Sky Poker is a UK online poker room operated by Bonne Terre Gaming Limited under UK Gambling Commission account 65519, part of Flutter Entertainment plc, and it has nine UK-facing sister sites across five separate UKGC licensees as of August 2026.
The short answer
There are 9 Sky Poker sister sites: Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo, Sky Bet, Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars, PokerStars Casino and tombola. All 9 Sky Poker Casino sister sites are operated by Flutter Entertainment plc under licence 65519.
Compare all 9Searching for sites like Sky Poker and searching for Sky Poker alternatives are not quite the same question. Every brand on this page shares an operator with Sky Poker — they are Sky Poker sister casinos, not merely platforms like Sky Poker that happen to look similar. That distinction decides whether one welcome bonus, one self-exclusion and one KYC check cover all of them.
Pros
- Live player count and active tournament count published on the homepage — real liveness data, not marketing
- Upcoming tournaments listed by start time and buy-in before you register
- Shares the UKGC licence and GamStop coverage of the wider Sky estate
Cons
- No welcome offer at all, where every sister brand has one
- The ongoing Golden Chips promotion is gated behind a £50 minimum wager
- Buy-ins displayed in euros on a UK-licensed site, which invites confusion about what you are staking
Sky Poker sister sites — the full network
Flutter Entertainment plc (UK Gambling Commission account 39426) operates 10 UK-facing brands including Sky Poker. The 9 Sky Poker Casino sister sites below share that licence, and in most cases the same bonus mechanics — what changes between them is the price, the size of the offer and the product mix.
The orbit is drawn broken because these brands do not share one licence. Flutter Entertainment plc sits behind 5 separate licences held by different companies — see Who actually holds the licence below.
| Sister site | Welcome offer | Trust | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Vegas | 50 free spins when you deposit and stake £10min £10 | 54 | Review |
| Sky Casino | 100 free spins with no wagering when you deposit and stake £10min £10 | 59 | Review |
| Sky Bingo | Deposit and spend £10 on bingo, get a £20 bingo bonusmin £10 | 52 | Review |
| Betfair | No welcome bonus in the casino homepage heromin Not stated | 51 | Review |
| Paddy Power | £30 in free bets when you bet £5min £5 qualifying bet | 52 | Review |
| Sky Bet | £30 in free bets for new customersmin Not stated on the banner | 50 | Review |
| PokerStars Casino | £50 bonus on this month's Slotlist exclusivemin Not stated on the creative | 51 | Review |
| PokerStars | £200 when you deposit £20 or more with code STARS200min £20 | 50 | Review |
| tombola | No welcome offer value stated on the homepagemin Not stated | 48 | Review |
Similarity estimates how much of the same experience you get — shared licence, platform and bonus mechanics, less any product differences. A high similarity score is not an endorsement: a close copy of a weak casino is still a weak casino.
Each of the 9 Sky Poker Casino sister sites in detail — what it does differently, and who it actually suits.
Sky VegasBest for slots players who want the biggest sky game library
The Sky slots flagship: 50 free spins for a £10 stake, and the widest category rail of the four — Slots, Live Dealers, Jackpots, Card & Table and Arcade.
- Welcome offer
- 50 free spins when you deposit and stake £10
- Min deposit
- £10
- Wagering
- Not stated on the homepage creative — the £10 stake is a qualification, not a playthrough figure
Sky CasinoBest for the best welcome terms anywhere in the sky estate
Same licensee and same £10 outlay as Sky Vegas, but 100 free spins instead of 50 and — the part that matters — no wagering on what they pay out. Live Casino leads the navigation instead of slots.
- Welcome offer
- 100 free spins with no wagering when you deposit and stake £10
- Min deposit
- £10
- Wagering
- None on the free spin winnings — 'NO WAGERING, KEEP ANYTHING YOU WIN' stated on the offer creative
Sky BingoBest for low-stake bingo rooms with live jackpots
Swaps the spins offer for a £20 bingo bonus on £10 spent, and leads with live rooms — ticket prices observed from £0.01 to £0.50 with running jackpots and player counts on the tile.
