We do not list a poker room, casino, sportsbook, or bingo site unless we have opened an account, put money in, played, and cashed out. A logo on a bonus card is not a review. This page is the scorecard we use, and the index of the rooms that have been through it.
Bonus numbers move. A page can be right on Monday and stale on Friday. The date on each review is the date we last checked that cashier. If our code and the cashier disagree, the cashier wins. The review gets corrected. We do not ask you to deposit against a dead code.
A US-flag note on a review means the room has a history of taking US players. It is not a state license, and it is not legal advice for your state.
Top rooms we have reviewed
These five have a full 2026 write-up. The link goes to the review, not to the cashier. Caps, codes, and state lists live on that review so we only maintain them in one place.
Cool Cat Casino Review 2026
An RTG and SpinLogic casino that still takes US players. It is not a poker room. The welcome is a large match, the VIP ladder is real, and cashouts have been slow enough that the terms matter more than the percentage. We do not list a standing $100 no-deposit. That offer is retired until we can claim it ourselves.
Read the Cool Cat Casino review
Bovada Review 2026
One login for anonymous poker, a full casino, a real sportsbook, and a racebook. Poker code BPWB500. The crypto casino welcome is a different package from the card offer — do not add them together. Card deposits are not free forever. Read the restricted-state list before you fund.
SportsBetting.ag Review 2026
Chico Network sister of BetOnline. Real sportsbook, the same named poker pool, a casino, and a racebook. Sports code WELCOME, crypto code 100CRYPTO, poker code NEWSB. New Jersey is blocked. Use the tracking link on this review only. The BetOnline link will not credit this brand.
Read the SportsBetting.ag review
BetOnline.ag Review 2026
A sportsbook, Chico poker, casino, live dealer, and racebook on one cashier, online since 2001. Codes on the review: FREE250 for sports, POKER1000 for poker, CRYPTO100 for crypto. Rakeback scales inside VIP, roughly 10% to 30%. Confirm the code in the cashier before you deposit.
Ignition Casino Review 2026
Poker and casino only. The sports tab is virtual. There is no live sportsbook and no racebook. The crypto welcome is the larger split package (casino plus poker); the card package is smaller. Same anonymous poker pool as Bovada, different tracking link. Do not use the Bovada button and expect an Ignition account. Blocked states include NY, NJ, NV, DE, and MD.
Read the Ignition Casino review
The review scorecard
Every brand goes through the same list. A casino with no poker is not marked down for missing a poker room. A sportsbook with no bingo hall is not marked down for missing bingo. We score the product the site actually sells, then say who it is for. Ignition is the house example: a strong poker-and-casino review, and a no if you came to bet the NFL.
| Metric | What we check | What we will not write |
|---|---|---|
| Game variety | What is actually dealing or listed: poker formats and stakes, casino lobby, live dealer, sports and racebook, bingo rooms. | A marketing count with no stakes running, and virtual sports described as a sportsbook. |
| Promotions | Reloads, freerolls, races, odds boosts, parlay insurance, bingo session specials. Code, cap, dates, eligible games. | A promo that excludes the game the player came to play, written as if it does not. |
| Deposit bonuses | Match percent, max, code, minimum, and whether crypto and cards are different packages. | Two packages added into one headline number. |
| Cashback rewards | Rate, schedule, cap, and whether it is withdrawable cash or bonus that must be wagered again. | “Cashback” with the wagering left off. |
| VIP programs | How you climb, whether points expire, and the dollar gap between the starter tier and a tier a regular can reach. | A five-tier graphic treated as value by itself. |
| Deposits and cashouts | Methods, minimums, fees in and out, and the time our own withdrawal took. | The homepage phrase “fast payouts” used as a fact. |
| Crypto | Coins for deposit and for withdrawal, network minimums, and whether crypto unlocks a bigger welcome. | A Bitcoin logo when withdrawals are still a check. |
| No-deposit bonuses | Only an offer we claimed on the update date, with wagering, max cashout, games, and expiry in the same paragraph. | A dead chip copied forward from an old landing page. |
| Rakeback | Published percent or the rewards-point exchange, plus freeroll tickets. Flat or VIP-scaled. | “Competitive rewards” when the room pays no rakeback. |
| Wagering and clearance | Playthrough, game weighting, max bet, expiry, and whether poker rake clears a poker bonus. | “Free money” in front of a 30x slots requirement. |
| US access | Does the cashier take US players, and which states does that brand block. | A US flag described as a license. |
| Mobile | iOS, Android, and the mobile browser. Official install path only. Same welcome as desktop. | A random APK mirror. |
| Software and traffic | Provider or network when it changes the decision. Shared pools called shared. RNG lab named only if one is published. | Two skins reviewed as two player pools. |
| Support and KYC | Chat hours, and what they ask before the first withdrawal. | A 24/7 badge we did not test. |
| Payout history | Whether we were paid, and whether recent player reports match that cashout. | A perfect score over a pattern of held withdrawals. |
| Limits | Deposit limits, loss limits, cool-off, self-exclusion. Noted, not lectured. | A responsibility sermon in place of the cashier facts. |
Game variety and options
We open the lobby and play. For poker we look at Hold’em, Omaha, tournaments, sit-and-gos, and fast-fold (Zone, Blitz, and the other rush formats), at stakes that actually have players, on anonymous tables or named ones. For casino we look at slots, blackjack, roulette, baccarat, craps, video poker, live dealer, and the specialty tab — crash, keno, scratch-style. For a sportsbook we look at the sports on the board, live betting, props, same-game parlays, and a racebook if they run one. For bingo we look at 75-ball and 90-ball, ticket price, how many cards you can play, scheduled sessions versus a continuous room, auto-daub, chat, and progressive jackpots. We also check whether a casino bonus even counts on bingo tickets. Most do not. If a vertical is missing, that sentence sits above the fold.
