CSGORoll: The Gambling Winnings That Have No Monetary Value

On 22 October, CSGORoll was offering 100 Roll Coins for €62.30. Customers could use those coins to open virtual cases, enter competitions against other players or play casino-style games.

The website also offered a way to exchange winnings for genuine Counter-Strike skins, delivered through Steam's trading system.

Those items can be bought and sold on independent marketplaces. Some command prices running into thousands of pounds.

CSGORoll's terms nevertheless state that its coins and skins have no monetary value. They also prohibit customers from selling skins obtained through the website for cash.

The operator accepts money for credits, provides games with published house edges and facilitates the transfer of prizes into an external market. Yet it maintains that the prizes have no monetary value.

A casino chip by another name

A casino chip cannot ordinarily be spent in a supermarket. Its value comes from what the casino will give the holder in exchange.

CSGORoll has no equivalent cash desk for Roll Coins. Instead, customers can use their balance to obtain genuine Counter-Strike skins, subject to the availability of items and the platform's trading rules.

The process begins with real money and can end with an item that has an independently observable market price.

CSGORoll separates that process into several transactions. Customers purchase Roll Coins, which its terms describe as having no cash value. They use those coins on games that award further coins or virtual prizes known as CSGR Skins.

A CSGR Skin is not necessarily the genuine Counter-Strike item pictured on the screen. Under the operator's terms, it represents a value within CSGORoll's own system.

Customers can subsequently request an actual CS2 skin through the website's trading arrangements. The item is transferred between Steam users rather than being delivered from an inventory held by CSGORoll.

The resulting skin can leave the website altogether.

The operator has separated the purchase, the gambling activity and the delivery of a transferable prize. Whether those separate transactions change the regulatory character of the activity is another matter.

What the odds reveal

GamRight examined a CSGORoll case on 21 October. Opening it cost 86.82 Roll Coins.

Among its 31 possible prizes was a rare sticker from the 2014 Katowice Counter-Strike tournament. The website valued it at 31,155 coins and gave it a probability of one in 100,000.

Using the published probabilities and valuations, GamRight calculated an expected return of 78.92 coins for each opening.

In 58% of openings, the customer would receive a prize valued at fewer than 25 coins.

These figures describe one case at the time GamRight recorded its prize table. They do not establish the average return across CSGORoll or the cash resale value of the prizes.

CSGORoll also offers case battles, in which several players purchase cases and compete over the resulting prizes. Its published rules say that the underlying cases retain their house edges. The battle determines how the prizes are distributed between participants.

The website's commercial arrangements extend to people who bring customers to it. Its affiliate material advertises commissions of up to 10% of qualifying referred gameplay under standard arrangements, while a separate promotion offers up to 20%. Eligible creators of community cases can also earn commissions when other players open them.

The skin that leaves the casino

A customer who wins a virtual representation of an expensive skin does not necessarily receive that exact item.

The operator's trading rules allow customers to request available skins and provide for alternative treatment when an item cannot be supplied or its valuation changes substantially.

Once a genuine skin has been transferred to a Steam inventory, however, it can be traded independently of CSGORoll.

The operator's terms prohibit customers from selling skins obtained through its service for real money. Breaches can result in account restrictions or suspension.

Its FAQ is more permissive about some other transactions. It expressly excludes skin-for-skin exchanges from its definition of real-world trading and makes a separate exception for transactions using the Steam Marketplace.

A player could therefore exchange a skin obtained through CSGORoll for another skin. The recipient might never have visited CSGORoll or agreed to its terms.

That recipient's contractual relationship with CSGORoll is not the same as the original player's. CSGORoll's restrictions do not ordinarily bind someone merely because they subsequently receive an item that passed through its service.

The operator may still enforce its agreement against its own customer. Its broader terms may also cover transactions intended to convert winnings into cash, even where an intermediate trade is involved.

But the ability to restrict an account is not the same as the ability to remove an item's external market value.

A genuine Counter-Strike skin can be transferred, traded and priced outside CSGORoll. Its value is not determined solely by the terms of the website through which it was first obtained.

What counts as money's worth?

CSGORoll's Terms of Service, effective 12 August 2026, identify Max Stacks Ltd, registered in Nevis, as the operator.

The terms say the website is not a gambling site and describe Roll Coins and skins as having no monetary value.

They also distinguish purchased Roll Coins from promotional Roll Chips. Roll Coins cannot be redeemed directly for cash or cryptocurrency. Eligible Roll Chips obtained through promotional arrangements may be redeemable for cryptocurrency under separate conditions.

For customers buying Roll Coins, the relevant redemption route is through skins.

British gambling law does not necessarily require a prize to be paid in banknotes or transferred to a bank account.

The Gambling Commission's guidance on digital and virtual currencies addresses the circumstances in which virtual items can amount to money or money's worth, including where they can be exchanged for cash or other items of value. 1

A contractual prohibition on resale does not, by itself, settle that question.

Nor does the use of Steam to transfer the final item necessarily determine who is responsible for the gambling activity that preceded it.

There are further questions about CSGORoll's availability to customers in Great Britain and the authorisations that would be required for any regulated activity offered there. GamRight has not established that CSGORoll is operating unlawfully in Britain.

The wider industry has attracted government attention. A rapid evidence review commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport identified 54 skins-gambling websites. For 45 with usable traffic data, researchers estimated 6.94 million worldwide visits in February 2025, including 271,230 visits from Britain. 2

Those figures count estimated visits rather than individual customers. They are not evidence of unlawful conduct by CSGORoll.

The value outside the terms

CSGORoll does not offer customers a conventional casino cashier. It offers a marketplace and a route to genuine Counter-Strike items.

The operator's terms deny those items monetary value while prohibiting customers from selling them for money. Its trading system nevertheless allows the items to pass into Steam inventories and circulate beyond CSGORoll's platform.

There may be differences between the value CSGORoll assigns to a prize and the amount someone could obtain by selling a corresponding skin. Availability, market prices and transaction costs all affect the result.

But those differences concern how much an item is worth, not whether an external market exists.

The question for British gambling regulation is whether a customer who stakes purchased credits on a game of chance and receives a transferable item has won something of money's worth.

CSGORoll's terms say otherwise. The market for the items it facilitates transferring tells a more complicated story.