ThrillTech Secures LOTBA Supplier Registration, Bringing ThrillPots to Buenos Aires City Operators
ThrillTech, which calls itself the Side Bets Company, has secured official supplier registration with Lotería de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (LOTBA), the gambling regulator for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The registration approves the company as a supplier of online gaming technology under LOTBA’s rules.
Announced on 5 November 2026, the approval opens Buenos Aires City to ThrillTech’s player-funded side-bet product, and marks its latest move in a steady push across Latin America. For licensed operators in the city, it means one clear thing: they can now add ThrillPots.
What ThrillTech’s Buenos Aires City registration unlocks for operators
With the LOTBA registration in place, licensed operators in Buenos Aires City can add ThrillPots, ThrillTech’s side-bet jackpot engine. The platform is content-agnostic, which simply means it sits on top of existing casino and sports betting games rather than replacing them.
The side bets it adds are optional, and players choose whether to take part. They also run separately from the main game and its certified return-to-player rates. So the base game keeps working exactly as approved, with the side-bet layer sitting on top for players who opt in.
How ThrillPots player-funded jackpots change the operator maths
The commercial side is where it gets interesting. ThrillPots prize pools are funded entirely by the players who opt in, not by the operator. That lets operators offer growing progressive jackpots and lift engagement without spending from their marketing budgets.
According to ThrillTech, the model also stops operators losing liquidity to shared jackpot pools run outside their own ecosystem. The read for operators is simple: it’s a way to earn extra, high-margin revenue without the usual cost of winning or holding player attention. In a Latin American market where everyone is chasing the same players, revenue that doesn’t cost marketing spend is a real draw.
The jurisdiction detail worth noting in Argentina
One point is easy to miss in a market-entry announcement. Argentina doesn’t license online gambling at a single national level. Instead, licensing happens jurisdiction by jurisdiction. This LOTBA registration covers the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires on its own, not the whole country.
That makes each Argentine jurisdiction a separate opportunity rather than one national opening, and it puts this win in its proper place: access to one of the region’s most important city markets, with others still to be won one at a time.
Where this sits in ThrillTech’s growing regulatory footprint
Buenos Aires City joins a list of markets where ThrillTech already holds B2B licences and certifications, including the United Kingdom, Sweden, Romania, Greece, Malta, Gibraltar, Ontario and Peru. The company also holds ISO 27001 certification and says it processes billions of transactions every month.
Amy Santos, Chief Operating Officer at ThrillTech, commented:
“Securing our LOTBA supplier registration marks an exciting milestone for ThrillTech and another important step in our continued expansion across Latin America. We’re delighted to bring ThrillPots to operators in Argentina, offering an innovative, player-funded side-bet jackpot solution that enhances player engagement and creates new revenue opportunities for operators. This achievement reinforces our commitment to delivering innovative, compliant solutions that bring real value to both operators and their players.”
What ThrillTech’s Argentina entry signals for the side-bet market
Side bets have moved from a novelty to a recognised way of keeping players engaged across regulated markets, and approvals like this one show suppliers treating Latin America as a priority rather than an afterthought. As more operators look for features that bring in revenue without eating into margin, player-funded models are likely to keep spreading from one jurisdiction to the next, with Buenos Aires City now the latest example.
Source: ThrillTech
