If you have spent any time reading Swedish casino review sites, you have probably run into the Spelpaus question. It comes up on the homepage of nearly every “utan svensk licens” site, Casinoanders.co included, and it splits into two parts: what the register can and cannot do, and what a review site’s position on that means for the reader.
This piece is a plain explainer. It looks at how Spelpaus works, why it does not reach the operators Casinoanders.co covers, and how the site frames the whole subject on its own pages. There are no product recommendations here and no buttons to click through.
Note. This post summarises how one review site presents the Spelpaus question. If you are looking for gambling support, contact Stodlinjen on 020-81 91 00 or use spelpaus.se to register for self-exclusion. Neither route is affected by anything in this article.
What Spelpaus Actually Does
Spelpaus is a national register of Swedish players who have chosen to be blocked from gambling. It is run by Spelinspektionen and lives at spelpaus.se. You register with BankID, pick a duration — one, three or six months, or an open-ended block — and the block starts within a few hours. From then on, every operator with a Swedish licence is required to check that list at three moments: when you try to register, when you try to log in, and when you try to deposit. If your identity number is on the list, the operator has to refuse. That is where the mechanism ends.
The block also stops Swedish-licensed operators from sending you marketing, and it makes bonuses that require a Swedish licence unavailable. When the period you chose runs out, the block lifts automatically. An open-ended registration lasts until you actively lift it, and only after a cooling period. What the list does not do is stop an operator without a Swedish licence from letting you in. There is no shared international register of self-excluded players, and no way for the Swedish state to reach an operator that has not asked to be regulated by it.
Why the Register Does Not Reach Every Casino
The reason “utan Spelpaus” is a category at all comes down to how the Swedish Gaming Act is written. The Act licenses operators targeting the Swedish market. An operator that has never applied for a Swedish licence, and whose home regulator is somewhere else, is not part of the system that Spelpaus enforces.
That is why sites like Casinoanders.co put the following line up front: “Spelpaus ar enbart kopplat till operatorer med tillstand i Sverige.” The register only connects to operators licensed in Sweden. It is not a claim about a loophole; it is a description of the register’s scope. A player registered on Spelpaus can, in a legal sense, still open an account at an MGA-licensed casino, because Malta has no obligation to consult a Swedish register maintained by a foreign regulator.
Important. The fact that the register cannot reach an international operator does not mean it is a good idea to test that. If Spelpaus is helping you, treat the sites the register does not cover as out of scope for you, not as an opening.
Where Casinoanders.co Sits on the Map
Casinoanders.co is not an operator. It is a Swedish-language review site whose focus is casinos that hold a foreign licence rather than a Swedish one — Malta, Estonia, Gibraltar and Curacao show up most often. Its homepage is arranged around lists of those operators, with categories like “Best overall”, “Best bonuses”, “Fastest withdrawals” and “Newest 2026”. Because none of those operators sit inside the Swedish system, the Spelpaus register does not touch what the site reviews. That is why the “Spelpaus question” appears so early on the homepage: any reader who lands there and is on the register needs to understand that a block set in Stockholm does not extend to an operator licensed in Valletta.
The site does not pretend the register follows you. In its FAQ it writes, in plain Swedish: “Spelpaus omfattar inte dessa sajter, sjalvkontrollen hamnar helt pa dig.” Spelpaus does not cover these sites; self-control lands entirely on you. That is paired with practical suggestions the site repeats across pages — set a deposit limit inside the operator’s account before playing, use cool-off or self-exclusion tools inside the account when needed (understanding they only apply to that one operator), and use a device-level tool such as Gamban if a hard block is what you need. Whether that framing is enough is a fair question. The site’s editorial position is that a review site’s job is to say what the tools are and where they end, and to leave the choice with the reader.
The Player-Responsibility Line
The whole Spelpaus question, on any site that covers off-register operators, comes back to a shift in where responsibility sits. Inside the Swedish system, the state carries part of the load: it decides the rules, forces bonus caps and mandatory limits, and runs the register. Outside it, the operator is the only party that has agreed to anything, and the terms it has agreed to are set by a different regulator — the Malta Gaming Authority, the Estonian Tax and Customs Board, the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, the Curacao Gaming Control Board. Each of those has its own complaints procedure and its own view of what counts as fair.
Casinoanders.co takes the position that the reader should walk into that consciously, with the tools above. Other Swedish review sites take a stricter line; others take a looser one. The reader’s job is to see the framing for what it is and to decide. In practice that means treating a review site’s ranking as one input rather than a verdict, checking the licence number in the operator’s footer against the regulator’s public register, reading the bonus terms in full before depositing, and being clear-eyed about which consumer body — if any — will hear a complaint if it goes wrong.
Where This Leaves Someone Reading the Site
Three points to walk away with. If you are currently on Spelpaus and it is helping you, the sites Casinoanders.co reviews are not blocked for you; do not use them as a way around your own registration, and consider adding a device-level block that catches sites the state register does not. If you are not on Spelpaus and are curious about international operators, take the site’s framing as a description of a category, not an endorsement, and verify licence and payout claims yourself before you deposit. If you are unsure whether Spelpaus is right for you, the register itself is free to join and the shortest block is one month; there is no cost to trying it.
Does registering on Spelpaus stop me from playing at the casinos Casinoanders.co reviews?
No. Spelpaus only reaches operators with a Swedish licence. The operators the site covers hold foreign licences and are outside the register’s scope.
Is Casinoanders.co itself blocked by Spelpaus?
No. Spelpaus does not block review sites or news sites. It only blocks operators from letting a registered player deposit or log in.
Does Spelinspektionen supervise the operators Casinoanders.co lists?
No. Spelinspektionen supervises operators with a Swedish licence. The operators the site reviews are supervised by their own regulators (for example, the Malta Gaming Authority).
If I want a block that also covers international operators, what do I use?
A device-level tool such as Gamban blocks gambling sites in general, regardless of which country licenses them. Spelpaus and Gamban work at different levels and can be used together.