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Who We Are

We’re the sharpest minds in online gambling who never bet on boring. Bonus.com is where savvy players and curious newbies go to get the real story about online casinos worth your clicks. Our international team writes with guts and clarity: no fluff, no bought opinions, and definitely no fake promos. You’ll find expert reviews, zero-BS guides, and fast, fearless news coverage. If something’s hot (or a hot mess), we’re already on it. And yes, we take responsible gaming seriously—even if we refuse to take ourselves too seriously.

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The Bonus.com Team

Craig Corbeels

Craig Corbeels is a Content Editor and gambling expert for Bonus.com. He has been involved in the online gambling industry since 2013. Previously, he worked for Gamesys and Bally's Interactive as a copywriter and social media strategist for multiple North American online casinos.

John Ferguson

John Ferguson is the lead content strategist for Bonus.com, where he oversees editorial planning, SEO strategy, and audience engagement across the U.S. online casino industry. With over a decade of experience in digital media, affiliate marketing, and content operations, he brings a data-informed, user-first approach to everything he writes.

Joe Boozell

Joe "Bam" Boozell is the Editorial Manager across Bonus.com, PlayUSA, and other leading digital publications, where he oversees content operations and ensures timely, accurate coverage of the online gambling space. Joe began covering the U.S. online gambling industry in 2020, serving as Lead Writer for PlayIllinois during the state’s rapid emergence as a major sports betting market. He later led content strategy for PlayPennsylvania, PlayMichigan, and PlayCanada, with a particular focus on evergreen online casino coverage. Before diving into gambling media, Joe spent five years at Turner Sports, contributing to NCAA.com, NBA.com, and PGA.com as both a writer and editor. He holds a journalism degree from Butler University and lives in Chicago with his wife, their two dogs, and a small jungle of houseplants that tend to steal the show on video calls.

Danny Cross

Danny Cross has been covering iGaming and sports betting for Catena Media since 2022 with stops at Bonus, Legal Sports Report, Lineups and PlayOhio. Cross joined Catena from Pro Football Focus, where he wrote and edited articles on the NFL, fantasy football and betting.

Patrick Monnin

From online casino reviews to new sweepstakes legislation, Patrick Monnin has been covering the global iGaming market since March of 2021. A graduate of Loyola University Chicago, his work has been featured on Bonus, Legal Sports Report, Lineups, Daily Fantasy Cafe, PlayMA, PlayOH, and more. Patrick won a science fair back in 7th grade, but unfortunately, it’s been all downhill from there.

Martin Harris

Martin Harris is a writer and editor at Bonus.com currently living in North Carolina. He has reported on poker, gambling, and sports betting for a variety of outlets since the mid-2000s. His career includes extensive experience reporting on online poker and from numerous poker tours, including from the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour. Martin has an English Ph.D. (Indiana University) and has taught full- or part-time at multiple colleges and universities since the 1990s. He currently teaches courses on poker, politics, and film in the American Studies program at UNC Charlotte. In 2019, Martin’s book Poker & Pop Culture was published by D&B Books. The book covers the history of poker in the United States with special emphasis on the game’s depiction in literature, film, music, and other mainstream contexts. In 2020 the book won a Global Poker Award for Written Media Content of the Year.

Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Chance is a content editor at Catena Media. He specializes in product reviews of sweeps casinos. He's been editing content in the iGaming space since 2017, including news, reviews, and user guides to all corners of the legal online gambling universe.

Martin Green

Martin Green is an experienced writer with a specialist focus on casino gaming. He began covering the online casino industry in 2014, providing regular content for several publications, including USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Arizona Republic, the Miami Herald, and the Kansas City Star. He now writes reviews, guides, and features for Bonus.com and other Catena Media sites. Martin is also a professional soccer handicapper who provides picks for CBS.

Cole Rush

Cole Rush is a Chicago-based writer and contributor for Bonus.com. His work has been showcased in various gaming industry magazines and online columns. Prior to freelance writing, Cole spent seven years in communications at a gambling and lottery supplier. A Chicago native, Cole's favorite teams are, predictably, da Bears and da Bulls. When he visits the casino, you’ll most likely find him playing Mississippi Stud or spinning some slots.

