Betsoft Online Casinos in Australia: What the Marketing Hides

Updated September 2026

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The search for “best Betsoft online casinos” in Australia runs into a wall that marketing pages do not mention: no online casino carrying Betsoft’s slot catalogue is licensed to take Australian customers. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 makes the provision of online casino games and online pokies to anyone in Australia an offence, and no state or territory issues a licence for them. Every site an Australian finds under that search term is operating outside Australian law, and several have already been the subject of formal warnings or blocking requests by the ACMA. This page sets out what Betsoft is as a studio, what an Australian player is actually being offered when one of those offshore sites loads, and what the ACMA has done about the operators behind the names. Current as of 23 September 2026; verified against the ACMA’s formal warning register and blocking-request notices.

The Legal Frame Around Betsoft Online Casino Play in Australia

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, prohibits the supply of online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting to anyone physically in Australia. The prohibition runs against the provider — the operator and the platform hosting the games — not the individual player. What is licensable is wagering on races and sporting events placed before the event, lotteries and keno; in practice the bulk of that licensing sits with the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which oversees 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers, including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes. The same commission has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin — a structural oddity worth knowing when the same regulator’s name appears on the licence pages of licensed bookmakers and nothing else.

Betsoft-powered online casino play is not wagering. It is a prohibited interactive gambling service. A site displaying a Curaçao, Malta or Kahnawake licence is licensed in that jurisdiction; it is not licensed to take Australian customers, and the licence it displays does not change that.

Enforcement sits with the Australian Communications and Media Authority. The ACMA investigates, issues formal warnings, and can direct Australian internet service providers to block illegal sites. As of a report dated 26 June 2026, the ACMA had asked ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites since the first blocking request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed gambling services had withdrawn from the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017.

The pace has not slowed. In the most recent round reported on 26 June 2026, the ACMA asked ISPs to block twelve more sites: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. The pattern across rounds is the same offshore holding company cycling through brand names — a fact about the market, not about any individual punter.

The financial scale sits in the H2 Gambling Capital 2025 estimate: Australians lose roughly A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and the share of gambling going through legal channels has fallen from 74% in 2021 to 64%. The prohibited segment is not a fringe of the market; it is the largest single channel by player spend, and it is the channel that Betsoft-powered sites operate in for any Australian customer.

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026. Its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027 — law with a start date, not yet in force on a 2026 page, but the direction of travel is settled and the offshore operators being targeted now are the same ones running Betsoft content into Australia today.

The practical consequence for an Australian who lands on one of these sites is straightforward. No Australian consumer protection applies. There is no Australian complaints body, no Australian recourse if a withdrawal is refused, and no guarantee the site will not be blocked with a balance still sitting on it. The site can be blocked by an ISP request, and the punter’s funds sit behind whatever customer service the offshore operator chooses to provide.

Responsible Play and the Limits of Australian Protection

Help exists, and it is free, confidential and available around the clock — the limit is what it can do, not what it costs. The National Gambling Helpline runs on 1800 858 858, twenty-four hours a day. Gambling Help Online provides live chat and counselling resources online. Both are Australian services, funded to help Australians, and both take calls and chats from anyone whose gambling has started to feel compulsive or stressful, regardless of whether the gambling itself took place on a licensed or an offshore site.

BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, has been live since August 2023. It binds every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service — meaning the licensed bookmakers that take bets on racing and sport. It does not bind an offshore casino. An Australian who excludes themselves through BetStop and then opens an account with an offshore Betsoft site has excluded themselves from a service they are not using, while continuing to play on a service they have not excluded themselves from. The register is the strongest self-exclusion tool available under Australian law; it is also narrower than its name suggests.

The offshore segment’s lack of connection to BetStop is not an accident. BetStop applies to wagering service providers licensed in Australia, and the offshore operators carrying Betsoft content are not wagering service providers licensed in Australia. They are, by definition of the Interactive Gambling Act, prohibited interactive gambling service providers, and the Australian regime does not reach them.

For anyone who finds themselves gambling on offshore sites, the right Australian services are still the right first call: 1800 858 858, Gambling Help Online, and a conversation with a GP about what the gambling is doing to finances, sleep and relationships. None of those services report a player to police; they exist to be used.

