Bit of a rant, but I swear heaps of the so-called review pages for online casinos here are basically the same thing copied 20 times with a different logo slapped on top.
Everything is somehow "great", every bonus is "amazing", every site gets 9.8/10... then you sign up and find the withdrawals are slow as hell, support disappears, or they hit you with a bunch of mucking around when you try to verify. Makes the whole review scene feel pretty dodgy.
For me the stuff that actually matters is simple: do they pay, how long does it take, are the pokies decent, are the terms sneaky, and do they carry on when you win a bit. The shiny homepage score means bugger all if the cashout process is a nightmare.
So what do you lot actually trust when checking a casino out? Proper forum posts? User comments? A couple of review sites that are actually decent? Keen to hear where people here look before chucking a deposit in, because most of the stuff on Google looks like absolute rubbish ngl.