About gambling-sites.biz & Our Editorial Team

Gambling Sites is a reference site about gambling in the United States: what the law of each state actually says, and what the offshore casinos that accept US players actually offer. It is written for the reader who has already been told that online gambling is “illegal” or “fine” and wants to see the sentence that decides it.

What is here

• 52 jurisdictions — all fifty states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico — each with its own page on what is licensed, what is prohibited and which statute says so.
• 30 pages on federal law, from the Wire Act and its 2011 and 2018 reinterpretations to UIGEA, Black Friday and the bills that never passed.
• 159 operator reviews and a list of 14 brands compared on the same 11 facts, so two cards can be read against each other without reading two reviews.
• 18 explainers in the news and analysis section on the questions that reliably go unanswered elsewhere: why a withdrawal sits at pending, what a W-2G threshold change means for a recreational player, what an Anjouan licence is worth next to a Curaçao one.

Who writes it

A small editorial group that works from published documents: statutes, regulator notices, and the operators’ own terms. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. We do not play for money on the sites we describe, we do not test payouts ourselves, and we do not ask operators for comment — everything on a brand page is something the brand published itself, with the date we read it. The full method, including what it cannot tell you, is on how we check.

How the site is paid for

Some of the casinos listed here pay us when a reader opens an account. It never changes what a review says and it never buys a place on a list. There is no paid placement, no sponsored ranking and no operator with a stake in this site.

What this site does not do

There are no tips here, no picks and no odds feed. We do not run a forum, we do not publish user ratings, and we do not host games — not real-money ones, not free demos. Nothing on the site can be joined, subscribed to or paid for: there is no account to make and no newsletter asking for an address. A reference site that also sells predictions has a reason to want you to keep playing, and we would rather not have one.

How it is kept current

Gambling law in the United States moves by legislative session, and an operator’s terms move faster than that. Every page carries the month it was last read against its sources, and where a figure comes from a document — a statute, a regulator notice, a page of terms — that document is linked, so a number you doubt can be checked at first hand instead of taken on trust. When a state changes its rules we rewrite the jurisdiction page rather than bolt a correction onto the end of it: a page that contradicts itself in a footnote is worse than one that is plainly out of date.

If gambling has stopped being a game

Help is free, confidential and available in every state: the National Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-800-522-4700, by call or text, twenty-four hours a day. Our page on problem gambling lists what else exists, including state self-exclusion programmes.