What this site is for
Wisconsin Online Casinos covers online casino play from one state's point of view. Wisconsin licenses no online casino, which means a Wisconsin reader is asking a harder set of questions than a reader in Michigan or New Jersey: what the state's own statute says, which operators outside the United States will take a Wisconsin sign-up, what those operators put in writing, and what the Department of Revenue expects on the return afterwards.
We put the ranked list first because that is what people came for, and we put the legal position fourth rather than ninth because on this topic it is not a disclaimer. Every People-Also-Ask question on this search is a legality question.
What we will not do
We do not describe any operator as legal in Wisconsin, licensed in Wisconsin, or state-approved, because none is. We do not use the word safe about an operator no Wisconsin authority has vetted. We do not print a payout time we did not measure. And we do not print a bonus figure that is not recorded from source with a date attached.
How we test
The method is documentary and it is set out in full, weightings included, on how we rate. Short version: we read each operator's own record and the partner terms behind it, record seven fields per brand with the date, leave empty fields empty, and rank on what the fields say. Five weighted criteria, none of which is a measurement we did not take.
How we make money
Some links on this site are commercial. If you open an account through one, an operator may pay us a commission, at no cost to you. That is disclosed at the foot of every page.
What the commission does not buy is a position. Commercial terms do not reach the person writing, no operator has been moved up for paying more, and no operator sees a page before it publishes. If an operator's published terms get worse, its position falls. We also carry sections that earn nothing at all, including the tax section and the note on sweepstakes products we do not sell.
Editorial independence
Our author is named, his beat and his limits are published on his own page, and the criteria are published with their weightings. That combination is the only meaningful test a reader can apply to an affiliate site: not whether it says it is independent, but whether it publishes enough for you to check the ranking against its own stated rules.
Responsible gambling
Every game listed here is built to return less than it takes, and that is true of the good offers as well as the bad ones. If playing has stopped being entertainment, our responsible gambling page carries the Wisconsin helpline, the national numbers, and the account limits worth setting before a first deposit rather than after a bad month.
Contact
Corrections, source challenges and questions about the method go to [email protected]. What we can and cannot answer is set out on the contact page.