Promotions
Reloads, freeroll tickets, rake races, slot races, lossback weekends, odds boosts, parlay insurance, and bingo session specials. We write the code, the cap, the dates, and the game it actually applies to. A Sunday reload that excludes live dealer is a slots offer. We call it that.
Deposit bonuses
The welcome is a contract, not a headline. We record the match percent, the maximum, the code, the minimum deposit, and whether the package is split between poker and casino. Crypto and cards often get different caps on this network. Bovada, Ignition, BetOnline, and SportsBetting all do this. We never add the two caps together and call it one number. The review also says which product the bonus locks you into. A casino-only match is not a sports bonus.
Cashback rewards
Casino cashback, lossback, and rebate. We separate cash you can withdraw from bonus money that has to be wagered again. We say whether it is daily, weekly, or locked inside a VIP tier, and we write the cap. A 10% daily cashback with a 1x wager is a different product from a 25% lossback locked for 30 days. Both can be worth taking. They are not the same sentence.
VIP programs
Tiers, how you climb (points, handle, or an invite), whether points expire, and what the tier changes in dollars: a higher cashback rate, a higher rakeback band, a faster cashout, a host, birthday chips. We do not treat the tier graphic as the benefit. We look at the gap between the tier you start on and the tier a regular grinder actually reaches.
Deposit and cash-out options
Cards, ACH, prepaid, wire, money order, any wallet they actually offer, and crypto. Minimums, maximums, and fees in both directions. A card deposit that is free the first time and charged after that gets its own sentence — Bovada already carries that note. We time a withdrawal we requested. “Fast payouts” on the homepage is not a measurement. Pending-to-paid on our own account is.
Crypto deposit options and bonuses
Which coins fund the account, and which coins they will pay you in. A cashier that accepts twenty coins and withdraws by courier check is a card cashier with extra steps. We note network minimums and fees, whether a crypto deposit unlocks a larger welcome than a card, and whether the cashout returns on the same coin. At the US-facing rooms we cover, crypto is often the only path that pays in under a day. The review says when that is true and when it is a slogan.
No-deposit bonuses
We publish a no-deposit, no-card offer only when we can claim it on the day we update the page. The same paragraph carries the wagering, the max cashout, the games that count, and the expiry. A $100 chip with 20x wagering is $2,000 of bets before a withdrawal, and the max cashout is usually smaller than the chip. We do that math on the page. Cool Cat’s old $100 no-deposit is the house rule: it stays off this site, including /bonus/ and the no-deposit casino page, until the cashier is paying it again. We will not revive it because an old post still ranks.
Rakeback and poker rewards
Rakeback is not casino cashback. We record the published percent, or the rewards-point exchange if that is how the room pays (what a set amount of rake returns in bonus or cash). Freeroll tickets count. We say whether the rate is flat or whether it scales with VIP — BetOnline’s band runs about 10% to 30%. If the room does not pay rakeback, the review says none.
Wagering, game weighting, and clearance speed
Playthrough multiple, which games count 100% and which count 10% or zero, the max bet while a bonus is locked, and the expiry clock. We translate the headline into dollars. A 200% match at 30x on slots with a $5 max bet is not free money, and it may not be completable. We also say whether poker rake clears a poker bonus and whether casino play clears it. Those are different bonuses even when they share a cashier.
US access and restricted states
We say whether US players are accepted and we name the states that brand’s cashier blocks. Sisters do not share a block list. Ignition’s published blocks include New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, and Maryland. SportsBetting.ag blocks New Jersey. We still recheck each brand on the update, because the list moves. The review is not a promise that your state allows the bet.
Mobile apps and mobile browser
iOS, Android, and mobile Chrome or Safari. Native app, sideload from the room’s own site, or a full web client. We do not link random APK mirrors. The welcome is almost always the same on a phone as on a desktop, provided you enter the code before you fund. If a room still ties the package to the first deposit rather than the device, we say so. Multi-tabling limits on a phone get a note when they change the poker decision.
