Editorial policy

Where figures come from

Bonus figures — the headline amount, the wagering multiple, the game weighting, the maximum bet while wagering, the cashout cap, the expiry window — are the operator's own, taken from the terms the operator publishes. We quote them, we do the arithmetic they imply, and we say on the page that the figure is the operator's and should be checked at the source before you deposit. Operators amend terms, often without notice, and a site that pretends otherwise is selling you a snapshot as a guarantee.

Where we work out a number ourselves, we show the arithmetic on the page so you can follow it or disagree with it: how much turnover a multiple implies, what a weighting table does to it, what a cap leaves of a win. Those are calculations, not quotations, and they are labeled as such.

Where there is no source, there is no field. An empty spot in a table means we could not find the figure in the operator's published terms. It does not become a dash that reads like a zero and it does not become an estimate.

Why the byline is the desk

Every page carries the same line at the top: edited by the EasyPlay.Vegas desk, with the date it was last edited. That is editorial attribution, and in the page's structured data the author is this publication rather than a person.

We do not invent authors. There are no stock photographs of writers, no job titles, no “fifteen years in the industry” and no counters of articles published or casinos reviewed. Affiliate sites manufacture all of it routinely, and none of it is verifiable by a reader, which makes it decoration at best. The attribution we give is the one we can stand behind: this desk wrote it, this desk checked it, and this is the day it was last touched.

What the date at the top means

The “edited” date is the day the page was actually last worked on. It is not refreshed on a schedule to look current, which is a common trick and a transparent one: a site where every one of several hundred pages claims to have been updated this morning is telling you nothing except that a script ran.

Where a page carries a publication date in its structured data, the page was written by us on that day. Pages inherited with this domain do not carry an invented publication date, because the day they were written is not knowable from anything we hold — and a date we cannot source is exactly the kind of number this policy forbids.

What we will not publish

• Claims of personal play we did not do. We read terms; we do not pretend to have deposited, chased a wagering requirement and cashed out with our own money at every casino on the site.
• Licenses nobody holds. No operator listed here is licensed by a US state regulator, so we do not write «licensed in the US», and we do not put regulator seals on pages. The actual position is set out in legality by state.
• Invented authority. No made-up awards, no undisclosed paid placements presented as editorial picks, no quotes from experts who do not exist.
• Urgency that is not real. No countdowns on offers that have no deadline, no «last three places» and no manufactured scarcity.
• Winner stories. They sell well, they cannot be checked, and they are the single most misleading thing an affiliate site can publish.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, write to [email protected]. We would rather hear it from a reader than leave it standing. What happens then:

1. We check the claim against the operator's current published terms.
2. If it is wrong, the page is corrected and the edit date changes with it.
3. If the change matters to a reader's decision — a wagering multiple that moved, a cap that appeared, a payment method that dropped off an eligibility list — the correction is also posted on the blog, so it is visible to someone who read the old version.

Our commercial relationship with operators does not buy a change to a page. We are paid when a reader opens an account, which is set out in the section below; it does not buy a better write-up, and an operator asking for one will be told this.

How this site is paid

This is the page the «How this site is paid» link in the footer of every page points at, and it is deliberately not a footnote. When a reader opens an account with an operator through one of our links, that operator may pay us a commission. It costs the reader nothing, it does not change the terms on offer, and it is the whole of our income from this site.

What follows from that, stated plainly:

• We are paid the same way whichever operator you choose, so there is nothing in it for us in steering you to one over another.
• We are not paid for a verdict. A commission is paid on an account opening, not on a write-up, and no operator has editorial sign-off here.
• Paid placements are labeled as paid, at the top of the page they appear on. Where a page carries one, the disclosure is part of the deal and not negotiable with the buyer — the terms we sell on are on the advertising page.
• A site paid by casinos has an interest in you opening an account. The only honest answer to that is to make the expensive parts of an account as visible as the headline, which is what the casino payouts section is for.

If this has stopped being entertainment

The National Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738). It takes calls and texts, has a chat service at 1800myreset.org, runs every day of the year and covers all fifty states. It is free, confidential and not a sales line for anybody.

It is not a crisis line. If someone is in danger right now, call 911, or 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Two more places, both independent of us and of any operator: Gamblers Anonymous for the person playing, and Gam-Anon for the family around them.

More from the desk

• About usWho writes this site, what it does not do, and how it is paid.
• How we rateThe questions the procedure asks — and the ones it cannot answer.
• Responsible gamblingLimits, self-exclusion, and the helpline that covers all fifty states.
• Legality by stateWhich states license online casino play, and what offshore costs you.