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Editorial desk · live Last reviewed · 2 Aug 2026
Independent · UK & Canada desks Est. Sep 2025

We test the casinos — so you don’t lose finding out which ones are honest.

SlotsGamblers is an eight-person editorial team based across the UK and Canada — London, Leeds, Toronto, Montréal. Our first page went live in October 2025. The index now carries 83 reviews across 11 markets, and 233 dated editorial entries record the checks behind them. Every casino here is tested, scored and re-checked by someone on this masthead — and every change is dated and signed on that person’s own timeline. Zero paid placements. Ever.

0 paid placements 233 dated editorial entries Two-editor sign-off Public corrections log
8 staff5 FT · 3 retainer
83Reviews live
AllPayout terms tested
0Paid placements
01Who we are

A small team that takes “independent” seriously.

Started in October 2025 around one stubborn question nobody was answering in public: is this casino actually licensed, and what do its terms really say once you read them at the source?

9mo
Publishing publicly
since Oct 2025
8
Editorial staff
5 FT · 3 retainer
3
Desks
UK · CANADA
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Paid placements
accepted · ever

Today the masthead is eight people — five full-time, three on long-term retainer — spread across the UK and Canada. The founder still personally signs off on every review the site publishes.

SlotsGamblers published its first page in October 2025, built around one Reddit thread that wouldn’t stop generating questions in the founder’s DMs. Rather than sit on a private archive, we published from day one under our own URL, with the firewall and disclosures already in place. The team has grown steadily since — new reviewers and auditors joining every few months as the workload and standards demanded it. Different cities, but one shared review queue: the desk starts most mornings with whatever Helen flagged overnight, and nothing moves off that queue until the right two people have put their name to it.

What hasn’t changed since launch: every review you see was written by someone in this team, sourced from primary documents, and signed off by two editors. If you’ve ever read a casino review that felt like a press release in a fancy hat — that’s the thing we built this site to not be.

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David Clarke Editor-in-Chief · Founder
Founded15 Sep 2025
02What we stand by

Three rules nobody in the room is allowed to break.

Written into our editorial charter. Breaching one is a sackable offence — and we’ve enforced it twice.
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Principle · Money

We deposit, play and cash out ourselves — on our own accounts.

Operators don’t hand us test funds, comp accounts or uncapped bonuses. We fund every account ourselves, play the offer through its own terms and request the withdrawal like any other player — then check what happened against the operator’s own banking page and re-check on a rotation, so when a stated window moves the review moves with it.

Enforced since launch · 0 exceptions
Principle · Edit

Affiliate teams never see a draft before it ships.

The commercial side of SlotsGamblers has no read access to live reviews until they’re already public. If a brand asks to “clarify a few points” before publication, the answer is the same answer it’s been since launch: no.

Read-only CMS · audited quarterly
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Principle · Errors

Every correction is logged on the page, in public.

If we get something wrong — a wagering term, a license number, a payout window — the change is dated, stamped with the editor’s initials, and left at the foot of the article. We don’t silently rewrite history.

2 staff exits · both for hidden edits
03How a review actually happens

Five stages, roughly six weeks, before a casino is ranked.

No shortcuts. No first-impression scoring. Every review on this site has been through this exact process at least once — and is re-tested every nine months while the operator stays in our index.

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Step 01

License & ownership trace

What we check: the licence on the regulator’s own register, the corporate filing behind it, and the ultimate beneficial owners. Operators with hidden ownership chains are rejected before testing goes any further.

~ 3–5 days
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Step 02

Sign-up, deposit & KYC

A reviewer registers on their own ID and funds the account themselves. What we check: how many steps the sign-up really takes, which deposit methods actually go through, the verification documents demanded, the fees, and the minimum and maximum limits — against what the operator’s own pages promise.

~ 1 day
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Step 03

Bonus & game library play-test

We claim the welcome offer and play it through. What we check: wagering basis, game weighting, max bet during wagering, time limit and the max-cashout clause — whether the terms behave the way they read, the published RTP of every headline game, and the live-dealer and slot libraries against each studio’s own catalogue.

