Tsars Casino review: terms bar the UK, and a fake UK licence

Tsars Casino is not closed, but it is not for you. Its terms list the United Kingdom among the “hard restriction countries” it does not serve. It has never held a Gambling Commission licence; Casino Guru records its licence as Anjouan, in the Comoros. A second site, tsars-casino.co.uk, says otherwise and quotes a UK licence number, and that number is fake. Our score: 5 out of 10.

A plain UK exclusion would score 5.5. The half point comes off because the Tsars name is being used to tell UK players a licence exists when it does not, on a page aimed squarely at British searchers. The real site, for the countries it serves, is a mid-sized crypto-friendly casino with a good Trustpilot score and withdrawal fees; none of that is available from Britain.

Tsars Casino at a glance

The register has no Tsars

A Gambling Commission register search for Tsars, and for the company name the clone site uses, Tsars Casino Ltd, returns no business of any kind, current or historic. Its own terms, as archived in August 2025, name RR Investments N.V., a Curacao company, under licence 8048/JAZ2015-046. Casino Guru and AboutSlots both name Trink N.V., a Curacao company, as the operator, and Casino Guru records the licence as issued by Anjouan Gaming in the Comoros. Neither is a British licence and neither gives a UK player any complaint route. If you want to run the search yourself, our UKGC licensing guide shows where the register is and how entries are laid out.

What the Tsars terms say about the UK

Clause 6.4 of its terms reads: “Hard restriction countries: Afghanistan, Latvia, North Korea, United Kingdom, United States of America, Curacao, France and Netherlands, Russian Federation, Estonia, Ukraine.” Several game suppliers named in the same section add their own UK bans; the NetEnt line reads “No customers will be accepted from the United States of America, United Kingdom, Spain, France and Italy”. The site’s title tag reads “Tsars Casino | 2,000 euros in deposit bonuses and 200 free spins”, which is the offer for the markets it does serve. None of it is offered to UK residents.

What the site offers where it is allowed to

For a UK reader this section is about understanding what the clone is imitating, not a menu. Casino Guru’s review, updated July 2026, gives the picture. The welcome package is split across deposits and totals up to €2,000 plus 200 spins, with regional variants such as 100% up to €300 plus 100 spins for a first deposit. Wagering is 20x on bonus plus deposit, which on a €100 deposit and €100 bonus is €4,000 of turnover. The maximum bet while wagering is about €4, and “bets in slot games with RTP of 97.5% and higher do not count towards the wagering requirement”, which rules out the low-house-edge titles a careful player would choose.

The cashier lists 30 methods: Visa, Mastercard, Skrill, Neteller, Paysafecard, Payz, Trustly, Klarna, Neosurf, Jeton, MiFinity, Rapid Transfer and cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Tether, USD Coin and Tron. Casino Guru lists “deposit and withdrawal fees” among the site’s cons, and withdrawal limits of €5,000 a day, €15,000 a week and €30,000 a month, with no win cap. The lobby draws on 62 providers, including NetEnt, Novomatic, Nolimit City, Play’n GO, Blueprint, Evolution, Pragmatic Play, Quickspin, Yggdrasil, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming, Push Gaming and BGaming. Live chat runs 24/7 in English, and the site itself is offered in fifteen languages.

Player reports on Trustpilot are mostly positive by offshore standards. A Canadian reviewer in August 2026 describes a withdrawal declined after verification and the balance disappearing, then being restored after contacting support; the operator’s reply, several paragraphs of apology, promises the “Financial Department is doing its utmost” without a timescale. The 23% one-star share is low for an unlicensed site, and the operator replies within about a week. None of it changes the position for a British player: no UK licence, no GAMSTOP, no ombudsman.

The clone site and its fake licence number

A different site at tsars-casino.co.uk uses the Tsars name and makes claims the real domain does not. It says the casino is “Licensed by the UK Gambling Commission” under “licence 79477-9698-R-612178”, “operated by Tsars Casino Ltd (Company No. 49255305, United Kingdom)” and “Established 2010”. It offers “143% up to 1,650 pounds plus 138 spins, 31x wagering, 59 days to play”. It adds “Average payout in 23 minutes”, “audited by eCOGRA, QUINEL, and BMM Testlabs”, and a live counter reading “Paid out today 529,450 pounds, 3,815 players online”.