Payments, Deposits and the Credit-Card Ban

The money side of an Australian’s interaction with a Betsoft site is governed by the same offshore house rules that govern the games themselves — which is to say, not by Australian rules at all.

Australian rules are specific. Since 11 June 2024, credit cards, credit-related products and digital currencies are banned as payment for licensed online wagering in Australia. Penalties run up to A$247,500 for an operator that accepts them. The legal deposit routes for a licensed wagering service are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY.

A Betsoft site accepting an Australian customer is not a licensed wagering service, so the ban does not bind it directly. What the ban tells the Australian customer is what a site is doing when it asks for a credit card or a crypto deposit. It is asking for a payment method the licensed Australian market has ruled unsafe enough to prohibit, because of the speed and irreversibility of losses when gambling money comes from borrowed funds or from an asset whose value moves on its own. The same reasoning applies on an offshore site; the protection simply does not reach it.

Payout speed on offshore sites is whatever the operator publishes — and what it publishes is not always what the punter experiences. The licensed Australian wagering segment settles through Australian payment rails, which carry consumer protections. The offshore segment settles through whatever rails the operator has chosen, and an Australian who has been blocked at the deposit stage cannot ask an Australian regulator to intervene on a withdrawal. The block can also reach the site while the punter’s funds sit on it. There is no Australian deposit-insurance scheme covering an offshore casino balance.

For background only — because no Australian should be funding one — a typical offshore Betsoft site accepts a wider set of deposit routes than the licensed market does: debit and credit cards, e-wallets, prepaid vouchers, bank transfer and a range of cryptocurrencies. Payout speed depends on the route and on the operator’s own processing queue; same-day crypto withdrawals are common in marketing, slower in practice, and disputed in worst-case scenarios.

Bonuses and Free Spins: What the Offer Actually Costs

Bonus offers on Betsoft sites are written as marketing and should be read as such. The headline number — a deposit match, a free-spin bundle, a no-deposit credit — is the smallest part of the offer. The wagering multiple, the eligible-game list, the max-cashout cap, the time limit, and the rule on which bets count toward clearing are where the offer lives, and the punter reads them only after the marketing has done its work.

A deposit match is the commonest shape. The site credits a percentage of the deposit as bonus funds, and those funds become withdrawable only after they have been wagered a stated number of times. The wagering multiple is the number that decides whether the offer is worth claiming. A 100% match with a 20x wagering multiple on the bonus is generous; the same 100% match with a 50x multiple on bonus plus deposit is closer to the offer being a way of extending the punter’s time on the site rather than improving their expected return.

Free spins are a second shape. The site credits a fixed number of spins at a fixed stake on a named slot, with the winnings either paid as bonus funds subject to wagering or as cash with a max-cashout ceiling. The “free” in free spins refers to the cost of the spin, not to the value of what the spin returns; a 100-spin bundle at A$0.10 with a 50x wagering multiple and a A$50 cashout cap produces, on average, less than its headline suggests.

No-deposit bonuses are the third shape and the one with the sharpest marketing-to-mechanism gap. A small credit, sometimes a handful of free spins, is credited on signup with no deposit required. The wagering multiple on no-deposit credits is typically higher than on deposit-match offers, the cashout ceiling is typically lower, and the eligible-game list is typically narrower. The mechanism produces a small, time-limited play session on the house — useful as a way to look at a site’s interface, expensive if read as a way to win.

The arithmetic is the same on every offer: the wagering multiple is the number that decides the offer’s real cost, and the cost falls on the punter because the house edge applies to every spin that goes toward clearing the requirement. A bonus that requires A$2,000 of wagering on a slot with a 96% return gives back A$1,920 in expectation and costs the punter A$80 to clear. The bonus has not made the punter better off; it has cost them A$80 of expected value in exchange for the play time. That exchange is what a bonus is.

For an Australian, none of this arithmetic is actionable: claiming it requires opening an account with an offshore operator the ACMA has already warned or blocked. The arithmetic is worth knowing because it is the same arithmetic that applies to every bonus-shaped offer in the iGaming market, and reading a bonus well is a skill that survives the legal position.

