Saskia Bergstrom

Saskia played online poker full time for ten years. Over that period she logged every withdrawal she requested, which comes to roughly eleven hundred rows spread across more than forty operators, recorded because the timing of a cashout was the difference between a bill being paid on time and not.

The lesson that came out of it is the organising idea of this whole site: an operator's advertised payout speed and its real one are separate numbers, and the second only appears once you are no longer a new account.

One account per operator at the advertised minimum, opened from Minnesota. Documents submitted immediately so that verification is not the thing being timed. The welcome offer priced by multiplying the headline against its rollover before it is accepted. Then three withdrawals -- one straight after verification, one a fortnight on, one at the six-week mark.

Every run is logged with a request time, an approval time and an arrival time, plus a free-text note for anything the site asked for along the way. The slowest of the three runs is what determines a position, not the average and certainly not the best.

No scores out of ten, because three runs cannot support that kind of resolution. No single payout time per brand, because a site that pays crypto in ninety minutes and cards in five days does not have a single payout time. No licence numbers lifted from footers, which prove only that the footer exists.

She will say when an offer is not worth taking, including for operators that pay a commission on the link above it, and when three runs disagreed she publishes all three instead of the flattering one.

Corrections, operator updates and rows from your own withdrawal history all go to the contact address. A row with the rail, the date and two timestamps is worth more than any amount of general impression.