewards will be confiscated and remaining balance returned (subject to reasonable charges)', and the player must return on demand any such funds already withdrawn. Clause 2.1.18 reserves 'detection of geo-location and IP masking'. Read from a search-index copy of the terms dated 26 June 2025, because bitcasino.io served a bot check to our browser. |
| Flush | “You may not use a VPN, proxy, or similar services or devices that mask or manipulate the identification of your real location.”Clause 3.4, word for word the Winz clause bar one comma. The consequences are spread across three clauses: 4.1.3, 'We reserve the right to close or cancel an account if there is an attempt to access our services from any of the restricted jurisdictions'; 6.3, 'If we close or suspend your Account due to you not complying with these Terms, we may cancel and/or void any of your bets and withhold any money in your account (including the deposit)'; and 9.7, 'we cannot guarantee successful processing of withdrawals or refunds if you breach the restricted use policy stated in Clauses 3.3 and 4'. |
| Gamdom | “If you attempt to access our services from any of these jurisdictions, including by using false information, VPNs, proxies, or similar tools, your Account may be restricted.”Clause 3.4 (Jurisdiction). The prohibited-conduct list in section 10 repeats it as 'Accessing the Website using VPNs, proxies, or other masking tools to bypass geographical restrictions.' Both formulations are tied to bypassing a geographical restriction rather than to VPN use as such. The stated remedy is the mildest of the operators that prohibit the tool at all: 'Depending on the nature of the issue, at our discretion, we may temporarily restrict access to your Account while we conduct our review. In the event of serious or repeated cases, we may close your Account. Where relevant, we may adjust or remove bonuses or promotional credits, review winnings linked to non-compliant activity, or delay withdrawals until the matter is resolved. In some circumstances, your remaining deposit balance may be returned to you, subject to KYC.' Gamdom contemplates returning the deposit; it does not claim the balance outright. |
| Lucky Block | “You may not use a VPN, proxy or similar services or devices that mask or manipulate the identification of your real location.”Clause 3.4, a flat ban on the tool with no reference to any country block, word for word the Winz and Flush clause. The remedy is clause 6.3: "If we close or suspend your Account due to you not complying with these Terms, we may cancel and/or void any of your bets and withhold any money in your account (including the deposit)." Clause 9.7 adds that withdrawals cannot be guaranteed after a breach of clauses 3.3 and 4. The site's own geoblock screen asks visitors using "any IP-masking services" to turn them off. |
| mBit | “IF YOU USE A VPN OR TAKE ANY OTHER ACTION TO MASK YOUR TRUE LOCATION TO ACTIVELY CIRCUMVENT ANY OF OUR GEOGRAPHICAL RESTRICTIONS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT AND CANCEL ANY OF YOUR WINNINGS.”Clause 2.3, printed in capitals in the terms. The prohibition is qualified by purpose: it bites on a VPN used "to actively circumvent" the geographical restrictions, so a VPN used for privacy from a permitted country is not caught by its wording. The remedy is a reserved right to close the account and cancel winnings; the deposit is not named. Clause 2.6.1 adds a second, game-level rule: "Using VPN to bypass provider’s block is strictly prohibited and may lead to confiscation of winnings." |
| Rollbit | “The attempt to manipulate Your real location through the use of VPN, proxy, or similar services or through the provision of incorrect or misleading information about Your place of residence, with the intent to circumvent geo-blocking or jurisdiction restrictions, constitutes a breach of this Agreement.”Prohibited Uses clause, drafted like Stake's, with the same intent qualifier: the breach is an attempt made 'with the intent to circumvent geo-blocking or jurisdiction restrictions'. The remedy runs through the suspension clause, which allows closure where the player is 'in breach of these Terms', and its follow-on: 'we shall also be entitled to void any bets placed by You following such actions by You or to withhold and/or retain any and all amounts which would otherwise have been paid or payable to You (including any winnings)'. Both remedies are entitlements the operator may use, not automatic consequences, so whether they are applied is at its discretion. The terms also reserve 'detection of geo-location and IP masking'. rollbit.com served a bot check to our browser, so the clause was read from a search-index copy of the terms, dated 31 January 2025. |