Mobile and Apps: What a Mobile-Friendly Betsoft Site Looks Like

Betsoft’s catalogue is built in HTML5, which means the same games run in a mobile browser without a separate download. The mobile version of a Betsoft slot is the desktop version resized for a smaller screen and touch input — the reels, the paytable, the spin button and the bet selector scale down; the underlying RNG, the RTP and the volatility do not change.

An Australian-facing offshore site that carries Betsoft content will typically offer three mobile routes: a responsive browser version that loads in Safari or Chrome without any installation, a downloadable app from the operator’s own site distributed as an APK or through an enterprise profile, and — less commonly now than five years ago — a wrapper app that opens a webview pointing at the mobile site. The browser version is the safest of the three because it does not require installing software from outside the official app stores, and because it is the version an ISP block is least likely to disrupt by removing an app rather than a domain.

A native app from an official app store is the second-safest route, but no licensed Australian app store carries an offshore casino app. The Australian App Store and Google Play mirror the prohibition that runs through the Interactive Gambling Act: real-money casino apps are not available to Australian accounts. An app that lands on an Australian phone has come from somewhere else, and the punter has agreed to install software outside the protections that come with a store-listed app.

For background only, the mobile experience on a Betsoft slot does not differ from the desktop experience in any way that matters to the punter. The RTP is the same, the volatility is the same, the paytable is the same. What changes is the size of the buttons and the temptation to play in places and at times the punter would not have sat down at a desktop to play. A session that fits in a queue is also a session that runs without the usual pause-and-think that a longer session allows.

Betsoft as a Studio: Paytables, Volatility and What the Catalogue Looks Like

Betsoft was founded in 2006 and describes a catalogue of more than 200 RNG games spanning slots, table games, video poker and specialty titles. The studio describes itself as operating in compliance with licensing authorities including Italy’s ADM — the Customs and Monopolies Agency — with RNG certification from Quinel and Gaming Labs International, and states it partners with more than 500 operators across regulated markets in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa. The “500 operators” figure is the one that explains why Betsoft content shows up on so many offshore sites: the studio licenses widely, and the same game engine ends up on sites the ACMA is warning.

A Betsoft slot paytable is structurally similar to any other modern video slot. Five reels, a configurable number of paylines, a paytable accessed from the game’s menu, a wild symbol, a scatter, and one or two bonus features — usually a free-spins round, sometimes a pick-and-click feature layered over a free-spins round. What distinguishes Betsoft’s catalogue from older flat-symbol slots is the 3D animation the studio built into its mid-2010s releases, and the studio’s continued use of that visual language in later titles.

The Slotfather, live since 13 December 2012, is an example of the studio’s mid-period catalogue. It runs on five reels and 30 paylines, has a published RTP of 95.69%, “Medium” volatility and an 8.17% hit rate. Good Girl Bad Girl 2 runs on five reels and 20 paylines with a published RTP of 96.22%, “Very High” volatility and a 15.59% hit rate. The two illustrate the range: a 2012 release built around a single bonus feature with a hit rate just over one spin in twelve, and a modern release with much higher volatility and a hit rate closer to one in six — meaning wins come more often but the distribution of those wins is more uneven.

A punter reading a paytable should treat the RTP and the volatility together. The RTP is the long-run return across many spins; the volatility is the shape of the distribution around that return. A 96% RTP at high volatility gives back A$96 of every A$100 wagered across a million spins, but the punter’s personal session of a few thousand spins can return anywhere from a small fraction of that to several times that, and most sessions return less than the long-run average by enough to matter.

For an Australian reading these figures, the point is the same point the legal frame makes: these games exist, they are well-engineered, the studio’s RNG certification is real, and none of that changes the fact that the only way to play them for real money from Australia is through an offshore site operating outside Australian law.

The Brands the ACMA Has Acted Against

The table below lists eleven brands the ACMA has formally warned or blocked for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. Every brand on the list operates offshore; none holds an Australian licence for online casino games; each has been the subject of an ACMA formal warning under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. The columns are: the brand as it appears in marketing; the ACMA action and its date; the operator entity named by the ACMA at the time of the warning; and whether the brand shows Betsoft in third-party listings.

