PokerStars Casino Sister Sites

Operated by Stars Interactive Limited (subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc) · Last reviewed: 2025-07-25

Who owns PokerStars Casino?

PokerStars Casino operates in the UK under Stars Interactive Limited, a company registered in the Isle of Man. This entity forms part of Flutter Entertainment plc's international portfolio — Flutter being one of the largest publicly listed gambling companies in the world, with a primary listing on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: FLUT) and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (FLTR). Understanding this corporate structure matters to UK players because it explains why PokerStars Casino shares certain infrastructure, compliance systems, and even player restrictions with a group of other well-known gambling brands operating in Britain.

Flutter's 2024 SEC Annual Report confirms the group structure, listing PokerStars within its International division, while brands such as Sky Betting & Gaming, Paddy Power, Betfair and tombola sit within the UK & Ireland division. This internal split matters slightly for how each brand is marketed and operated day-to-day, but from a player protection standpoint, all UK-facing brands within Flutter are subject to the same overarching corporate responsible gambling policy and, where UK-licensed, the same UK Gambling Commission oversight.

This article sets out, with as much verified detail as our research allows, which brands can genuinely be considered sister sites to PokerStars Casino, what that relationship means in practice, and where the evidence trail runs out. We have been deliberately cautious: where a specific detail — such as a UKGC account number — has not been confirmed against a primary public register in our research sweep, we say so plainly rather than presenting an unverified figure as fact.

What does 'sister site' actually mean in this context?

In the UK gambling industry, a 'sister site' typically refers to a brand that shares the same parent company, and often the same underlying gaming platform, payment processing systems, and compliance department, as another brand. It does not necessarily mean the sites look alike, share a login, or offer identical games. In Flutter's case, some sister brands are tightly integrated (the Sky Betting & Gaming brands share one account across Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo and Sky Poker), while others, like Paddy Power and Betfair, operate as more distinct consumer-facing brands despite common ownership.

For PokerStars Casino specifically, the practical sister-site relationship with other Flutter brands mostly shows up in three areas: shared responsible gambling policy at group level, shared GAMSTOP compliance (a legal requirement for all UKGC licensees regardless of parent company), and, in many cases, shared eligibility restrictions on welcome bonuses for players who have an existing account with another brand in the same group.

Confirmed sister sites within the Flutter Entertainment group

Based on Flutter Entertainment's own brand listing and its 2024 SEC Annual Report filing, the following brands are confirmed as part of the same parent group as PokerStars Casino. Each is UKGC-licensed and available to UK players, though none of the specific UKGC account numbers for these sister brands could be verified against a live public register within this research sweep, so all are marked accordingly.

Betfair Casino

Betfair is arguably Flutter's most globally recognised brand outside of PokerStars itself, having built its reputation on the pioneering Betfair Exchange betting model. Its casino product sits under the same account login as the Betfair sportsbook and exchange. As with PokerStars Casino, Betfair Casino is subject to UKGC licensing requirements, GAMSTOP integration, and Flutter's group-level responsible gambling standards, including deposit limits and self-exclusion tools. Players who already hold a Betfair account from using the exchange or sportsbook should be aware that this may affect their eligibility for new-customer casino welcome offers, since Flutter typically treats existing account holders as ineligible for 'new player' promotions across its brands.

Paddy Power Casino

Paddy Power is one of the most culturally prominent gambling brands in the UK and Ireland, known for its distinctive advertising and long-standing high-street betting shop presence, alongside its digital casino and sportsbook products. Its online casino offers slots, live dealer games and table games under UKGC licensing. As a Flutter sister brand to PokerStars Casino, Paddy Power Casino shares the same group-level responsible gambling framework, including GAMSTOP compliance and UKGC-mandated protections such as reality checks and deposit limits. As with Betfair, players who have previously registered with Paddy Power or claimed a welcome bonus there may find themselves excluded from equivalent offers elsewhere in the Flutter network.

Sky Vegas

Sky Vegas operates within the Sky Betting & Gaming (SBG) division of Flutter Entertainment and is the group's primary online slots and casino brand under the Sky name. It sits alongside Sky Bet, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo and Sky Poker, all of which are accessible through a single unified Sky account — a notably tighter integration than seen between Betfair and Paddy Power. Sky Vegas offers hundreds of slot titles from major software providers and runs regular jackpot promotions. As a UKGC-licensed Flutter brand, it applies the same GamStop self-exclusion policy and responsible gambling tools found at PokerStars Casino.