| Shuffle | “Any attempt to conceal your true location through the use of a VPN, proxy, or similar service or through the provision of incorrect or misleading information about your place of residence or location will constitute a breach of these Terms of Service.”Clause 8.4. Unlike Stake's near-identical drafting, Shuffle attaches no intent qualifier: concealment of location by VPN is itself the breach, whatever the country. Remedies are clause 3.6, 'We may suspend or close your Shuffle Account, void or cancel wagers, withhold or forfeit balances, cancel winnings or bonuses, and report the matter to a relevant authority, where we reasonably consider that you have breached these Terms of Service', and the fifteen-item menu at clause 6.2, which includes 'void or cancel any wager or bet', 'forfeit any bonus or winnings' and 'deduct our reasonable administrative costs from the remaining balance before any return of funds'. |
| Sportsbet.io | “By registering an account with us and using the Website you confirm that you're not located in or from a Restricted Jurisdiction and are not using any third party software to access our sites from Restricted Jurisdictions.”Clause 3.2. The terms never use the words VPN or proxy; the prohibition is on 'any third party software' used to reach the site from a Restricted Jurisdiction, so it is framed around evasion rather than around the tool. Clause 3.3 sets the consequence in the indicative, not as a reserved discretion: 'If you are located in or from a Restricted jurisdiction and you open or use the Website: your account may be closed by us immediately; any winnings and rewards will be confiscated and remaining balance returned (subject to reasonable charges), and any returns, winnings or rewards which you have gained or accrued will be forfeited by you and may be reclaimed by us; and you will return to us on demand any such funds which have been withdrawn'. Closure is discretionary; confiscation of winnings is not. The deposited balance is returned. Clause 2.1.18 separately reserves the right to detect 'geo-location and IP masking'. |
| Stake | “The attempt to manipulate your real location through the use of VPN, proxy, or similar services or through the provision of incorrect or misleading information about your place of residence, with the intent to circumvent geo-blocking or jurisdiction restrictions, constitutes a breach of Clause 5 of this Terms of Service.”Clause 14.4. The prohibition is qualified by intent: it bites only on an attempt made 'with the intent to circumvent geo-blocking or jurisdiction restrictions', so a VPN used for ordinary privacy from a permitted country is not caught by its own terms. The remedy runs through clause 5.2, 'Stake reserves the right to close or suspend Your Stake account at its own discretion and void any bets to the extent applicable by law', and clause 4.21, which entitles Stake 'to void any bets placed by You following such actions by You or to withhold and/or retain any and all amounts which would otherwise have been paid or payable to you (including any winnings) to the extent permitted by law'. A first attempt to fetch this page from a French exit address returned the ANJ regulator's block notice rather than the terms; the document was retrieved on a second attempt. |
| Winz.io | “You may not use a VPN, proxy or similar services or devices that mask or manipulate the identification of your real location.”Clause 2.5, a flat ban on the tool with no reference to any country block. It sits in the same warranty list as the restricted-countries clause 2.14, which adds 'Players violating this policy are not entitled to refunds or withdrawals', and clause 2.16, 'The Casino reserves the right to refuse or reverse withdrawals and/or close accounts if these limitations are breached'. Winz therefore reserves the right to keep the deposit as well as the winnings. |
| FortuneJack | “We may gather information with regard to other software which is running simultaneously with the Software for detecting if you are using software which is associated with fraudulent activity (e.g. robots, malware, AI, etc.) or checking if the connection you are using is via a VPN or proxy.”Privacy policy clause 2.3, which the policy says forms part of the terms. The terms themselves, dated 8 August 2025, were searched and do not use the words VPN or proxy; clause 16.1 lists prohibited territories with no stated consequence for breaching it. FortuneJack detects VPNs but attaches no penalty to them. Its own homepage geoblock banner, read in a search-index copy, says 'Country Restricted! Currently travelling? For your online safety you can use VPN', so the product invites the conduct the privacy policy says it monitors. Recorded as non-discretionary because no remedy is stated for a discretion to attach to. |