The same operator entity appearing on multiple rows is not a coincidence. Dama N.V. covers RocketPlay, Level Up Casino, Woo Casino and Spirit Casino; the formal warnings ran across 2022, 2025 and 2026 against a single corporate group operating under different brand names. The repeated appearance is the structure of the offshore market: one holding company, several skins, a fresh brand when the previous one has been warned or blocked.

The “Subject support” column tells a smaller story. The ACMA’s formal warnings are about offering prohibited services to Australians; they are not statements about which games a brand carries. The handful of brands where Betsoft appears in third-party studio and aggregator listings — Level Up Casino, National Casino, Casino Intense — is what those listings report, not what the ACMA has affirmed, and a punter reading the column should read it as a listing-source claim rather than as a verified fact.

How Fast the ACMA Blocks

The arithmetic the page adds to the legal frame is the rate at which the ACMA has been working through the offshore market. The first blocking request went out in November 2019; the running total reported on 26 June 2026 sat at 1,751 blocked sites. That works out to a band of roughly 250 to 280 sites blocked per year on average, depending on the exact cut of the running total against the seven-year window. The band, not a single figure, is what the calculation gives: enforcement is steady rather than spiking, and the rate has been enough to remove more than 230 unlicensed services entirely from the Australian market — services that simply stopped accepting Australian customers after a warning, rather than waiting to be blocked.

The consequence for an Australian who lands on one of the unblocked sites today is that the site is the current state of a list that has been growing for seven years. The site an Australian opens this week is the site the ACMA has not yet gotten to. The site that worked yesterday may not resolve tomorrow. The block list and the warning list are not the same document — a site can be warned before being blocked, and the warning is the ACMA’s last private step before the ISP request — but they are part of one enforcement arc that has been running continuously since the November 2019 starting point.

Reading an Offshore Brand Offer

What follows is what the table above shows about each brand, with the legal position carried through every entry. None of these brands is recommended as a place to play. Each is described because it is the kind of brand an Australian lands on when searching for Betsoft casino play, and the ACMA has already acted against it.

RocketPlay

Pulsup Ltd operates RocketPlay, and the ACMA issued a formal warning to Pulsup in March 2026; the same brand had earlier been the subject of a May 2022 formal warning to Dama N.V. Two warnings across four years, both under the Interactive Gambling Act, both for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. The site carries the kind of deposit-gated welcome package common to the segment — a percentage match on the first deposit with a wagering multiple on the bonus, a free-spin bundle on a named slot, and a tiered reload structure for returning customers. None of that changes the legal position: an Australian opening an account at RocketPlay is opening it with an operator the ACMA has warned twice, and any balance on the site sits outside Australian consumer protection.

The verdict on RocketPlay is that its repeated appearance on the ACMA warning list is the central fact; claiming the site’s bonus offer does nothing to alter the regulatory reality.

Level Up Casino

Dama N.V. was issued a formal warning in May 2022 covering six brands, of which Level Up Casino was one; the same Dama N.V. group has since been warned again over Woo Casino and Spirit Casino, with the corporate group continuing to operate multiple brands into Australia. Level Up Casino shows Betsoft in third-party listings — a listings-only claim, not something the ACMA has affirmed — alongside a broader mix of providers. The site’s offer follows the same Dama N.V. template as the group’s other brands.

The verdict on Level Up Casino is that the site’s listing-source claim to carry Betsoft is a marketing claim, not a guarantee; the brand’s place in the warning list is the part of the offer that is not marketing.

Woo Casino

Dama N.V. received a formal warning over Woo Casino in March 2025, separate from the May 2022 round. The brand is one of four Dama N.V. skins appearing in this table; the warning covers the same conduct the 2022 warning covered — offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. The site carries a deposit-gated welcome package and a VIP structure that rewards continuing play across the group’s brands.

The verdict on Woo Casino is that the site is the same operator group as three other entries on this list, and the ACMA has now been around the group three times since 2022; that is the structural fact a punter would be funding.

Spirit Casino

Dama N.V. was warned over Spirit Casino in May 2025, three months after the Woo Casino warning and three years after the 2022 round. Spirit is the newest Dama N.V. skin on this list and operates under the same group terms as the others. The site’s offer follows the same template.

