The Belgian online gambling market is one of the most tightly framed in Europe. A good part of what happens to you as a player depends not on the operator you chose, but on a rule written elsewhere, often years earlier.
Those rules are public. They are also poorly explained, when they are explained at all.
A comparison site will tell you there are no bonuses in Belgium. Almost none will tell you why, or what operators offer instead. That gap is what these articles fill.
What you will find here
Substantive explanations of rules that concern you directly, written from the official texts and the operators’ own documents, with the sources listed at the foot of each page.
Each article starts from a question people actually ask, and answers it even when the answer is unwelcome. That is often the case: several of these subjects exist precisely because the licensed market cannot give what is asked of it.
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Online casino scams: when fraudsters copy Belgian casinos
‘Your account will be blocked within 48 hours unless you confirm your details.’ Safeonweb flagged emails of this kind on 8 October 2026, sent in the name of itsme. Nothing stops the same wording from carrying a Belgian casino’s logo tomorrow. That is how online casino scams work: they borrow a…
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Casino RTP in Belgium: from studio to statute, how the rate is set
On a game’s information sheet, one figure catches the eye: 96%, sometimes more. That is the RTP, the return to player, and at a casino in Belgium it often passes for a promise. On 24 September, reading PlayOne’s terms and conditions, I came across an article 11.5 that adds a…
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Cancelling an online casino withdrawal: when you can and what it costs
In Great Britain, an online casino is no longer allowed to let you cancel a withdrawal. Since 31 October 2021 the British regulator’s technical standards have put it in a single sentence: the player must not be given the option to cancel their request. In Belgium, none of the texts…
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Minimum gambling age in Belgium: what the 2024 law changed
Twenty-one. That is the minimum gambling age in Belgium, whether the game is a roulette wheel on a website, a bet on a match or a machine standing in a café. For a long time, though, the answer depended on where you played, and some of the documents that deal…
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Multiple casino accounts in Belgium: three situations, three answers
“Can I have more than one account?” The question sits on almost every Belgian casino’s help page, and the answer you find there is one word long: no. That answer is correct, but it holds for only one of the three situations the question covers. Registering with several operators, opening…
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A casino that loses its licence: the guarantee does not protect your balance
You open the site you have been playing on for months, and the home page has changed. A message announces that the service is closing. Your balance is still sitting in your account. The first thing you read then, on just about every site covering the Belgian market, is that…
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Disconnected mid-game: every operator applies its own rule
The round starts, the screen freezes. You reload the page, you log back in, and the balance has changed. Something happened in between that you never saw. The question looks simple: have you lost your stake? Yet there is no single answer. I read the terms and conditions of the…
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Casino winnings in Belgium: no tax, but no law guarantees it
One evening, a run of spins finally pays off. Your balance reads 4,000 euro, you request a withdrawal and the money reaches your account a few days later. Through which method? That depends on the operator: even among casinos that accept Bancontact, the withdrawal method is not always the one you…
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Inactive casino account: what seven Belgian operators do with your money
You opened an account two years ago, played for a few weeks, then stopped. Thirty or forty euros were still sitting on it. You never thought about it again. Does that money still exist? The answer depends entirely on the operator holding the inactive account, and the gap is considerable:…
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Deposit limit of 200 euro: it applies to your deposits, not your stakes
Since October 2022, a Belgian player may not pay more than two hundred euro a week into an online gambling site. The measure is real, it applies to every licensed operator, and few European countries track deposits this closely. It is also widely misunderstood. Many players believe it caps what…
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A+ or B+ licence: what the class changes for you
A player looks for a roulette table with a real dealer. They open three licensed Belgian sites, and on two of them they find only automated versions. That is neither a commercial choice nor an incomplete range. It is written into their licence. In Belgium, the class of authorisation determines what…
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Casino with an international licence: a real licence, but not valid here
You scroll to the foot of a casino site. A licence number, the name of a regulator, sometimes a clickable seal leading to an official register. Everything looks in order. And in one sense it is. Those licences exist, they are issued by real authorities, and the number you check…
What you will not find here
These articles compare nothing and recommend nobody. They rate no operator, carry no ranking and no commercial link.
That work does exist, but it lives elsewhere: in the audits I publish operator by operator, where I go through each site’s documents, and in the comparison of casinos licensed in Belgium, which ranks them by score.
The separation is deliberate. A page that explains a rule and recommends an operator in the same breath always ends up bending the rule.
How I choose the subjects
Two criteria, and the second matters more than the first.
The question is genuinely asked. I start from what people search for in Belgium, not from what strikes me as interesting. Several subjects that seemed useful to me were dropped for lack of demand.
And nobody answers it properly. If the information is already clear and accessible, one more article adds nothing. The subjects kept are those where existing pages merely announce a rule without ever drawing its practical consequences.
Every article rests on primary sources, listed and linked at the foot of the page. Where a fact comes from an operator rather than the regulator, I say so.
The detail of how I work is set out in my method.
Three years in iGaming, focused on licensed casinos in Belgium. I write every CasinAudit page myself and check each figure against an official source.