~ 14–28 days
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Step 04

Withdrawal test

We request the withdrawal ourselves and follow it to the account. What we check: what verification gets asked for at that moment, whether the caps behave as published — minimum, per-day and per-week — and what the fee schedule really costs. We publish the slowest window, never the headline one.

~ 1–10 days
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Step 05

Two-editor sign-off

Score is locked only after the Editor-in-Chief and the Compliance & RG Auditor both sign off. Disagreements are resolved by re-test, not by averaging.

~ 2 days
04The masthead

Eight people. Every byline is one of them.

Each profile links to the reviewer’s full byline archive, their conflict-of-interest declaration, and a verified contact route. We do not publish under pseudonyms.
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David Clarke
Editor-in-Chief · Casino Reviews Lead · Founder
On desk now Final sign-off Since Sep 2025
Focus
Casino desk
Tenure
9mo

David started SlotsGamblers in October 2025, after months of watching the same licensing and payout questions go unanswered in public. He still owns the casino review desk directly and signs off on every review the site publishes, and is the only person on the team allowed to remove an operator from the index. At launch he was doing every job himself; these days he leans on the specialists around him — he won’t clear a review until Helen has checked the facts and Andrew has signed off on the RG side alongside him.

licensing AML/KYC audit
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Kevin Martin
Bonuses & Promotions Analyst
On desk now T&C tear-downs Since Nov 2025
Focus
Bonus desk
Tenure
8mo

Kevin reads bonus T&Cs the way other people read mystery novels. He runs the spreadsheet that calculates the true expected value of every welcome offer in our index, and won’t let a wagering requirement live in a review without a worked example next to it. Once the maths is done, Marc checks it against what the banking page actually states — and when the two disagree, Kevin re-reads the clause before either of them will sign off on the number.

wagering welcome offers EV modelling
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Susan Taylor
News & Industry Editor
On desk now Industry desk Since Apr 2026
Desk
News desk
Tenure
3mo

Susan tracks operator ownership changes, licence status updates and regulatory movement across every market we cover. If a casino changes hands or loses a licence, she flags the operator profile within 48 hours — often before the operator’s own press release goes out. From there it’s David’s desk to update the review and Andrew’s to work out what it means for the RG section, so she pings both the moment anything moves.

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Marc Gagnon
Banking & Payments Reviewer
On desk now Withdrawal lab Since Jan 2026
Desk
Payments desk
Tenure
6mo

Marc owns the banking desk — every payout figure on the site traces back to a clause he has read at its source, including the awkward ones buried in a verification policy rather than on the banking page. If a payout time on SlotsGamblers says 24 hours, Marc has the operator’s own wording and the date he read it, checked against the wagering maths Kevin pulls from the T&Cs first. When the two don’t line up — a “24h payout” that’s really 24 hours after wagering clears, say — it goes straight back to Kevin to re-read the clause.

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Claire Wilson
Slots & Games Reviewer
On desk now RTP audits Since Sep 2025
Focus
Slots desk
Tenure
9mo

Claire runs the SlotsGamblers games desk and owns the slot-library audit process. Every game listed on this site has been checked against the studio’s own game sheet by her or someone reporting to her — no provider catalogue is taken at face value. Once a library’s tested, the findings go straight to David for final sign-off on the casino review itself; she also maintains the live-dealer studio coverage map.

RTP math live dealer providers
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Andrew Murray
Auditor · Compliance & RG
2nd sign-off Retainer Since Sep 2025
Owns
Compliance
Tenure
9mo

Andrew holds the second sign-off on every review the site publishes, alongside David — the two of them close out every single one together before it goes live, and neither signs without the other. He owns the responsible-gambling section of every operator profile and maintains our internal blocklist of any site that has refused a self-exclusion request in the last 24 months. Liaison with BetStop and Gambling Help Online.