The verdict on Spirit Casino is that the brand’s recency is the warning sign: a 2025 warning means a site operating long enough to draw an ACMA response in its launch year.

National Casino

Consolutetish S.R.L. was issued a formal warning over National Casino in July 2025, in the same round that covered Bizzo Casino. National Casino shows Betsoft in third-party listings alongside other studios, with the listings-only qualifier that the column header carries. The site’s deposit-gated welcome offer and ongoing promotion structure are consistent with the segment.

The verdict on National Casino is that the July 2025 warning places it firmly in the enforcement cycle; the site’s claim of Betsoft support is marketing copy rather than a verified service fact.

Bizzo Casino

Consolutetish S.R.L. was warned over Bizzo Casino in July 2025; Bizzo had already been warned in 2022 when the operator entity was TechSolutions Group. The same brand, two operator names, two warnings across three years. The site carries the segment-standard deposit-gated welcome package.

The verdict on Bizzo Casino is that two warnings across three years under different operator names is a permanent mark against the brand; it is an operator the ACMA has sanctioned twice.

Ignition Casino

Bamboo Media was issued a formal warning over Ignition Casino in July 2025. Ignition is one of two brands in the same enforcement round covered here, alongside National Casino and Bizzo Casino. The brand’s offer follows the segment template of a deposit-gated welcome package with a wagering multiple on the bonus and free spins on a named slot.

The verdict on Ignition Casino is that the July 2025 warning is the defining fact; playing here carries all the risks of an offshore site the regulator has acted against.

Instant Casino

EOD Code SRL was issued a formal warning over Instant Casino in February 2025, the earliest of the 2025 warnings in this list. Instant Casino positions itself around fast payouts and a broad game catalogue; the ACMA’s action is about the offering of prohibited services to Australians, not about the payout mechanics.

The verdict on Instant Casino is that its payout marketing does not change the site’s status; it remains an offshore entity the ACMA has warned, leaving the punter without consumer protection.

Jackbit

Ryker B.V. was issued a formal warning over Jackbit in April 2026, alongside a parallel warning over CasinOK. Jackbit is one of two Ryker B.V. brands on this list, and the brand positions itself around cryptocurrency deposits and fast crypto withdrawals — both of which are outside the Australian licensed payment rules for any wagering service, let alone a prohibited interactive gambling service.

The verdict on Jackbit is that its crypto-heavy marketing is the very practice the Australian credit-card and digital-currency ban targets: facilitating rapid, irreversible losses.

Casino Intense

Sterplay Holding Ltd was issued a formal warning over Casino Intense in April 2025. Casino Intense shows Betsoft in third-party listings, alongside a broader mix that includes 1spin4win — a studio founded in 2021, headquartered in Curaçao with a Curaçao gaming licence, reporting more than 1,000 partnerships and a 46% rise in total bet sum between the first halves of 2024 and 2025. The site’s offer follows the segment template.

The verdict on Casino Intense is that its Betsoft listing is marketing, not a guarantee of service; the actionable fact is the site’s prohibited status under ACMA enforcement.

Sky Crown

Hollycorn N.V. was issued a formal warning over Sky Crown, alongside a parallel warning over Blue Leo, in a 2022 formal warning published by the ACMA. Sky Crown is the oldest warning in this list and the brand that has been in the ACMA’s frame the longest. The site’s offer follows the segment template.

The verdict on Sky Crown is that the brand’s age on the warning list is the structural fact about it: a brand that has been the subject of an ACMA formal warning for years is a brand that has continued to take Australian customers through those years, and that continuation is what the warning was about.

Where the Market Actually Sits

A useful comparison is what the same market looks like through two different windows. Through the ACMA’s window, the offshore Betsoft-segment is a market that has been losing sites since 2017 — 230 services withdrawn entirely from Australia, 1,751 blocked, formal warnings continuing to issue at the rate of several rounds a year. Through the marketing window, the offshore Betsoft-segment is a competitive marketplace with hundreds of brands, generous welcome packages, fast payouts and broad game catalogues. Both descriptions are accurate; one is what the regulator has done to the market and the other is what the operators say about it.

