Artjoms Liepins
Who this is
Artjoms Liepins writes and edits everything published on monro.info. He lives in Riga, has spent nine years around iGaming, and covers one platform properly rather than a thousand superficially. The trade he made is deliberate: an author who surveys a hundred operators at a glance produces a map that is stale within a week, while staying on one platform allows repeated measurement and a fast correction when the terms shift. He works in Russian and Latvian as well as English, which is why this site exists in three languages rather than one machine-translated one.
The testing protocol
Nothing here is written from a press kit. Every claim on this site comes out of a real account funded with his own money and verified through KYC in full. Each payment route that gets described is used at least once, with the clock running: deposit initiated, deposit credited, withdrawal requested, cashier review closed, money on the account. Games are played long enough to reach their main feature rather than screenshotted from a provider page. Withdrawals are measured on a weekday and again on a weekend, because those are two different numbers and only one of them usually appears in marketing copy.
What the score is built from
- Cashier reliability — whether a stated payout window survives contact with reality. This carries the heaviest weight, because everything else is theoretical if the money does not move.
- Honesty of the terms — whether the wagering multiplier, the game weightings and the maximum stake are stated in figures on the offer page or buried three clicks away.
- Character of the library — whether the catalogue is curated or padded, and whether the live floor is a genuine studio operation.
- Access to the brakes — how quickly deposit limits, a time-out and self-exclusion can actually be switched on.
Three things he never publishes
No hot hours, because reels do not read a clock. No guaranteed-win systems, because the house edge does not negotiate with anyone. And no review of a platform he has not personally funded and cashed out from. The consequence is fewer articles than a content farm produces, and figures that hold up when a reader repeats the test.
The honest limits
He is not a lawyer and not an auditor, and this site gives no legal advice. Where a fact cannot be verified directly — the corporate structure behind an operator, for instance — the text says so rather than filling the gap with confident-sounding detail. Licence claims are checked against the regulator’s public register, and the absence of Monro from the Latvian IAUI register is stated on every page where it is relevant, not only where it is convenient.
Commitments and contact
Pages are revised with a date whenever the operator’s rules move. Reader reports are verified before anything is changed, and every one of them gets an answer. The commercial relationship behind this site is set out in full on the affiliate disclosure page, and the editorial process on the about us page. Corrections go to the domain contact address.
About the author
Every guide on this site is prepared by an author who genuinely opened an account, deposited, and withdrew from the platform under discussion — the screenshots and payout timings come from those sessions rather than from a press release. Each text is re-checked against the operator’s current rules before publication.
We deliberately avoid invented credentials: the writer here is an experienced player and iGaming specialist recording what actually happened, not a licensed auditor. Where something cannot be verified first-hand, the text says so plainly. Reader-facing detail on how the platform is scored sits in the Monro review.