Dan Holmes

Dan Holmes is an author and freelance writer who specializes in sports media and betting. He has written three books, including The Ballplayers: Baseball’s Greatest Players Remembered, Ranked, and Revealed. Holmes has previously worked for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball. He built his first website in 1993, and started blogging soon after. He has written more than 4 million words for the internet in three decades online.

Adam Mace

Adam Mace is an iGaming content writer with over seven years of experience in the US and UK markets. After earning a master’s in 2019, Adam took his passion for writing on the road, working remotely from more than 20 countries. His work appears in various online publications, including Bonus.com, Squawka, and GG. You can reach him at [email protected].

Charlon Muscat

Charlon Muscat is an iGaming writer and reviewer who’s been in the industry since 2019. He got his start at Paddy Power™ in Malta, where he had a front-row seat to how one of the biggest names in the business operates. Over the years, he’s built expertise across online casinos, sports betting, esports, sweepstakes, and social casinos, with a strong focus on the expanding U.S. market. His work has been featured on leading platforms, delivering player-first insights based on firsthand experience that cut through the noise and highlight what real users actually care about.

Mike Breen

Mike Breen is a freelance writer/editor based in Cincinnati, Ohio, with more than 30 years of experience. He has been a contributing writer for various Catena Media outlets since 2022, when he began extensively covering Ohio’s sports betting launch. Since then, he has provided coverage of US gambling industry news and regulatory and legislative movements, on top of online casino reviews, sports betting previews, and much more.

Anthony Elio

Anthony Elio is an experienced content specialist and podcast producer based out of Denver, CO. He has an extensive background in the world of sports betting while also focusing on topics such as sweepstakes casinos and iGaming. Outside of his work in the betting sphere, Elio hosts and produces the weekly podcast "Locals Aloud" for Denverse Magazine.

Rita Ferreira

Rita Ferreira is a writer with over six years of experience in the online gambling industry. After spending three years in the European iGaming hub, she shifted her focus to the North American market and has been providing her insights about online casinos, sweepstakes, social gaming platforms, and sports betting. She has worked with industry leaders, including Catena Media, Gaming Innovation Group, and Forbes Betting.

Mariana Almeida

Mariana Almeida is a seasoned SEO specialist and digital marketer with over seven years of experience driving organic growth through data-informed content strategy. With a background in journalism and a strong command of both on-page and off-page SEO, she has led teams, developed high-performing editorial plans, and delivered measurable results—such as boosting a site’s domain authority from DR38 to DR64 and growing a client’s YouTube audience from 800 to 20,000 subscribers. Mariana brings a creative, multilingual approach to SEO, crafting content that resonates in both English and Portuguese. She has worked with brands across Brazil and Europe, including Growth Leads, MelhorPlano.net, and the Government of Minas Gerais.

P. L. West

P.L. West is an experienced journalist and author based in Austin, Texas, with a career spanning more than two decades. His work has been featured in a wide range of national and regional outlets, including The Daily Dot, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Antonio Express-News, Austin American-Statesman, and Austin Chronicle. In addition to his journalism career, Phil has authored two books on soccer and has established himself as a trusted voice covering the intersection of sports, culture, and technology. At Bonus.com, he brings his expertise in storytelling and in-depth reporting to cover the growing U.S. online casino and sports betting industries, with a focus on legislation, market trends, and player insights.

Tebearau Egbe

Tebearau Egbe covers casino news beats at Bonus.com. She’s a seasoned gambling writer with over five years of experience. Her previous roles include being a contributor for Esportbet, Bettingplanet, Onlinecasino, and several other publications. Armed with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, Tebearau possesses a unique ability to dissect complex industry developments, distilling them into insightful narratives that captivate readers. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, she can be found enjoying good laughter with friends when she’s not chasing the latest casino developments or delving into the intricacies of the betting world.

Previous Contributors

It takes more than affiliate links and SEO hacks to build trust in the gambling space. It takes voices—smart ones. At Bonus.com, we’ve been lucky to feature a deep bench of writers, editors, and industry analysts who know their stuff and say it straight.

