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Online Casino Reviews

Every casino listed here has had its licence found in the public register of the regulator for the market it is listed in — today that is the UK Gambling Commission — and every number on its page was read either from the operator's own documents, on a dated capture we stored with a checksum, or from the regulator's register. Nothing is copied from another comparison site, and no operator can buy a position in any list.

That produces a site with fewer casinos and more gaps than its competitors, and the gaps are deliberate. Where a bonus term was not stated on the page we read, the column is empty rather than filled from a guess. Where we have not tested something, the criterion is not scored and its points leave the total the score is calculated out of — which is why most reviews here carry a figure such as "N of 100 points assessed" next to the score.

The alternative is what the rest of this market does: a confident number on every row, averaged from criteria nobody checked, with no date attached. It reads better. It cannot be falsified, which is the same thing as saying it cannot be trusted.

No withdrawal on this site has been timed with our own money, so six of the sixteen payout points are unassessed on every review. Nothing has been tested on a real handset with a funded account, so the six mobile points are unassessed everywhere. No support line has been contacted three times at three different hours, so five of the six support points are unassessed too.

Those gaps are part of the reason 21 of the 59 casinos in this catalogue carry no score at all: we publish one only when at least 40 of the 100 points have actually been checked, because below that a number describes our own incompleteness rather than the casino.

They will close in a specific order — bonus terms first, because they are readable; then deposits and timed withdrawals, which need money on account. Every page that changes will carry the date it changed.

If you want to check a specific site, the licence check tool answers the only question with a definite answer: which company holds the licence, what it covers, and whether it is active. It takes a domain and a few seconds, and it works for sites we do not review.

If you are choosing between casinos, the reviews index is the honest starting point rather than the top list. Each review opens with the same nine checks, prints how much of the rating method could be assessed, and says plainly where a score is withheld because too little was readable.

If you are looking at an offer, the bonus section carries the date somebody read each set of terms in full — the figure that goes stale fastest and the one nobody else publishes. The wagering calculator turns any offer into the two numbers that decide whether it is worth taking: the turnover required, and what generating it is expected to cost.

And if something has already gone wrong, the guides cover the routes that actually work: how to raise a complaint so that it counts as one, what an alternative dispute resolution provider can and cannot do, and what to do when a withdrawal has stalled behind a verification request.