Sky Bet

Sky Bet is primarily a sportsbook rather than a casino product, but it is included here because it forms part of the same unified Sky account ecosystem as Sky Vegas and Sky Casino, and because it is one of the highest-traffic gambling brands in the UK. Sky Bet shares Flutter's corporate compliance infrastructure, including GAMSTOP integration and UKGC oversight. Any self-exclusion registered at a UKGC-licensed Flutter brand, including PokerStars Casino, will be honoured across Sky Bet and the wider group, as GAMSTOP operates on a national, cross-operator basis rather than a brand-by-brand one.

Sky Casino

Distinct from Sky Vegas, Sky Casino focuses on live dealer games and table games — live roulette, blackjack and game show-style titles from established live studio providers. It uses the same unified Sky account as Sky Bet and Sky Vegas, meaning a single login provides access to the full suite of Sky-branded Flutter products. Sky Casino carries the same UKGC licensing status and responsible gambling commitments as its Sky siblings and, by extension, as PokerStars Casino at the group level.

tombola

tombola stands apart from the rest of the Flutter portfolio in that it is a bingo-led brand built around proprietary bingo and arcade-style games rather than licensed third-party slots. Flutter acquired tombola to strengthen its position in the UK bingo market, and the brand has picked up industry recognition, including an EGR Bingo Operator of the Year award in 2023. tombola operates exclusively in the UK under UKGC licensing and, as with the other brands listed here, is covered by the same national GAMSTOP self-exclusion scheme that applies to PokerStars Casino.

Comparison table: PokerStars Casino and its Flutter sister sites

All UKGC licence numbers listed in our research for these sister brands are marked Not publicly confirmed, since we could not verify them directly against a live entry on the UKGC public register within this research sweep. We recommend players check the UK Gambling Commission's official register directly if a specific licence number is required for verification purposes.

Licensing and regulatory standing

PokerStars Casino holds a remote casino operating licence from the UK Gambling Commission, which permits it to legally offer online casino services to players located in Great Britain. This licensing status is a legal requirement, not an optional badge — any operator marketing online casino products to UK residents without a UKGC licence would be operating unlawfully. Flutter Entertainment plc, as the ultimate parent company, is subject to institutional-level financial scrutiny by virtue of its dual listing on the NYSE and LSE, which brings an additional layer of financial transparency requirements beyond gambling-specific regulation.

Each of the sister brands discussed above is understood to be UKGC-licensed based on their well-established, long-running presence in the UK market and their inclusion in Flutter's own public brand listing. However, specific UKGC account numbers for Betfair Casino, Paddy Power Casino, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bet and tombola were not confirmed from a primary ukgc.gov.uk register URL during our research sweep. Per our editorial policy, we do not publish unverified licence numbers, so these fields are marked Not publicly confirmed throughout this article rather than populated with figures sourced only from third-party review sites.

Player fund protection and game fairness

Third-party sources indicate that PokerStars Casino holds player funds in segregated accounts at a European bank, separating customer deposits from the operator's own working capital — a standard and important safeguard in the event of operator insolvency. Game fairness at PokerStars Casino is reportedly certified by Gaming Labs International (GLI), a recognised independent testing body for random number generator (RNG) integrity in online gambling software. The platform also employs SSL encryption and two-factor authentication for account security.

We were not able to independently verify the exact bank or custodial arrangement from a primary source within this research sweep, so this detail should be treated as third-party reported rather than confirmed directly from PokerStars Casino's own regulatory filings. Players who want full certainty on fund protection arrangements should consult PokerStars Casino's own terms and conditions page, which typically sets out the specific player fund protection level as required under UKGC licence conditions.

Bonus terms and cross-brand eligibility caveats

One of the most practically important things for UK players to understand about sister sites is how welcome bonus eligibility works across a shared corporate group. Flutter Entertainment, like most large gambling groups, generally treats its brands as a connected network for the purposes of new-customer promotions. This means that if you have already registered an account, made a deposit, or claimed a welcome bonus at one Flutter brand — for example, Betfair or Paddy Power — you are likely to be excluded from claiming an equivalent 'new player' welcome offer at another Flutter brand, including PokerStars Casino, even if you have never used that specific brand before.

This is not unique to Flutter; it is standard practice across most major UK gambling groups as an anti-bonus-abuse measure. It does, however, mean that players hoping to maximise the number of welcome offers available to them should be aware that sister-site relationships can work against them in this specific respect, even though the shared infrastructure otherwise offers genuine safety benefits.

All bonus figures and terms referenced for Betfair Casino, Paddy Power Casino, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino and Sky Bet in this article are described as variable and subject to change — we have not quoted specific pound amounts because current promotional terms should always be checked directly on the operator's own website before signing up, as offers are frequently updated or withdrawn.

