The UnCaged.live Review Team
UnCaged.live is written and edited by seven local-market reviewers, backed by three
senior editors who sign off on every ranking before it goes live. Every entry on
this site begins with one of the reviewers opening an account, depositing their own
money, playing a proper session and then timing the withdrawal to the minute, and
nothing gets published until a senior editor has second-read the verdict. No author
signs off on a casino they haven't personally paid into, that's the rule we were
built on.
How our team works
Each market has its own lead reviewer because the smartest pick in Melbourne is
almost never the smartest pick in Lisbon, Brussels or Bangkok. Licensing rules,
payment norms, bonus culture and even what players call a "good game library"
differ from one country to the next, so we pair every page on this site with a
writer who lives inside that market's realities. Behind them sits a small editorial
layer, three senior editors with longer histories in the industry who second-read
every ranking before publication and keep the review methodology consistent across
languages.
Local market reviewers
Markets: UK & Ireland
Adam Mace
iGaming Content Writer
Adam has written about online gambling for more than seven years, with a particular focus on slot mechanics and the fine print of bonus terms. He leads coverage for the UK and Irish markets at UnCaged.live, where he puts every operator through the same six-step hands-on review before a score goes live. Away from the keyboard he's a keen hiker and spends weekends outdoors with friends.
Markets: Sweden & Denmark
Henrik Blomqvist
Nordic Casino Reviewer
Henrik covers the Scandinavian gambling scene from Göteborg. Nine years into writing about iGaming, he knows the Spelpaus and ROFUS systems inside out and spends his working hours separating the serious offshore operators that accept Swedish and Danish players from the ones that merely pretend to. Every verdict he publishes is backed by an account he funded himself, a withdrawal he timed personally and a chat transcript he can reread.
Market: France
Maxime Bonnet
French Casino Reviewer
Maxime runs our French desk out of Lyon. He has spent more than a decade comparing operators that accept French players, from the ANJ-licensed sports and poker rooms to the offshore casinos that fill the gap the French regulator leaves open. He reads every bonus clause line by line, tests payments through Visa, Skrill and crypto, and refuses to score a brand until his money is back on the card.
Market: Belgium (NL + FR)
Noor Van Damme
Belgian Casino Reviewer
Noor writes our Belgian coverage in both Dutch and French. Based in Antwerp, she tracks the Kansspelcommissie's rulings as closely as she tracks the offshore MGA-licensed brands that court Belgian players. Her reviews cover the Bancontact flow, EPIS compliance and the cashier on every site she writes about. When she isn't timing a withdrawal, she's at a live blackjack table or walking the North Sea coast.
Market: Australia
Grace Murphy
Australian Casino Reviewer
Grace is our Sydney-based lead for the Aussie market. She's followed the offshore pokies scene for six years, with a soft spot for the sites that pay PayID and crypto withdrawals without picking fights with Australian banks. Every brand on our Australian ranking has been through her sign-up flow, her chat interrogation and her stopwatched withdrawal, because the only test that matters is the one you ran yourself.
Market: Thailand
Thanakorn Srisuk
Thai Casino Reviewer
Thanakorn covers Thailand's slot, baccarat and lottery sites from Bangkok. He opens every account himself, deposits via True Wallet or PromptPay, plays full sessions on PG Soft, Pragmatic Play and Joker, and times each withdrawal with a stopwatch before a brand earns a line on our ranking. His focus is clear language about what actually pays out and what quietly stalls at cash-out.
Market: Portugal
Gonçalo Carvalho
Portuguese Casino Reviewer
Gonçalo writes our Portuguese pages from Porto. He knows the SRIJ-licensed operators as well as he knows the offshore brands that accept Portuguese players in euros, and he never files a review without going through MB WAY or Multibanco himself to confirm the cashier actually works. Expect him to flag every bonus clause that doesn't add up and every chat agent who ducks a direct question.
Senior editors
The senior editors below don't write the market rankings day to day, they second-read every verdict before it ships, keep our methodology consistent across languages and own the long-form guides and payout logs that back the shortlists up.
Senior Editor · Benelux & Nordic
Leon Fischer
Senior Editor
Leon has covered the casino markets of Northern and Western Europe for more than a decade. He joined UnCaged as the founding reviewer for Belgium and the Nordics, built the review methodology our local writers still work to, and now second-reads every verdict Noor and Henrik publish for BE, NL, SE and DK. A former payments analyst who still reads every bonus clause line by line, he spends his weekends at a live blackjack table or walking the North Sea coast.
Senior Editor · English-Speaking Markets
Amelia Foster
Senior Editor
Amelia has eight years of iGaming journalism behind her, split between London and Sydney, and set up the English-language desk at UnCaged. She oversees the UK, Ireland and Australia pages that Adam and Grace file, owns the long-form guides to GAMSTOP, PayID and crypto cash-outs, and personally signs off on any ranking move that pushes a brand into or out of our top three. Off the clock she's an obsessive brewer of single-origin coffee and a weekend trail runner.
Senior Editor · Latin Markets
Luca Moretti
Senior Editor
Luca runs the editorial desk for our Latin-language markets, covering France and Portugal and keeping an eye on wider Southern European trends. Twelve years into writing about regulated gambling, he's the one who second-reads Maxime's French verdicts and Gonçalo's Portuguese reviews, and he owns the deep-dive comparisons of ANJ-licensed sites against the MGA offshore competition. Based in Milan, he maintains a soft spot for Italian live dealer studios and a very hard line on bonus small print.
Why we publish names, not just scores
A casino review is only useful when a real person is attached to it. The team above
writes under their own names because when something changes, a licence lapses, a
payout window shifts, a bonus clause gets rewritten, we need a reader to be able
to hold someone to the original claim. Spot a mistake, a dated screenshot or a
changed term on any page? Mail the author listed at the bottom of that page and
we'll recheck and re-rank.