UK gambling regulation BetStop RG policy
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Nathalie Côté
Auditor · Data & Methodology
Owns the score Retainer Since Mar 2026
Runs
Scoring model
Tenure
4mo

Nathalie built the model that turns our 64-point reviewer checklist into the SlotsGamblers composite score, and she audits it every quarter against the operator-complaint dataset the team has been building since launch. Every score is downstream of the whole desk — Claire’s RTP numbers, Marc’s payout terms, Kevin’s bonus EV, Andrew’s RG flags — and she’s the one who chases a desk when its figures don’t line up before they go in. If a casino’s rank moves on this site, it moved through her code first.

scoring volatility complaint data
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Helen Robinson
Auditor · Fact-Check & QA
Pre-publish QA Retainer Since Jun 2026
Focus
Fact-check
Tenure
1mo

Helen cross-checks every bonus term, licence number and payout claim against its source before a review goes live — David’s casino write-ups, Kevin’s bonus maths, Marc’s payout terms, Claire’s RTP claims, Susan’s news pieces, all of it passes across her desk — and maintains the public corrections log when something slips through anyway. She’s one month in and still learning everyone’s shorthand, but she’s already caught two payout figures that didn’t match Marc’s own notes. Nothing publishes without her sign-off on the facts.

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05Independence & funding

Where the money comes from — and where it doesn’t.

We’re an affiliate publisher. Casinos pay us a share of revenue when a reader signs up via one of our links. We think this model is fine — on one condition: it can never be allowed to influence what we write. Here’s how we keep it that way.

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Revenue model
Performance affiliate only. Standard CPA + revenue-share, identical terms across every brand. No paid placement, ever.
Disclosed
Editorial firewall
The two people who negotiate commercial deals (founder + commercial lead) have read-only access to the CMS. They cannot edit, score, rank or remove a review.
Audited
Brand veto power
None. Operators are not given a draft before publication and have zero approval rights over wording, score, or rank position.
Zero
Ranked & unpaid
Several operators in our top-25 have no commercial relationship with us at all. See the ledger — updated quarterly.
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Things we’ve refused
Sponsored editorial, “guest” bylines, hosted press trips and equity stakes in operators. None of it is for sale here.
Standing policy
06Our editorial commitments

Four promises we keep to readers, in writing.

Upheld · reviewed quarterly
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Own-account testingWe fund every test account ourselves
Since Sep 2025 In force
Editorial firewallCommercial team has read-only access
Audited quarterly In force
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Public corrections logEvery edit dated & signed
Per article In force
RG
Responsible playOperator blocklist for self-exclusion refusals
Updated monthly In force
07Reader questions

The six things readers ask us most about how this site is made.

How long has SlotsGamblers been reviewing casinos?+

SlotsGamblers published its first page in October 2025. We started with a founding team of three — David, Claire and Andrew — and have brought on new reviewers and auditors every few months since, as the workload and our own standards demanded it. In the nine months since then we’ve published 83 reviews across 11 markets and logged 233 dated editorial entries against them — each one visible on the author’s own profile timeline. The masthead is now eight people, and growing.

Are your reviews paid?+

No casino pays us to be reviewed, ranked, or featured. We earn affiliate commission when readers sign up via our links — on standard CPA or revenue-share terms that are identical for every brand we work with. The commercial team has no input on editorial scoring; see the funding section above for the full firewall.

How often are reviews re-tested?+

Every operator in our active index is fully re-reviewed on a 9-month rolling cycle, and spot-checked monthly for license status, payout times, and complaint volume. If anything material changes — a license suspension, an ownership transfer, a sudden spike in complaints — we publish a flag on the operator’s profile within 48 hours.

Can I submit a complaint about a casino?+

Yes. Use our complaint submission form. We log every complaint received, attempt mediation with the operator on your behalf, and track resolution rates publicly. Operators with unresolved complaints above our threshold are removed from the rankings until they fix it.

Do you accept guest posts or sponsored content?+

No. We don’t accept guest posts, sponsored editorial, native advertising, or any other arrangement that would put third-party-authored content alongside our reviews. If you receive an outreach email from someone claiming to represent SlotsGamblers offering paid placement, please forward it to us — it’s a scam.

How do I contact the editor about a factual error?+

Email [email protected] with the article URL and the error. We aim to respond within one business day, and every correction we make is logged on the article itself with a date and the editor’s initials. Material errors get a banner at the top of the page for 30 days.

08Get in touch

Found something we got wrong? Tell us.

We answer every legitimate email. Editorial questions, complaints about an operator, press, partnerships — pick the right channel and someone on the masthead above will reply.

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