- Welcome offer
- Deposit and spend £10 on bingo, get a £20 bingo bonus
- Min deposit
- £10
- Wagering
- Bonus is non-withdrawable; winnings from it are paid in cash
BetfairBest for exchange bettors and safer-gambling-first players
The only brand here whose casino homepage leads with a responsible-gambling message rather than a bonus, and the only one carrying a betting exchange alongside the casino.
- Welcome offer
- No welcome bonus in the casino homepage hero
- Min deposit
- Not stated
- Wagering
- Not applicable to the observed promotion
Paddy PowerBest for sports bettors who want free-to-play games alongside
Sportsbook-led with casino, live casino, bingo and poker hanging off it, plus a Free to Play Hub (Eliminator, Beat The Drop, Wonder Wheel) that none of the Sky brands runs.
- Welcome offer
- £30 in free bets when you bet £5
- Min deposit
- £5 qualifying bet
- Wagering
- Not stated on the banner creative
Sky BetBest for sports bettors who want the sky ecosystem
A different licensee from the other Sky brands — SBG Sports Limited, licensed only since October 2025. Sportsbook-first, with £30 in free bets as three £10 tokens rather than any casino offer.
- Welcome offer
- £30 in free bets for new customers
- Min deposit
- Not stated on the banner
- Wagering
- Qualifying bets at odds of 1/1 or greater; free bet stakes are not included in returns
PokerStars CasinoBest for casino players who also play poker
Shares one wallet and one account with PokerStars poker and sports. Its Slotlist offer gives £50 but caps winnings at 20x the bonus and demands deposit and wagering inside three days.
- Welcome offer
- £50 bonus on this month's Slotlist exclusive
- Min deposit
- Not stated on the creative
- Wagering
- 0.1 redemption points per £1 required to convert the bonus into cash
PokerStarsBest for serious poker players chasing volume rewards
A £200 first-deposit reward that drips out in £5 instalments per 100 redemption points, with no withdrawals permitted during the bonus period — a fundamentally different bonus model from the Sky spins offers.
- Welcome offer
- £200 when you deposit £20 or more with code STARS200
- Min deposit
- £20
- Wagering
- Released in £5 instalments for every 100 redemption points earned
tombolaBest for players who want bingo built in-house, not licensed in
The genuine outsider: its own licensee, its own software, its own games, and none of the Flutter cross-sell bar the Sky brands share. Advertises £13m won every day rather than a welcome bonus.
- Welcome offer
- No welcome offer value stated on the homepage
- Min deposit
- Not stated
- Wagering
- Not stated
How we verified the Sky Poker sister sites
Most sites simply assert that two casinos are related. These are the signals we actually checked before calling these brands Sky Poker Casino sister sites, and what each one showed. The strongest of them is the shared UK Gambling Commission account 39426, which is a matter of public record rather than inference.
Sister-site verification
How we know Sky Poker shares an operator with these brands
Shared licence numberweight 40%
Matched, but only with Sky Vegas and Sky Casino and Sky Bingo. All share UKGC account 65519 (Bonne Terre Gaming Limited). The other Flutter brands sit on four separate accounts — same owner, different licences.
SourceIdentical T&C clausesweight 25%
The welcome-offer footnotes on Sky Poker, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo share wording and structure — opt-in requirement, qualification window and expiry expressed identically — consistent with one legal team and one licensee.
Same platform fingerprintweight 15%
Matched. The Sky brands render an identical operator-published cross-sell bar (sky bet · sky vegas · sky vegas live · sky bingo · sky casino · Super 6 · sky poker · itv7), always omitting whichever brand you are on.
Shared payment processorweight 10%not established
Not established. Cashier descriptors require a funded account at two brands to compare, which has not been done. Recorded as unmatched rather than assumed.
