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Who We Are

Bonus.com consists of a team of online casino and gambling experts based in the US and Canada. We provide unbiased reviews for casino players and sports bettors, comprehensive gaming guides, and verified promo codes. Our news division stays on the cutting edge of the casino industry with breaking news, developing innovations, and Q&A’s with industry leaders and innovators. We also hold a strong commitment to responsible gaming.

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The Bonus.com Team

Alex Weldon

Alex Weldon is an online gambling industry analyst with nearly ten years of experience. He currently serves 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.

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.

Robyn McNeil

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

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.

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.

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 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.

John Ferguson

John Ferguson is the Content Strategist at Bonus.com. John offers a diverse background working as a writer, editor, and affiliate manager across every vertical of engaging player platforms, from fantasy sports and sports betting to casinos and iGaming. He brings first-hand experience working with some of the leaders in our industry.

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.

Drew Ellis

Drew Ellis joined Catena Media in 2020 and has led news coverage for PlayMichigan and PlayiLottery while also reporting on the gambling industries in Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, and Canada. With decades of experience in journalism, Drew specializes in breaking down complex laws and policies shaping the expansion of online gambling across the U.S. Before transitioning to the online gaming industry, Drew spent over 20 years in newspapers covering sports and gambling for the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun and The Oakland Press, earning multiple awards from the Associated Press and other organizations. His bylines have also appeared in the Detroit Free Press, the Associated Press, and All Lions, the Sports Illustrated site covering the Detroit Lions.

Our Mission

To be the most trusted and comprehensive online casino and gambling resource for US players.

Where We’re Licensed (Catena Operations Ltd.)

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Between breaking news and analysis, interviews, and opinion pieces, Bonus.com is your source for news about legal online gambling and sports betting. Bonus.com wants to be the best and most complete resource around for gamblers and sports bettors across the country.

The editors of this website operate at their sole discretion and are not beholden to any outside entity or organization. Neither Bonus.com nor any of its managers are directly affiliated with any casino or sportsbook.

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The team at Bonus provides decades of combined experience in the online gambling niche. Our commitment to quality and reliability extends to every aspect of the site, making us second to none in our industry.

Transparency

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Objectivity

Our team of experts is unaffiliated with any casino, sportsbook, or other outside entity that could compromise the integrity of our work. Every writer and contributor are vetted and verified, and every word on the site is run through multiple accuracy checks.

Validity

We are licensed in US states including Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and more. Our focus is solely on legal gambling options in the US, and we’re dedicated to contributing to the responsible gambling landscape to ensure the utmost in player safety.

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