| Jackbit | “You accept and acknowledge that we reserve the right to detect and prevent the use of prohibited techniques, including but not limited to fraudulent transaction detection, automated registration and signup, gameplay and screen capture techniques. These steps may include, but are not limited to, examination of Players device properties, detection of geo-location and IP masking, transactions and blockchain analysis”Jackbit reserves the right to detect IP masking but never prohibits it. The words VPN and proxy do not appear in the terms. The quoted sentence is the only reference to location masking in the document; it asserts a detection power without creating an obligation the player can breach, and no consequence is attached to detection. The nearest penalty provision concerns data rather than location: 'In case You provide false and/or incomplete Personal Data, the withdrawal can be refused and/or the Player Account terminated'. Requested at https://jack.com/legal/terms, which redirects to the /en/ path recorded here. Recorded as non-discretionary because no remedy is stated at all: there is no reserved right to close, void or confiscate tied to location masking, so there is nothing for a discretion to attach to. |
| Metaspins | No clause recorded. See the note below.metaspins.com served a Cloudflare security check to a desktop headless browser, so the terms were read through a third-party page fetcher, which reported that the words VPN, proxy, mask, conceal and location do not appear in the document. The restricted-countries clause 3.7 is a warranty with no stated consequence for breaching it; clause 3.3 allows access to be limited or an account suspended for players who fail the age and territory requirements. No VPN-specific penalty is stated. Because the fetcher's output could not be compared with the served page, this record should be re-read when the page can be fetched directly. |
| Thunderpick | “We take measures to identify a player's location and we block customers from wagering from certain jurisdictions. We allow the use of VPNs to help secure your connection. However, please note that using a VPN may affect the performance, availability, or functionality of certain features. Connections from all non-restricted locations can access Thunderpick normally without the need for a VPN.”The only operator of the fourteen that expressly permits VPN use, at clause 3.1, and the only one that separates the tool from the conduct on the face of its terms. Circumvention is still punished, at clause 3.2, in mandatory terms: 'Any account accessed from a restricted state will have all access rights revoked and any balance contained in the account may be considered void ... Any attempt on your part to circumvent these restrictions by any means will result in your accounts closure and any balance considered forfeit.' The same clause offers a route out for an honest traveller: 'You are required to notify us immediately should you intend to relocate to or visit a restricted state, your account will then be placed on a temporary hold or permanently closed dependent on the circumstance with any balance available being returned to you.' The previously recorded URL https://thunderpick.io/en/terms now returns a 404; the legal terms have moved to /content/legal. |
| Vave | “Using VPN is not restricted, however, it may lead to malfunction of games or connection issues. The client is solely responsible in the event that the VPN connection can lead to loss of money or misallocation of bets.”Clause 6.3, one of two operators on the register whose terms expressly permit VPN use, alongside Thunderpick. Unlike Thunderpick, Vave says nothing about circumvention: the only location penalty is in the restricted-countries clause 3.6, 'The Casino cannot guarantee successful processing of withdrawals or refunds if the player breaches this Restricted Countries policy', the same wording as Wild.io. The geoblock page vave.com served our browser from the United States tells visitors 'If you're on vacation, don't worry - you're just a few seconds away from getting access' and 'Using a VPN? Switch to a server in a supported country and reload the page.' The Netherlands Gambling Authority fined the operator in June 2026 after finding the site open to Dutch players despite the Netherlands being on that list. Read from a search-index copy of the terms, because vave.com served our browser its geoblock page. |
