Casino Reviews: Rating System Explanation
How Our Rating System Works?
This is the most accurate and detailed rating system in the industry – hands down. When we take on a new online casino to review, we rate it by its forum participation, software, licensing jurisdiction, reverse time, payout time, withdrawal limits, whether or not it pays out on weekends, and a whole lot more. No one else in the online gambling industry is doing this. Players get a fair deal at Casinomeister.
Points System
Each casino starts at ten points, and for each category – points are removed or added determined by hierarchies in that category.
Software
What is taken into account is how many software platforms the casino uses (casino games, poker, sports, live games, etc.). Also what is considered are the the amount of games – and how many providers are being used. The bottom line is the score is based on how a casino can meet players’ needs.
- All Platforms = highest
- Some Platforms (i.e. casino games, live games, poker) = high
- Few Platforms (i.e. slots, live games) = medium
- All slots = medium
- One provider (et al RTG) = low
- Shit = low
Jurisdictions
Each jurisdiction is responsible for its licensees, and those jurisdictions that have benchmark standards are rated highest – those that have a laissez faire attitude or little to no infrastructure to properly handle player issues are rated lowest.Further information: Our Online Casino Jurisdiction Ratings System
- Kahnawake – highest
- UKGC – highest
- Alderney – high
- Isle of Man – high
- Malta (MGA)- high
- New Jersey – high
- Gibraltar – medium
- Antigua – low
- Costa Rica – low
- Curacao – low
- Cyprus – low
- Panama – low
Reverse Time
The reverse time is the amount of time that your funds are available to be reversed from pending withdrawal to playable. In other words it’s how long you have until you cannot play your winnings back. The shorter time the better. This is how it works:
- 0 hrs – highest
- 1 – 12 hours – high
- 13 – 24 hours – medium
- 25 – 48 hours – low
- +48 hours – lowest
Cash Out Time
This is the time it takes to process your funds to the payment processor.
- 0 – 11 hours – highest
- 12 – 23 hours – high
- 24 – 47 hours – medium
- 48 – 71 hours – low
- 72 hours and higher – lowest
Weekly Withdrawal Limits
Quite a number of casinos have weekly cashout limits to control their cash flow – those that do not have limits are rated highest:
- No limit – highest
- 10,000 or higher – high
- 5001 – 9999 – medium
- 3001 – 5000 – low
- 2000 – 3000 – lowest
Other areas of scoring:
Casinos receive points for a “yes” answer in the following areas:
Casinomeister Seal Holder – y/n
Publicly traded – y/n
Locks Withdrawals – y/n
Weekend Cashouts – y/n
Date established – the longer a casino has been operating under the same ownership and/or management the more points it gets (longevity).
Date Accredited – the longer a casino has been listed in the Accredited Section at Casinomeister, the more points it receives (dependability).
Meister Points:
These are points given to a casino whose representatives are responsive and efficacious to its players and affiliates. i-Gaming reps can affect their score by their participation (or non-participation) in our forum.
Areas of observance:
- Receiving awesome Meister Casino Awards
- Posting timely and helpful replies to complaints.
- Engaging the membership with interesting and insightful discourse.
- Posting exclusive promos.
- Maintaining an attitude that reflects the Casinomeister Philosophy
