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What this review desk does
Five people maintain the ten-brand table on the front page. Freya Waihi signs off on what gets published; Rangi Kaipara handles banking trials, Delwyn Otautau audits pokie lobbies and studio contracts, Corbin Waimate reads promotional small print line by line, and Marama Kohukohu tracks what the Department of Internal Affairs says about offshore play.
Testing is dull on purpose. A reviewer registers, uploads identity documents, moves real New Zealand dollars in, plays for a while, then asks for the money back and logs the hours until it lands. Whatever the cashier does under those conditions is what appears in the review, including the parts an operator would rather we left out.
Commercial arrangements exist with several brands in the table and they change nothing about position. Slow cashouts, vague turnover rules or a licence that answers to nobody push a brand down regardless. Every review carries the month it was last verified, because offshore terms move quickly and an unmarked page is worth very little.