01 · The casino
A slots-only second brand
iCasino.com went live in October 2024. It was a sweepstakes casino. Players bought a play coin and received a second coin alongside it. Only that second coin could be turned back into money. There were no table games and no live dealer tables. It was slots and nothing else.
The company was Sunflower Limited. The same company runs Crown Coins Casino, a bigger and better-known American sweepstakes brand that is still going. iCasino was the second string, and it never got near the size of the first.
It is worth being precise about the regulator side of this. In June 2025 the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency sent a cease and desist letter. It was addressed to Sunflower Limited trading as Crown Coins Casino. That letter names Crown Coins, not iCasino. It tells you the company was already under pressure in at least one state four months before iCasino shut. It does not tell you that iCasino itself was ordered to stop.
02 · The shutdown
Closed with a shrug
Players were told the site would stop taking play on 9 October 2025, with 8 October 2025 as the final day to send a redemption request.
The reason given was that the change would let the company focus on new projects and new exciting things. That is not a reason. It is the sentence a company writes when it does not want to give one. The notice did not say anything about the legal pressure on the sweepstakes model across America through 2025. It also did not mention the letter Maryland had sent the company in June.
Reading it plainly: a second-string brand that never took off was closed while the parent kept its main site running. That happens in every industry. It is only worth noting here because the players are the ones left checking whether their money came out.
03 · The money
Payouts kept going, but slowly
Redemption requests were accepted up to 8 October 2025. By the company’s own account, requests already in the queue were still being processed after the notice. One player wrote publicly that they sent a redemption. They got the closure message the next day. They were told their request was still going through.
The wider picture is less comfortable. iCasino carries a public review score of 2.6 out of 5 across roughly 73 reviews, with about half of them one star. The complaints that come up most are about how long payouts took. One player said the wait went from around 30 minutes to six days.
Slow is not the same as unpaid, and we want to be careful about the difference. We have not found a player saying flatly that an in-time request was refused and never paid. We have found plenty saying it took far longer than it should have. We grade the money outcome as unproven rather than owed.
The one point that is good for players here is that the company is still trading under its other brand. A company that still wants customers has a reason to settle old accounts. If you are still owed, that is the address to write to.
04 · The receipts
How we verified this record
Every claim on this page is graded by how firmly we could check it. Confirmed means we saw it in the operator’s own notice or in a document that cannot easily be faked. Observed means we saw it ourselves on the live site or domain on the date given. Unconfirmed means it has been reported but we could not prove it.
05 · The questions
iCasino.com – the questions still open
Q. When did iCasino.com close?
9 October 2025. The last day to send a redemption request was 8 October 2025.
Q. Why did it close?
The operator said only that it wanted to focus on new projects. No fuller reason was given.
Q. Who ran iCasino.com?
Sunflower Limited, the same company behind Crown Coins Casino.
Q. Is Crown Coins Casino affected?
No. Crown Coins was still operating when we checked. Only iCasino closed.
Q. Were players paid?
Requests sent before 8 October 2025 were being processed after the announcement. Reviews describe long waits rather than outright refusals, but we cannot confirm the queue was fully cleared.
Q. Was iCasino shut down by a regulator?
Not that we can show. Maryland sent the operator a cease and desist letter in June 2025, but it names Crown Coins Casino, not iCasino.