We’re talking award-winning journalists, regulation junkies, poker reporters, strategy geeks, and even a former Division I athlete or two. Some have covered online casinos since PASPA fell. Others have broken news from the front lines of legislative chaos. All of them brought credibility, curiosity, and a healthy amount of skepticism to everything they wrote.

These aren’t just bylines. They’re the folks who made Bonus what it is. And while the cast evolves, the standard doesn’t.

Here’s a non-exhaustive roll call of the contributors who helped shape Bonus.com:

Alex Weldon

Alex Weldon is an online gambling industry analyst with nearly ten years of experience. He previously served as Casino News Managing Editor for Bonus.com, part of the Catena Media Network. Other gambling news sites he has contributed to include PlayUSA and Online Poker Report, and his writing has been cited in The Atlantic.

Robyn McNeil

Robyn McNeil (she/they) is a Nova Scotia-based writer and editor, and previously a lead writer at Bonus. Here she focused on news relevant to online casinos, specializing in responsible gambling coverage, legislative developments, gambling regulations, and industry-related legal fights.

Heather Fletcher

Heather Fletcher was a Lead Writer at Bonus, concentrating on online casino coverage. She specializes in breaking news, legislative coverage, and gambling marketing strategy overviews.

Mike Epifani

Mike Epifani is a gambling expert and former Content Manager at Bonus.com with more than a decade of industry experience. Mike has written hundreds of guides on online casinos, casino gaming, sports betting, sweepstakes sites, and lottery play.

Drew Ellis

Drew Ellis is a veteran journalist who contributed to Catena Media’s coverage of online gambling markets across the U.S. and Canada, including key roles with PlayMichigan and PlayiLottery. With over 20 years in newspapers and a sharp eye for policy, Drew brought clarity to complex gaming legislation while earning accolades from the Associated Press and beyond. His work has also appeared in the Detroit Free Press, Associated Press, and Sports Illustrated’s All Lions.

Chav Vasilev

After years of managing fast-casual restaurants, Chav turned his passion for sports and occasional slot wins into a career as an iGaming writer. Sharing his time between Europe and the US, he has been exposed to betting and gambling for years and has closely followed the growth in the US. Chav is a proponent of playing responsibly and playing only at legal online sites. When not writing, you will find him watching and betting on sports, especially soccer, or trying to land the next big bonus on a slot.

Dan Duangdao

Dan Duangdao is a former content editor for Bonus.com, bringing over a decade of experience in editing, writing, and digital media. Before joining the online gaming space, Dan served as Editor-in-Chief and credentialed reporter for Lakers Nation, and later as an NBA editor at ClutchPoints. He holds a business administration degree from California State University, Fullerton.

Ann Holmes

Ann Holmes is a writer with years of experience in the US gaming industry. A former multimedia journalist, she left the newsroom to pursue a freelance career in 2019. Ann has spent most of her freelance career covering iGaming, online lottery, and online sports betting for Catena Media. Her work can be found across several online publications, including Bonus.com, PlayiLottery, and PlayUSA. You can email her at [email protected].

Chris Gerlacher

Christopher Gerlacher was a Lead Writer and contributor for Bonus. He is a versatile and experienced gambling writer with an impressive portfolio who has range from political and legislative pieces to sports and sports betting. He's a devout Broncos fan, for better or for worse, living in the foothills of Arvada, Colorado.

Craig Williams

Craig Williams is a Charlotte-based sportswriter who has worked professionally in the gaming, fantasy, and sports business industries. He’s an avid fantasy football player, managing over 100 leagues across multiple formats. When he’s not pouring over Vegas odds and statistics, he’s indulging in soccer and enjoys anything from LigaMX to Champions League.

Dustin Gouker

Dustin Gouker is a leading expert in the U.S. gambling industry, with over a decade of experience covering the intersection of sports betting, online gaming, and regulation. He was a founding editor at Legal Sports Report, where he played a pivotal role in shaping national coverage of legal sports betting following the fall of PASPA. Known for his sharp analysis and deep industry knowledge, Gouker has been widely cited by major media outlets and frequently consulted by stakeholders across the gambling ecosystem. Today, he continues to provide strategic insight and commentary on the evolving landscape of U.S. gaming and betting.

