Who we are
Casino Claude started with a simple irritation: too many "best casino" round-ups clearly written by people who had never registered at a single site on their own list. We're the correction — a compact team of long-time players, writers and data-minded analysts who cover only casinos that genuinely serve the seven markets on our masthead. The questions we ask are the ones you'd ask yourself: is the game selection worth your time, do the bonus terms survive a close read, does support actually help, and — above all — does a withdrawal arrive when it should?
How we test
Before any casino appears on this site, a real person walks it through four identical checkpoints.
We deposit real money
Registration and a self-funded deposit come first. Within minutes this reveals how painless sign-up really is and which local payment methods work as advertised rather than in theory.
We play the games
Next comes proper play time — slots at different volatilities, the live-dealer floor, the table games — so we can judge library depth, studio quality and whether the whole thing holds together on a phone.
We contact support
Every support desk gets a mix of easy questions and genuinely difficult ones, over both chat and email. Speed matters, but so does substance: an agent pasting boilerplate scores worse than one who takes a minute longer and actually answers.
We time the withdrawal
The finale is always a cash-out, clocked from the request button to funds arriving. However generous the bonus looked, a payout that crawls — or stalls behind surprise document demands — sinks the score.
Our independence
Full disclosure: affiliate commissions pay our bills. If you join a casino through one of our links, the operator may pay us a referral fee — it costs you nothing and it's why the site carries no paywall. What that money cannot do is move a casino up our rankings. Operators offering the fattest commissions have been excluded from our lists, and existing listings get pulled the moment a site starts failing on payouts, terms, fairness or support. When a casino disappoints us, we print it.
18+ only
Everything on Casino Claude is written for adults aged 18 and over. Treat gambling as paid entertainment, never as income. The moment it stops feeling like fun, take a break and get support — our Responsible Gambling page lists free, confidential help for every market we cover.
Get in touch
Found an outdated bonus figure, want to challenge one of our scores, or have a partnership in mind? Head to the Contact page or write to hello@casinoclaude.net — a human reads every message.