Damien Mibus
casino writer, Australia · Adelaide
Damien Mibus lives in Mile End, on the western edge of the Adelaide CBD. He spent seven years on a bank counter dealing with disputed transactions and another seven supervising the gaming room of a licensed hotel, which is where he learned how much of gambling is paperwork.
Since 2016 he has written for Australian readers about what an AUD account allows, what wagering terms really require, and why a payout waits on verification. Every figure here is read on the operator's own pages and dated.
The check behind every number
Every figure starts from the operator's own pages, the cashier and the terms, with the date it was read. Licensing is checked against the law rather than the operator: the ACMA enforces the Interactive Gambling Act, no offshore online casino holds an Australian licence, and a claim to the contrary is quoted as the operator's own words and marked as such. Comparisons with a venue are checked against the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner at Consumer and Business Services in South Australia. Where the cashier and the terms give different minimums, both are printed with their dates. Where the operator publishes nothing, the page says there is no data.