Argyll Entertainment AG Casinos Sister Sites 2026
Argyll Entertainment AG is a Swiss-based online gambling group that once ran a small stable of UK sports betting and casino brands, but it voluntarily surrendered its UK Gambling Commission licence and closed its UK-facing sites at the end of November 2022. Anyone researching its brands today should know the group no longer serves UK players.
Last updated 10th July 2026
Argyll Entertainment AG Company Profile
Argyll Entertainment AG is a subsidiary of LHE Enterprises Limited, founded in 2016 with its head office in Zug, Switzerland, and it previously kept affiliate and licensing offices in the UK and Malta. The group built its business around sports betting, live casino and online slots, running its brands on software from providers including Microgaming, Play’n GO, Red Tiger Gaming, Evolution Gaming, Blueprint Gaming, NetEnt and iSoftBet.
At its peak the group operated SportNation.bet, RedZone Sports, GiveMeBet (a white-label built for the GiveMeSport media brand) and CasinoNation, all holding a UK Gambling Commission remote gambling licence alongside a Malta Gaming Authority licence for its wider European business. That changed in November 2022, when Argyll Entertainment’s then-parent Esports Entertainment Group announced it was voluntarily surrendering the UK licence and closing all four UK-facing brands, citing the economics of running a small operator in the UK market. The Gambling Commission confirmed there was no regulatory breach behind the exit.
SportNation.bet, RedZone and GiveMeBet all stopped taking UK customers from 30 November 2022, and CasinoNation closed around the same time as its parent company worked through financial difficulties. None of the four brands has since returned to the UK market, and none currently holds an active UK Gambling Commission licence, so we do not treat any of them as available to UK players today.
From Zug Startup to NASDAQ Subsidiary
The company was incorporated in 2016 with its registered office in Zug, pitching itself as a challenger operation: small, quick to market and happy to serve bettors the giants overlooked. Its flagship site went live at sportnation.bet in the summer of 2017, and by 2019 the business was reporting around $12 million in annual revenue from a base of more than 100,000 registered customers. Those are modest figures next to a Bet365, but for a lean Swiss outfit selling into the crowded UK market they represented real traction.
That traction attracted Esports Entertainment Group, a NASDAQ-listed firm hunting for regulated-market licences to bolt onto its esports wagering ambitions. EEG signed a definitive agreement to buy LHE Enterprises Limited — Argyll’s holding company — on 7 July 2020 and completed the deal on 31 July 2020, describing it as its first acquisition as a NASDAQ company. Argyll chief executive Stuart Tilly and finance chief Dan Marks both moved into senior roles at the buyer, which at the time read as a vote of confidence in the enlarged group.
Hindsight tells a harsher story. EEG embarked on an acquisition spree it could not digest, and within two years the parent was wrestling with defaulted debt obligations and dwindling cash — disclosures around the UK exit put available funds at roughly $2.6 million. Argyll’s brands were viable to run but too small to save, and they became the first assets thrown overboard.
Licence Timeline on the UKGC Register
Argyll Entertainment AG held its UK permissions under Gambling Commission account number 45143, covering remote betting and casino activity for its UK-facing sites, with a Malta Gaming Authority licence running in parallel for the wider European business. Throughout its years on the register the Commission recorded no fines, sanctions or regulatory actions against the account, a point the operator was keen to stress on the way out.
The licence did not lapse and was never revoked; Argyll surrendered it voluntarily as part of the November 2022 wind-down. That distinction matters when researching a closed bookmaker, because an operator-initiated surrender carries no finding of wrongdoing. The Commission has since removed the record altogether — the register page for account 45143 now returns a “410 Gone” response rather than an archived entry, and the company appears nowhere in the current register export. There is no cleaner confirmation that the group has no route back into the UK under its old paperwork.
How the Shutdown Unfolded
EEG announced in mid-November 2022 that its UK-facing brands would stop trading at the end of that month, telling customers the sites were closing for reasons “including the economics of operating a small igaming business in the UK market”. Accounts worked normally until 30 November 2022, though any ante-post bet due to settle after that date was voided with the stake returned to the account — a call that annoyed punters sitting on promising futures positions, since ante-post terms normally bind both ways.
Withdrawals reopened on 7 December 2022 so players could clear their balances, and the final closure took effect on 14 December 2022, with EEG committing to refund whatever remained to the extent the law required. The group was still solvent while that window ran, which is why customers who acted promptly got their money out without drama. The Gambling Commission confirmed no adverse judgment lay behind the exit.
SportNation Bet
SportNation Bet was Argyll Entertainment’s flagship UK brand, launched in 2016 to offer sports betting, live casino, in-play markets, virtuals and slots from one account. It built up a loyalty scheme that paid Reward Points on every bet, redeemable against free bets and bonuses, and supported the usual UK payment mix of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Skrill. Like the rest of the Argyll stable, it withdrew from the UK market at the end of November 2022 and is covered in more depth on its own sister sites page.
RedZone Sports
RedZone Sports was the stable’s specialist: a USA-themed bookmaker built for UK customers who wanted deeper American coverage than mainstream sites bothered with. Reviewers rated its NFL, baseball, ice hockey and basketball markets as genuinely distinctive rather than a reskin, and it even priced oddities like drag racing. It shared SportNation’s platform and wallet plumbing, and it went dark for UK players on the same 30 November 2022 deadline.
