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A contract term, not a legal opinion

The state question closes one level up: clause 3.2 bars the country

Clause 3.2 of the terms names 8 places it bars, and the USA is 1 of them. That was read in full on 2 September 2026, and it settles the state-by-state question at the level above the state: the operator refuses the country, so the state never enters the answer.

What each operator publishes about itself: the company named on the licence, the permit number and where it was read, when identity documents are demanded, and how many game studios supply its lobby. A licence number read in a register is not the same evidence as one printed in the operator's own terms, and the table says which it is. An empty cell means the document was not read — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.
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Vavepaid placementTechOptions Group B.V.Curaçao no numbercase by case40Visit
ThunderpickNapier LtdCuraçao Gaming Authoritycase by casenot published
Sportsbet.ionot publishedCuraçao Gaming Authority2,500 EURnot published
CloudbetHalcyon Super Holdings B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authoritycase by casenot published
Rollbitnot publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Roobetnot publishednot publishednot publishednot published
DuelbitsLiquid Entertainment N.V.Curaçao Gaming Authoritynot publishednot published
ShuffleNatural Nine B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authoritycase by casenot published
BetFuryUniverse B Games B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authoritynot publishednot published
TrustDicenot publishedCuraçao Gaming Authoritynot publishednot published
Rollettonot publishedCuraçao Gaming Authoritynot publishednot published

Twelve searches, one sentence

Google’s own suggestions for this brand, captured on 2 September 2026, returned 213 phrasings, and twelve of them are shaped as state questions — is it legal in California, in Texas, in Georgia. The operator answers all twelve in a single clause of its terms, and the answer sits one level above the state.

Clause 3.2 bars residents of the USA. Once the country is refused, the differences between state statutes stop being relevant to the account question, however sharp those differences are in every other respect.

The clause, quoted as it stands

Read in full on 2 September 2026 at thunderpick.io/content/legal:

Use of the website and associated services are expressly prohibited from the following jurisdictions: Curaçao, the Netherlands (and any country forming part of the kingdom of the Netherlands; Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten), USA, UN sanctioned countries and FATF blacklisted countries.

Eight places by name, plus two categories with their contents held elsewhere. It is a short list by the standards of this market — the longer country lists that circulate under this brand elsewhere were absent from the document read.

Two of the eight are worth a second glance. The operator bars Curaçao, the jurisdiction whose gaming authority appears against its permit number in the public register, and it bars the Kingdom of the Netherlands entire. Offshore licensing usually works that way round: the permit is issued on the condition that the licensee stays out of the issuing territory.

What this page is, and what it declines to be

Everything above describes a contract. A company has written down whom it will accept as a customer, and that sentence binds the company and the person who agrees to it.

Whether a resident of a given US state may lawfully place an online wager is a different question with a different source: federal statute, state legislation, and the courts and regulators that apply them. That question is answered by law rather than by a casino’s terms, and this site takes no position on it, names no statute, and rates no state as permissive.

Keeping the two apart matters because pages that merge them end up printing the word “legal” beside a state name on the strength of an operator’s terms of service, which have no authority over the point whatsoever. A contract can tell you the door is shut. Only the law can tell you what standing you have in front of it.

What the clause attaches to access from a barred place

Three sentences in clause 3.2 describe consequences, and they resolve in different directions. The first covers access itself:

Any account accessed from a restricted state will have all access rights revoked and any balance contained in the account may be considered void.

Note how the two halves are drafted. Access rights “will” be revoked — stated as a certainty. The balance “may be considered void” — a reserved right rather than an automatic outcome, exercised at the operator’s election. Anyone reading this as a schedule of penalties should read it as a schedule of permissions instead: the clause tells you what the company is allowed to do, and leaves it free to do less.

The second sentence puts a duty on the customer and ends somewhere gentler:

You are required to notify us immediately should you intend to relocate to or visit a restricted state, your account will then be placed on a temporary hold or permanently closed dependent on the circumstance with any balance available being returned to you.

A declared move produces a hold or a closure, with the balance available returned. So the contract already draws a line between telling the operator and being found out, and it draws it around the money.

The third sentence is the shortest of the three:

Any attempt on your part to circumvent these restrictions by any means will result in your accounts closure and any balance considered forfeit.

Forfeit, with the discretionary “may” of the first sentence gone. That is the whole of what this site publishes on the subject of getting around a territorial rule: the clause exists, it ends in confiscation, and there is nothing further to add in either direction.

Two entries that have no fixed contents

Eight of the ten items in clause 3.2 are ordinary place names. The remaining two point at lists kept by the United Nations and by the Financial Action Task Force, organisations that have nothing to do with this operator and revise their contents on their own schedule.

