Our authors

Mason Reeve

Editor-in-Chief

Mason Reeve leads editorial at The Keep. He has spent 12 years reviewing online casinos — first for offshore comparison sites, now building a New Zealand-first testing process. He opens a real account at every casino we rank, deposits his own money, and plays through the welcome bonus before writing a word. His focus is bonus fine print: the wagering multipliers, max-bet caps and game weightings that decide whether an offer is worth claiming. Mason holds the view that a casino review is only useful if the writer has tried to withdraw from it.

Expertise: Online casinos, bonus terms, site vetting

12 years in iGaming review · Based in Auckland · Tests every ranked operator with real deposits

Tui Ngata

Payments & Responsible Gambling Editor

Tui Ngata covers the part of gambling that most review sites skip: how money moves between a New Zealand bank account and an offshore operator, and what to do when it doesn't. She tracks POLi's wind-down, the Online EFTPOS and account-to-account tools replacing it, and the bank blocks Kiwi players hit on MCC 7995 transactions. Tui also owns The Keep's responsible-gambling standards — every page carries the Gambling Helpline number because she insists on it. She writes plainly about deposit limits, self-exclusion and the signs that play has stopped being fun.

Expertise: NZ banking rails, POLi/Online EFTPOS, player safety

Specialist in NZ payment rails & harm minimisation · Sets The Keep's responsible-gambling policy

Daniel Frost

Sports Betting & Crypto Analyst

Daniel Frost handles sportsbooks and crypto casinos for The Keep. He reads odds as implied probability, calculates the bookmaker's overround on every market he reviews, and explains where line-shopping between TAB NZ and offshore books actually pays. On the crypto side he tests deposit and withdrawal speed coin by coin — BTC, ETH, USDT on both TRC-20 and ERC-20 — and verifies provably-fair results himself rather than taking the casino's word for it. Daniel's rule: an edge you can't measure isn't an edge.

Expertise: Odds, value betting, crypto casinos, provably-fair gaming

Odds modelling & value-betting background · Verifies provably-fair results and on-chain withdrawal times

Our editorial process

Every review is tested with real money, written by a named author, and fact-checked before it is published. We re-test sites and update pages over time — the date at the top of each page shows when it was last reviewed. Read more about how we test.