The licence number is wrong before you even search for it. Real Gambling Commission account numbers are five digits, for example 39326, and the licence reference that goes with an account reads like 039326-R-319358-061: a six digit group, the letter R, another six digit group, then three digits. The number on the clone, 79477-9698-R-612178, has a four digit group before the R and a six digit group after it with nothing following. It does not fit the pattern the Commission uses.

The company claim fails at the register rather than on format. The same trick in a different form, a licence flag the operator’s own code labels fake, runs across the Bon Rush network. Companies House numbers are eight characters, and 49255305 is eight characters, so the number alone does not settle it. The register does: no Tsars Casino Ltd appears there, and no Tsars business of any description does. The “Established 2010” line contradicts Casino Guru’s 2020 for the real brand. Everything else on the page is dressed to look British: pounds instead of euros, a .co.uk domain, testing lab names and a running payout counter. None of it can be checked, and the one number that could be checked fails. Treat tsars-casino.co.uk as a fake and do not enter card details or identity documents on it.

Why the clone exists

Clone sites appear around brands with two properties: a name that people search for, and terms that keep those searchers out of the real thing. Tsars has both. Search volume for “tsars casino” in Britain comes from advertising and affiliate coverage aimed at Europe, and every one of those searchers is excluded by tsars.com’s own terms. A page on a .co.uk domain that ranks for the name, promises a licence and takes pounds catches the overflow. The real site runs its own affiliate programme, linked from its footer, so some of the traffic pointed at the clone may come from affiliates who were promised commission on Tsars and found a way to earn it from British searchers the real site’s terms exclude.

The tell is always the same. A licensed UK site names its operating company, its Companies House or overseas registration and its five-digit Gambling Commission account number in the footer, and all three can be checked in a minute. The clone offers a company that is not on the register, a licence number in the wrong format and an “established” date that predates the real brand by a decade. Our LadyLucks review covers the same pattern on a closed British brand, where lookalike domains picked up the name after the licensed casino shut.

Sister sites

Trink N.V. is named by third parties as the operator of tsars.com; no other brand is publicly tied to it. Casino Guru counts two complaints against “related casinos”, which suggests a shared platform rather than a shared brand family. There is no Tsars sister site licensed in Britain, and any site telling you it is one should be checked against the register first. Our sister sites guide explains how to trace a group from a licence entry when one exists.

Trustpilot: 4.1 from 671 reviews

Trustpilot rates tsars.com at 4.1 from 671 reviews, 60% five star and 23% one star, with 99 reviews in the last twelve months and the operator typically replying within a week. That is a decent score, and it belongs to the real site, which UK players cannot use. The clone does not get to borrow it. Casino Guru’s 42 user reviews rate the site “good” and it has no direct complaints on file, with 21 black points inherited from related casinos.

How we scored it

Safety 4: no UK licence, an Anjouan licence that carries no consumer protection in Britain, terms that exclude UK residents, and a clone using the name to fake a Commission number. Games 6 and payments 6 reflect what the real site offers elsewhere, for context only; support 5 for the same reason. Overall 5, the floor of the scale, and half a point below a plain UK exclusion because of the clone.

What a UK player should do

Do not play on either domain. The real tsars.com bars UK residents in its own terms and has no UK licence. The .co.uk clone claims a licence that does not exist, and a site willing to invent a regulator’s licence number is not a site to trust with a deposit.

If you have already signed up on tsars-casino.co.uk, stop depositing, ask your bank to watch for further charges and change any password you reused there. If you hold a balance on the real tsars.com from a time you lived outside the UK, email support@tsars.com and request a withdrawal; there is no UK body to escalate to. Offshore sites that do accept UK players without a licence, such as NineWin, get the same register check as every brand covered here, including Fortunica. A Tsars search from the UK should end with you closing the tab.