About AusRoo

What AusRoo is

AusRoo (ausroopokies.com) is a comparison site for online pokies in Australia. It tracks 18 Australian-facing operators, records their welcome-bonus terms with the date each was read, lists their deposit methods and pokies studios, and publishes the result of a real deposit and withdrawal at each one. The ranking on the home page follows a fixed scoring method.

The site is built for Australian players. Figures are in Australian dollars, deposit methods are the ones that work with Australian banks, and every page is written in Australian English.

Who runs it

AusRoo is edited by a small team based in Australia and South-East Asia with experience operating and marketing online casino platforms serving Australian players. That background is why the site can read promotion terms the way an operator writes them, and it is also why the commercial relationships below need stating plainly.

Commercial relationship disclosure

AusRoo is funded in two ways.

Affiliate commissions. When a reader clicks through to an operator and registers, the operator may pay AusRoo a commission. Every outbound link to an operator on this site carries rel="sponsored" so that search engines and readers can identify it.

Shared ownership. Some of the brands listed on AusRoo share ownership with this site. As of the date on this page, those brands are Frenzy96, Bonza7, Crikey7 and Dinkum33. They are scored on the same four checks as every other site, from the same published terms, and the scores are published with the evidence behind them. Where an owned brand ranks first, as Frenzy96 does at the time of writing, the review page explains which recorded figures put it there and a reader can check them against the operator’s site.

We do not accept payment for placement. We do not adjust a score at an operator’s request. If you believe a score is inconsistent with the published method, contact us and we will re-check it in public.

How the data is kept

Every brand fact on this site lives in one record per operator. The home page, the category pages and the review pages all read from those records, so a figure cannot be updated in one place and left stale in another. Each bonus record carries the date it was verified; the footer of every page shows the newest.

Responsible gambling

Online pokies are entertainment with a cost. Every page on this site carries the Gambling Help Online number, and the responsible gambling page lists tools and services. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 restricts operators from offering online casino services to people in Australia; the sites listed here are licensed offshore. Play only if you are 18 or over.

Contact

Corrections, questions and complaints go to the address on the contact page. We answer within two business days.

What the site covers, and what it does not

AusRoo covers online pokies sites that accept Australian players, quote balances in Australian dollars, and publish their promotion terms on pages we can read without depositing. It does not cover licensed Australian wagering (racing and sports bookmakers), land-based venues, or social casino apps that do not pay out. It does not cover internationally licensed casinos that happen to accept Australians unless they meet the same AUD and readable-terms tests, which most do not.

Within that scope the site has three page types. The home page ranks all tracked operators and carries the side-by-side bonus table. Review pages hold everything recorded about one operator, including the test log. Category pages (payments, bonuses, pokies and guides) filter the same operator records by a single field, such as “accepts PayID” or “turnover of 2x or less”, and pair the list with a guide to the topic. Because every page reads from the same records, a change to an operator’s terms appears everywhere at once, with the new verification date.

How a site gets listed

An operator enters tracking when it meets the scope test above and has been available to Australian players for long enough that its promotion pages are stable. We do not accept requests from operators to be listed, and we do not accept requests to be removed. A site leaves the list when it closes, blocks Australian access, or fails a withdrawal test in a way we cannot resolve with the operator; in the last case the review stays published with the failure recorded, so that readers who search for the brand find the warning.

How a site’s score can change

Scores move when the recorded facts move. A site that adds PayID gains on banking. A site that raises turnover from 3x to 5x loses on bonus value. A withdrawal that takes three days instead of the advertised one loses on payout. We re-read every operator at least monthly, and the footer of every page shows the most recent verification date across the whole list, so a reader can see how fresh the data is without opening each review.

Editorial standards

We write what the operator publishes and what we measured, in plain English, with the date. Where an operator’s terms are unclear we say so rather than interpret them favourably. We do not use words like “best” or “top” without saying what the measure is. Marketing copy from operators is quoted, with quotation marks, only to show what the operator claims; it is never restated as fact.