Merkur Casino sister sites

Merkur Casino sister sites compared

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IMPORTANT NOTICE RE: MERKUR CASINO

Eyas Gaming Limited closed Merkur Casino and folded it into the near-identical Merkur Slots site, leaving Merkur Slots as the only remaining sister site. The Gambling Commission register puts a date on the end of the online business: the remote casino licence on account 58160 ran from 27 August 2021 and is now listed as surrendered, with an end date of 22 December 2023. The single registered domain on that account, www.merkurslots.com, and the trading name Merkur Slots are both marked inactive.

Take care with merkurcasino.co.uk. That address still loads and calls itself the official Merkur site in the United Kingdom. Its own feature table gives the licence as Curacao eGaming 8048/JAZ and names the operator as Merkur Interactive Malta plc, yet other passages on the same page claim UK Gambling Commission regulation. Both cannot be true, and the British register settles it. Playing there gives you none of the protections a UK licence carries.

As Merkur Casino is permanently closed to UK players, nothing on this page below this line is updated or maintained.

Merkur Casino Information

Merkur Casino operator – Eyas Gaming Limited

The online casino was run by Eyas Gaming Limited, registered in Zebbug, Malta, under Gambling Commission account 58160. That account held one British permission, a remote casino licence, and the register lists it as surrendered with an end date of 22 December 2023. It is the only online licence the brand ever held here.

Account 2630 is sometimes quoted for this brand, and older versions of this page used it. That account belongs to Merkur Bingo UK Limited of Milton Keynes and covers land-based bingo halls and arcades trading as Beacon Bingo, Cashino, Merkur Cashino and Showboat. Its remote permissions are ancillary ones, which only cover gambling inside its own venues, so they were never the licence behind an online casino.

Merkur itself is a far older name than the online casino suggests: the brand belongs to the German Gauselmann group, which has been manufacturing arcade and slot machines since the 1950s and remains one of the better known suppliers of physical gaming cabinets in Europe. Where most casino brands in the UK market are marketing names attached to a white label platform, Merkur arrives with its own catalogue of games and decades of machine building behind it.

The name is still live in Britain on the high street rather than online. Merkur Casino Entertainment UK Limited holds account 62997 with active non-remote casino and bingo licences and an active “merkur casino” trading name, and Merkur Slots UK Limited holds account 3266 for its arcades. Those are venue businesses, not online casinos.

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There is no UK-licensed Merkur Casino left to review. The old .com address does not resolve at all. The .co.uk address does load, but it is not the British operation it says it is: its own licensing table gives Curacao eGaming 8048/JAZ and names Merkur Interactive Malta plc as the operator, while other passages on the same page claim UK Gambling Commission regulation. The register settles the point, because the only online licence the brand held, on Eyas Gaming Limited’s account 58160, was surrendered in December 2023. Treat that site as an offshore casino trading on a well known name.

The appeal was always the Merkur game library. Titles from the Gauselmann stable, the Eye of Horus family chief among them, built a following over years in British arcades and bookmakers, and the casino was the most direct way to play them online. That focus cut both ways: anyone wanting a broad catalogue spanning every major studio was better served elsewhere, and the sister list on this page is short because the operator never ran a sprawling portfolio of interchangeable skins. It was a specialist site and is best judged as one. The Eye of Horus games themselves remain widely available at casinos that do hold a current British licence.

Merkur Casino FAQ

Is the online casino still running?

Not as a British casino. It was always close to a copy of Merkur Slots, and the operator folded both into that single site rather than keep two near identical brands going. The remote licence behind it ended on 22 December 2023.

What does the register say?

The online brand sat on account 58160, held by Eyas Gaming Limited of Zebbug in Malta. Its single remote casino licence ran from 27 August 2021 and is now marked surrendered, ending on 22 December 2023. The account’s one registered domain and its trading name are both listed as inactive, so no British permission remains.

What happened to the sister sites?

Only Merkur Slots remains linked to the account, and it is listed as inactive there too. The consolidation removed the rest, so the list on this page is one name long rather than the dozens you would find under a platform operator.

Where does the Merkur name come from?

German engineering rather than online gambling. The brand belongs to the Gauselmann group, which has been building arcade and slot machine cabinets since the 1950s and is still one of Europe’s better known suppliers of physical gaming equipment.

Why does that heritage matter?

Because it changes what the brand is. Most casino names in this market are marketing labels attached to somebody else’s platform. This one arrives with its own catalogue of games and decades of manufacturing behind it, which is a genuinely different starting point.

What about merkurcasino.co.uk, which still loads?

It is not the British operation it claims to be. The page names Curacao eGaming 8048/JAZ as its licence and Merkur Interactive Malta plc as its operator, then contradicts itself further down by claiming UK Gambling Commission regulation. It does not appear on the British register, so none of the protections a UK licence carries apply there. The Eye of Horus titles it advertises can be played at casinos that do hold a current British licence.