How we rate casinos
Every list on this site is built the same way, and the order is not for sale. A casino gets into a list only if we can send you to it, if the welcome offer has a figure we were able to verify, and if the site actually accepts players from the United States.
What we check before a casino is listed
- The offer, with a date. We take the welcome terms from the operator and from US review portals, and we print the day we checked. A promotion nobody can confirm does not go on the page.
- The cost of the offer. Wagering multiple, what it applies to, game weighting, maximum bet while wagering and any cashout cap. A large headline with a 40x deposit-plus-bonus requirement is not a better offer than a small one at 20x.
- How money leaves. Which rails the site pays on, whether payouts are capped per week, and how long the pending stage runs before the rail even starts.
- The licence, named honestly. Offshore sites hold no US state licence. We write that plainly instead of showing a regulator seal that does not apply to you.
- Complaint history. Public disputes about confiscated balances or unexplained account closures push a site down the list or off it.
What the number next to a casino means
The editor score starts at 7.0 and moves only on facts we can show on the page. The size of the welcome package relative to the largest one in our list is worth up to 0.8; free spins in the same offer add 0.2. Confirmed crypto payouts within hours add 0.4, and a wide coin list adds up to 0.3. A sportsbook, a poker room and live dealer tables add 0.15 each, because they decide whether one account covers a whole evening. Appearing in the top lists of other US portals adds up to 0.3, ten years or more on the US market adds 0.4, five years adds 0.2. The result is capped at 9.6, because nothing here is perfect. There is no hidden component, and paying us more does not move the number by a single point.
How the order is decided
The top of a list is the offer we would open ourselves this month, followed by an alternative from a different operator group, then the site with the longest clean record in the United States. Below that sit casinos that most US portals also list, and at the bottom the long-running names people already know. The order changes from page to page because the question on each page is different: a guide about free spins and a guide about crypto payouts should not end in the same five casinos.
How we make money, and what it does not buy
If you open an account through a link on this site, the operator may pay us a commission. That pays for the research and it never buys a position: the same check decides where a brand sits whether the deal is large, small or absent. Where we have no way to send you to a brand at all, we still name it in the text when it matters to the answer.