Geoff Fisk

Geoff Fisk is a San Diego-based freelance writer, specializing in the poker and gambling industries. He’s written for numerous platforms and has traveled the globe as a live poker tournament reporter. Geoff is an avid sports fan, but poker is his passion.

Jared Daigle

Jared Daigle is the former Assistant Content Editor for Bonus.com and currently serves as a content editor at Catena Media. With nearly two decades of experience in writing, editing, and teaching writing, Jared brings a sharp editorial eye and a deep understanding of effective communication. A lifelong sports fan, he proudly supports teams like the Marquette Golden Eagles, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Wild, and Florida Gators—but none hold a place in his heart quite like the Minnesota Vikings, a loyalty that has made him no stranger to sports heartbreak.

Jon Conahan

Jon Conahan was a writer with Bonus.com and a Penn State University graduate, where he majored in journalism and minored in sports studies. He played Division I baseball at Penn State before getting into journalism. Jon has written for Sports Illustrated covering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Florida State. Jon is an avid fan of the Milwaukee Bucks, New York Yankees, and Miami Dolphins.

Joshua Buckley

Joshua Buckley was a Content Manager for Bonus.com. Along with award-winning experience as a sports editor in Alabama and Texas, he has also spent time in public relations for the tourism and blood banking industries. Joshua is co-host of "Whole Lotta Wolves," the only U.S.-based Wolverhampton Wanders FC podcast.

Katy Jean

Katy Jean was previously a regular contributor to Bonus. She’s also a front page writer for The Nova Scotian in The Chronicle Herald, delivering news focused on her home province. Katy rose to prominence on Twitter as a source of information on public health briefings, politics, and access to services during the COVID-19 pandemic. She began writing for Online Poker Report in January 2022, concentrating on the Ontario iGaming launch, including its impact on First Nations. At Bonus, she used plain language to help new readers understand the complex online gambling industry, while adding her own expert insight.

Marc Meltzer

Marc was a contributor to Bonus.com, PlayNevada, and PlayUSA. He’s been covering the Las Vegas casino and gambling markets for more than a decade. He specializes in sports betting, table games, video poker, and too frequently dabbles with slot machines. He often enjoys a drink or a meal when out exploring casinos in his new hometown, Las Vegas.

Richard Janvrin

Richard Janvrin is a freelance writer at Bonus, covering iGaming. Richard has been writing for Catena Media since 2023 and also contributed to Legal Sports Report. In addition to Catena, Richard has written for other outlets on topics including sports, sweepstakes casinos, sports betting, fantasy sports, and more. Richard received a bachelor’s degree in English/Journalism from the University of New Hampshire. Outside of writing, Richard enjoys spending time with his family, gaming, and watching movies.

Tyler Andrews

Tyler Andrews is a seasoned gaming industry analyst and former content editor for Bonus.com, where he covered the evolving landscape of gambling expansion across the United States. His work has supported Catena Media’s coverage in key states including North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Ohio. Currently, Tyler serves as Content Lead for Catena Media’s regional platforms, overseeing editorial strategy and content development for flagship sites like PlayNJ and PlayMichigan.

Our Mission

To be the smartest, sharpest, and most relentlessly useful gambling resource on the internet—for players, not platforms.

At Bonus.com, we help U.S. casino players cut through the noise. Whether you’re hunting for the best online casino bonuses, curious how sweepstakes casinos actually work, or just want to know which promo isn’t a total scam this week—we’ve got you.

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We exist to make players savvier, louder, and harder to fool. That’s the mission. Everything else is just marketing.

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Not every brand we cover is a partner. And not every partner gets constant glowing praise. At Bonus.com, editorial and partnerships work together remotely, but we don’t share a brain. Our writers and editors prioritize clarity, fairness, and player-first honesty, even if it means we have to thread the needle between transparency and tact. We tell the truth as cleanly as we can without making our partnerships team send us heated Slack messages in all caps. (They’re great, by the way. They just like their deals to look nice.)

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We Use AI

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