Moroni’s is a small editorial desk that reads casino and pokies reviews for a living — not the operators, the reviews themselves. We started from a simple irritation: most “top casino” roundups present a headline score as if it were a fact, when it’s really the output of a process nobody shows you. We wanted a place that shows the process.
We don’t operate a casino, we don’t hold a gambling licence, and we don’t publish our own star ratings of specific operators. What we publish is analysis of how casino and pokies reviews get built — the testing claims, the update cycles, the gap between a professional write-up and a pile of user comments, and the raw numbers (like house edge) that a review often glosses over. If you’ve ever read a “9.2/10” and wondered what would actually be needed to defend that number, that’s the question this desk exists to answer.
Who’s behind this
Pieces on this desk are written and edited by Michael Sturm, our Review Standards Editor. His full background and how to reach him are on his author page. We’re a small, independent operation — not a large newsroom — and we say so plainly rather than implying a bigger team than we have.
What we don’t do
We don’t accept payment to rank a review site favourably, we don’t fabricate test results, and we don’t publish reader “testimonials” we can’t stand behind. Where we can’t verify a claim, our pieces say so instead of quietly smoothing it over. Full detail on how we’re funded is on our affiliate disclosure page, and our testing and correction standards are on our editorial policy page.
Who this is for
Readers in Australia looking at pokies and casino reviews, who want to understand what a score is actually measuring before they trust it. If that’s not what you came here for, our responsible gambling page and the national helpline listed there are a better place to start.