Who prints this, and on what evidence

01

A price list for gambling offers, set in sentences

The Bonus Press puts a number on what a bonus costs to turn into money. One hundred pages stand on the site, arranged in six sections and listed on the index. Each guide takes one offer shape, works the arithmetic for it, and prints the answer in pounds and pence at the top of the page before anything is explained.

The six sections divide by what a reader has to put down. Nothing down covers credit and spins that ask for no deposit. A few pounds covers the one, three, five and ten pound cashiers. Matched money covers percentage matches. How you pay covers cards, wallets, phone bills and coins. Outside the licence covers sites with no British permission and what is lost at one. What you play covers the games themselves.

The house style is a price list rather than a review. Sentences are short. A figure arrives early in a paragraph rather than at the end of one. Nothing is described as simple, and no page tells a reader how to feel about a number.

02

Where a sentence has to come from

Five kinds of document are citable here and nothing else is. The Gambling Commission, including its public register, its technical standards and its published enforcement. Legislation and government case pages. The advertising codes and the Advertising Standards Authority’s rulings and advice. The self-exclusion scheme’s own corporate pages and terms. A payment or game provider’s own pages, for that provider’s own fees and figures.

What that excludes is the bulk of what is written about this subject. An affiliate page is not a source. An operator’s promotions page is not a source. A comparison blog is not a source, and neither is an article written to rank. When a sheet is assembled from primary documents, a large part of what the older material said has to be dropped rather than carried forward, and it was.

Each claim carries the date it was checked, and a date is never improved. Material verified against its primary source in October 2026 says so. Material inherited from an earlier sheet keeps the earlier date and is never dressed up as fresh. Where a source could not be reached, the claim is recorded as unverified in a companion sheet and no page may use it.

03

Nobody opened an account to write any of this

No account was registered, funded or played at for the purposes of these pages, and no page pretends otherwise. There is no scoring panel, no reviewer and no night of play behind a figure. What a page reports is what the rules require and what an operator has published, run through arithmetic that is printed in full so a reader can redo it.

That is a limit, and it is worth stating as one. A page here cannot tell a reader what a cashier felt like at eleven at night, how long a withdrawal took last Tuesday, or whether a support agent answered well. Those things are real and this method does not reach them. What it does reach is the cost of a term, which is the part most often left out.

04

Why a brand is named, and what is said about it

A brand is named here for a corporate fact. Never for a promotion, since a promotion outlives a page by weeks at best. Two kinds of record hold still long enough to print: the public register, and a settlement the Commission has published. The table sets out what may be said and where it was read.

Others are named on the same footing and nothing more is claimed for them. Betway and Betfred hold published settlements of £11.6m and £3.25m. PlayOJO and MrQ sell themselves on carrying no wagering. Genting Casino, Virgin Games, Sky Vegas, NetBet, Casumo and Videoslots print a licence holder and an account number in the footer, which anybody can put against the register.

Four offshore clusters get named too, and the naming is a warning rather than a listing. Mystake, Goldenbet and Rolletto are one company’s work, and so are Donbet and Velobet: five names, all of them under Santeda International B.V. on a Curacao permission. RBGAMING N.V. holds an Anjouan permission for Rainbet. Roobet and Gamdom came up through the market in game skins. Kinghills and NineWin are too new to have a record worth reading. A British licence is what none of them has, so the national exclusion scheme does not reach them, the wagering ceiling does not bind them, no British complaints body will hear a dispute about them, and a player who loses money has no regulator to turn to.

05

The commercial arrangement, in four lines

The ranking block on each page is advertising space, every slot in it has been paid for, and a fee comes to this publication when an account is opened from one. A reader pays nothing. The arithmetic does not move for an advertiser, and no brand buys its way into a sentence outside the block. The long version, including what the fee cannot reach, is on how we are paid.

06

Four things this publication is not

• Not a regulator. It has no power over any operator and cannot require one to do anything.
• Not a dispute service. A complaint runs through the operator first and then to an independent adjudicator, and the Commission’s standing answer to consumers is that ombudsman work is no part of its job.
• Not an operator. No gambling is sold from this address, no money is held, and no account exists here to open.
• Not an adviser. Nothing printed here is advice about money, law or tax, and no page tells anybody what to do with theirs.

A figure that is wrong should be reported rather than worked around. Name the page and the sentence, and the route is on write to us. A claim that cannot be traced back to a primary document is deleted rather than hedged, and the page is republished with the date changed.