How we rate, and why there is no score
Edited checked by editorsby the EasyPlay.Vegas desk835 words
Most affiliate sites give a casino a number out of ten and do not say where it came from. We do not publish a score at all. What we publish is a set of clauses read out of the operator’s own terms, and this page is the procedure behind it.
21+ None of the operators listed here is licensed by a US state regulator; where you may legally play depends on your state. We take no bets, hold no money and run no games — every button leads to the operator’s own site, and the terms are theirs. T&Cs apply to every offer. How this site is paid.
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Why there is no score
A single number implies a measurement. To measure an operator honestly you would have to deposit, play through a bonus, request a withdrawal, wait, and repeat it often enough for the result to mean anything — at every casino on the site, and again whenever terms change. We have not done that, so we do not publish a figure that claims we did. Nothing on this site carries a rating out of ten, a star count or a percentage score.
What a reader actually needs from a bonus page is not a verdict but the five numbers that decide what the offer pays, and those are in the terms. So that is what we read, record and explain.
What we read, on every offer
- The wagering multiple, and what it applies to. The same multiple over bonus alone and over deposit plus bonus are two different amounts of turnover, and the wording is easy to miss.
- The game weighting. How much of a bet counts towards the requirement, by game type. This is where an offer that looks ordinary becomes impossible.
- The maximum bet while a bonus is live. It caps how fast the requirement can be cleared, and breaking it is the most common reason a cleared bonus is voided.
- The maximum cashout. Whether a win on bonus money is capped, and at what multiple of the bonus or the deposit.
- The expiry window. How long the requirement has to be met, which turns every other number into a rate.
Each of those is taken from the operator's published terms, with the figure left as the operator states it. The arithmetic we do on top of it — what the multiple means in turnover, what the weighting does to that, what the cap leaves of a win — is shown on the page.
What else we record
- Whether the terms are published at all, and whether you can read them without opening an account. A bonus whose conditions appear only after registration is a worse offer than one whose conditions are plainly worse.
- Whether there is an offer published for players in the United States, in dollars, rather than a figure inherited from another market.
- Which payment methods and which coins are listed, because an offer you cannot fund or cash out is not an offer.
- Whether a sportsbook sits alongside the casino. We note it, and we keep the two apart: sports betting and casino play are separate businesses under separate state rules, and one tells you nothing about the other.
- Whether the responsible-play tools exist — deposit limits, session limits, cooling-off, self-exclusion — and whether you can find them without writing to support.
What we cannot check, and say so
We cannot tell you how fast a given casino pays, because we have not withdrawn money from it. We cannot tell you how its support behaves at two in the morning. We cannot verify an operator's own claims about licensing, and we do not repeat them as fact: no operator listed on this site is licensed by a US state regulator, which is the whole point of the legal page. Where a question is outside what the published terms can answer, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
How the lists are ordered
A shortlist on a page is the set of sites we carry for that page's subject. It is not a league table and the order is not a verdict: there is no score behind it to rank by. We are paid the same way by every operator we link to, so the order is not for sale either. Read the clauses in the row, not the position.
When a page changes
A page is reworked when the terms behind it change, when a reader tells us something is wrong, or when we find it ourselves. The edit date at the top moves then and not on a timer. The procedure for corrections, and what we will not publish, is in the editorial policy.
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.
- Editorial policyWhat we publish, how a mistake gets corrected, and who decides.
- 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.
