89PHP Pragmatic Play Games — Studio, Licences & Titles

Pragmatic Play is one of the studios covered on this site with corporate detail that can be checked directly, so this page sets out what can be checked and marks what cannot be.

Who Pragmatic Play is

A catalogue size is not published. Nothing in the studio’s own statements puts a number on its titles.

Titles covered on this site

This site has its own page for 6 Pragmatic Play titles: Sweet Bonanza, Big Bass Splash, Sweet Bonanza 1000, Big Bass Bonanza, Gates of Olympus, Gates of Olympus 1000.

Pragmatic Play itself picks these titles to feature on its own pages: Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus, The Dog House, Wolf Gold, Sugar Rush. This is the studio promoting its own catalogue. What any casino carries is not stated by it, and neither is which of them have pages on this site.

Whether Pragmatic Play publishes RTP

An RTP quoted for one of Pragmatic Play’s titles can be traced to the studio and not an aggregator, since the studio publishes a return-to-player figure on its own game pages.

Each title’s game page on Pragmatic’s own site carries one published RTP, and that figure is the top of a set. Gates of Olympus 1000 runs at 96.50 / 95.51 / 94.50 per cent and Sweet Bonanza 1000 at 96.53 / 95.52 / 94.51, examples of the three operator-selectable configurations that independent records show most titles ship in, whose lower ones Pragmatic’s pages do not disclose. So the RTP quoted for Pragmatic is the best configuration on offer, and the configuration any given operator is running need not be that one.

This matters more than it sounds. Without a primary source behind it, a return-to-player figure repeated across comparison sites is not evidence of anything; such a figure is only as good as its source.

Licences the studio holds

Records list the following for Pragmatic Play: Malta Gaming Authority, UK Gambling Commission, PAGCOR, all historical and no longer current. Studio licence and operator licence are not interchangeable: the first covers the company making the games, the second the casino offering them, and a player’s recourse runs through the operator’s regulator, not the studio’s.

• Malta Gaming Authority — Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited holds MGA/B2B/619/2018, the licence in question. Confirmed on the MGA’s own verification portal instead of Pragmatic’s site: B2B Critical Supply Licence, casino vertical, status Licensed.
• UK Gambling Commission — Pragmatic Play (Gibraltar) Limited holds account 56015 and licence 056015-R-332216-005, and the UKGC public register confirms its active status.
• PAGCOR — historical, and no longer current — In September 2016 came Pragmatic Play’s announcement of a PAGCOR offshore gaming licence. By 31 December 2024 all offshore licences were required to expire, and PAGCOR confirmed their cancellation, so the Philippines has since abolished that entire framework. As though current, the 2016 announcement keeps getting quoted, and it has stayed online. It is not.

Pragmatic Play in the Philippine market

From 2016 it held a PAGCOR offshore licence, but with effect from the end of 2024 that regime was abolished. This site treats Pragmatic’s current Philippine status as unresolved, rather than repeating the 2016 announcement, because Pragmatic states nothing about it.

Playing Pragmatic Play games at 89PHP

1. Sign in at 89PHP and open the game lobby.
2. Pragmatic Play is available as a lobby filter; otherwise search for a title by name.
3. Before you start playing, open the info screen of a game and you will see its stake range and paytable.
4. Start by setting a session budget, then stake low while you are learning a new title.