Russian ruble-facing illegal gambling sites are dropping trader-based card payout methods as Blask sees the unlicensed market fall to 40% in June 2026

On the biggest illegal ruble gambling projects, methods that rely on traders moving money to drop cards have practically disappeared, with vodkabet named as the exception. For PSPs and acquiring teams watching high-risk flows in Russia, the more useful signal is the market structure: Blask says the unlicensed online gambling