Jacques Delmont — Editor & Fact Checker

Editor & Fact Checker

Verifies every review before publication Cross-references primary sources

I am Jacques, the editor and fact-checker at Online Pokies Australia. Every piece Jake writes lands on my desk before it goes live. My job is to confirm that the numbers he cites are accurate, that the licence claims check out against the regulator's registry, and that the testing data he reports lines up with what actually happened during the test sessions.

What Fact-Checking Looks Like in Practice

The work is unglamorous but it matters. Before a single review hits the site I pull the licence number out of the casino footer and cross-check it against the Curacao Gaming Control Board register. If the number does not resolve, the review does not run. Same with bonus terms: every wagering multiplier and minimum-deposit figure Jake cites gets verified against the live T&C page on the casino itself, screenshotted at the time of verification with the date in the corner.

For test data, I look at three things in particular. First, the wall-clock timestamps Jake records during withdrawal tests need to line up with the blockchain confirmation times for crypto cashouts, which are publicly verifiable. Second, the RTP figures cited for specific pokies have to match the provider-published spec sheets from Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming, NetEnt and so on. Third, support response times need to be reproducible — if Jake says live chat answered in 52 seconds, I run my own test on a different day to confirm the channel actually operates within that range.

Anything that does not pass these checks gets sent back for revision. Roughly five percent of drafts come back with corrections. That sounds low, and it is, but the corrections are almost always small numbers that would have damaged trust if they had shipped — a wagering multiplier listed as 35x when the site quietly raised it to 40x, a payment method shown as supported when it actually was not, that sort of thing.

Background

I came into iGaming fact-checking from a financial-journalism background — five years on the news desk at a Melbourne fintech publication before I joined Jake here. The skill that transferred most directly is reading legal small print without getting bored, because that is essentially what casino terms and conditions are: financial small print with marketing dressing on top.

I work from Melbourne, the same as Jake, which means our review cycles run on the same time zone. Most fact-check passes happen between Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon AEST. Anything urgent — like a casino quietly changing its bonus terms mid-month — I flag and we pause publishing until I have confirmed the new numbers.

If you spot a factual error anywhere on this site, please email [email protected]. Reader corrections come straight to me, and we publish corrections on the page itself with a dated note rather than quietly editing them out.

Editorial Standards

Full details on how we test, verify, and disclose commercial relationships are on our Editorial Policy page. If anything on this site reads like marketing rather than independent review, that is on us — flag it and we will look at it. We get no editorial input from the casinos we cover, and the affiliate commission structure has zero influence on rankings. That is the standard Jake writes to and the standard I check against.