Live Casino Site Reviews for 2026

We sign up like any regular player would. With no shortcuts, no special treatment. That means going through the whole registration process, uploading ID docs, and making a real first deposit.

It’s the best way to feel what new players actually go through, and it’s also when we start getting a proper sense of the welcome offer, how easy the site is to navigate, and whether that first impression holds up.

This is where we really get into it. Our reviewers sit down and actually play real sessions, with real money, across as many live dealer tables and providers as the casino offers. We’re paying attention to whether the stream holds up, how the tables look and feel, what the betting range is like, and how the whole thing performs on mobile versus desktop.

You’d be surprised how much you pick up just from spending proper time at the tables examining bonus quirks, UX annoyances, the lot.

We cash out. Actually cash out, not just check what the policy says. This tells us far more about how a casino operates than any terms and conditions page ever could. We also get in touch with support — through every channel available — and we don’t just ask easy questions. We push on the stuff players actually struggle with: confusing bonus terms, verification holdups, technical glitches.

How a casino handles those tells you a lot about the people running it.

Once we’ve got a solid feel for the place, we zoom out and compare. How does it stack up against the industry standard? How does it measure up against the big names we’ve reviewed before?

This is where patterns start to emerge and we see what the casino genuinely does well, where it cuts corners, and whether any of that actually matters for the kind of player likely to end up there.

We’re not in the business of publishing a review based on one person’s experience on one particular day. A second reviewer goes back through the key tests independently, and we cross-reference our findings with what real players are saying out in the wild, on forums, review platforms, community threads.

If something feels off or too good, this is usually where that surfaces.

Everything gets pulled together into a final score across all 8 criteria, written up into a full review with a clear pros and cons breakdown and a star rating you can actually trust.

One thing we’re deliberate about: ratings aren’t one-size-fits-all. A casino might score higher for players in a specific country simply because the alternatives in that market are weaker — and we think it’s only fair to reflect that reality rather than pretend everyone’s working from the same set of options.