How we rank
Six things, weighted, summing to 100. The weights below are read straight out of the file the ranking uses, so this page cannot drift away from the model it describes.
| Weight | What it measures |
|---|---|
| 24 | stateAccess Whether the operator accepts Texas players at all. An operator that does not is not a lower-ranked choice for a Texas reader, it is not a choice, and it does not appear in the table. |
| 20 | redeemFloor The smallest balance the operator will turn into a cash prize. This is the number that decides whether somebody who never buys a coin package can ever redeem anything. |
| 18 | redeemSpeed Clock time from a redemption request to money in hand, after identity verification clears. A twenty-four hour payout that follows a three-day document check is not a twenty-four hour payout. |
| 16 | freeEntry What you can get without paying: the daily no-purchase claim, and whether the operator publishes the postal entry route that makes the whole model lawful. |
| 12 | playthrough How many times the redeemable currency has to be played before any of it can leave. It is the difference between a headline free-coin figure and a real one. |
| 10 | sweepsTrust Who you are trusting with your identity documents: whether the operator names a parent company, how long the brand has run, whether it joined the industry trade body. |
What we refuse to rank on
Game counts
On one day in August 2026 we read three of the highest-ranking sites covering this market publishing game counts for the same operator of "1000+", "932+" and "3870". A fourth guess would not have helped anybody. Game count returns to the model when somebody counts a lobby from inside the United States, and not before.
Return to player
One competitor publishes a 100 per cent RTP for an operator, which would describe a casino that keeps nothing, and the identical figure of 99.42 per cent for three different brands on the same page. We publish no RTP for any sweepstakes operator.
Anything an operator has not published about itself
Where our table shows a dash, it means nobody here has read the figure on the operator's own pages. It does not mean the answer is zero. Our records carry an explicit list, per operator, of figures we found circulating and decided not to use, and the build fails if one of them reaches the ranking.
What we are paid for
Some links pay us when somebody opens an account. They do not buy a place in the table: entry is decided by whether the operator accepts Texas players, and order by the six weights above. If a paying operator ranks badly here, it ranks badly here.