Shared support infrastructureweight 10%
Matched. All four Sky gaming brands route help through the same support.sky* help-centre pattern and render the same 'Set your limit in under a minute' module.
All 9 Sky Poker sister sites reviewed
The Sky Poker Casino sister sites are ordered by how similar each one is to Sky Poker — closest first.
Can you claim a bonus at every Sky Poker Casino sister site?
Each brand advertises its own welcome offer, but the Sky Poker Casino sister sites sit behind one licensee and one fraud-detection layer. Assume one welcome across the group unless a brand states otherwise.
| Sister site | Separate welcome? |
|---|---|
| Sky Vegas | Unlikely |
| Sky Casino | Unlikely |
| Sky Bingo | Unlikely |
| Sky Bet | Likely |
| Paddy Power | Likely |
| Betfair | Likely |
| PokerStars | Likely |
| PokerStars Casino | Likely |
| tombola | Likely |
Same company, different deal
Shared ownership does not mean an identical deal. These are the places where the Sky Poker sister sites genuinely beat Sky Poker itself.
Where a sister site beats Sky Poker
Sky Casino — Welcome bonus fairness
100 free spins for a £10 deposit and stake, with no wagering on the winnings — observed on its own homepage, 8 Aug 2026. It is the best welcome term we found anywhere in this network, and it costs the same £10 as Sky Vegas's 50 wagered spins.
Betfair — Responsible-gambling prominence
Betfair is the only brand in this network whose casino homepage leads with safer-gambling tools rather than a bonus, publishing UK and Irish helpline numbers above the fold instead of below it.
tombola — Transparency of what you can actually win
tombola publishes a live bingo90 jackpot and a live player count on its own homepage, and dates its £13m-a-day claim to a specific quarter with a verification email address. Nothing else here shows its working like that.
Sky Poker vs its sister sites, head to head
Same operator, same licence, same platform — so the comparison comes down to the offer and the product mix. Each pairing below is scored on the same rubric, which is what makes them comparable at all.
| Matchup | Welcome offer | Trust |
|---|---|---|
| Sky Poker (this page) | No welcome offer advertised on the homepage | 47 |
| Sky Poker vs Sky Vegas | 50 free spins when you deposit and stake £10 | 54 |
| Sky Poker vs Sky Casino | 100 free spins with no wagering when you deposit and stake £10 | 59 |
| Sky Poker vs Sky Bingo | Deposit and spend £10 on bingo, get a £20 bingo bonus | 52 |
Sky Poker vs Sky Vegas
The Sky slots flagship: 50 free spins for a £10 stake, and the widest category rail of the four — Slots, Live Dealers, Jackpots, Card & Table and Arcade. Sky Vegas scores 54 to Sky Poker's 47, so on our rubric the sister brand is the stronger of the two. Similarity is 92%, so expect the same cashier and lobby either way.
Sky Poker vs Sky Casino
Same licensee and same £10 outlay as Sky Vegas, but 100 free spins instead of 50 and — the part that matters — no wagering on what they pay out. Live Casino leads the navigation instead of slots. Sky Casino scores 59 to Sky Poker's 47, so on our rubric the sister brand is the stronger of the two. Similarity is 92%, so expect the same cashier and lobby either way.
Sky Poker vs Sky Bingo
Swaps the spins offer for a £20 bingo bonus on £10 spent, and leads with live rooms — ticket prices observed from £0.01 to £0.50 with running jackpots and player counts on the tile. Sky Bingo scores 52 to Sky Poker's 47, so on our rubric the sister brand is the stronger of the two. Similarity is 78%, so expect the same cashier and lobby either way.
Sites like Sky Poker: Sky Poker alternatives inside and outside the group
Sky Poker alternatives split into two groups, and conflating them is the mistake most lists make. The 9 brands above are Sky Poker sister casinos — Flutter Entertainment plc (UK Gambling Commission account 39426) runs every one of them, so the licence, the complaints process and the self-exclusion scope are shared.
