Gambling expertise does not transfer neatly. Someone who can price the overround on an NPFL or Premier League market is not automatically the right person to judge poker rake structures or read an RNG certificate. So CasinoTrust runs five desks, each owning its own vertical, each working to the same Ranking Protocol and Editorial Policy.
Accountability looks identical across all five: a named human editor signs off every page, the test evidence behind every score is kept, and a second editor re-scores from that same evidence before anything publishes. If a page turns out to be wrong, the desk that signed it is the desk that fixes it — the corrections route is set out in our editorial policy.
The five editorial desks
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Editorial Desk — Casino & Slots
Online casino and crypto casino reviews, game fairness, RTP verification
Tests online casinos and crypto casinos with real deposits and timed withdrawals, checks every licence against the regulator's own register, and matches published RTPs against game-provider documentation. Reads bonus terms clause by clause and works out what a welcome offer is really worth before it is scored — including how a wagering requirement behaves on a small Naira bankroll. Maintains the roulette, blackjack and baccarat academy sections and checks the house-edge maths behind the calculators.
Expertise: Online casino testing · Slot RTP and volatility · Live dealer games · Bonus term analysis · RNG certification (eCOGRA, GLI, iTech Labs) · House-edge mathematics
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Editorial Desk — Poker
Poker room reviews, rake analysis, tournament and cash-game strategy
Plays cash games and tournaments on every room reviewed, at peak and off-peak hours, to measure the traffic that is genuinely there — including how tables look from a West African time zone — then audits rake, fees and rakeback against the published schedule. Verifies RNG certificates and game-integrity policy, bot and collusion enforcement included. Writes and checks the poker academy from hand rankings up to ICM, and maintains the ICM calculator.
Expertise: Poker room testing · Rake and rakeback · Tournament structures and ICM · Game integrity and bot policy · Cash-game and MTT strategy · Poker software and HUD policies
Measures the overround on headline markets and the smaller ones Nigerian punters actually play — NPFL fixtures, Premier League accumulators, boxing and basketball — tests in-play latency and bet-slip stability on mobile data, and records how quickly an account is limited or restricted after it wins. On prediction markets it audits resolution sources, liquidity, fees and the rules governing event contracts. Licences are verified for each market an operator serves, not only its head-office jurisdiction.
Expertise: Sportsbook testing · Overround and odds pricing · In-play betting and cash-out · Account restrictions and limits · Prediction-market resolution and liquidity · Event-contract regulation
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Editorial Desk — Crypto & Payments
Payment and payout testing, crypto networks, KYC processes
Runs every timed deposit and withdrawal the protocol requires across cards, bank transfer, e-wallets and at least two crypto networks per platform — including the rails Nigerians reach for first, such as Paystack- and Flutterwave-powered card and transfer deposits, OPay and PalmPay wallets, USSD top-ups and P2P stablecoin funding. Records fees, the spread against mid-market rates and on-chain confirmation times. Documents KYC from first request to approval, flags re-verification triggered by a win, and checks whether limits and self-exclusion can be completed on a phone. Owns the payments criteria in the Ranking Protocol.
Expertise: Withdrawal timing methodology · Crypto networks and stablecoins · Payment fees and FX spreads · KYC and AML processes · Provably-fair verification · No-KYC platform risk
Checks every licence claim against the regulator's public register and follows enforcement notices, suspensions and changes of ownership — offshore regulators as well as the Nigerian picture, where the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) and the state lotteries boards set the local frame. Runs blacklist investigations under the published process, verifies player complaints against evidence, and tests the responsible-gambling tools on every platform: deposit limits, reality checks and self-exclusion. Maintains the helpline directory and handles complaints about CasinoTrust's own content, independently of the other desks.
Cross-desk scoring. A brand page such as Stake or bet365 belongs to its vertical desk, but the payments dimension comes from the Crypto & Payments Desk and the trust dimension is verified by the Compliance Desk before anything is signed off.
Second-editor rule. Nothing publishes until a second editor has re-scored from the same test evidence; any gap above 0.5 in a dimension is settled before release.
Independent complaints. The Compliance Desk takes complaints about our content and produces no rankings itself, so it has no score of its own to protect.
Shared standards. Every desk works to the same Ranking Protocol, the same sourcing rules and the same AI disclosure set out in the Editorial Policy.
What our authors will never do
Take money, hospitality or shares from any operator, game studio or affiliate network they cover.
See commission rates or commercial agreements before a score publishes.
Send a draft to an operator ahead of publication.
Publish a figure — a bonus amount, an RTP, a licence number — that has not been verified against a primary source.
Promise you that you will win. Every game in the academy is explained together with its house edge.
