Cloudbet restricted countries: what its list does and does not say

Cloudbet's restricted-country list has 22 entries covering 26 countries and regions. In its live terms, read on 21 October 2026, clause 7.1.3 names Australia, Austria, Belgium, China with Macau and Hong Kong, Curaçao, Cuba, France, Germany, Iran, Japan, Lithuania, Malta, Myanmar, the Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, Syria, Spain, Turkey, the United States and its territories, the United Kingdom, and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. The United States is on it. In the archived copy we read on 26 August 2026 the list had two names, Australia and Belgium. This page sets out what the list says and answers the parts of the US question that a document can answer.

This is not legal advice. It sets out what Cloudbet's terms and two federal statutes say, and where the gaps are; for a firm answer about your own situation, ask a lawyer in your state.

Cloudbet's list, as read

Read 21 October 2026 from Cloudbet's live terms; the balance rule was read 27 August 2026.

The jump from two names to 26 is the lesson in one row. A list can change quietly, so a review that quotes it without a date is quoting the past. Cloudbet's own terms page is the only thing that settles today's list.

That balance rule is the one that matters most. The account rules around it are on the Cloudbet account page.

Why a short list never proved anything

In August the United States was missing from the copy we read. By October it was on the list. A country's absence from a list is a fact about the text of a contract on one day. It is not permission, and it is not an assurance that an account will be opened or kept.

Short lists are often short on purpose. Bitcasino.io shows how: clause 1 of its terms, read 2 September 2026, says certain countries are restricted by its gaming licence, names Japan, and sends the reader to a separate page for the rest, which we did not open. A one-line list can be the first line of a longer one you have not seen.

Long lists are no stricter. Of the 38 published lists we read on 26 August 2026, seven ran to between 216 and 224 entries, more than the number of sovereign states, which marks them as pasted country-code sheets. Four had a single entry.

How alternatives' lists treat the United States

Read on the dates shown. A dash means the documents we read give no answer.

Cloudbet and three other well-known crypto sportsbooks now name the United States outright, and where their terms say what follows, the answer is about money. Thunderpick's clause 3.2 says an account accessed from a restricted place loses its access rights and its balance may be treated as void, and an attempt to get around the restriction ends in closure and forfeiture. Stake's clause 14.4 treats masking your location as a breach of its terms. Shuffle's AML policy, sections 5.2 and 5.4, describes checking device location against restricted places and lists concealing location as a ground for blocking an account.

Vave shows that a restriction can be product-specific: clause 21 of its terms bars sports and live betting from Russia, with confiscated funds and a blocked account as the stated result.

Nothing on this site describes how to reach a service from a place its terms close.

The US position: two federal statutes

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, 31 U.S. C. § 5363. It bars anyone in the business of betting or wagering from knowingly accepting credit, electronic fund transfers, checks or similar payments in connection with another person's participation in unlawful Internet gambling. The Act does not list which bets are unlawful; it takes that answer from the federal or state law that applies where the bet is made or received.

The Wire Act, 18 U.S. C. § 1084. It makes it an offence for someone in the business of betting or wagering to knowingly use a wire communication facility to transmit bets, or information that helps place bets, on any sporting event or contest across state or national lines. The penalty is a fine, up to two years in prison, or both. It is the statute written most directly about sports betting, Cloudbet's core product.

Both are addressed to the business taking the bet or the payment. What they mean for an individual depends on your state's law. The United States licenses gambling state by state, and no state licence covers the offshore operators named here, Cloudbet included. Cloudbet's licence is from Curaçao: OGL/2024/328/0599, held by Halcyon Super Holdings B.V., Active when we read the register on 26 August 2026. The full certificate is on the Cloudbet licence page.

Austria or Australia: one letter, two answers

A good share of searches for Cloudbet's restricted countries come from Austria, and the two names are easy to confuse on a dense terms page. The archived copy of 26 August 2026 named Australia only. The live list of 21 October 2026 names both.

So the answer for a reader in Austria is now plain on both counts: Cloudbet names Austria in clause 7.1.3, and it holds no Austrian concession either.

How to check a restricted list yourself

1. Open the operator's own terms, not a review: the list belongs to the contract and changes without notice.
2. Search the page for “restricted”, “prohibited” and “jurisdictions”. Lists are often split between the terms and a separate help article.
3. Look for a catch-all line, such as any place where online gambling is unlawful. It can cover more countries than the named list.
4. Find the rule on balances. What happens to a deposit or a win from a restricted place is the clause that decides the outcome.
5. Note the date you read it. A list read last year is a list from last year.

Why the document check is where it surfaces

Operators rarely enforce a country list at sign-up. They enforce it at the document check, which most terms allow before any withdrawal: a passport and a proof of address show where the player lives. That is why a restricted list matters most after a win, not before a deposit, and why reading it first is the only order that makes sense.

What a list can tell you, and what it cannot

A list can tell you:

• which places the operator names in its own contract, on a given date;
• what the terms say happens to a balance when play comes from a named place;
• where to look next, when the list points to another document.

A list cannot tell you:

• whether betting with an offshore site is lawful where you live;
• whether an account opened from an unnamed place will be accepted or kept;
• whether a withdrawal will be paid if the operator later decides the play came from a prohibited place.

So read in this order: the list, then the clause on what happens to a balance, then your own state's law. Whether Cloudbet is a sound operator on the points that can be checked is a separate question, answered on Is Cloudbet legit?. If you are weighing it against a Cloudbet alternative, run the same three steps on that operator's own terms.

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