About us

We're a team of three who have spent a long time around Counter-Strike skins: trading them, losing a few, and watching a lot of gambling sites come and go. We started this site because most of the "best CS2 gambling sites" lists we found were the same table of bonus codes in a slightly different order, and hardly any of them would tell you which site to stay away from.

So the brief we set ourselves was simple. Use the sites properly, with real deposits and withdrawals. Score them the same way every time. Say plainly when a site isn't worth your money, even if it pays us a commission.

The team

Daniel Hart, Lead Reviewer

Daniel writes most of our site reviews and is responsible for the rankings. He's the one who signs up, deposits, works through each game mode and decides whether a site has earned its score. He has firm opinions about withdrawal screens and very little patience for bonus terms that need a magnifying glass.

Mila Novak, Payments and Fairness Editor

Mila covers money moving in and out: crypto deposits, skin pricing, withdrawal times and fees. She also handles the fairness side, verifying provably fair results and working through the odds on cases and upgrades. If one of our reviews quotes a number, Mila has usually checked it.

Owen Price, Guides Editor

Owen writes our guides on trading, skins, Steam security and safer gambling. A lot of his work starts with questions readers send in, like why a trade is on hold, whether a login page is real, or whether a site is pricing skins fairly. He also keeps our responsible gambling information up to date.

Why the site exists

CS2 gambling is an odd corner of the internet. Few of the sites hold a licence from a major regulator, they change owners and names without much warning, and plenty of the people using them are new to gambling altogether. Good information is hard to come by, and a lot of what's out there is written mainly to get clicks on a sign-up button.

We think readers deserve what you'd want from a friend who had already tried a site. What it's good at, what's annoying, how fast it really pays, and whether it's worth bothering with. That's what we try to write.

How we make money

We earn affiliate commissions. When you follow a link from our site to a gambling site, sign up and deposit, that site may pay us. Depending on the deal it's a one-off fee, a share of the revenue the site makes from players we send, or a mix of both. You don't pay anything extra, and the welcome offer through our link or code is usually the same or better than going direct.

We don't sell reader data, and we don't take payment for reviews or scores. The details are in our affiliate disclosure.

How we stay independent

Commissions pay the bills, so we've set rules that keep them away from the scores. Every site is rated on the same six weighted criteria, set out on our how we rate page, and the table order follows those ratings and nothing else. Operators don't see reviews before they go up, and they can't pay to change a score or remove a criticism.

Those rules apply even when they cost us. Several sites we have affiliate deals with sit near the bottom of our rankings, and their reviews explain why. Our editorial policy covers how we research, fact-check and correct our work.

What we're not

We're not a gambling site. We don't hold balances, take bets or process withdrawals, and we have no access to your account on any site we review. If you have a problem with a site, its support team is the place to start. We're glad to give advice on how to approach it, though, and we want to hear when a site treats someone badly, because those reports feed into our re-checks.

Everything here is meant for adults. You need to be 18 or older to use any of the sites we cover.

Get in touch

Corrections, tips, a complaint about a site, or a question about something we've written: use the contact form or email us at contact@cs2gamblingreviews.com. We read everything, and we answer most messages within a couple of business days.