Which countries BitStarz refuses, and the list clause 3.5 never prints
The Restricted Countries List in the general terms names 74 places. A second list exists: clause 3.5 of the bonus terms refers to countries excluded from promotions specifically, separate from the first, and that list was not in the document. Clause 3.26 then penalises a player for using a code on a promotion they were not eligible for.
Two territorial rules govern an account here. One is published in full and runs to 74 places. The other is referred to and never printed, and it is the one that decides whether a promo code does anything at all.
| Casino | Operator | Licence | Withdrawal limit | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vavepaid placement | Latcas B.V. | Curaçao Gaming Authority | from 50,000 USDT in instalments cl. 8.8 | Visit |
| BitStarz | Gareton B.V. | Curaçao Gaming Authority | not published | |
| Bets.io | Bets Entertainment N.V. | Curaçao Gaming Authority revoked | not published | |
| Mirax | Scores55 Tech B.V. | Curaçao Gaming Authority | not published | |
| 7Bit Casino | not published | Curaçao Gaming Authority | not published | |
| Bitkingz | Novatrix SRL | Anjouan Gaming Board | not published | |
| Oshi Casino | Novatrix SRL | Anjouan Gaming Board | not published | |
| PlayAmo | Novatrix SRL | Anjouan Gaming Board | not published | |
| Slotum | Novatrix SRL | Anjouan Gaming Board | not published | |
| Metaspins | Metaspins N.V. | Curaçao Gaming Authority | not published | |
| Bitdreams | Hollycorn N.V. | Antillephone N.V. | not published |
The published list, and the sentence in front of it
The general terms carry a block introduced by a single sentence:
Users from the following countries and their territories ("Restricted Countries List") are not allowed to deposit and play real money games:
Two things in that sentence do work. And their territories extends every entry beyond the country named, which is why the count of 74 places is a count of named entries rather than a count of jurisdictions covered. And deposit and play real money games fixes what the rule bites on: money in and money staked, not reading the site.
Seventy-four entries follow it. Sixteen of them are member states of the European Union, and eleven EU member states are absent. Fifteen are dependencies or overseas territories named in their own right — Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, Mayotte, Saint Martin, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna among them, together with the Isle of Man, Jersey, Gibraltar, the Cayman Islands and Puerto Rico.
One entry is Curaçao, which is where the company operating the brand is incorporated and where its permit was issued.
Four entries that cannot be resolved
A list is only as usable as its entries, and four of these do not resolve to a single answer.
Congo is named without a qualifier. Two states carry that name, and nothing in the clause says which is meant, or whether both are.
Dutch West Indies has no current country code and no settled membership. The term is historical, it has covered different sets of islands at different times, and a reader in any of the Caribbean territories once described that way cannot tell from the document whether they are in the list.
United Kingdom (including any overseas territories) names one country and gestures at a set. The overseas territories are not enumerated, so the entry covers an unstated number of places by reference.
Lichtenstein is a misspelling of Liechtenstein, in the operator's own document.
None of the four is fatal on its own. Together they are worth recording, because this is a list whose whole function is to be checked against a specific reader, and four of its 74 entries cannot be checked without guessing.
The list that is pointed at and not printed
Clause 3.5 of the bonus terms is the reason this page exists rather than being a paragraph elsewhere.
It refers to a separate group of countries excluded from promotions — distinct from the Restricted Countries List above, which governs depositing and playing. A player in one of those countries may hold an account and may deposit, and a bonus is not available to them.
That list was not in the document that was read.
So the terms establish that a second territorial rule exists, describe what it does, and withhold its contents.
Why the gap sits exactly where the penalty is
Put clause 3.5 next to clause 3.26 and the shape becomes uncomfortable.
If you use a promo code for a promotion you are not eligible for, you will not receive the associated bonus. This includes not receiving the bonus linked to the specific promo code used, as well as any other bonuses for the deposit made.
The penalty is not the loss of the offer that was attempted. It is the loss of that offer and every other bonus the same deposit would have earned. The deposit still lands. The promotion evaporates on the way in.
Eligibility is what that clause tests, and country is one of the things eligibility turns on. So the document penalises a player for failing an eligibility check while keeping one of the inputs to that check unpublished.
The right response to that is not to guess. It is to settle eligibility on the promotions page the operator publishes, on the day the deposit is made, before a code goes anywhere near the field — which is the same conclusion the clause-by-clause reading arrives at from the other direction, on the terms themselves.
Where 74 sits among the operators on this site
Eleven operators sit in the table on this site, and the territorial lengths across them span two orders of magnitude.
| Operator | Places named |
|---|---|
| Oshi Casino | 224 |
| Bitkingz | 218 |
| PlayAmo | 217 |
| 7Bit Casino | 216 |
| Slotum | 216 |
| Bitdreams | 216 |
| BitStarz | 74 |
| Metaspins | 58 |
| Bets.io | 42 |
Six of the eleven publish lists three times longer than this one, and four of those six sit on a single shared permit number, which is why they resemble each other so closely. Two rows in the table carry no readable list at all.
Length says nothing about how much of the rest a document gives up. Bitdreams sits near the top of that column at 216 names and still leaves out the one figure that would let a reader price an offer — the turnover multiple is absent from the copy read, while a 5 EUR bet ceiling and a thirty-day clock are both printed: the Bitdreams reading.
A long list is not hostility and a short one is not welcome. Length measures how much a company chose to write down, and on that measure this document sits in the middle of its own comparison set while withholding the one list that governs its promotions.
What a name in this list settles, and what it does not
It settles that the operator has written down that it does not take deposits or real-money play from that place. That is a fact about a contract, published by the party bound by it, and it is checkable.
It settles nothing about law. What any government permits is decided elsewhere, by parties who publish nothing in these terms, and no sentence here converts a country's absence from the list into a permission of any kind.
It settles nothing about the cashier, which applies its own territory rules when money moves rather than when an account opens.
And it settles nothing about next month. The list is amendable without notice, and every figure on this page describes the document as it was read.
Who the company behind that document is, and what the permit number resolves to, is at the company, the number and the register. What the codes and clauses attached to a deposit actually require is at the bonus terms, clause by clause.