I am Sloane Prescott, and before I ever reviewed a casino I spent a decade as a consumer product-safety tester. My job was to take things people trusted with their money and their bodies, kitchen appliances, power tools, child car seats, and find out whether they actually held up or just looked like they did. I learned to distrust marketing and trust measurement. A product either passed the test on the bench or it did not, and no amount of glossy packaging changed the result.
I bring the same posture to online casinos, because they are asking for something more sensitive than most products ever do: your money and your personal data, over the internet, often from operators based in jurisdictions you have never heard of. That deserves a real inspection, not a sponsored thumbs-up. So I grade every casino the way I graded lab equipment, on fixed criteria, with a field test rather than a guess. I fund a real deposit, file a real withdrawal, time it, push support with an awkward question, and check the encryption and audited fairness myself.
I am based in Denver, where I now do this full-time, and I write for the reader who is rightly skeptical. I will never tell you an offshore casino is state-licensed when it is not, invent a payout time I did not measure, or talk up a bonus without doing the rollover math out loud. My promise is simple: a clear-eyed report card, the caveats printed on the front, and enough honesty that you can decide for yourself. If a site fails, I say so. If it passes, I tell you exactly what passing means and what it does not.
How Sloane Grades Casinos
Sloane funds every casino with her own money, checks the encryption on the cashier before depositing, requests real withdrawals to time payouts, and reads each bonus's terms in full before grading it. She scores each site on security, payouts, fairness and support — the four things US players ask about most. See our full grading methodology.