About this site
Editorial standards
What a page has to satisfy before it goes live, and what will never appear on one.
The shape of a page
Every entry answers its term in the first sentence, without preamble. No page opens by restating the question, and no page opens with a paragraph about how important the concept is.
After the definition comes only what earns its place: a fact strip for the numbers, a table where a comparison is genuinely tabular, a worked example where the arithmetic is the point, a short list of questions people actually ask. A page with nothing to put in a table does not get a table.
- One term per page. Two terms that mean the same thing share a page rather than competing.
- Length follows substance — a narrow term gets a hundred words, a foundational one gets several hundred. Nothing is padded to look substantial.
- Headings never repeat the page title back at you.
- Terms that are routinely mistaken for each other are linked to each other explicitly, under a heading that says so.
Sourcing
Factual claims are cited inline, and the citation points to a specific source in the list at the foot of the page. Sources are labelled with what they actually are, so you can weigh them: a preprint is called a preprint, not a paper.
Sources are preferred in roughly this order.
- Regulators and public bodies — the Gambling Commission, statutory instruments, published regulatory research.
- Peer-reviewed academic work, and university publications.
- Standard reference works on game rules and probability, where a rule is a matter of record.
- Encyclopaedic references, for uncontested background and etymology.
Sources that are not used
Operator and affiliate pages are not cited as authorities on fact. A page that earns money when you sign up is not a neutral source on whether you should, and its house-edge tables have a commercial reason to be optimistic.
Content farms, unattributed listicles and anything that cannot be traced to a named publisher are not cited either. If the only support for a claim is a page like that, the claim does not get made.
Numbers
Every figure on this site is either cited to a source or derived from combinatorics you can check yourself — the probability of a flush is a counting problem with one right answer, and it does not need a citation so much as it needs to be correct.
House edge and return-to-player figures depend on the rules in force at a particular table or machine. Where that is true, the page gives the ruleset the figure belongs to instead of quoting a single number as though it were universal.
What will not be published here
- Any claim that a system, strategy or staking plan produces guaranteed or risk-free profit.
- Any suggestion that a commercial game can be beaten in the long run, other than in the specific, documented cases where an advantage genuinely exists — which are described as what they are, including the fact that venues bar people for using them.
- Language that encourages gambling, or that frames losses as inevitable steps towards a win.
- Bonus offers, promotional codes and anything else that belongs in an advert.
How pages are produced
I would rather describe this plainly than let you guess. Each term gets a research pack first: a set of cited sources gathered against that specific term, from the categories listed above. The page is then drafted against that pack and checked against it, and the numbers, the citations and the internal links are verified mechanically before anything publishes.
The checks are not advisory. The build refuses to publish a page whose citation does not resolve to a listed source, or which lists a source that nothing on the page relies on, and it refuses to link to a page that does not exist. Verification catches what a proofread misses at this scale; it does not replace responsibility for the result, which is mine.
Updates and corrections
Each page carries the date it was last updated. Rules change, regulators publish new figures, and terminology drifts, so pages are revisited rather than finished.
Errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed, and material factual corrections are logged in public on the corrections page — including what was wrong. A quiet edit is not a correction.
Independence
There is no advertising and no affiliate revenue, so no page has a commercial reason to say one thing rather than another. Nobody has ever paid for a mention here, and if anybody offers, that will be recorded on this page and refused.