Meet David Clarke,
our editor-in-chief.

David founded SlotsGamblers in September 2025, after a bad experience with an unlicensed offshore operator — a withdrawal that never arrived, then went unanswered for weeks while the operator's support queue simply stopped replying. He posted the whole thing as a Reddit thread out of frustration, more to vent than anything else, and the reply count told him he wasn't the only one who'd been burned; what struck him wasn't the number of replies so much as how many of them described the exact same pattern — a licence badge in the footer that turned out to be decorative, a support team that went quiet the moment a payout was actually due. He started the site because he wanted the checks he'd wished someone had done for him to exist in one honest place, and he runs it as editor-in-chief while still owning the casino review desk directly. The name of the operator that started it all doesn't appear anywhere on the site — David has said in the about page and in interviews that naming it wouldn't change anything for readers now, and the point was never to settle a personal score but to build a process that would have caught the problem before he ever deposited a cent.

He built the desk on one habit, carried over from that first Reddit thread: verify a licence on the regulator's actual register, not the logo in the footer, and read every claim back to its source before it goes anywhere near a published page. That habit is the whole reason the desk exists in its current shape — every specialist who joined afterwards was hired to extend it into a part of the review David couldn't personally cover at scale once the site grew past one person. That's why he signs off every review the site publishes, is the only person allowed to remove an operator from the index, and keeps a public corrections log — every edit dated and initialled — so any figure on the site can be challenged and traced back to who wrote it and when. The log isn't a formality he tolerates; he checks it himself most weeks, partly to catch drift and partly because a reader who spots a wrong number and can't see it corrected in public has no reason to trust the next number either — and once a review is corrected, he expects whoever produced the original figure to explain how it got past their own check, not just fix the number and move on. You can reach him directly at [email protected], and he answers most editorial queries himself rather than routing them to a general inbox.

At launch he did every job himself — read every T&C, ran every cashout, wrote every review — which meant the site's early output was slow but the standard was never in question, because there was no one else's judgement to check it against. These days he leans on the specialists around him and won't clear a review until Helen Robinson has fact-checked it and Andrew Murray has co-signed the responsible-gambling side alongside him. He still reads the full review before it publishes, though — sign-off isn't a rubber stamp, and he's sent work back to a desk more than once when a claim didn't hold up under his own re-read, including a bonus write-up that Kevin had to re-model after David spotted a wagering clause that read differently once he traced it back to the operator's own terms page rather than the summary Kevin had first worked from. He treats those moments as the system working as intended rather than a failure on the desk's part — better a review gets bounced back internally than published with a claim that doesn't survive scrutiny. It's also, he's said, the reason he kept the casino review desk for himself rather than handing it to a specialist the way he did with games, payments and bonuses: the desk he owns personally is the one most directly tied to whether a reader ends up with money in their account or stuck in a dispute queue, and he doesn't want that judgement call resting on anyone else's name. Every other desk at SlotsGamblers has a named owner besides David — Claire runs games, Kevin runs bonuses, Marc runs payments, Nathalie runs the scoring model, Andrew runs compliance, Susan runs news, Helen runs fact-check — and the casino review desk is the one exception, which he's said more than once is deliberate rather than an oversight he hasn't gotten around to fixing. Claire's game testing, Kevin's bonus modelling and Marc's payout runs all still feed into a casino review the same way they would for any other content on the site, and Helen fact-checks a casino review exactly as hard as she fact-checks anything else — what's different is that David reads the licence documentation and ownership trail himself for every single casino, rather than assigning that specific step to a specialist the way he's assigned games to Claire or payments to Marc. He's told the desk the day he hires someone to take over licence verification is the day the site's core promise changes, and it's not a day he's planning any time soon.

Based in London, he covers GB, CA and US casinos, and treats the three markets as genuinely different — a licence that's fine in one isn't automatically fine in another, and he checks each separately rather than assuming a UKGC-licensed operator's standing carries over to how it's allowed to operate in Ontario, or that a Curaçao-licensed site acceptable for a US audience means anything for a UK reader under GamStop. The affiliate links only switch on once a site has earned its place on the index; if it hasn't, it doesn't make the list, partner or not, and he's the one who enforces that line when a partnership conversation gets awkward — he's turned down placement fees from operators who wanted to skip the queue, and it's the kind of call that has to sit with the founder rather than anyone further down the desk, and he's said turning down that revenue never once felt like the harder decision compared to explaining a bad listing to a reader afterwards. It's the same rule he wrote down in September 2025, and it hasn't been quietly loosened since; if anything, adding Helen's fact-check layer this June made it harder to clear, not easier.