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🔄 Two build vintages, one address
👥 Three names on the file beside Hippozino
Same licensee for all four, and three quite different ideas of what a casino site should look like.
📱 An older template, a newer games platform
Hippozino uses the older of the two templates this operator applies to its partner sites. The menu runs Home, Promotions and Compliance across four sections of games, and the strapline across the front is four words long - the same four Dukes uses, minus the exclamation mark. Press join or log in and a much newer site takes over. play.hippozino.com is tabbed for casino and bingo, and that is where the games, the cashier and the promotions actually sit.
The join overlay asks for three things before anything else - an email address, a password and a mobile number - and the example number in the phone field is formatted for Las Vegas dialling rather than for the UK. Behind the overlay the games platform offers a single search box, which accepts either a game name or a supplier name. The full game catalogue sits behind that sign-up step; everything before it is advertising.
📌 Hippozino, as the paperwork has it
- hippozino.com - one line, marked White Label, on a table of 193
- Licensee: ProgressPlay Limited, head office at Limassol, Cyprus
- Site tabs: casino and bingo, the bingo permission dating from August 2024
- Front-end template: the older of the two the operation reuses
- Search the name and one licence comes back, with no namesake anywhere near it
- Trading name of its own: none, on a file that lists none for anybody
🔑 Where the hippo sits in the white-label block
Three states sort this file. Twenty addresses are Active, meaning the licensee trades them under its own name. A block of a hundred and more is White Label, where a partner supplies the sign and the front page while the permission and the money stay put. The rest, around sixty-nine lines, are Inactive, which is a filing state rather than a verdict. Hippozino belongs to the big middle block, and to the older-template cohort inside it - the same cohort that includes a run of shops whose names all begin with the same two letters and whose tabs open with identical wording save for the name itself.
Among the four names written up here, the hippo is the straightforward one. It is not dead like the Supa line, not doubled like the Dukes pair, and not dressed in a template of its own like Casino 77. If you want to know what an ordinary partner shop on this licence looks like from the outside, this is the one to look at. One more thing settles quickly: put the name into the public business search and a single licence answers. There is no second filing, no dormant twin and no sound-alike company to rule out first.
🏢 The footer that never changes
The footer drops the hippo branding entirely. The licence paragraph is the same text every site in this family carries, word for word: ProgressPlay Limited at a St Julians address in Malta, a Malta company number, a Malta Gaming Authority permission dated to April 2013, and then a single sentence naming the British licence the site trades under for players here. The public file in Britain sets the head office down at Limassol in Cyprus instead.
Both are recorded as read, each with its date, and neither is preferred over the other. The operator page carries both at length. As on the Dukes sites, the footer links out to the public file, so the licence claim can be checked without leaving the page.
⚠ Two announcements, one licence
Neither sanction names Hippozino, or any other single site. Both landed on the licence, and every site in this family runs on it.
The first came on 17 May 2022: £175,718, with the money going to the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms, arising from anti-money-laundering shortcomings and from failures to look after players properly. That announcement put 201 websites on the operation at the time. It has stayed in the news archive and never appeared on the licence file itself. No published document explains the difference. The second came on 9 May 2025 and was much larger: a £1,000,000 penalty under section 121 of the Gambling Act, a formal warning arriving with it under section 117(1)(a), and section 117(1)(b) producing a condition of its own: an outside auditor to go through the anti-money-laundering and player-protection policies inside six months. The failures reached the first three paragraphs of licence condition 12.1.1, condition 12.1.2 for companies run from outside Britain, and social responsibility code provision 3.4.3 at its paragraphs 1, 4, 9 and 12, the rules about stepping in with a player who needs it. Two Ordinary Code provisions were held to have been weighed too lightly. The conduct spanned August 2021 through to August 2024, and cooperation and corrective work were both recorded. On 12 August 2026 all three permissions on the licence still read Active.
🔎 What is worth double-checking
- ✅ Safe: reading the hippo branding as decoration. The cashier, the identity checks, the complaints route and self-exclusion are the same as at every other name on this licence.
- ❌ Costly: treating the older template as a sign of an older, smaller business. The template is a partner choice; what sits behind it is a licence with 190 addresses on it.
🔗 Reading on
The wider picture belongs on the operator page: how the twenty Active names differ from the hundred-odd partner ones, which addresses were never built for players in Britain at all, why the total at the top and the table below it disagree about how many there are, and the sanctions history written out in full.
See Hippozino on the casino sister sites index.