Editorial policy

This page says how the site is written, where the numbers come from and what happens when we get something wrong.

Numbers come from a source

House edge figures, return-to-player percentages, payout rules, licence conditions and helpline numbers are taken from a named source and carry a link to it. Where we have no source, the field is left out rather than estimated. Our own tables — the House Edge Board, the blackjack rule card, the glossary — link to the page each row was taken from.

Regulation and the law

We write for readers in Great Britain. Operators taking bets here must hold a licence from the Gambling Commission, and we point to the public register rather than vouching for anyone ourselves. Rules change; where a page describes a rule, it says when that rule applied.

Archive material

Pages written in 2005 and 2006 are kept as they were published, because they are a record of what the game looked like then. They are filed under The Column and dated. Do not read a twenty-year-old column as current advice about an operator or a promotion.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us at [email protected]. We correct the page itself and say what changed. We do not quietly delete.

Advertising

Commercial links are disclosed. No advertiser sees copy before publication and no advertiser can have a page removed.

Safer gambling

Nothing on this site is betting advice or a promise of profit. If gambling has stopped being a game, the National Gambling Helpline is free on 0808 8020 133, 24 hours a day, and GAMSTOP will block you from every licensed British operator at once.