The contract attaches neither a date nor a version to either pointer. A country therefore enters or leaves the barred set when those bodies act, without a word being changed in the terms and without any announcement from the operator. For a reader in a country near either list, the eight fixed names are the easy part of the clause; the two moving ones are where the real uncertainty sits.

The other gate in the same section

Clause 3.1 sits immediately above and settles a different legality question, the one about age:

Registration, opening an account and betting are permitted only for persons above the age of 18 or of legal age and full legal capacity stipulated by their local law.

The drafting defers to local law wherever local law sets a higher bar, which is how the figure 18 in a contract sits beside a higher minimum in a statute without contradiction. A reader whose jurisdiction sets 19 or 21 is held to that number by this sentence, and the operator has written the deferral in rather than leaving it to be argued.

The same clause keeps a remedy in reserve: “We reserve the right to void any wagers if you are not of full legal capacity.” Read beside 3.2, the shape repeats — a rule stated, then a right reserved to unwind what happened under it. Both sentences belong to section 3 of the document read in full on 2 September 2026, which makes that section the one to open first.

Where these documents were read, and what that shows

The terms, the betting rules, the privacy document and the responsible gaming page were opened on a capture machine in the Netherlands — a jurisdiction clause 3.2 names in its own first line. Reading a company’s published terms is a separate act from holding an account with it, and the wording quoted above is the wording that address served on 2 September 2026.

One practical detail came out of the same session. Four conventional addresses for a terms document, under /en/legal/ and /legal/, all returned the operator’s 404 page; the documents live under /content/. A reader who goes looking for the restricted-jurisdictions clause at the usual place finds an error screen and can easily conclude the operator publishes nothing on the question, when in fact it publishes the sentence at the top of this page.

What a US-based reader learns from this page

One thing, narrow and firm: the company has written down that it bars the country, so the account question closes there and no state-level reading changes it. Everything else a reader might want from a page with this title — a ranking of permissive states, a route round the clause, a view on federal law — is absent by choice, and two of those three are absent on principle.

What the contract does next, once an account exists anywhere in the world, is a longer story told in five clauses: dormancy, transfer errors, suspicion of money laundering, verification at the operator’s discretion, and this territorial clause. They are set out under what stops an account. The permit number the register carries and the silence of the contract about its own licence are compared under is this operator legitimate. Operators whose own territory clauses were read on the same rules sit in the esports comparison and on the alternatives hub, and the standard behind every quotation here is written out in the method.

Questions people actually type

Is Thunderpick legal in the USA?
Two questions live inside that one, and this page answers the first. The operator’s clause 3.2, read in full on 2 September 2026, names the USA among the jurisdictions whose residents it bars, so as a matter of the company’s own contract a US-based account falls outside what it offers. The second question — what US federal and state law permit a resident to do — belongs to legislators and courts. This site names no statute and takes no position on it.
Which US states is Thunderpick legal in?
The contract answers at country level, which means the state layer never opens. Clause 3.2 lists the USA alongside Curaçao, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and its Caribbean territories, plus UN sanctioned and FATF blacklisted countries. A state whose own law happens to permit some form of online wagering leaves that sentence exactly as it is: the operator has still declined the country.
Is Thunderpick legal in California, Texas or New York?
Each of those phrasings reaches the same sentence. The clause names the USA, and nothing in the terms read on 2 September 2026 breaks the country down by state, licence or product. So the honest answer to twelve differently worded searches is one clause, and the differences between state gambling statutes — real and substantial as they are — change the operator’s position on an account by nothing at all.
What happens to a balance if an account is accessed from a barred place?
Clause 3.2 sets out the consequence in its own words: “Any account accessed from a restricted state will have all access rights revoked and any balance contained in the account may be considered void.” Revocation is stated flatly; the balance sits under “may”, which reserves a decision to the operator rather than promising one outcome. Read on 2 September 2026.
What does the contract say about moving to a barred country?
It puts a duty on the customer and describes a softer outcome: “You are required to notify us immediately should you intend to relocate to or visit a restricted state, your account will then be placed on a temporary hold or permanently closed dependent on the circumstance with any balance available being returned to you.” A declared move ends with the balance returned. That is the operator’s wording, quoted as printed.
Can the barred list change after I open an account?
Two entries on it are already moving targets by design: UN sanctioned countries and FATF blacklisted countries are defined by bodies outside the contract, which revise their own lists on their own schedule. The eight named places are fixed text as read on 2 September 2026, and the two categories are whatever those organisations publish on the day a question arises.