PAGCOR's own accredited-brands register lists OKBet under a company called Gavin Ventures, entry 13 of roughly sixty, in a file sorted by administrator rather than by the name printed on a casino's own homepage.
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OKBet, the licensed operator behind okbet.com, sits at entry 13 in PAGCOR's own accredited-brands register, filed under the letter G, for Gavin Ventures Inc., the company that actually holds the licence.
PAGCOR republished that register on 12 August 2026, and it still runs in alphabetical order by the accredited administrator's registered company name, not by the brand a reader would type into a search bar. That ordering is not new. PAGCOR has said nothing about changing it. So the plainest method, scanning the file for the casino's own name, fails before it starts.
Everything we hold on OKBet — the licence, what the regulator publishes about it and what it does not — is on its own page.
The file lists roughly sixty accredited administrators in sequence. AB Leisure Exponent sits at entry 1. Gavin Ventures Inc. sits at entry 13. Wil Network Inc. sits at entry 60. Every one of those names is the licensed company. None of them is the trading name printed on a homepage.
Someone who does not already know that OKBet belongs to Gavin Ventures has no way to guess where in fourteen pages to look. Browsing alphabetically for the brand returns nothing, because the brand is not what the file alphabetises.
The file itself is fourteen pages, hosted directly on pagcor.ph rather than through a third party, and it is not the only PDF PAGCOR serves under a near-identical title. A reader who has already found the current copy is past that first trap. This one starts after it: finding one entry inside the file that loads.
Even a full-text search for the right word does not finish the check. Page 3 of the current file carries the line "Numeric Games OKCards www.okcards.ph www.okbet.game," naming a real, PAGCOR-listed sub-brand and domain under OKBet's own licence. Gavin Ventures Inc. does not appear on that line.
It is printed once, against entry 13, for the whole block of rows the sub-brand belongs to. The next row down, for OKPisoluck, another registered OKBet sub-brand, carries no company name either. A reader who searches "OKCards" and stops at the first match sees a real, currently accredited domain and nothing telling them who is accredited to run it.
That is not a flaw specific to OKBet's block. It is how the whole file is built. Whether Ctrl+F finds the word at all depends on the PDF carrying an actual text layer rather than a scanned image; this file does, since the sub-brand names and domains all matched a plain-text search when this project read it, and nothing in it needed optical recognition to become searchable.
The method that works skips alphabetical browsing entirely. Search the PDF for the exact domain printed on the casino's own site, in the footer or the terms page, rather than a shortened or marketing form of the name.
When a line matches, do not stop there. Scroll up until a numbered entry appears, in the form of a number followed by a company name and, often, an abbreviation in brackets. That company name, not the brand on the line that matched, is the accredited administrator PAGCOR is actually vouching for.
Everything we hold on BingoPlus — the licence, what the regulator publishes about it and what it does not — is on its own page.
BingoPlus sits at entry 1 for the same reason OKBet sits at entry 13. The register was never built to be read by brand. It lists administrators, with brands attached underneath them. The brands whose licence class we have checked against PAGCOR's own file are listed at topslotsasia.com/casinos, a shorter list than the regulator's but one indexed by the name a reader already has.
Everything we hold on Ninogaming — the licence, what the regulator publishes about it and what it does not — is on its own page.
Ninogaming sits under Gemini Gaming Management Corporation, entry 14, one line below Gavin Ventures. Three brands, three administrator names, none of them a trading name a reader would have guessed.
PAGCOR Chairman Alejandro Tengco told the House Committee on Appropriations, during the agency's 2027 budget hearing on 24 August 2026, that an app is coming that will let players check a site's licence status directly, and that PAGCOR aims to launch it before the end of the year. He also told the committee that around 50 percent of the online gaming sites Philippine players access are illegal, which is the problem the app is meant to solve.
Someone could reasonably ask whether any of the above is worth learning if PAGCOR is about to build the lookup itself. For now, yes. The app carries no confirmed date beyond "before the end of the year," no published description of how it will verify a site, and no public beta. The PDF, awkward layout and all, is the only public method that exists today.
The file does not explain what the number next to each entry represents beyond its position in that same alphabetised order. It is most likely a sequence marker rather than a licence number or an accreditation date, but PAGCOR's file states no rule for it, and none was found stated elsewhere. That gap is recorded here rather than guessed at.
Until PAGCOR's app exists outside a budget hearing, the register a reader checks today is checked the same way this one was: against the file itself, on the date it was actually read.
PAGCOR's accredited-brands file is alphabetised by the licensed administrator's registered company name, not by the trading name printed on a casino's website. OKBet, for example, is filed under Gavin Ventures Inc. at entry 13. Browsing or searching for the brand name works only if the search tool checks the whole document rather than skipping to where the brand's own letter would sit.
Not by itself. The administrator's company name is printed once for a whole block of rows rather than on every row, so a search hit on a sub-brand or domain can land on a line that names no company at all. Confirming a licence means finding the nearest numbered entry above the match and reading the company name printed there.
Not yet. PAGCOR Chairman Alejandro Tengco told the House Committee on Appropriations on 24 August 2026 that an app is planned before the end of the year, but no launch date, interface or verification method has been published. The PDF register remains the only public method available.
Search the exact domain printed in the casino's own footer or terms page, not a shortened brand name. When a line matches, scroll up to the nearest numbered entry and read the company name printed there, since that company, not the line that matched, is who PAGCOR accredited.
PAGCOR's file does not say. The numbers run in the same order as the alphabetised list of administrators, which suggests a sequence position rather than a licence number or an accreditation date, but no rule for them is stated in the file or elsewhere that this project found.
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