The desk

Who writes here

One editor, a stable pen name, and a narrow remit — maintained for readers in New Zealand.

Last updated August 2026

Ruth Vandermeer — Editor

Ruth writes and maintains every page on this site. She has covered online casino mechanics for English-speaking players since 2019, with a focus on the unglamorous half of the subject: bonus arithmetic, payment routing, identity verification and the terms that decide whether a balance is actually yours.

Ruth Vandermeer is a pen name, used consistently across everything published here so that the work has a single accountable byline. Corrections and questions reach her directly at the address on the contact page.

What she covers

Bonus mechanics Wagering arithmetic, maximum bet ceilings, game weighting, and the specific ways a promotional balance gets voided. Written out with the numbers shown rather than summarised.

Payments and verification How money routes in and out, why it returns the way it came, what identity checks ask for, and which ordinary mistakes turn a first cashout into a fortnight of correspondence.

Player protection Deposit limits, cooling-off, self-exclusion and the difference between them — the tools that are genuinely useful rather than the ones that are merely present.

The standards she works to

Every promotional figure comes from published terms. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap. No ratings, no payout-speed claims, no return percentages and no invented player experience appear under this byline, and the reasoning behind each of those omissions is set out on how these pages are written.

Where a page carries a commercial link, that is disclosed on how links here work rather than buried. Ruth's rule for her own copy is simple: if a claim could not survive a reader checking it, it does not go in.