RouletteSniper Review was founded in 2008 and has been led since 2014 by Tom Ashford, a roulette strategy writer and casino analyst with 12 years of hands-on experience testing online gambling platforms. I'd spent two months testing roulette software after an unconvincing ad, and ended up frustrated enough to write about it publicly. The original site covered three tools. The verdict on all three was the same: doesn't do what it claims.
Eighteen years later the site has evolved into something more useful: an independent ranking of the online casinos where roulette players actually want to spend their time. Same founding principle — tell the truth, even when the truth is unflattering.
Who Writes This
My name is Tom Ashford. I'm not a professional gambler. I have a background in statistics and have been testing online casinos as an expensive but informative hobby since 2008. I'm helped by two contributors who prefer anonymity — one with a software engineering background useful for evaluating casino platforms, one who plays live dealer roulette regularly enough to have genuine opinions on table quality and croupier standards.
How We Test Casinos
We maintain accounts at every casino we rank. We make real deposits with our own money — no comp accounts, no special treatment. We test withdrawals: deposit, play, request a payout, and time it from request to funds received. We do this multiple times per site across different payment methods before publishing a review.
For live roulette, we log in and count: How many tables? Which variants? What are the actual minimum and maximum bets? Is the stream reliable? Is the interface intuitive? These aren't things you can verify without sitting at the table yourself.
For bonuses, we read the full terms of service — specifically the game contribution table and the wagering requirement. We don't trust what a casino says on its promotional page; we read the legal terms. Any casino whose terms contradict their promotional claims is flagged or removed.
How We Make Money
We earn commissions from casinos when you visit them through our links and register. This is standard affiliate marketing and it's how the site covers its costs.
We have turned down affiliate relationships with casinos we couldn't recommend in good conscience. Our ranking order is determined by our testing scores — not by who offered us the highest commission rate. Bitstarz is #1 because it has the fastest payouts and widest live roulette selection we've tested, not because of the affiliate terms.
What We Won't Do
We won't rank a casino that has documented payout problems — delayed, reduced, or refused legitimate withdrawals without clear terms-of-service justification. We won't claim that any casino is "rigged" without evidence, and we won't claim any casino is perfectly safe without ongoing verification. We won't publish positive reviews of sites that score poorly in our testing just because they pay well. And we won't tell a roulette player that American roulette is fine when European is available.