About Kingstown Casinos

Who We Are

Kingstown Casinos is an independent review site built for one audience: Maryland residents who want to play real-money online casino games and need straight answers about which offshore sites can be trusted with their deposits. We are not owned by a casino, and we do not let any operator dictate where it lands in our rankings.

The site exists because Maryland sits in an awkward spot. The state has legal retail casinos and legal mobile sports betting, but no state-licensed online casino — so the only way to play slots or table games online from Maryland today is through an offshore operator. That market is full of good casinos and a fair number of bad ones, and the difference matters when it is your money. Our job is to do the unglamorous work of separating the two.

Why We Focus on Maryland

Plenty of casino sites publish generic "best online casino" lists aimed at no one in particular. We do the opposite. Everything here is filtered through the questions a Maryland player actually has: Will an offshore site take my deposit from a Maryland bank? How does this square with the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency's rules? What does the law actually say, and what does 21+ enforcement look like in practice?

Our lead analyst is based in the Baltimore area, follows MLGCA policy and the state's iGaming legislative outlook closely, and tests every brand from the perspective of someone who would actually deposit there. When we mention payout speed, banking, or legality, it is Maryland-specific — not boilerplate copied from a UK or international site.

Editorial Independence

We rank casinos on evidence, not on commercial relationships. A brand cannot pay to rank higher, and a brand we have tested and found wanting will not appear on our lists no matter what it offers us. If a casino we recommend slows its payouts, worsens its terms, or starts treating players badly, it gets re-tested and, if warranted, demoted or removed. Our credibility is the only thing that makes this site worth reading, and we protect it accordingly.

How We Make Money

We are transparent about this: Kingstown Casinos is an affiliate site. When a reader clicks through to a casino we recommend and signs up, we may earn a commission from that operator. That is how the site is funded.

Here is what that does not mean. It does not mean a casino can buy a better ranking, and it does not change our scoring. The commission a brand pays has no bearing on whether it appears on our lists or where it sits. We would rather lose a commission than recommend a site we would not deposit at ourselves. Affiliate revenue keeps the lights on; the testing method decides the rankings.

Our Testing Method

We do not rank from a desk. For every casino we cover, we open a real account, fund it with our own money using both a card and a cryptocurrency wallet, and complete full identity verification — the same KYC process you would go through. We then claim the welcome bonus, play through any wagering requirement, and request a withdrawal, timing it from the moment we hit "cash out" to the second the money arrives.

That payout test is the heart of our process, and we run it across multiple methods because a casino that pays a crypto withdrawal in two hours but holds a bank wire for ten days is not the same experience for every player. We score each brand on payout speed and reliability, bonus fairness, U.S. banking options, game variety and software quality, and trust signals like license transparency and support responsiveness. The full breakdown of the method — and the analyst behind it — lives on our editorial team page.

Play Responsibly

We want this to be fun and sustainable, never harmful. Because offshore casinos are not MLGCA-regulated, self-control matters more than ever: set limits, never chase losses, and treat gambling as entertainment. You must be 21 or older to play. If gambling stops being fun, free and confidential help is available — see our responsible gambling page for 1-800-GAMBLER, the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, and other resources.