Other platforms like Sky Poker — unrelated casinos with a comparable lobby or a similar offer — are a different proposition entirely. They give you a genuinely separate operator, which matters if your complaint with Sky Poker is with the company rather than the product. If you are looking for sites like Sky Poker because you want a fresh welcome bonus, the group brands above are the weaker bet: one licensee generally means one welcome offer.
Which Sky Poker Casino sister site should you pick?
Three different answers, depending on what you are actually optimising for. All 9 Sky Poker Casino sister sites clear the same licensing bar, so this is a question of fit rather than safety.
- If you want the closest thing to Sky Poker: Sky Vegas, at 92% similarity — same platform, same lobby structure, different welcome offer.
- If you are choosing on trust rather than familiarity: Sky Casino scores highest of the Sky Poker sister sites at 59/100, above Sky Poker's own 47.
- If you already have an account here: check the bonus table above before opening a second one. A separate welcome offer at another brand in this group is the exception, not the rule.
About Sky Poker
Sky Poker is the outlier of the four Sky gaming brands. It shares their licensee — Bonne Terre Gaming Limited, UK Gambling Commission account 65519 — and their cross-brand bar, but almost nothing about how it presents itself matches its siblings.
Most obviously, there is no welcome offer. Where Sky Vegas leads with 50 free spins and Sky Casino with 100, Sky Poker's homepage hero at capture was a product-update announcement. The menu is three items deep — Home, Tournaments, Play Online — against the eight-item rails on its sister sites. The ongoing promotion on offer was Golden Chips through Live Rewards, gated behind opt-in and a £50 minimum wager.
What it shows instead is liveness: 3,841 players online and 291 active tournaments printed on the homepage, with the next few tournaments listed by start time and buy-in. That is a more useful signal for a poker player than a bonus banner, and it is the reason this brand is worth a page even though its welcome terms are the weakest in the network.
Sky Poker welcome bonus in detail
No welcome offer advertised on the homepage
- Minimum deposit
- Not stated
- Wagering
- Golden Chips promotion requires a £50 minimum wager and opt-in
- Expiry
- Not stated
- Bet limits
- Not applicable
- Eligible games
- Poker
- The absence of a welcome offer is the observation, not a gap in our capture — the homepage hero was a product-update panel, not a bonus.
- The ongoing promotion observed was 'WIN GOLDEN CHIPS EVERY WEEK WITH LIVE REWARDS', with the on-page note 'PRC Opt in required, min £50 wager'.
- If you want a welcome offer inside this licensee, Sky Casino gives 100 free spins with no wagering for £10 on the same UKGC account.
Games at Sky Poker
A functioning poker room with its activity on display. At capture the homepage showed 3,841 players online and 291 active tournaments, with the next starts listed by time and buy-in — a Ticket Satellite, a Mystery Hyper Sat and a Festival centroll among them. Instant Poker sits alongside the main lobby as a quick-seat option. Buy-ins were shown in euros despite the UK licence, which is worth knowing before you deposit.
Sky Poker organises its lobby into 3 categories: Tournaments, Cash Games, Instant Poker. That rail is identical across every brand in the network — the same categories in the same order — which is one of the clearer signals that they run on shared infrastructure rather than merely sharing an owner.
Customer support at Sky Poker
| Channel | Availability | Response time |
|---|---|---|
| Help centre | 24/7 | Self-service |
| Live chat | Not stated on site | Not measured |
Support is advertised as 24/7, and the footer carries a 24/7 customer support badge alongside GamCare, IBAS and BetBlocker. We have not measured response times ourselves, so the score for support reflects what is advertised rather than what was experienced.
Sky Poker on mobile
The 390px capture keeps the poker lobby entry point and the live player and tournament counts, which is the substance of this brand.
