Mr Green is gone from the UK: why Evoke surrendered the licence
Mr Green — the top-hatted “gentleman of casinos” — no longer accepts UK players. Its UK remote casino and bingo licence was surrendered with an end date of 28 October 2024, completing an exit that began when the brand’s UK sportsbook closed in 2022.
Why a profitable-looking brand walks away
Mr Green’s owner, evoke plc (the renamed 888 Holdings, which also owns William Hill), spent 2023-24 consolidating brands after a period of heavy regulatory cost. Running a separate casino brand — with its own compliance overhead, its own marketing and its own licence obligations — stopped making sense when the group’s UK strategy centred on William Hill and 888casino. This is the quiet pattern behind many UK brand closures: not scandal, but consolidation.
What it means for players
- Open balances were handled under the licence’s closure obligations — any former player with an unresolved balance should contact evoke’s support with account records.
- The natural “sisters” for former Mr Green players are the brands on the same group: 888casino and William Hill Casino — both remain fully UKGC-licensed.
- Mr Green continues in other European markets. A site claiming to be “Mr Green UK” today is not operating under a UK licence — treat it as offshore.
Source: UK Gambling Commission public register; evoke plc corporate reporting.
