Editorial Standards

How a figure gets onto a page

Every number on this site is traced to a named source in the same sentence or the line under the table, or it is left out. Where a figure depends on the rule set in force at one table — the house edge of blackjack is the usual example — we print no single number at all, because any one we chose would be wrong somewhere.

Odds, hand frequencies and buy-in ladders that appear in our own widgets are computed in the build from the deck itself, not copied from another site. The arithmetic runs on every rebuild, and a table that no longer adds up stops the build rather than reaching the page.

How we judge an operator

We read the published terms, the payout record and the regulator named on the operator’s own site. We do not grade on the size of a welcome headline, and we do not accept a copy of someone else’s rating as evidence.

Some of the outbound links on this site are paid placements. That is disclosed on every page that carries one, and it never changes what the page says. An operator cannot buy a verdict here, and no placement has ever been conditioned on one.

What we will not publish

We do not claim that an operator is licensed in the United States unless the licence and the issuing state are both named, and we do not reproduce state regulator seals, which belong to the regulators.

We do not write about play as a way to make money. Where a page touches the subject of losing control, it carries the line at the foot of this page and nothing more reassuring than that.

Corrections

A correction is made in place, and the line that changed is named at the foot of the page. Write to [email protected] and say which sentence is wrong and what it should say; a correction with a source attached is acted on the same week.