Holland Casino is the Dutch state-owned casino operator, founded on 1 October 1976 and the only company permitted to run land-based casinos in the Netherlands. Its profits pass to the Dutch treasury. It operates fourteen venues, including Amsterdam Centrum and Amsterdam West-Sloterdijk, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Utrecht, Breda, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Nijmegen, Valkenburg, Venlo and Zandvoort. Since 4 October 2021 it has also run a licensed online platform under a Kansspelautoriteit licence, having entered the online market on the day it opened. Successive Dutch governments have debated privatising it without concluding, which leaves it in the unusual position of competing online while remaining a state monopoly on land.
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TOTO, Holland Casino, Kansino, FairPlay, Bingoal, bet365, GG Poker and Betcity have licences to September 2031. For the first time the regulator explicitly examined violations definitively established in the previous five years, asked applicants what they had done about them, and issued unnamed operators "additional points for attention".
The 2021 licences expire at the end of this month. Bet365, TOTO, Holland Casino, Kansino, FairPlay, Bingoal, GGPoker and Betcity have theirs to 2031. New in the renewal test: every violation definitively established in five years, what the operator did about it, and "additional points of attention" for some. The rest of the market has under two weeks.
PowNed sent someone registered on Cruks into gaming venues using another person's identification, and got in. One of the three venues under scrutiny is a state-owned Holland Casino site in Eindhoven.
The Netherlands Gaming Authority has renewed Holland Casino Online's licence for a further five years from October 2026, confirming the state-backed operator's continued place in the regulated Dutch market even as a 37.8% GGR tax rate squeezes its margins and the broader industry warns of channelisation risk.
The Dutch gambling authority, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), has unveiled a new €21 million research programme aimed at strengthening the prevention and treatment
The Dutch government has announced its decision to maintain state control over the country's national lottery, Nederlandse Loterij, and the land-based casino
Collective labour agreement (CLA) negotiations between state-owned operator Holland Casino and trade union De Unie have entered a difficult phase. In the