About Us
One editor, real deposits in New Zealand dollars, and a dated record of every check. Here is who writes this 1xCasino guide, how the numbers are produced, and where the money comes from.
The Editor
Emma Williams
Payments & licensing editor
I have been writing about New Zealand online gambling since well before the Department of Internal Affairs floated the idea of licensing it, back when the entire subject was a legal grey area nobody in Wellington wanted to discuss. My background is in consumer finance rather than gaming, which is why the pages here spend more time on cashier mechanics, bank blocks and regulator registers than on which pokie has the prettiest reels.
Everything on this site is mine. I make the deposits, request the withdrawals, time them, and rewrite the numbers when they change. If a figure on this site is wrong, there is exactly one person to blame, which I think is the right arrangement — a page signed "the editorial team" tells you nothing about whether anyone actually checked it.
The part of this job that has changed most in 2026 is licensing. The Online Casino Gambling Act has given New Zealand players a real question to answer for the first time: which operators are applying, which are not, and what happens to your balance either way. That thread now runs through most of what I write.
How the Numbers Are Produced
Deposits and withdrawals are tested on a funded account in New Zealand dollars, not read off a terms page. Payouts are requested at different hours and on different days of the week, because a Friday afternoon card withdrawal and a Tuesday morning one are not the same experience, and quoting one number for both is how most guides end up misleading people. Elapsed time is measured from the click, which is what you actually experience, rather than from the release timestamp, which is what makes an operator look good.
Where something has not been tested directly it is labelled as reported rather than measured. Corporate ownership is the clearest example: relationships between offshore brands are deliberately hard to trace, so on the sister sites page the difference between "same operating company" and "widely reported as related" is marked on every entry. Licence claims are checked against the issuing regulator's own public register, never against a badge in a footer.
Player reports quoted on the site come from reader submissions and public forums, are dated, and are edited only for length. They are illustrative, not a statistical sample, and the pages say so where they appear.
What sits behind every number on this site
Real deposits
Each method funded with our own money at the published minimums. If a method is untested, the page says untested.
Timed from the click
Including the pending review period that operator-quoted figures conveniently leave out.
Licences looked up
Against the regulator's own register. A footer badge that is only an image counts for nothing.
The Three Dates on Every Page
The thin line under each hero carries three dates. They mean three different things, and keeping them separate is the whole point — a single "updated" date that quietly moves every time a page is served tells you nothing at all.
Published
The day the page first went live. It never changes, ever. If a page is two years old you should be able to see that.
Updated
Moves only when the content genuinely changed — a limit, a timing, a rule. Fixing a typo does not move it.
Checked
The last time someone re-verified the figures against the live site, including the times when nothing needed changing. This is usually the most recent of the three.
Payment and withdrawal pages get re-checked roughly monthly because limits and processing times move. Licensing and regulatory content is being checked far more often through 2026 for obvious reasons.
How This Site Makes Money
Affiliate commission. If you follow a link from this site, open an account and play, the operator may pay us a share. It costs you nothing, it does not change the bonus, the limits or the payout speed you get, and you would receive exactly the same terms arriving from a search result.
It does mean we have a commercial interest in you signing up, which is precisely why it is stated here in plain language instead of a footnote. The practical safeguard is that the figures on this site are the ones that get people annoyed with us when they are wrong. Understating a wagering requirement or overstating a payout speed generates complaints, and complaints are worth more damage than a commission is worth revenue.
We do not sell advertising space to operators, we do not take payment for a ranking position, and we do not remove criticism in exchange for a better commercial rate. Where a page says something unflattering — the 35x wagering maths on the minimum deposit page is the clearest example — that is there deliberately.
What We Cannot Do For You
We are not the casino
This is an independent guide. We cannot see your account, release a withdrawal, lift a restriction or apply a bonus. All of that goes through the operator's own live chat.
We cannot resolve disputes
A dispute escalates to the licensing authority named in the operator's terms. We can tell you which regulator that is; we have no standing with them on your behalf.
This is not legal or financial advice
We describe the Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 as it has been reported. For advice about your own position, talk to someone qualified to give it.
Terms change without notice
Every figure here has a check date attached. Operators can and do change limits between our checks, so read the cashier screen before you confirm.
If Gambling Has Stopped Being Fun
This gets its own section rather than a line of small print. If you are chasing losses, hiding play from someone, or reading a page about sister sites because you have self-excluded and are looking for a way around it, the useful thing to do right now is not to find another casino.
Two practical tools work better than willpower. A bank-level gambling block covers every gambling site at once, unlike a per-brand self-exclusion, and every major New Zealand bank offers one in its app with a cooling-off period before it can be lifted. And a deposit limit set inside the account takes effect immediately while any request to raise it takes 24 hours — that asymmetry is doing real work at 11pm.
Bank gambling block
Covers every site at once — the one self-exclusion cannot.
In your banking app's card controls.