Payments, accounts and mobile experience

Across the Flutter portfolio, UK players can generally expect standard UK payment methods to be supported, including debit cards, PayPal, and bank transfer, though the exact list varies by brand and can change over time — we recommend checking each operator's payments page directly rather than relying on third-party summaries, as this level of detail was not independently verified for every brand within this research sweep. Mobile experience across Flutter's major brands is generally considered strong, with dedicated apps available for Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Betfair, and Paddy Power in addition to fully responsive mobile web platforms. PokerStars Casino itself offers both a downloadable app and browser-based play, consistent with its long history as a technology-forward operator in the online poker space.

Responsible gambling controls across the network

All UK-facing brands within the Flutter Entertainment group, including PokerStars Casino, are legally required to integrate with GAMSTOP, the UK's national self-exclusion scheme for online gambling. This means that once a player registers for self-exclusion through GAMSTOP, they are blocked from all UKGC-licensed operators — not just the specific brand where they registered — for the duration of their chosen exclusion period, which can range from six months to five years.

Beyond this legal minimum, Flutter Entertainment applies group-level responsible gambling policies across its brands, including deposit limits, loss limits, reality checks, session time reminders, and the ability to take a temporary break (time-out) from an account. In some cases, particularly among tightly integrated brands like the Sky Betting & Gaming family, certain account-level restrictions applied by a customer may be recognised across multiple products under the same login. However, this is not automatically the case across the entire Flutter group — for instance, a self-exclusion set specifically at Betfair does not automatically block a separate account at PokerStars Casino unless the player has also registered through GAMSTOP or specifically requested a group-wide exclusion.

Players concerned about their gambling, or that of someone close to them, can contact the National Gambling Helpline free on 0808 8020 133, available 24 hours a day, or visit BeGambleAware.org for independent advice and support resources.

Brands that are not part of the PokerStars Casino network

It's worth being clear about which well-known UK gambling brands are not part of Flutter Entertainment and therefore not genuine sister sites to PokerStars Casino, despite sometimes being mentioned in the same breath by less careful comparison sites. Ladbrokes and Coral are both part of Entain plc, a separate publicly listed group entirely distinct from Flutter. Readers interested in that network can find more detail in our coverage of Ladbrokes sister sites and Coral Casino sister sites, which set out Entain's brand structure in the same evidence-based format used here.

Similarly, William Hill is now part of Evoke plc (formerly 888 Holdings), another distinct corporate group with no ownership connection to Flutter Entertainment or PokerStars Casino — see our separate William Hill sister sites article for that group's confirmed brand structure. Betfred also operates independently of Flutter as a privately held UK bookmaker; details on its network are covered in our Betfred sister sites article. Because bonus eligibility restrictions typically only apply within a single corporate group, players who have already used up their welcome offer allowance across Flutter brands may still be eligible for new-customer promotions at Entain or Evoke brands, since these operate as entirely separate businesses with separate compliance and marketing systems.

Why this matters for UK players choosing between sister sites

The practical value of understanding the PokerStars Casino sister-site network lies less in finding brand-new experiences — since the underlying compliance and safety standards are broadly consistent across Flutter's UK-facing brands — and more in helping players make informed decisions about where to register, particularly around bonus eligibility and account management. A player who already holds a Sky Bet account for sports betting, for example, may find it more convenient to also use Sky Vegas or Sky Casino under the same login rather than opening a fresh account elsewhere, accepting that they won't be eligible for a separate new-customer casino bonus in doing so.

Conversely, a player who has never used any Flutter brand before, and who is deciding between PokerStars Casino and, say, Betfair Casino or Paddy Power Casino as their first sign-up, should understand that choosing one over the other will affect their eligibility for welcome offers at the others going forward. This is a meaningfully different consideration to comparing entirely unrelated operators from separate corporate groups, where such restrictions typically do not apply.

Our verdict

PokerStars Casino sits within one of the most financially robust and heavily regulated gambling groups available to UK players. Its confirmed sister sites — Betfair Casino, Paddy Power Casino, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bet, and tombola — all operate under UKGC licensing, share Flutter Entertainment's group-level responsible gambling infrastructure, and are integrated with the national GAMSTOP self-exclusion scheme. This gives UK players a consistent baseline of safety and regulatory protection regardless of which specific brand within the network they choose to use.

That said, we have been careful throughout this article to distinguish between what is genuinely confirmed from primary or clearly credible sources — the corporate ownership structure, the UKGC licensing requirement, GAMSTOP integration, and the list of group brands — and what remains third-party reported or unverified, such as specific UKGC account numbers for sister brands and the precise custodial arrangements for player funds. Players who want absolute certainty on any of these specific points should verify directly against the UK Gambling Commission's public register or the relevant operator's own terms and conditions before registering or depositing.