Our Authors & Editors [September 2026]: Who Writes and Fact-Checks Every Page
Five named editors with stated specialisms, published credentials and named responsibility for specific pages — plus how a page gets written, checked and signed off.
Why this page exists
Gambling content is what Google calls “Your Money or Your Life”. It affects readers’ finances and, for some, their wellbeing. Pages in that category are held to a higher standard of demonstrated expertise, and rightly so.
Most of the sites competing with us for this subject have one named author, sometimes with a LinkedIn link, sometimes not. Two of the pages we tore down had none at all. We think a reader is entitled to know who wrote something, what qualifies them, and who checked it.
So: five people, each with a stated specialism, published credentials and named responsibility for specific pages. Every content page on this site carries a byline and a separate fact-checker, and both link here.
Tama Rewiti
Specialism: Cashout ceilings, weekly withdrawal caps, exit arithmetic
Tama runs the desk and signs off every figure on this site that has a dollar sign in front of it. The question that organises the whole masthead — how long does a real win take to reach a New Zealand bank account — is the one Tama got tired of not being able to answer anywhere else, and the Exit Ledger is the answer we built.
Credentials
- Runs the Exit Ledger and signs off every published figure
- Sets the five scoring weights published on our methodology page
- Twelve years covering online gambling operations and payments
Responsible for: Methodology, the Exit Ledger, payout pages, editorial standards
Writing about gambling since: 2014
Contact: [email protected]
Hana Whitiora
Specialism: NZ bank declines, NZD versus euro balances, conversion spread
Hana covers the rails. Which New Zealand banks decline a gambling transaction and under what description it appears on the statement; which operators hold a balance in New Zealand dollars and which quietly hold it in euros and take a spread in both directions; what actually happens to a Visa withdrawal that the cashier says has been sent.
Credentials
- Maintains the NZ bank-block dataset behind our payments pages
- Maintains the FX round-trip cost model used across the site
- Reads every cashier page we cite and dates the capture
Responsible for: Payment methods, fast payouts, high payout casinos, crypto
Writing about gambling since: 2016
Contact: [email protected]
Ari McConnell
Specialism: The Online Casino Gambling Act, DIA licensing, advertising rules
Ari writes everything here that touches legislation, working from the Act and from Department of Internal Affairs material rather than from another site’s summary of it. The licensing transition is the single biggest thing happening to this market, and most pages ranking for it are still describing the law as it stood two years ago.
Credentials
- Writes to primary legislation and DIA guidance only
- Maintains the licensing timeline and its source list
- Dates every legal claim on the site to the instrument behind it
Responsible for: NZ casino law, tax on winnings, licensing tracker, responsible gambling
Writing about gambling since: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
Noor Abadi
Specialism: Max-cashout clauses, wagering bases, clause change detection
Noor reads the terms nobody reads, and specifically the clause that matters most to this masthead: the one capping what a bonus win is allowed to pay out. A 40x requirement is a cost. A max-cashout clause is a ceiling, and a ceiling can make the cost pointless. Noor tracks both, and the date each one last moved.
Credentials
- Runs the scheduled capture of operator bonus terms
- Prices every welcome offer we publish from its own stated basis
- Fact-checks the bonus figures before they are published
Responsible for: Bonuses, no deposit offers, welcome offer pricing, reviews
Writing about gambling since: 2017
Contact: [email protected]
Sefa Tuilagi
Specialism: RTP and volatility, game weighting, live floors, NZ sports markets
Sefa covers what the money is actually spent on: which studios supply a library and whether the feeds are the real ones, how game weighting turns a headline wagering requirement into something much worse on table games, how a live floor behaves on a New Zealand connection in the evening, and how offshore sportsbook markets compare with the TAB.
Credentials
- Maintains the game-weighting contribution tables
- Audits live dealer floors and NZ sports markets from an NZ connection
- Eight years reviewing casino libraries and sportsbooks
Responsible for: Pokies, live casino, betting, game weighting, RTP
Writing about gambling since: 2018
Contact: [email protected]
How a page gets written and checked
- Assignment. Pages are assigned by specialism. Nothing about New Zealand law is written by anyone other than Ari McConnell; nothing about payout or pricing data by anyone other than Hana Whitiora.
- Primary research. Testing, timing, reading the Act, sampling the RTP basket — whatever the page requires. No page on this site is assembled from other people’s summaries.
- Drafting. By the named writer, who holds a funded account at any operator they write about.
- Fact check. By a second named editor, who verifies every number, date, legal claim and bonus term against the source. The checker is named on the page.
- Sign-off. The Editor-in-Chief signs off every ranking page and every change to a score.
- Re-check. Bonus terms and payout times monthly; full operator re-tests quarterly; legal pages whenever the position changes.
Corrections
If we publish something wrong, tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it. Errors of fact are corrected on the page and acknowledged rather than quietly edited out, and material corrections are dated.
Independence
None of our editors holds a financial interest in any gambling operator. No operator has editorial input into this site, sees a review before publication, or can request a change to a score. Our commercial arrangements are set out in full on how we make money.