| BetFury | No clause recorded. See the note below.The full terms were retrieved and searched. The words VPN, proxy, Tor, anonymise, mask, conceal, spoof and falsify do not appear anywhere in the document. Section 4, Restricted use, lists nine prohibited uses and none concerns location. The restricted-jurisdiction provision at clause 3.3 is a bare warranty, 'By using the Website you confirm you are not a resident in a Restricted Jurisdiction', with no stated consequence for breaching it and no reference to any tool. BetFury's general breach clause 25.1 allows suspension or termination for breach of 'any material term', and clause 6.3 allows it to 'cancel and/or void any of your bets and withhold any money in your account (including the deposit)' where an account is closed for non-compliance, but neither is tied to location or to any masking tool. No VPN-specific penalty is stated. |
| Cloudbet | “Further, Cloudbet reserves the right to close your account and confiscate the remaining balance of your account without further explanation if you have circumvented our terms and conditions by betting from a prohibited jurisdiction.”The words VPN, proxy and Tor appear nowhere in Cloudbet's terms; prohibited is recorded as false on that basis. What the terms punish is the result, betting from a prohibited jurisdiction, and the remedy at clause 11.4 is the harshest in the register: confiscation of the whole remaining balance, with no distinction between winnings and deposits, and with 'without further explanation' written into the clause. Clause 10.28 separately forbids 'any conduct that is designed to circumvent, undermine, or exploit Cloudbet's systems, limits, policies, or terms', and clause 10.29 allows Cloudbet to 'void all related bets, suspend or permanently close any affected accounts, forfeit balances' on reasonable suspicion of a breach of it. Because no tool is named, a player cannot tell from the document whether a privacy VPN used from a permitted country is caught. |
| Rakebit | “The User guarantees at all times not to be a resident or citizen of countries including, but not limited to Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and its dependencies and territories, Yemen (“Prohibited countries”). Players from the following countries are not eligible to use the Website and play its games. Rakebit will make all reasonable efforts to prevent players from these countries from reaching the games.”No VPN, proxy or location-masking prohibition appears in the terms. The single occurrence of the word proxy is 'multiple account strategy/proxy account strategy' in the bonus-abuse list, which concerns accounts rather than connections. The quoted residence warranty carries no stated penalty for its breach. The URL recorded in the register, https://rakebit.com/policy/terms/, now returns a 404, as does /policy/terms-and-conditions/; the terms have moved to /policy/terms-of-use/, which is also disallowed to crawlers in the site's robots directives. Rakebit's geo-block modal reads 'If you are using VPN try to turn it off or change configuration', so the operator addresses VPNs in its product but not in its contract. |
| Wild.io | “Wild.io cannot guarantee successful processing of withdrawals or refunds in the event that a player breaches this Restricted Countries policy.”The complete terms, twenty sections, were retrieved and searched. No VPN, proxy, Tor or location-masking prohibition exists anywhere in them. The restricted-countries provision at clause 2.6 says only that listed users 'are not allowed to deposit and play real money games', and the sentence quoted here is the whole of the stated consequence: a refusal to guarantee payment, not a claim on the balance. Worth recording against this: the operator's own interface strings, served on the same page load, tell a player 'Unfortunately this game is not available in your region. If you are currently traveling, for your online safety, you can use a VPN.' Wild.io's product invites the conduct that its terms neither permit nor forbid, which leaves the player with nothing binding to rely on either way. |
| BC.GAME | No clause recorded. See the note below.Could not be retrieved. The terms page is a single-page application that renders its twenty-one section headings but keeps every clause body inside collapsed accordions that are not present in the served document. Four attempts were made, including a stealth headful browser with an eighteen-second render wait; only the heading list and the body of section 1, Introduction, ever rendered. Sections 4 (Eligibility), 13 (Prohibited Conduct) and 15 (Account Restriction, Suspension and Termination) are where such a clause would sit and none of their text could be read. The URL in the register's source list, https://bc.game/terms, redirects to the homepage. No clause is recorded because none was read. No figure on any page counts this operator, because no clause was read. |
| Coins.game | No clause recorded. See the note below.Could not be retrieved. coins.game served a Cloudflare security check to a plain request and to a desktop headless browser on 2 October 2026, the terms page is rendered client-side, and the help centre at help.coins.game failed its TLS handshake. The check was not bypassed. No clause is recorded because none was read, and no figure on any page counts this operator. |
