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: Casino operations, bonus terms and withdrawal auditing
Tama has worked in and around online gambling since 2014, first on the payments side at a Malta-licensed operator and since 2019 as a reviewer. Tama runs the withdrawal-timing programme behind every payout figure on this site and signs off the final ranking on every page.
Credentials
- 12 years in online gambling
- Former payments analyst, MGA-licensed operator
- Runs the NZ No.1 withdrawal-timing programme
Responsible for: All ranking pages, methodology, payout data
Writing about gambling since: 2014
Contact: [email protected]
Hine Parata
Specialism: New Zealand gambling law, DIA licensing, harm minimisation
Hine writes everything on this site that touches the law. Hine reads the Online Casino Gambling Act 2026, the Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025 and the DIA’s provider guidance in the original rather than in other people’s summaries, and our legal pages cite section numbers and commencement dates as a result.
Credentials
- LLB, Victoria University of Wellington
- Writes to primary legislation only
- Tracks the DIA licensing programme week by week
Responsible for: Law, tax, responsible gambling, licensing tracker
Writing about gambling since: 2018
Contact: [email protected]
Dev Sandhu
Specialism: Payment rails, FX spreads, crypto settlement, RTP data
Dev builds and maintains the datasets — 214 timed withdrawals, the FX spread measurements, the RTP audit and the support-response log. If a number appears on this site, Dev can tell you the sample size behind it and the date it was collected.
Credentials
- Nine years in payments and analytics
- Built the NZ No.1 FX spread dataset
- Maintains the RTP and support-response logs
Responsible for: Payments, fast payouts, high-payout, crypto
Writing about gambling since: 2017
Contact: [email protected]
Georgia Nolan
Specialism: Pokies, RTP and volatility, live dealer studios
Georgia covers the games themselves — which studios supply which lobby, what a stated RTP actually means when an operator can choose between three configurations of the same title, and whether a live floor is a genuine Evolution feed or a white-label with four tables.
Credentials
- Six years reviewing casino game libraries
- Tracks studio-level RTP configuration
- Audits live dealer table counts from an NZ IP
Responsible for: Pokies, live casino, game guides, operator reviews
Writing about gambling since: 2020
Contact: [email protected]
Riley McGrath
Specialism: Sports and racing markets, pricing, TAB NZ comparison
Riley covers betting — margins, market depth, in-play quality and how offshore books price New Zealand sport against TAB NZ. A decade on the trading side means reading a price as an overround, not a headline.
Credentials
- Ten years in sports trading
- Prices audited weekly against TAB NZ
- Covers NPC, Super Rugby, ANZ Premiership and NZ racing
Responsible for: Online betting, sports betting sites
Writing about gambling since: 2016
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 Hine Parata; nothing about payout data by anyone other than Dev Sandhu.
- 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.