Every guide on this site carries a byline, a reviewer sign-off, and a last-updated date. These are the people doing the testing.
Tane Morrison — Casino & Pokies Editor
Tane has reviewed online casinos for New Zealand audiences since 2017 and has personally tested over 200 operators. He runs our payout-time benchmarks — every withdrawal timed from request to NZ bank arrival — and maintains the wagering-requirement database behind our bonus ratings. Specialities: pokies RTP analysis, bonus terms, payment methods for NZ players.
Writes: Online Casinos, Online Pokies, No Deposit Casinos, Casino Bonuses
Wiremu Baker — Sports Betting Editor
Wiremu has bet on rugby professionally-adjacent levels of seriously since the 2011 World Cup and spent four years as an odds compiler before switching to the review side. He covers the offshore bookmaker market for Kiwis — comparing odds margins against TAB NZ, testing live-betting latency, and tracking which books actually pay out on time. Specialities: NRL and Super Rugby markets, odds margin analysis, in-play betting.
Writes: Sports Betting, Live Betting, Betting Strategies
Aroha Ngata — Crypto Gambling Specialist
Aroha has used crypto casinos since 2019 and writes our coin-by-coin guides from live wallets, not whitepapers. She benchmarks withdrawal speeds on-chain, tests no-KYC claims by actually cashing out, and keeps our provably-fair explainers honest. Specialities: Bitcoin and stablecoin gambling, wallet security, NZ on-ramps like Easy Crypto.
Writes: Crypto Casinos, Bitcoin Casinos, No-KYC Casinos
Callum McKenzie — Senior Editor & Fact Checker
Callum signs off every page before it goes live. Fifteen years in consumer publishing, the last six in gambling comparison. He owns the editorial standards: no operator is listed without licence verification, no bonus is quoted without a timestamped screenshot of its terms, and every page gets re-checked at least monthly.
Reviews: everything on this site.
Editorial standards
- Every ranking position must be justified by test data — payout times, verified bonus terms, support response times.
- Operators cannot pay for a ranking position. Rankings change only when test results change.
- Every page shows its author, reviewer, and last-updated date.
- Corrections from readers are verified and published within 48 hours.
- Responsible gambling information appears on every money page, without exception.