About Us

Online Casino NY exists to answer one question honestly: if you are in New York and you want to play casino games online, which sites actually pay you back? Every site we rank was funded from our own accounts. Nothing on this site is a press release.

The reviews are written by Rocco Stellato, a casino payments and payout reviewer based in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. Rocco Stellato has spent nineteen years in payments operations, the last eleven of them in dispute and chargeback work for a mid-size processor in Lower Manhattan. He grew up off Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, went to Fort Hamilton High, and did an accounting degree at Brooklyn College at night while working days in a bank back office. The chargeback desk is where he learned what a payout actually is: not a number on a screen but a chain of hand-offs, each of which can stall. He started testing offshore casinos in 2019 after a cousin waited five weeks on a cashout and nobody could tell him why. He funds every account himself, keeps the bank statements, and writes down the dates. He is blunt about the sites he would not use again, and blunter about bonuses with a rollover he thinks nobody clears.

We are paid a commission when a reader opens an account through a link on this site. That is how the site is funded and we would rather say it plainly than bury it. It does not change the order of the ranking, and it does not change what a review says: the sites we criticise pay the same commission as the ones we recommend.

We do not publish star ratings or scores. A number invented to look objective is worse than no number, so the ranking is ordered on what we could measure — whether a cashier paid, how long it took, and whether a bonus was clearable — and the reasoning is written out in each review so you can disagree with it.

Corrections matter to us. If an operator has changed its terms or a figure here is wrong, write to [email protected] and we will check it and update the page.

How We Test Online Casino NY Sites

Real Accounts and Real Money

There are no comped balances behind this page. I registered at each site as a New York resident, deposited at the operator's stated minimum, and kept the bank and wallet records. Where a site offered both a crypto and a fiat route I funded whichever the welcome offer was built around, and noted when that choice changed the terms.

Three Timestamps per Payout

For every withdrawal I logged the request, the operator's approval, and the money arriving. Those are three different events and the gap between the second and third is where most complaints actually come from. A site that approves in an hour and then takes five business days to send a cheque has not paid you in an hour.

Bonus Terms Read in Full

Wagering multiples, game weighting, maximum cashout and minimum deposit all came from the operator's own terms page on the testing date. Where a figure was not published I have written that it was not published. I have not filled a gap with a plausible-looking number.

What Could Not Be Tested

I cannot audit a random number generator and I do not pretend to. I also cannot tell you how any of these sites behaves with a five-figure withdrawal, because I did not make one. Treat this as a report on funding, bonuses and ordinary cashouts, which is what most people are deciding about.