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What Is the UKGC & What Does It Do?

Your plain-English guide to the body that keeps UK gambling safe, fair, and above board.

Written by: James Awland 18 April 2024

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James Awland

Founder & Editor-in-Chief, bestcasino.co.uk · UK-based

I'm James, and I've spent over a decade trying to answer one question for UK players: which online casinos are actually worth it? I launched bestcasino.co.uk in 2015, and my team and I still sit down with every site we cover - from reading the T&Cs to testing the games, checking the RTPs, and confirming the UKGC licence - before anything goes live on the page. A Mathematical Sciences degree helps with maths. The rest we learned from playing.

We only rank what we'd play ourselves.

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