Software, poker traffic, and fairness
The provider matters when it changes the games or the player pool. Cool Cat is RTG / SpinLogic. BetOnline and SportsBetting.ag share the Chico poker pool — two cashiers, one field of players. Bovada and Ignition share an anonymous pool. Opening both does not give you a second set of recreational players, and it does not let you claim two poker welcomes on two pools. If a room publishes an RNG certificate or names a testing lab, we name it. If they do not, we do not invent one. Traffic notes are dated and qualitative. “Rec-heavy” only stays on the page while the tables still show it.
Support and KYC
How you reach a person (live chat, email, hours), whether chat can see the cashier, and which documents they require before the first withdrawal. A room that pays quickly until you win, then stalls on documents, gets that sentence. We do not copy a “24/7 support” badge we have not used.
Payout history
Have we been paid, and do recent player reports match that cashout. One slow week is a note. A pattern of held withdrawals is part of the verdict. We would rather publish a 3.5 with a cashout warning, which is where Cool Cat sits, than a 5.0 that pretends the cashier is fine.
Limits and self-exclusion
We note whether the cashier offers deposit limits, loss limits, a cool-off, and self-exclusion, and whether those tools exist on mobile. That is the whole section. The review is about the offer and the cashout, not a lecture.
How the 5-point rating works
Each full review carries a score out of 5. It is an editorial score. You cannot reverse it into a bonus percent, and we are not going to pretend a spreadsheet produces it. Five questions decide it.
| Question | Weight |
|---|---|
| Can a US player fund the account and get paid? | 25 |
| Is the welcome still real after wagering, weighting, and caps? | 20 |
| Is there ongoing value — rakeback, cashback, or VIP — after the welcome is gone? | 20 |
| Does the lobby match the reason the player came? | 20 |
| Did our own cashout match what the site claims? | 15 |
The weights are how we argue the score. They are not a calculator for the dev team to build, and they are not published as a widget. A room can be a good casino and a bad place to bet the NFL. The review says which. We do not average a missing sportsbook into the score of a poker site, and we do not average a missing poker room into the score of Cool Cat.
The affiliate link does not move the number. If a room we earn from starts holding withdrawals, the review says so and the score drops. We have done the un-recommendation. We will do it again.
What we will not publish
- A bonus code we have not seen in the cashier on the update date.
- A crypto cap and a card cap added together.
- Virtual sports described as a sportsbook. If you came to bet a game, Ignition is the wrong room, and the review says that in the first screen.
- Bovada traffic sent through an Ignition link, or BetOnline traffic sent through a SportsBetting.ag link. Each review keeps its own tracking URL.
- An offshore room described as licensed in the United States. If the operator names a foreign regulator, we can say what they claim. That sentence is not an endorsement.
- Any promise that a game is beatable, or that a bonus is profit.
- A no-deposit offer we could not claim that day. Old Cool Cat $100 copy stays retired.
How often a review gets updated
Welcome codes, restricted states, and cashout terms are checked when we update the page, and again when a reader or the cashier shows a change. The date under the title is the date that matters. A 2026 in the headline is the edition. It is not a promise that nobody changed the bonus last Tuesday.
Small cashier changes get edited on the existing URL. We do not mint a new slug every time a code changes. That is why these reviews are pages under /reviews/ and not a fresh blog post each month.
Bingo, and rooms that are not on this list yet
The scorecard includes bingo even though the first five full reviews are poker, casino, and sportsbook brands. A bingo review, when we publish one, uses this same parent page and the same URL pattern: /reviews/{slug}/. Until that review exists, we do not put a bingo brand in the list above, and we do not write a 200-word “review” that is really a bonus code with no cashout behind it.
The same rule covers the next poker room or casino. It does not go in Top Rooms because we have an affiliate link. It goes in after the account, the deposit, the play, and the cashout.
Questions players ask before they deposit
Do you play at the rooms you review?
Yes. A deposit and a cashout are the bar for a full review. If we have not been paid by the room, it does not get one of these pages. Reading the cashier terms is part of the job. It is not a substitute for requesting the money.
Why isn’t the old Cool Cat $100 no-deposit on this list?
Because it is not a standing offer. We took it off the bonus pages. It comes back only if we can claim it in the cashier, and the review will show the wagering and the max cashout in the same breath as the chip. Until then, treat any $100 Cool Cat no-deposit you see on an old post as expired.
Are these sites legal in my state?
We are not your lawyer and we are not a regulator. The review names the states that brand says it blocks. You still have to follow the law where you live. A room accepting US players is an operating fact. It is not a license from your state gaming board.
Do you get paid if I sign up through your link?
Yes, if you use our link and that room pays affiliates. It does not cost you extra. It also does not buy the score. Buttons on the review pages are partner links. The hub you are reading is the index — the claim button lives on the room’s own review, so each brand keeps its own tracking URL.