How the directory works
Where the casinos and their rules come from, and how our reader treats a casino’s website.
Where it comes from
Every casino, card room and racino here comes from OpenStreetMap, the map anybody can improve, and from Wikidata. We read both again every week, so a casino that opens appears, and one that closes goes. Where the map is missing a place, or has it wrong — a card room it never mapped, a casino under its old name — we put it right by hand, from the licensing authority’s own list wherever one is published. A place is listed only while it is open and has a website of its own: that is where its rules come from, and where you can check them.
A casino has a page of its own once we have read its website and found what it offers. Until then it is in its state’s or region’s list, with a link to its own website.
What a casino offers — whether blackjack pays 3:2, whether the dealer stands on soft 17, how many tables the poker room has and what it spreads, the craps odds, the roulette wheel, how many slot machines — comes from the casino’s own website, in its own words. Every fact on a casino’s page names the page it came from and the day we last read it there, and the sentence itself is one tap away. We read each casino’s website again every month, and write down what changed.
Rules change, and a website is not always up to date. Check with the casino before you play.
Our reader, for website owners
Our reader calls itself LifesAGambolBot. Once a month it reads a casino’s own website — a dozen pages at most, the ones about its games. It reads robots.txt first and follows it, waits at least five seconds between two requests to a website (longer when your Crawl-delay asks for it), backs off when a server says it is busy, and never fills in a form, logs in, or reads anything behind one.
To keep it out of your website, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: LifesAGambolBot Disallow: /
It stops at its next visit, and what it read from your website before is taken off the directory. A page marked noindex is never used either.
Something wrong about your casino, or is it not here? Tell us and we will put it right.
The fine print
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Wikidata is available under CC0. A casino’s name and its words remain its own: we quote a sentence so you can see exactly what it said, and link to the page it is on.