What this site holds today: 13 US-facing operators, 6 checked facts on each, 55 land-based venue pages and 53 city guides. Every figure here is read off the operator's own terms page and the state regulator's register, then re-checked when the offer changes — we do not reprint press releases, and we do not publish a brand we cannot quote to the dollar.
What gets a brand onto the page
Three things, and all three are checked before a name appears anywhere on WinPower. The operator has to accept players from the United States. It has to publish a welcome offer with a real figure attached — a percentage and a ceiling, or a spin count — because an offer we cannot quote is an offer we cannot compare. And it has to have a cashier we can describe: the coins, the cards and the payout routes that are actually live, not the ones listed on a marketing page.
Brands that fail any of the three are left out completely. We do not fill space with operators we have nothing to say about, and we do not list a site with "bonus to be confirmed" under it.
How the order is decided
The order is computed, not curated. Four inputs go into it: the size of the welcome package as the operator publishes it, the cashier (how many coins, which cards, how fast the payout route is), how long the brand has served American players, and whether a sportsbook or a poker room runs on the same wallet. Where a list is built around a single theme — crypto payouts, Visa deposits, sportsbook access — only brands that carry that feature are eligible for it, and the feature is shown on the card so you can see why the brand is there.
The same inputs produce a different list on different pages, because a page about Visa deposits and a page about slot bonuses are not asking the same question. What does not change is the rule: the reason a brand ranks is printed on its card.
What we do not do
We do not publish star ratings out of five. A score like that looks precise and means nothing unless you can see the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is rarely shown anywhere on the web. We do not run user reviews, because a review nobody can verify is worse than no review at all. We do not claim that an offshore operator is licensed by a US state regulator — none of them are, and any site telling you otherwise is guessing or worse.
And we do not write "editor’s choice" over a brand that paid for the spot. If a commercial relationship exists, it is disclosed on this page and it does not buy position.
Where the money comes from
WinPower is free to read and carries no subscription. When a reader opens an operator through one of our buttons and opens an account, the operator may pay us a commission. That is the whole business model.
The part worth being precise about: the commission is agreed before the ranking is built and it is not one of the inputs. A brand with no commercial arrangement is not demoted; it simply does not have a button, so it does not appear in a list whose job is to send you somewhere. Anything we say about terms — rollover, maximum cashout, excluded games — is taken from the operator’s own published rules on the day we check.
How often this is checked
Bonus terms change without notice, cashiers add and drop payment routes, and operators close markets. Every page carries the date it was last reviewed at the top, and the offers shown in our lists are re-read against operator terms on that schedule.
If you find a figure on this site that does not match what the operator shows you, that is a defect and we want to hear about it — the contact page reaches an actual person.
What we do not do
We do not run a scoring panel of anonymous "experts", we do not publish user star ratings nobody can trace, and we do not hand out review scores to brands we have never quoted an offer from. We do not accept payment for a position in a list — commission is paid on sign-ups, and it is the same deal whether a brand sits first or last.
We do not chase every operator that opens. A brand with no published welcome figure, no cashier we can describe or no route for US players stays off the site until that changes. And we do not write about markets we do not cover: this is a United States guide, so a licence from another continent is context here, never a recommendation.