Silas Thornbury

Payments & Withdrawals Analyst — the person who writes and maintains the reviews on 7gear.xyz. This page covers the professional background behind those reviews, the method applied to each test, the editorial rules in force and the fastest way to report an error in something published here.

Background

Arjun came to this industry from four years in payment-processor support, handling declined deposits and stuck withdrawals. That is where the pattern became obvious: a player's experience is decided by details almost no review site bothers to measure. Over 8 years since, Arjun has tested more than 140 online casinos and live-dealer platforms, keeping a private spreadsheet of verified RTP figures, bet limits and real payout times — the dataset this site is built on. Long enough in the sector to tell the promises operators keep from the ones that expire quietly.

How Arjun reviews

Each page follows the same routine, with no shortcuts: a new account opened from scratch, a deposit of real money, play sessions spread across different days and times, and a withdrawal timed from request to cleared funds. The terms and conditions are read in full before a line is published, and problem clauses are noted — maximum stake while a bonus is active, caps on converting winnings, expiry dates hidden in the small print. Where the demo build and the real-money build behave differently, whether in bonus-round frequency or multiplier behaviour, readers hear about it first. Screenshots and session logs stay archived so every published claim can be demonstrated if challenged.

Editorial standards

Arjun does not accept payment for a favourable review, and no brand sees a text before publication. Affiliate links fund the site — the full explanation is on the affiliate disclosure page — but scores and warnings are settled before any link is placed on a page, never the other way round. Errors reported by readers are verified and corrected with a dated update note rather than argued away. Where a figure cannot be independently confirmed, it is flagged as such or left out, and fact is always kept separate from opinion so you know what was measured and what is judgement.

Areas of focus

The core of the work is payment rails — how fast money actually moves, not how fast the cashier page claims it does. Around that: slot mechanics and RTP verification against observed long-session behaviour, live-table quality and stream reliability, deposit and withdrawal rails including the options that matter locally in India, critical reading of bonus terms with particular attention to wagering requirements, and the practical side of responsible gambling — deposit limits, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion explained step by step instead of hidden in a footer. Spotted an inaccuracy in a guide with this byline? Use the support page and name the page and paragraph: factual corrections take priority over any other work in the queue.

About the author

Every guide on this site is prepared by an author who actually opens accounts, deposits and withdraws at the platforms described — screenshots and payout timings come from those sessions, not from press releases. Each text is re-checked against the operator's current rules before publication.

We deliberately avoid invented job titles: the author of 7Gear is not a lawyer or a licensed auditor, but an experienced player and iGaming expert who documents what actually happens. When something cannot be verified first-hand, the text says so directly.