Guts Casino review: closed to the UK, licence surrendered

Guts is closed to UK players and has been for years. As early as 19 March 2021 guts.com already read “Sorry, guts.com is unavailable in this territory”, and on 7 September 2026 the site displayed a block page reading “Guts is not available in the country you are currently located”. The operator’s UK licence, held by Zecure Gaming Limited under account 56427, is marked Surrendered on the Gambling Commission register with an end date of 22 June 2026. You cannot play Guts from Britain, and nothing suggests that will change. Our score: 5.5 out of 10.

Unlike the other brands in this batch, Guts did once hold a UK licence, and it left in an orderly way rather than by having one taken away. That earns it a slightly better safety mark than a site that never had one, though nothing about it is usable from the UK today.

Guts at a glance

The register entry

Guts started as one of the Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) consumer brands, run from MT SecureTrade Limited under Gambling Commission account 39575. That register page now returns “No register entry found”, so the old licence has dropped off the public record entirely.

In 2020 Betsson bought GiG’s consumer brands, Guts among them alongside Rizk and Kaboo, and moved them under Zecure Gaming Limited of Ta Xbiex, Malta. Zecure’s UK remote casino licence, account 56427, ran from 12 February 2020 to 22 June 2026 and is marked Surrendered. The two domains listed on that entry, betsson.co.uk and www.rizk.com, are both Inactive, and the Rizk trading name is Inactive too. Our UKGC licensing guide explains how to read a register entry like this one.

When Guts left the UK

The licence date is the formal end. The practical end came much earlier. Wayback’s 19 March 2021 capture of guts.com shows the message “Sorry, guts.com is unavailable in this territory” with support@guts.com as the contact. That is more than five years before the surrender date. If you are a UK player looking for the moment Guts closed, early 2021 is the answer, and the June 2026 surrender covered the whole Zecure licence rather than Guts alone.

We found no public announcement of the UK exit, and we are not going to guess at the reason. What the record shows is a sequence: the GiG brands change hands in 2020, guts.com is refusing UK visitors by March 2021, the domains still listed on the Zecure licence go Inactive, and the licence itself is surrendered in June 2026. A surrender is the operator handing the licence back rather than the Commission taking it, which is why we describe this as an orderly exit rather than a de-licensing.

What guts.com shows a UK visitor now

The current block page says: “Sorry about this but Guts is not available in the country you are currently located. This exclusion depends on the current IP address… Please don’t use a VPN to hide or change your real location.” There is no lobby behind it and no sign up form, and the page does not name the operator.

Trustpilot: 2.3 from 61 reviews

Trustpilot rates guts.com at 2.3 from 61 reviews. 78 per cent are one star and the operator has not replied to negative reviews. The newest review is dated 15 May 2026, so people were still posting about Guts a few weeks before the licence ended, though none of them can have been playing from the UK. Sixty one reviews is a small sample. We mention the figure because it is there, not because it tells you much.

This is one of several closed casinos we have traced through the register. The same checks on LadyLucks, closed in 2019 and now shadowed by clone sites, SlotsMillion, closed in the UK on 10 April 2023 and CasinoLuck, closed in February 2026 when Aspire Global shut its UK white labels show how differently a closure can end for the domain and for the players.

What to do if you had a Guts account

If you played at Guts before 2021 and think you left money in the account, contact support@guts.com, the address the 2021 block page gave, and ask in writing for your balance and for confirmation that the account is closed. Keep the reply. The operator is Zecure Gaming Limited in Ta Xbiex, Malta, so you are dealing with a named company at a known address rather than an anonymous offshore shell.

Guts, Rizk and Kaboo were sister brands under one operator, which is why one licence surrender took several names off the UK register at once. Our explainer on what sister sites are covers how that grouping works, and our 32Red review shows the same register checks applied to a different brand.

If you self excluded through GAMSTOP while Guts was live, check that your exclusion is still in place. Guts leaving the register does not change your GAMSTOP record, and any casino you consider next should be on the register so that GAMSTOP applies to it. Do not use a VPN to reach guts.com. The block page asks you not to, and you would be playing with no UK licence behind you.