About us
Papoose is run from Wellington by four people who spend their working week opening casino accounts, funding them in New Zealand dollars and asking for the money back. Nobody here writes about a brand they have not registered with. Gareth Waiuku carries editorial responsibility for what appears on the ranking page, and every figure printed beside a casino comes from the operator's own published listing rather than from a press release.
Our scoring weighs eight things: the licence behind the account, whether NZD is held without conversion, how quickly a cashout clears, the size of the pokie library, the published return figure, the shape of the welcome offer, the support hours against New Zealand time, and the tools a player can use to set limits.
We are paid commission when a reader opens an account through one of our links. That arrangement never buys a position. A casino that slows its payouts drops, and we say so in the review rather than quietly moving it down the page.