Nothing here is licensed any more – checked on 15 August 2026
BC.Game had 23 sister sites in Britain: Stake, Fun88, SBOTOP, 12Bet, SportPesa, Duelbits, Sportsbet.io, BK8, TLCBet, BetVision, Bob88, Kaiyun, Nova88, 8XBet, 6686 Sports and eight more addresses. All 23 stopped being lawful here on 15 May 2025, when TGP Europe Limited handed back the licence every one of them was using. None has been licensed in Britain since.
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Stake and Sportsbet.io sat on the same account and are deliberately not carded, because both names are too common in the business search to give a clean answer, and a vague answer is worse than none. What can be checked has been: the stake.uk.com address no longer resolves at all. The remaining names on the account are BetVision, Bob88, BJ88, Kaiyun, Nova88, 8XBet, 6686 Sports, De-Bet, Fun78, 138, BK8 across two addresses, and uk-wl.co.uk, which is not a casino but the generic address of the arrangement itself.
A licence given back rather than fought
Licence 038898-R-319391-020 belonged to TGP Europe Limited, a company filing its office at Castle Street in Douglas, on the Isle of Man. It carried four permissions and all four end on one day, 15 May 2025: casino and betting on real events, both running from 1 November 2014; betting on virtual events from that same date; and gambling software from 25 February 2015. Every one of them now reads Surrendered. Surrendered is not the same as revoked. It means the holder gave the permission up rather than the Commission taking it away, and the published statement dated 16 May 2025 gives the reason plainly enough: a £3.3 million penalty had been put to the company over failures to check its business partners properly and over anti money laundering controls, and it chose to leave the British market instead of paying. To a player the distinction makes no practical difference. Either way, nothing on that account may lawfully take money from Britain now.
What was on the account, and what it never had
The account lists 24 web addresses. The summary heading above them says 25. That mismatch is not unique to TGP and nothing on the page explains it, so both figures are printed here and the discrepancy is left visible rather than tidied away. All 24 are marked Inactive. What the account never had is just as telling: no trading names at all, and no premises. TGP Europe ran no casino of its own. It rented its British permission to other firms, and that account is what made their websites lawful here. One of the 24 addresses is uk-wl.co.uk, which is not a gambling brand but the generic address of the arrangement itself. All four permissions say Remote, which is the word for gambling supplied over the internet, there to mark the licence out from one issued for a physical venue. Account 38898 is simply the numbered file the Gambling Commission kept on the company, and those files stay published after a licence ends, which is why a dead account can still be read in full today.
The zero on this account is the number to distrust
The enforcement counter against 38898 reads zero. That figure is accurate, and it is also the most misleading thing on the account, because a surrendered licence carries nothing forward: the counter tallies what is live against a current permission, and there is no current permission left to hang anything on. The £3.3 million is neither invented nor buried. It sits in the Commission published statement dated 16 May 2025, the day after the surrender took effect, and that statement was followed by a warning aimed at football clubs whose shirt sponsors had just lost lawful access to British customers. Read the counter on its own and nothing appears to have happened here. Read the statement and something plainly did. This is the single best reason not to treat a zero on an account summary as a verdict about a company.
Seven names searched, and the same dead account each time
The business search on the Gambling Commission site accepts a brand name as readily as a company name, and running the names from this account through it on 15 August 2026 gave a consistent answer. BC.Game, Fun88, SBOTOP, SportPesa, TLCBet, 12Bet and Duelbits each returned exactly one result, and in every case that result was account 38898, the surrendered one. No second account, no new licensee, no quiet move onto another British permission. On other closed accounts covered by this site a second result is usually the story, because it means the brand carried on somewhere else under a different licence holder. Here there is no second result to find. Two addresses have gone further and stopped resolving altogether, bcgame.uk and stake.uk.com among them. The fun88.co.uk address does still point at a server, which is a different thing from being lawful here.
The offshore site is a different proposition
The international BC.Game site carries on under arrangements made elsewhere, and that is exactly the difficulty for anyone reading this in Britain. A site being reachable and a site being licensed are two separate questions, and only the second carries anything a player can lean on. With no British licence there is no Commission oversight of how the games are run, no GamStop cover for anyone who has self excluded, no free dispute service to take a stalled withdrawal to, and none of the protection British rules give against unfair terms. Money deposited is not covered by any scheme here. That is the trade, set out plainly, and it is worth reading twice before an account is opened on that basis.
Where to bet with British protection
No licensed British operator offers the crypto led format BC.Game built its name on, so there is no like for like swap to point at, and pretending otherwise would help nobody. What there is instead is the ordinary licensed market, where every protection listed above does apply. 10Bet holds a single brand licence of its own. Coral sits inside the Entain group, with the scale and the complaint routes that brings. BetVictor is the odds first option of the three. Each of those pages sets out its licence position the same way this one does.