Fact-Checker, Pokies Online Australia
I am the second set of eyes on everything we publish. Before a review goes live, I check its claims against the operator's own pages and against public sources, so what a reader sees is what the casino actually offers - not what a marketing page says.
What I verify
I work through each review line by line. Bonus tiers, wagering, minimum deposits, withdrawal limits and licensing all get checked against the operator's live cashier and terms on a dated pass, and I flag anything that cannot be confirmed so it is marked "not disclosed" rather than guessed. I cross-reference licensing and operator details against public registers, including the Curacao Gaming Control Board and the ACMA's blocked-services register, and I make sure a review does not contradict itself between the body, the tables and the schema.
Two examples show the shape of the work. When one of our reviews names Hollycorn N.V. as the operating company, that is because I matched the company against the licence registry, not because the casino's footer said so. A lot of the rest is plain arithmetic: an offer sold as A$6,000 at 40x has to mean the same thing in the table, the body and the schema, and catching the page that disagrees with itself is most of the job.
My main rule is simple: no fabricated experience. If a payout time, a licence number or a cashback figure is not verifiable, it does not get published as fact. I would rather a review say less and be right than say more and be wrong - on money and licensing pages, a single wrong number is worse than an honest gap.
How a fact-check works here
A fact-check here is a dated pass against the live site, not a read-through of the draft. I open the operator's cashier and terms on the day of the check and work down the list: bonus tiers, the wagering figure and its base, deposit and withdrawal limits, then the licence and the company behind it. Anything that cannot be confirmed on that pass becomes "Not disclosed on site" rather than a guess. Once the pass is complete, the fact-check line and the date go on the page footer. If a page says "Fact-checked by Jacques Delmont", every hard number on it was matched to a source on that date.
What I have checked
All ten casino reviews on this site carry my fact-check line - the full set is at our reviews. I also check the homepage ranking against the individual review scores, plus the payment and legal guides, including why banks block gambling payments and tax on pokies winnings; how the roles divide sits on our editorial team page. One habit runs through all of it: when a page repeats an operator claim, such as weekend cashouts running at weekday speed, it says "the operator states" - the line between verified fact and operator claim stays visible.
My beats
Three areas get most of my attention, because they are where money pages go wrong. Offshore licensing: matching an operating company to Curacao's GCB licensing or the Anjouan register, since a footer badge on its own proves nothing. Bonus arithmetic: wagering bases, deposit splits and max-cashout maths, checked until the numbers agree everywhere they appear. Banking limits: the minimums and caps shown in the cashier itself rather than in the marketing copy.
Freshness
Terms change, so I re-check bonus and banking details on a dated cycle and update the "last verified" line only when something has actually changed, never as a freshness trick. Corrections run the same way: a reader report gets verified, fixed and dated, as the editorial policy sets out.
How the scores I check are built is explained in our review method.
Where to find me
I am on X as @Jacques_Delmont, on LinkedIn, on Facebook and on TikTok. Outside this site I write as a Senior Casino Analyst at Casino Industry News. The name and photo are the same everywhere, so you can check it is me. If you spot an error we missed, use the corrections channel in our editorial policy.
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