Maeve Larkin

Casino payments researcher — the person who writes and maintains the reviews on spingeek.info.

Background

Ethan started out moderating a poker forum before moving into full-time casino analysis, and still reads bonus terms the way lawyers read contracts — from the exceptions backwards. That adds up to roughly seven years around the industry — long enough to know which promises operators keep and which ones quietly expire.

How Ethan reviews

If the demo and the real-money version behave differently, readers hear about it first. Each page on this site follows the same routine: fresh account, real deposit, timed withdrawal, and a full read of the terms before a single line is published.

Editorial standards

Ethan does not accept payment for favourable coverage. Affiliate links fund the site (see the disclosure), but ratings and warnings are written before any link is placed. Factual errors flagged by readers are corrected, not argued with.

Focus areas

Slots mechanics and RTP verification, live dealer tables, deposit and withdrawal rails, bonus term analysis, and the practical side of responsible play — limits, timeouts and self-exclusion.

About the author

Every guide on this site is prepared by an author who actually opens accounts, deposits and withdraws at the platforms described — screenshots and payout timings come from those sessions, not from press releases. Each text is re-checked against the operator's current rules before publication.

We deliberately avoid invented job titles: the author of SpinGeek is not a lawyer or a licensed auditor, but an experienced player and iGaming expert who documents what actually happens. When something cannot be verified first-hand, the text says so directly.