AK Bets Sister Sites

The short answer: AK Bets does not have a confirmed same-owner "sister" casino. The online brand is run by Akbo Limited, a Dublin-registered company founded by former Paddy Power trader Anthony Kaminskas, and — contrary to how it is sometimes described on affiliate pages — it is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), not an offshore book. If you arrived here believing AK Bets is an unlicensed offshore casino, that is a genuine misconception worth clearing up before you read anything else.

We have kept this page to what we can actually verify on the regulator's own public register, and we have said plainly where the record shows nothing rather than filling gaps with guesswork.

Who actually runs AK Bets

AK Bets began life as an on-course ("rails") bookmaker at Irish racecourses around 2021 and moved online in early 2023. The founder is Anthony Kaminskas, and the operation is run out of Dublin. Today two related UK-licensed companies sit behind the name, both registered at the same address, 186 Harolds Cross Road, Terenure, Dublin:

• Akbo Limited — the online operator. This is the company that holds the remote casino and remote betting licence, and the one that matters for anyone playing the AK Bets online casino.
• AK Bets Limited — the non-remote (retail / on-course) and ancillary betting side of the same business.

The online product runs on the Playbook Gaming platform, the same technology used by several other independent UK bookmakers such as Star Sports and BetZone. That shared platform is the single biggest reason AK Bets gets wrongly bundled with "sister sites" — more on that below.

Is AK Bets UK-licensed? What the register shows

Yes. This is the part most third-party "AK Bets is offshore" write-ups get wrong. The UKGC public register lists the operator with its own licence:

• Akbo Limited — account 66030, status Active, holding a remote Casino licence plus remote General Betting (real and virtual event), operating-licence reference 066030-R-340329-002, active from 27 March 2025, with no regulatory actions recorded. (UKGC register: Akbo Limited)
• AK Bets Limited — account 65961, status Active, holding a non-remote and ancillary-remote betting licence, active from 7 March 2025. (UKGC register: AK Bets Limited)

Before it held its own licence, AK Bets ran as a white-label brand under Star Racing Limited (the company behind Star Sports, UKGC account 9177). On that older licence the domain akbets.bet is now marked Inactive — a visible fingerprint of the move to its own permission in spring 2025. (UKGC register: Star Racing Limited)

One distinction worth keeping straight: a platform licence and a brand licence are not the same thing. When AK Bets was a white label, it operated under Star Racing's licence, not its own. That is no longer the case — Akbo Limited now holds the AK Bets casino permission directly. So the UK protections described further down apply to AK Bets itself, not merely to a platform provider standing behind it.

Does AK Bets have sister sites?

On the evidence available, no same-owner sister casino can be verified. Both UKGC accounts tied to this business list only the AK Bets name — Akbo Limited (66030) carries a single licensed domain and no additional trading names, and AK Bets Limited (65961) carries only the "ak bets" trading name. There is no second consumer casino brand hiding under either licence.

The brands you will see listed elsewhere as "AK Bets sisters" fall into two honest categories, and neither is a same-owner sibling:

In other words: a shared platform and a shared history are not shared ownership. If a page tells you AK Bets is "part of a network" of casinos you can hop between under one company, that claim is not supported by the register.

What being UK-licensed means for you as a player

Because AK Bets holds a UK Gambling Commission licence, the protections a UK player expects do apply here — this is exactly the reassurance an "offshore" label would wrongly take away:

• A complaints route. If a dispute cannot be resolved with the operator, UK-licensed sites must offer independent alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and the UKGC oversees the operator.
• The national online self-exclusion scheme applies. As a UKGC-licensed operator, AK Bets is inside the UK's central self-exclusion scheme, so a self-exclusion you set does reach it — unlike a genuinely offshore book, which sits outside that system.
• Deposit limits are per account. Any deposit limit you set applies to your AK Bets account; it does not automatically carry across to other operators, so set limits everywhere you play.
• Player funds and fair-play rules follow UKGC licence conditions rather than an offshore regime with no UK oversight.

The honest caveat is not about legitimacy but about track record: AK Bets is a small, young, independent operator that has only held its own online licence since March 2025. That is a shorter history than an established major, so the sensible checks still apply — read the current bonus terms in full before opting in, keep records of any withdrawal, and treat headline offers as things to verify at sign-up rather than take on trust. We have deliberately not quoted a specific welcome bonus, wagering figure, RTP or game count here, because those change and we could not verify current numbers first-hand.

Whatever you play, keep it within limits you can afford. Free, confidential support is available in Britain from GamCare's National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, and through the National Gambling Support Network. This content is for over-18s only.

Our verdict

AK Bets is a niche, founder-led UK bookmaker with a small casino attached, running on the Playbook platform and now holding its own UK Gambling Commission licence through Akbo Limited. It has no verifiable same-owner sister casino, and the "sisters" listed elsewhere are platform-mates or a former white-label host rather than siblings you can treat as one family. Crucially, it is not an offshore, unlicensed operator — so if that was your worry, the register puts it to rest. A UK-licensed site is the safer choice for a British player, and on the evidence AK Bets qualifies as one; the reasonable reservation is its short independent track record, not its legality.