Last verified: July 18, 2026
Thirteen casinos folded into one
The move showed up first on the promotional side. The Rewards Affiliates partner page, which lists the casinos affiliates are allowed to send traffic to, now names sixteen brands, and not one of the thirteen appears on it. The older per-brand affiliate links have not been deleted either; loading one that used to open Aztec Riches now serves Luxury Casino instead. That is the consolidation working exactly as the operator described it to partners: the retired brands stop being promoted, and any leftover link routes the visitor to the survivor.
Both halves of that were checked directly rather than taken on trust. The sixteen-brand roster and the redirect behaviour are the strongest evidence on the page, because they come straight from the operator’s live infrastructure rather than a notice or a review. What the notice adds is the intent behind the plumbing: existing customers are told to sign in at Luxury, where their history is said to be waiting.
The thirteen names were removed from the promotable roster. Sixteen Casino Rewards brands remain listed for partners, Luxury among them.
Old brand and affiliate links resolve to Luxury Casino. Account holders are directed to log in there, where balances and history are said to carry over.
Two companies, two jurisdictions, one brand family
Casino Rewards is not a single licensed company but a brand family run through different operators depending on the market. Keeping the two apart matters, because a reader who conflates them will misread who is responsible for what. The regulated, UK-facing side runs through a Maltese company; the offshore, global-facing side runs through a separate company in the British Virgin Islands.
Apollo’s British licence is live and clean on the public register: a remote casino operating licence numbered 038620-R-319310-012, active since November 2014, carrying no regulatory actions. Fresh Horizons appears on the Kahnawake permit list operating luxury.casino, though the commonly quoted permit number, 00972, does not show on that register itself and is treated here as reported rather than confirmed. The practical upshot is that Luxury exists as several jurisdiction-specific instances of one name: an Apollo-run British and Ontario version, and a Fresh Horizons-run offshore one.
Why the UK footprint shrank: a doubled tax
The timing lines up with a tax change big enough to reshape which British skins are worth keeping. In the Autumn Budget of 2025 the government confirmed a sharp rise in the levy on online casino play. GOV.UK puts it plainly:
One point of care: this is Remote Gaming Duty, which falls on casino-style play, and it is separate from a new remote-betting rate of 25% that enters General Betting Duty a year later, in April 2027. Only the gaming duty is the 2026 change, and only it is relevant here. A second point of care runs the other way. The duty rise is market-wide, hitting every licensed operator, so treating it as the specific reason these particular brands were retired is a reasonable read rather than a proven one. What can be said is that nearly doubling the tax on remote gaming revenue makes running a long tail of thinly used British skins uneconomic, which is a coherent explanation for shrinking to a handful.
Who can still play from the UK
By the affiliate notice, new British sign-ups are now steered to three brands only: Luxury Casino, UK Casino Club and Zodiac Casino. Captain Cooks survives globally but stopped taking new UK players during 2026, which makes it a partial exit rather than a full closure. The same notice lists British account terms that were not among the independently verified facts and are repeated here as the operator’s stated rules, not as confirmed ones: a minimum age of 25, no sign-up bonuses for UK players (retention offers aside), tenfold wagering, and a ten-pound minimum deposit. The age figure is worth a flag, since the statutory UK minimum is 18; a self-imposed 25 would be unusual, and nothing independent was found to confirm it.
What is said to have happened to balances
By the operator’s telling, nobody is being cashed out or cut off: accounts and balances move to Luxury, and players carry on there with the same history. That is the reassuring version, and it may well be the true one. It is reported here as the operator’s statement, because that is exactly what it is. No independent, dated evidence turned up to show that a single migrated balance was actually honoured at Luxury after the switch, and until such a record exists the migration is a claim rather than a proven outcome.
The reason for keeping the wording careful is the destination itself. Luxury Casino carries its own unresolved withholding complaint, aired publicly on the Casino Guru forum under the heading about it keeping twenty-six thousand of a player’s winnings. A Canadian player there describes an account verified in September 2023, then locked at his first withdrawal on an accusation of holding multiple accounts he says was never evidenced to him, with the balance zeroed rather than paid. The thread shows no resolution. One disputed case is not a verdict on how every migrated account will be treated, but it is a concrete reason not to promote Luxury as a safe harbour on the strength of a notice alone.
Still listed as active, still shut to players
A trap waits on the UK register for anyone using it to check whether these casinos are open. Rechecked on 17 July 2026, all thirteen still appear as active trading names under Apollo, sitting among twenty-nine names all marked the same way. That status is an administrative fact about paperwork, not a statement that the casino accepts players; the names simply have not been surrendered yet. Reading “active” as “open” is the mistake to avoid here, and this entry will be refreshed as the trading names drop off the register.
The sixteen brands still standing
The promotable roster that replaced the thirteen holds sixteen casinos: Blackjack Ballroom, Captain Cooks, Casino Action, Casino Classic, Casino Kingdom, Cosmo Casino, Golden Tiger, Grand Hotel, Grand Mondial, Luxury Casino, Players Palace, Quatro Casino, UK Casino Club, Villento, Yukon Gold and Zodiac. Luxury is the one that matters most to a displaced player, since it is both the loyalty flagship and the address every retired brand now points at. Zodiac was checked live and confirmed running under Apollo Entertainment Ltd, the same Maltese company on the British licence, which is a useful reminder that the survivors are the regulated instances of these names, not the offshore ones.
The thirteen, one record each
Each retired brand gets its own dated record as this batch is published, and the links below go live as they do. Several trace back to the early-2000s Microgaming era, which is partly why they still turn up as live recommendations on out-of-date listicles the individual records exist to correct.
Casino Rewards consolidation: common questions
They were retired, not abandoned. Thirteen brands were taken off the promotable roster in May 2026 and their traffic routed to Luxury Casino, while sixteen other Casino Rewards brands stayed live. It is a portfolio being pruned, not an operator vanishing.
The operator says existing accounts move to Luxury Casino and that signing in there brings your history with you. Old brand links now open Luxury directly. Treat the balance as something to verify on that account rather than assume, for the reasons set out above.
That it transfers intact is the operator’s account, and no independent record of a honoured migrated balance was found. Luxury also has an unresolved public complaint about withheld winnings. Log in, screenshot what you see, and raise anything missing straight away.
The backdrop is Remote Gaming Duty doubling from 21% to 40% on 1 April 2026. That is a market-wide change rather than a proven brand-specific cause, but it makes keeping many low-traffic British skins uneconomic, which fits shrinking to a few UK-eligible names.
No. As of 17 July 2026 all thirteen remain active trading names on the Gambling Commission register, but that only means the names have not been surrendered. Registration status is not the same as accepting players.
Two companies, split by market: Apollo Entertainment Ltd holds the UK licence (Gambling Commission account 38620) and the Maltese one and runs the regulated versions; Fresh Horizons Ltd, in the British Virgin Islands, runs Luxury and the offshore versions under a Kahnawake permit.