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Our method

How we rate

Five weighted criteria, applied in the same order to every brand. Licensing carries the most weight because it is the one factor a reader cannot recover from getting wrong. Everything here is published so you can decide whether you agree with our priorities.

Step 0130%

Licensing & consumer safety

We start at the Gambling Commission public register and work backwards to the brand. If we cannot match a brand to a named licensee and an active account number, the review does not get published. We record the licensee, the account number, the operating licence number and the listed activities, and we link straight to the register entry so you can repeat the check yourself.

Step 0220%

Welcome offer fairness

We read the full terms, not the headline. Wagering multiple, which balance it applies to, contribution weighting, maximum conversion, expiry window and maximum stake while a bonus is live. An offer that looks large but converts poorly scores below a smaller offer with clean terms.

Step 0320%

Banking & withdrawals

Which deposit routes work, which withdrawal routes are actually offered back, what the stated processing window is, and how much verification friction sits in front of a first payout. UK credit-card deposits have been prohibited since April 2020, so any brand still advertising them is an immediate red flag.

Step 0415%

Library depth & fairness

Breadth across recognised studios, the spread of stake ranges, whether return-to-player figures are published, and whether the live-dealer wing runs in GBP at sensible table minimums. Volume alone does not score well if it is a thousand near-identical reels.

Step 0515%

Support & interface

How fast a real question gets a real answer, which channels exist, and whether the safer-gambling controls are reachable in two taps or buried four levels deep. We time our own enquiries rather than quoting the brand back at you.

The bar

What gets
a brand rejected

Some findings are not a low score, they are a refusal to publish. If any of the following is true, the review does not go live and the brand does not appear in our listings at any position.

  • The brand cannot be matched to a named licensee with an active Gambling Commission licence.
  • The brand's own domain does not appear in the licensee's domain-names list on the public register.
  • Credit-card deposits are offered to UK customers, prohibited since 14 April 2020.
  • GamStop self-exclusion is not honoured.
  • Age or identity verification can be deferred until after a deposit.
  • Deposit limits, cooling-off or self-exclusion are missing, or are gated behind contacting support.
  • Terms attached to a headline offer are not published in full before sign-up.

How the numbers work

Each criterion is scored from 1 to 5, then weighted. The overall figure is the weighted mean rounded to one decimal place. A score is our editorial judgement, not a measurement — two reasonable reviewers could reach a different number from the same evidence, and we would rather say so than pretend to a precision we do not have.

Weighting applied to each rating criterion
CriterionWeight
Licensing & consumer safety30%
Welcome offer fairness20%
Banking & withdrawals20%
Library depth & fairness15%
Support & interface15%

What we cannot promise

Commercial detail moves faster than any publication can keep up with. Welcome-offer terms, wagering multiples, excluded titles and processing windows can change without notice, and an operator is under no obligation to tell us. That is why every review carries a "last checked" date and tells you to confirm the current terms on the operator's own website before you commit. Where our figure and the operator's differ, theirs is the one that binds you.

Re-checking

Licensing data is re-verified against the public register at least quarterly, and immediately if we are told that a status has changed. If a brand loses its licence we remove the outbound link the same day, add a notice to the top of the review explaining what happened, and leave the page online. Readers deserve to see the correction rather than a dead URL.

The method, applied

See it in practice

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Betano

4.5 / 5  ·  PixelCrown score

The Kaizen sportsbook brand, licensed for the UK through BV Gaming Limited.

Licensee
BV Gaming Limited
UKGC account no.
39576
Licence no.
039576-R-319370-026
Status
Active  ·  checked 3 August 2026