How we rate casinos on this site

The 15 points

Every brand in the pool is recorded against the same 15 points, and every review page carries the same 15 headings in the same order. The list is short because each point has to be checkable by a reader from a public source — a point that only we could verify would be worth nothing to anyone reading it.

1. The company named on the licence. Who actually holds the Gambling Commission licence the brand trades under. It is often not the brand name: sixteen of the twenty brands in our pool share a licence account with another brand.
2. The licence account number. The account number on the public register, so the entry can be opened and read without taking our word for it.
3. Whether the licence covers Great Britain. A remote casino licence valid for Great Britain, not a licence from another jurisdiction that happens to accept British players.
4. The year the brand launched. Recorded only where a year is published. A brand with no stated launch year gets no launch year on our page.
5. The welcome offer, worded as the operator words it. Copied from the operator’s own published terms rather than rewritten into a bigger-sounding number.
6. The smallest qualifying deposit. The amount that actually unlocks the offer, which is frequently larger than the site’s minimum deposit.
7. Whether the offer carries wagering at all. A wager-free offer and a wagered one are different products, so the distinction is recorded before the multiple is.
8. The wagering multiple, where there is one. Since 19 January 2026 a wagering requirement on a new-customer offer cannot exceed ten times the qualifying amount; the figure we record is the one the operator publishes.
9. How many free spins the offer includes. Counted as published, with the game or games they are tied to where those are named.
10. The currency the offer is stated in. An offer written in euros is not an offer in pounds, and the difference reaches the qualifying deposit.
11. A dated source for the offer. Every offer on this site carries the page it was read from and the date it was read. No source, no offer.
12. Whether there are live dealer tables in the British lobby. Recorded for the lobby a British account sees, not for the brand’s international site.
13. Whether a sportsbook sits on the same account. It changes what a deposit limit covers and what a self-exclusion closes, so it is a fact about the account, not a feature list.
14. How many established British review sites list the brand. Out of six long-running British casino review sites we read, counted per brand. A brand that none of them lists is not disqualified by that alone — it is shown as what it is.
15. Whether our link to the brand is a commercial one. Marked on the link itself and stated on the page. Every commercial link on this site is disclosed; none of them changes the order of a list.

What we do not do

This half of the page matters more than the half above it. Most of what a casino portal claims about itself cannot be checked by anyone, and the claims below are the ones we have seen made most often and do not make.

• We do not open accounts and we do not deposit money. Nothing on this site is written as personal play, because none of it is. Where a page describes what happens at a cashier or in a lobby, it describes the published rule or the published term behind it.
• We do not contact operators, and no operator reads a page before it goes up. A brand cannot correct, delay or approve what we publish about it, and none of them has been asked to.
• We do not publish star ratings, user reviews or scores we cannot show the working for. A number that no reader can reconstruct is decoration. Where a list is ordered, the page says what ordered it.
• We do not claim years of experience, a team of testers or an office. This site is a set of records kept against public sources. That is the whole of the authority it has.
• We do not let a commercial link move a brand up a list. Commercial links are marked wherever they appear, and brands we have no commercial arrangement with sit on the same lists on the same terms.
• We do not print a figure, a date or a licence detail without a source. A missing fact is shown as missing. It is never filled in with a typical value, a rounded one or one taken from a different market.

Where the facts come from

Licence status, the company holding the licence and the account number are read from the Gambling Commission’s public register, which anyone can search by brand or by company. Offers, qualifying deposits and wagering are read from the operator’s own terms page. Rules quoted in the guides — stake limits, deposit limit wording, reverse-withdrawal, the advertising code — are quoted from the instrument or the licence condition that carries them, with the date it took effect. Whether a brand is listed by other British review sites is counted across 6 long-running ones, and the count is printed on the brand’s page rather than folded into a score.

When a fact is missing

A field with no source stays empty. A brand that does not publish its launch year has no launch year here; a brand that does not state a wagering multiple has no multiple here. Nothing is estimated from a similar brand, rounded to a usual value or carried over from another market, and a missing field is never read as a point against the brand — only as a fact we could not source.

How the order on a list page is set

Lists are ordered by how much of the 15 is filled and how it is filled — a current British licence, an offer with a readable source, wagering within the cap, and whether other British review sites list the brand. Commercial links are marked wherever they appear and do not move a brand. Where a list is cut to a length, the page says how long it is and why.

Corrections

Offers and licence details change, and a page can be out of date between one reading and the next. Anything on this site that does not match the source it cites is a mistake on our side: the contact page reaches the people who keep these records, and a correction is made to the page itself rather than noted somewhere else.