Safety, licensing and responsible gambling
Sky Poker is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission under account 65519, held by Bonne Terre Gaming Limited of 4th Floor, 55 Line Wall, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA, Gibraltar, on licence 065519-R-339675-002. The register lists Sky Poker among that account's active trading names, which is how this page verifies the relationship rather than inferring it.
- Deposit limits
- Loss and time limits
- Time-outs
- Self-exclusion
- GamStop integration (mandatory for UKGC licensees)
- GamCare and BeGambleAware signposting
- IBAS dispute resolution
How we scored Sky Poker
Trust score breakdown
47/100
Licensing & regulation25% weight
92/100
UKGC account 65519 (Bonne Terre Gaming Limited), licence 065519-R-339675-002, confirmed on the regulator's own register with Sky Poker listed among its active trading names. (1 source)
Payouts20% weight
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Not scored. No account funded and no withdrawal timed, so no payout claim is made. Published banking limits have not been read from a logged-in cashier. (1 source)
Bonus fairness20% weight
30/100
No welcome offer is advertised on the homepage at all — a genuine finding, not an omission in our capture. The ongoing promotion observed was Golden Chips via Live Rewards, requiring opt-in and a £50 minimum wager. Scored low because a £50 wager gate is a high bar and there is no new-player offer to weigh against it. (1 source)
Responsible gambling10% weight
80/100
GamStop integration, deposit limits and time-outs are conditions of the UKGC licence verified above, so they are established rather than assumed. Brand-specific tooling beyond the on-page limit prompts has not been tested. (1 source)
Games & providers10% weight
60/100
A working poker room rather than a casino lobby: 3,841 players online and 291 active tournaments at capture, with upcoming tournaments listed by time and buy-in. Instant Poker is offered alongside the standard lobby. Buy-ins observed were euro-denominated despite the UK licence. (1 source)
Support10% weight
40/100
A help centre is published and reachable, and responsible-gambling contact numbers are on-page. Channel hours and response times have not been measured. (1 source)
Complaint record5% weight
—
Not scored. Public complaint volume and resolution patterns have not been aggregated for this brand yet. (1 source)
Weightings are fixed and published in full on our methodology page. Unscored dimensions have not been verified yet and count as zero.
What we verified
- VERIFIED
Sky Poker is operated by Bonne Terre Gaming Limited under UK Gambling Commission account 65519 (licence 065519-R-339675-002), registered at 4th Floor, 55 Line Wall, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA, Gibraltar. The register lists this account's active trading names as: sky bet games, sky bingo, sky casino, sky poker, sky vegas.
UKGC public register, account 65519 — licensee detail and trading names · checked 2026-08-08
- VERIFIED
Bonne Terre Limited (UKGC account 38718, Leeds) — the licensee most sister-site pages still name for the Sky brands — surrendered all five of its remote licences on 31 October 2025, and all five of its Sky trading names are now listed Inactive on the register.
UKGC public register, account 38718 — licences Surrendered, trading names Inactive · checked 2026-08-08
- OBSERVED
Sky Poker's homepage advertised no welcome offer at capture; the hero panel read 'Discover the latest updates and improvements'. The ongoing promotion shown was 'WIN GOLDEN CHIPS EVERY WEEK WITH LIVE REWARDS', with on-page terms 'PRC Opt in required, min £50 wager'.
Full-page capture of skypoker.com from a GB connection, 8 Aug 2026 · checked 2026-08-08
- OBSERVED
Sky Poker published live activity data on its logged-out homepage: 3,841 players online and 291 active tournaments, with upcoming tournaments listed by start time and buy-in, including euro-denominated satellites.
Full-page capture of the Sky Poker homepage, 8 Aug 2026 · checked 2026-08-08
Sky Poker pros and cons
Pros
- Live player count and active tournament count published on the homepage — real liveness data, not marketing
- Upcoming tournaments listed by start time and buy-in before you register
- Shares the UKGC licence and GamStop coverage of the wider Sky estate
- Instant Poker offers a quick-seat route without navigating the full lobby
Cons
- No welcome offer at all, where every sister brand has one
- The ongoing Golden Chips promotion is gated behind a £50 minimum wager
- Buy-ins displayed in euros on a UK-licensed site, which invites confusion about what you are staking
What Sky Poker lacks
- No new-player bonus of any kind
- No casino, bingo or sportsbook — those sit on sister brands
- No published payout-speed commitment readable without funding an account
Sky Poker Sister Sites — the verdict
Sky Poker is the hardest brand in this network to recommend on paper and the easiest to respect. It gives new players nothing — no welcome offer, and an ongoing promotion behind a £50 wager gate — but it publishes the numbers a poker player actually needs: 3,841 people online, 291 tournaments running, next starts listed with buy-ins. Among the Sky Poker sister sites it is the only one making no attempt to buy your first deposit. The 52 score reflects that weak bonus position plus our unscored payouts and complaints. If you want a bonus from this licensee, Sky Casino is the door; if you want a game at 1am, this is.
On the network question specifically: the 9 Sky Poker Casino sister sites rate confirmed on our fingerprint at 90/100, and the evidence behind that is set out above rather than asserted. Treat them as one operator wearing 10 front doors.
Sky Poker sister sites — FAQ
Who owns Sky Poker?
Sky Poker is operated by Bonne Terre Gaming Limited under UK Gambling Commission account 65519, and that company is part of Flutter Entertainment plc. Flutter runs 10 UK-facing brands in total, but across five separate UKGC licensees rather than one — so Sky Poker shares an owner with the others, and a licence only with Sky Vegas and Sky Casino and Sky Bingo.
How many Sky Poker sister sites are there?
Nine. The Sky Poker sister sites are Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo, Sky Poker, Sky Bet, Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars, PokerStars Casino and tombola, minus Sky Poker itself. Every one is UKGC-licensed and every one is verified against the regulator's public register, not copied from another affiliate site.
Do Sky Poker sister sites share the same licence?
No, and this is where most pages get it wrong. Flutter's UK estate sits on five separate UKGC accounts: 39426 (Paddy Power, Betfair), 65519 (Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo, Sky Poker), 67370 (Sky Bet), 39108 (PokerStars, PokerStars Casino) and 38613 (tombola). Sky Poker is on account 65519. They share an owner, not a licence.
Does self-exclusion at Sky Poker cover the sister sites?
Yes. Every licensee in this network holds a UK Gambling Commission licence, and GamStop integration is a condition of that licence. Registering with GamStop blocks all ten brands regardless of which of the five licensees they sit under. Self-exclusion runs its full chosen term — six months minimum — and cannot be lifted early.
Does Sky Poker have a welcome bonus?
Not one advertised on its homepage as of 8 August 2026. That is the finding rather than a gap — the hero panel was a product-update announcement, not an offer. The ongoing promotion observed was Golden Chips through Live Rewards, which requires opt-in and a £50 minimum wager. Its sister site Sky Casino, on the same licence, gives 100 free spins with no wagering for £10.
How busy is Sky Poker?
At the moment of capture the homepage reported 3,841 players online and 291 active tournaments. Those figures are published live on the logged-out page, which makes them checkable rather than claimed. Upcoming tournaments were listed with start times and buy-ins alongside.
Why are Sky Poker buy-ins shown in euros?
We observed euro-denominated buy-ins in the upcoming-tournament list despite Sky Poker holding a UK Gambling Commission licence under account 65519. We have not established why, and we are not going to guess — but it is worth checking the currency of any tournament before you register for it.
Which Sky Poker sister site is best for casino games?
Sky Casino on welcome terms, Sky Vegas on variety. Both share Sky Poker's licensee, Bonne Terre Gaming Limited on UK Gambling Commission account 65519. Sky Casino's 100 no-wagering free spins for £10 is the strongest welcome offer in Flutter's UK estate; Sky Vegas carries the widest spread of studios.
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