The Australian licensed market is the third window. It is small by comparison — 52 online bookmakers licensed in the Northern Territory for wagering on racing and sport, no online casinos, no online pokies. What it offers the Australian who wants to play a Betsoft slot is nothing, because the segment does not exist under Australian licence. What it offers the Australian who wants to bet on a horse race or a football match is the only version of online gambling that is licensed in Australia, with deposit and payout routes through Australian payment rails, consumer protection under Australian law, and BetStop binding every operator in the segment.

The H2 Gambling Capital 2025 estimate of A$3.9 billion a year lost to illegal gambling sites and the fall in the legal share from 74% in 2021 to 64% is the number that sits behind those three windows. The illegal segment is not a fringe; it is where the majority of online gambling spend now sits. The legal segment is the smaller, slower-growing, regulated channel; the illegal segment is the larger, faster-growing, unregulated one. An Australian reading the page and choosing to play is choosing which channel to fund, and the channel the search leads to is the unregulated one.

Help and Reporting

If a Betsoft site has refused a withdrawal, has blocked an account with funds in it, or has done anything else that looks like misconduct, the ACMA is the Australian body that investigates illegal gambling services. Reports can be made through the ACMA’s website. The ACMA’s enforcement arc is built on exactly these reports: the 1,751-site blocking total is the cumulative result of investigations that started with complaints.

For help with gambling that has stopped being fun, the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 is free, confidential and available twenty-four hours a day; Gambling Help Online provides live chat and resources online. For self-exclusion from the licensed wagering segment, BetStop — the National Self-Exclusion Register — covers every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service. None of those services exists to tell a punter what to do; they exist to be used when the decision has already been made.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Betsoft itself an operator, or a studio that supplies content to sites?

Betsoft is a game studio. It designs, develops and certifies the RNG games that appear on operator sites, and licenses those games to operators across more than 500 brands in regulated markets. It does not run a casino; it does not take customer deposits; it does not issue payouts. The sites an Australian lands on while searching for “Betsoft casinos” are operators that have licensed Betsoft content.

Can Betsoft titles be played for real money at any licensed Australian casino?

No. Online casino games and online pokies cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. Every site an Australian finds carrying Betsoft titles is operating offshore, and none of them is licensed to take Australian customers. The site displaying a Curaçao or Malta licence is licensed in that jurisdiction, not in Australia.

How does a Betsoft slot typically differ from other studios’ games in its paytable?

A Betsoft slot uses the same structural vocabulary as most modern video slots — five reels, a configurable number of paylines, a paytable accessed from the game’s menu, wilds, scatters, and one or two bonus features. What distinguishes Betsoft’s catalogue is the 3D animation style the studio built into its mid-2010s releases and continues to use. The underlying RTP, volatility and hit-rate figures are studio- and game-specific rather than studio-wide: The Slotfather sits at 95.69% RTP with “Medium” volatility, while Good Girl Bad Girl 2 sits at 96.22% RTP with “Very High” volatility.

Does Betsoft operate its own casino, or license its games to other operators?

Betsoft licenses its games to other operators; it does not operate a casino of its own. The catalogue is built in HTML5 and licensed to more than 500 operators across regulated markets in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa. The same licensing model is what puts Betsoft content on offshore sites that accept Australian customers.

Why do offshore casinos highlight Betsoft as a selling point to Australian visitors?

Betsoft’s catalogue has been around since 2006, the studio is RNG-certified by Quinel and Gaming Labs International, and the visual style of the 3D slots is recognisable on a casino lobby page. For an Australian-facing offshore site competing for signups against other offshore sites, a recognisable studio name is a marketing shortcut. The shortcut is also the reason the same games end up on sites the ACMA has warned: the licensing model puts the games everywhere.

Is it legal for a site to offer Betsoft games for real money to people in Australia?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as amended in 2017, makes it an offence for a provider to offer online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person in Australia. No state or territory licenses those services. The ACMA enforces the prohibition through formal warnings and by directing Australian ISPs to block sites, and has blocked 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing sites since November 2019.

Prepared by the Casino Ratings Info editorial staff.