Gamstop

Self-exclusion is a one-way door. Sign up to GamStop and every UK-licensed operator locks you out – that is the entire design. So players who never asked to be excluded, or who registered years ago and want back in, go hunting for non gamstop casinos: offshore-licensed sites that accept British players and answer to nobody

Self-exclusion is meant to be a wall. You sign up to the national scheme, pick a period, and the doors close behind you. Then you discover the wall has a gap in it – non gamstop casinos sit outside that system entirely, licensed abroad, happy to take your registration while the UK programme still has