| Duelbits | No clause recorded. See the note below.Could not be retrieved. duelbits.com and its help centre served a Cloudflare bot check to our browser, and the search-index copy of the terms carried only the page shell. A third-party summary reports a clause 3.3 treating VPN or proxy use to reach the site from a prohibited jurisdiction as a material breach; it is not recorded because the clause itself was not read. No figure on any page counts this operator, because no clause was read. |
| Roobet | No clause recorded. See the note below.Could not be retrieved. Every attempt returned Roobet's own client-side failure page, 'You've Encountered An Unexpected Error. We've got the wombats looking into the issue!', in place of the terms. Five attempts were made across the /fi/, /en/ and canonical paths, two browser tiers and two exit countries, with render waits up to twelve seconds. The page is a server-side-rendering-disabled single-page application behind a bot challenge and the clause text is never served. No clause is recorded because none was read. No figure on any page counts this operator, because no clause was read. |
Two documents could not be retrieved
- BC.GAME: the terms page renders its twenty-one section headings and holds every clause body in collapsed accordions that are never served. Four attempts, including a stealth headful browser with an eighteen-second render wait; only section 1 ever rendered. Eligibility, Prohibited Conduct and Account Restriction are exactly where such a clause would sit, and none of their text could be read.
- Roobet: every attempt returned Roobet’s own error page,
You’ve Encountered An Unexpected Error
, instead of the terms. Five attempts across three paths, two browser tiers and two exit countries.
Neither is recorded as prohibiting or permitting anything, and neither is counted in any figure on this page. A reader who wants to know where BC.GAME or Roobet stands on this cannot find out from their published terms, which is itself worth knowing before depositing: a contract you cannot read is a contract you have agreed to anyway.
What a country block is usually protecting
The consequences of getting past a geo-block are not only contractual, and this is the part the workaround guides leave out. In several of the markets these operators block, the block exists because the country runs a licensing regime with player protections attached to it, and one of those protections is a national self-exclusion register.
The United Kingdom has GAMSTOP, Sweden has Spelpaus, Denmark has ROFUS and Germany has OASIS. A person who has registered with one of them has asked every licensed operator in that country to refuse their business, and licensed operators must comply. An unlicensed offshore site is not connected to that register and cannot honour it. So reaching one from a country that blocks it removes the single protection the person may have deliberately put in place, at the moment it is most likely to matter, and does so silently.
If that describes you or someone you know, the practical options are on our responsible gambling page, including blocking software that works at the device level rather than the operator level.
What this page does not answer
We do not say which VPN to use, whether a particular operator detects one, or how to reach a site that has blocked your country. That is not squeamishness. Every operator here can close an account and most can keep what is in it, the person doing the reaching carries all of that risk alone, and a page that helped would be transferring the consequences to the reader while keeping the traffic.
We also do not establish what these operators do in practice, how often these clauses are enforced, or whether any of them would survive a consumer court in the reader’s country. Several of them probably would not, and that is no help to a player whose balance has already gone. What is on this page is what each operator has written down that it may do. Treat it as the floor of your exposure.
How this sweep was collected
Each operator’s binding terms were retrieved and read in full on 2026-09-22. Clauses are quoted from the operator’s own document, never from a secondary source, and the URL and retrieval date are printed against every row. Where a document could not be rendered, the operator is named as not retrieved and is excluded from the counts. Three source URLs already in the register no longer resolved and were corrected while collecting: Thunderpick’s terms have moved to /content/legal, Rakebit’s to /policy/terms-of-use/, and Jackbit’s /legal/terms now redirects to /en/legal/terms.