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The Refusal Index

Written and checked by Ingrid HalvorsenTerms editor

United States

Thirty-two operators exclude the United States by name

Stake publishes a restricted-territory clause with one country on it, and that country is the United States. Another 31 operators name it as well, giving 32 out of the 38 published lists read for this index.

A restricted list with one entry on it

Stake sets out its exclusion clause on a licences page, and the clause runs to a single territory: the United States. The address is stake.com/licenses, read on 26 August 2026 from an archived copy. People arrive at this site by typing sites like Stake, so the starting position is worth stating plainly. The operator being replaced excludes exactly one country, and it is this one.

That narrows the search rather than opening it. Among the 38 operators whose own restricted-country clause has been read for this index, 32 write the United States into it. Six published a clause where the country is absent. A further 62 operators in the library published something that remains unread here, and blank cells belong to them.

The thirty-two, each with the address of the clause

Every document below was opened on 26 August 2026. Thirteen were read on the live site and nineteen from an archived copy; the mark after each address says which.

Clauses of one, fifteen and forty-two entries

The length of a clause carries little signal for an American reader. Stake names one territory. Shuffle names fifteen, at shuffle.com/info/terms. Bets.io names forty-two, at www.bets.io/en/terms-and-conditions. All three contain the United States, so the short clause and the long clause leave a reader here in the same position while telling very different stories about the rest of the world.

Four operators name the United States and pass over every other country covered in this first wave: Bets.io, Stake, BetPlays and CoinCasino. Their clauses read as silent documents on the pages for Germany and Poland, which is the ordinary condition of this data. One list answers one country at a time.

Six clauses where the country is absent

Six of the read documents carry a restricted-territory clause in which the United States is absent. The wording here stays exactly that, because an absence is a fact about a document rather than an invitation. A published list can lag behind the practice it describes, it can be edited on any morning, and the payment side of an account applies conditions of its own once money moves. Treating those six as an open door reads more into the page than the page contains.

Sixty-two clauses that remain unread

The library behind this site holds 100 operators. For 62 of them the restricted-territory clause has yet to be opened, so the cell stays blank. A blank cell records where the reading stopped: it is a gap in this index rather than a finding about the operator, and it counts as zero refusals only in the sense that zero documents were read. How we read sets out the order in which documents are chosen.

What the table below carries for an American reader

Twelve operators sit in the comparison table. Four of them have a restricted clause that has been read. Three name the United States — Stake, Shuffle and Bets.io — and Cloudbet, whose clause runs to two countries, passes over it. The other eight cells stay empty for the reason set out above.

What each operator publishes about itself: the company named on the licence, the permit number and where it was read, how many countries the operator excludes in its own terms, and when identity documents are demanded. The country count is the length of a list the operator published, not our estimate of where it will accept you. An empty cell means the document was not read — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.

Vavepaid placement
  • OperatorTechOptions Group B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao no number
  • Countries barredlist not read
  • Before ID checkcase by case
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Stake
  • OperatorMedium Rare N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred1
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Shuffle
  • OperatorNatural Nine B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred15
  • Before ID checkcase by case
BC.Game
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Roobet
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Rollbit
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Duelbits
  • OperatorLiquid Entertainment N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Bets.io
  • OperatorTechno Wave Systems S.R.L.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred42
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Cloudbet
  • OperatorHalcyon Super Holdings B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred2
  • Before ID checkcase by case
MyStake
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
TrustDice
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
BetFury
  • OperatorUniverse B Games B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published

The clause and the statute are separate documents

Everything above comes from contracts. A restricted-territory clause is a term the operator writes into its own agreement, and it governs how that operator deals with a customer who lives at a given address. What United States law permits an American reader to do is a different question with a different author, answered by sources this page does not carry. The two get confused because they sometimes point the same way. They remain separate documents, and this index reports only the first.

Questions people actually type

Does Stake itself bar players in the United States?
Stake's licences page carries a restricted-territory clause naming a single country, the United States. The address is stake.com/licenses, read on 26 August 2026 from an archived copy. That clause is a term of Stake's own agreement.
How many alternatives repeat the same clause?
Thirty-two of the 38 operators whose exclusion list has been read here name the United States. Six published a list where the country is absent, and 62 further operators in the library have a clause that remains unread.
If an operator's list leaves the United States out, may an American reader open an account?
That question sits beyond what a published list can answer. The wording used here is that the country is absent from a published list. Lists are edited without notice, payment providers apply rules of their own, and the operator keeps the final say at signup and at withdrawal.
Is a restricted-territory clause the same thing as United States law?
They are different documents with different authors. The clause is written by the operator and governs its own dealings with a customer. What American law permits is a separate question answered by a separate source, and this page leaves it to that source.

The same reading, country by country, runs through the index of refusals and the pages for the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia.