Maria Casinohas shut in the UK — here is where players stand.

The UK shutdown

The headline fact is straightforward: the Kindred Group shut down the UK Maria Casino brand, around January 2026, and moved existing players across to its 32Red brand. If you held a Maria account, that is the destination Kindred pointed you toward. The brand’s UK chapter is closed.

A planned migration like this is an internal portfolio decision — a large group retiring one consumer-facing name and consolidating players into another it already runs. It is not a regulatory shutdown of the kind that strips a licence for misconduct. For a player the practical effect is what counts: there is no live UK Maria Casino to log into, and the official continuity path ran to 32Red, not to any site still flying the Maria name elsewhere.

The operator’s enforcement record

Maria Casino was run by Platinum Gaming Limited, part of the Kindred Group. That operator carries a documented regulatory record, and we state it precisely. In March 2023 the Gambling Commission imposed a £7.1m penalty package across Kindred businesses, of which the Platinum Gaming portion was £2,937,599. The action concerned regulatory failings of the kind the Commission routinely pursues — anti-money-laundering and social-responsibility shortcomings.

Two things matter about how to read that. First, the fine is a fact, attached to the operator, and it predates the brand’s closure. Second, it is enforcement, not a fraud finding — the regulator acted, the operator paid, and the licence continued. We record the figure so that anyone weighing the brand’s history has the real number rather than a vague impression. But the fine is not why Maria is on this register: it is here because it has closed in the UK, and the closure is what changes the risk for anyone searching the name today.

Why we won’t quote a Trustpilot score

We try to give you a Trustpilot figure on every entry. On Maria Casino we are not going to, and we want to be honest about why. We recorded 59 reviews associated with the .com when we checked on 4th June 2026, but no reliable overall score for that profile surfaced in a form we are confident reporting. Quoting a number we cannot stand behind would be worse than quoting none.

So treat the review picture here as thin and inconclusive. The themes reviewers raised historically — allegations of withheld money, absent support, and account suspensions after withdrawal requests — are on the public record and we note them, but with a brand that is now closed in the UK, none of that is the live concern. The live concern is what fills the gap the closed brand leaves behind in the search results.

What searches for Maria now hit

This is the part that protects your money. When a recognised casino brand closes, its name does not stop being searched — and that demand gets filled by whoever is still willing to use the name. Searches for the closed Maria Casino brand now risk landing on lookalike domains and affiliate pages rather than anything official from Kindred.

The official continuity ran one way only: existing players were redirected to 32Red. So any other site presenting itself as “Maria Casino” and inviting a UK deposit is not the path Kindred set out, and you have no assurance of who is behind it. This is the same pattern we document across the register for retired brands — from Thrills to Casino Calzone: the name becomes the bait, and the name is all the new site genuinely shares with the old one. Before trusting any Maria-branded site, run the two-minute licence check on the exact domain in front of you.

Is Maria Casino legit?

The honest answer: Maria Casino was a genuine, Kindred-owned brand, and it is now closed in the UK — so the legit question has shifted. There is no live UK Maria Casino to assess for payouts; there is only the question of whether the site you have found is anything to do with the original company. For the original brand, we make no scam allegation: it was operator-backed, regulated, and retired by its owner.

The risk lives entirely in the aftermath. A site using the Maria name today that lets you deposit from the UK is, at best, unverified and, at worst, a lookalike trading on a closed brand’s recognition. That is why this entry sits under Closed in UK — the value to you is not a verdict on a dead brand, but a clear account of where it went (32Red) and a warning about the impostors that fill the gap it left.

Had a Maria account? Do this

1. If you had funds at closure: follow the operator’s closure terms and the 32Red redirect, where Kindred handled account migration. If a card deposit was never accounted for, raise a chargeback enquiry with your bank, and screenshot any records you can still access.
2. If you deposited recently on a “Maria” lookalike: treat it as a deposit at an unlicensed site, not a dispute with Kindred. Your strongest route is a bank chargeback — the full recovery guide is here.
3. Report a UK-facing lookalike to the Gambling Commission (unlicensed operation) and, if you lost money, to Action Fraud. Where and how to report.
4. Ignore unsolicited “recovery” offers. Posting publicly about a lost deposit is how recovery scammers find targets — nobody legitimate contacts you first and asks for a fee.

How this page is sourced

Closure: the Kindred Group shut the UK Maria Casino brand around January 2026, with players redirected to 32Red, per industry reporting; status re-checked 4th June 2026. Operator and enforcement: Maria was operated by Platinum Gaming Limited (Kindred Group), which formed part of the Gambling Commission’s £7.1m action of March 2023 — the Platinum Gaming portion being £2,937,599 — confirmed against the Commission’s enforcement records. Review data: a Trustpilot profile for the .com recorded 59 reviews on 4th June 2026, but no reliable overall score surfaced, so we report none; historic complaint themes are noted from the public record only. Trustpilot figures belong to Trustpilot and change over time. Our criteria and tiers are documented on the methodology page.

Related entries on the register

• Thrills Casino — another UK exit where lookalike domains moved in on the name.
• Casino Calzone — a 2020 closure whose domain may have passed into unrelated hands.
• Monopoly Casino — a licensed major-brand entry with the worst Trustpilot record of the licensed set.
• The full register — every documented brand with verdicts and sources.