GiveMeBet
GiveMeBet was a white-label sportsbook Argyll built for the GiveMeSport media brand, designed to convert that publisher’s huge football audience into betting customers. It never grew much identity of its own, and when the surrender was announced it wound down on the same schedule as the rest of the group. No separate review of it exists here because there is no longer a product to review.
CasinoNation
CasinoNation carried the group’s casino-first traffic, packaging the Microgaming, NetEnt, Red Tiger and Evolution catalogue behind SportNation’s casino tab into a standalone slots and live-tables site. It closed to UK residents alongside the sportsbooks in late 2022 and has not resurfaced under any other licence since.
FansBet
FansBet earns a footnote because it was not an Argyll brand at all — it was an independent, fan-led betting site operating as a white label on Argyll’s licence, sharing a cut of profits with supporter groups and grassroots causes. When account 45143 was surrendered, FansBet lost the legal basis for its UK operation overnight and closed to British customers at the end of November 2022 through no fault of its own. Of everything caught up in this closure, it is the brand former users seem to miss most.
What Happened to Player Money
SportNation’s terms disclosed that customer funds were held at the Commission’s basic “not protected” standard, meaning deposits sat in the company’s own accounts rather than being ringfenced with an independent trustee. That arrangement is legal and common at smaller operators, but it meant everything hinged on the group staying solvent long enough to pay people out — and in this case it broadly did. Because the December 2022 withdrawal window ran before any insolvency event, players who requested their balances received them.
The company itself did not outlive its licence for long. Swiss registry records show bankruptcy proceedings were opened against Argyll Entertainment AG on 27 March 2023 and the company was dissolved, so it now exists on paper only as “Argyll Entertainment AG in Liquidation”, with the process publicised in April 2023 and expected to run for years. A former player who never withdrew a balance is today an unsecured creditor in a Swiss liquidation — a claim that is technically possible to lodge and rarely worth the effort for a small sum.
Anyone who believes they are still owed money should gather whatever records survive — account emails, deposit receipts, screenshots of a final balance — before assuming it is gone. The UK dispute routes that existed under the licence closed with it, so the Swiss liquidator is the only remaining counterparty.
Live Alternatives for Former SportNation Players
Nothing on the Argyll roster is coming back, so the practical question is where its former customers should look now. For the sportsbook-plus-casino combination SportNation built its name on, Betfred and Virgin Bet both run full UK Gambling Commission licences with the football and racing depth British punters expect, and each keeps its casino attached to the same wallet — always SportNation’s main convenience.
Punters who valued RedZone’s American-sports slant will find respectable current NFL and NBA coverage at BetUK, while Novibet offers the challenger-brand feel of the old Argyll sites with the reassurance of an active UK licence. Whichever way you go, check the licence line in the site footer before depositing; the lesson of this page is that even a pleasant, well-reviewed bookmaker can vanish inside a month.
Argyll Entertainment AG FAQs
What are Argyll Entertainment AG’s sister sites?
Argyll Entertainment AG ran SportNation.bet, RedZone Sports, GiveMeBet and CasinoNation as sister brands. Of these, only SportNation Bet currently has a review live on our site; the others are not published here, so we have not linked them as active sister sites. FansBet also operated on the same licence as an independent white label and closed at the same time.
Who owns Argyll Entertainment AG?
Argyll Entertainment AG is a subsidiary of LHE Enterprises Limited, based in Zug, Switzerland. Its brands were previously run under licence by Esports Entertainment Group before the UK business was closed down in November 2022, and the Swiss company entered bankruptcy proceedings in March 2023 — it is now formally in liquidation.
What licence does Argyll Entertainment AG operate on?
Argyll Entertainment AG voluntarily surrendered its UK Gambling Commission licence in November 2022 and closed its UK-facing brands. It is not currently on the UKGC register as an active operator, and the register entry for its old account number, 45143, has since been removed entirely.
Is Argyll Entertainment AG available to UK players?
No. SportNation.bet, RedZone Sports, GiveMeBet and CasinoNation all stopped accepting UK customers on 30 November 2022, and none has returned to the UK market since.
Can I still withdraw money from SportNation or RedZone?
The official withdrawal window ran from 7 December until the final closure on 14 December 2022, and the sites have since been taken down, so no login route remains. Anyone still owed a balance would have to pursue it as a creditor claim in the Swiss liquidation of Argyll Entertainment AG, which opened in March 2023.
Why did Argyll Entertainment leave the UK market?
Its parent, Esports Entertainment Group, was struggling with defaulted debt and had around $2.6 million in available cash when the closure was announced. The group said the sites were closing partly because of the economics of running a small igaming business in the UK, and surrendering the licence cut those costs quickly. The Gambling Commission confirmed there was no regulatory breach behind the exit.
Which live bookmakers are closest to what SportNation offered?
Betfred, Virgin Bet, BetUK and Novibet all combine a UK-licensed sportsbook with an attached casino, which was SportNation’s core setup. Our reviews of each cover their sister sites and current status in full.