About / Background
Andrew Patel is the Senior Casino Editor at Casino and Friends, where they have led editorial coverage since the site launched in 2024. With more than fifteen years of professional experience reviewing online casinos, slot mechanics and payment infrastructure, Andrew Patel brings a player-first perspective to every word published under their byline. Before joining Casino and Friends, Andrew Patel spent time working in different parts of the online gambling industry, which gave them practical, first-hand insight into how operators design promotions, structure cashier flows and handle player disputes.
Education and training
Andrew Patel holds a degree in Economics from a university in the United Kingdom and has completed ongoing professional training courses covering responsible gambling awareness, anti-money-laundering principles and slot mathematics. Twelve-plus years of hands-on industry work, including time spent with two affiliate marketing teams and an independent dispute-resolution service, have rounded out the formal education with practical knowledge that no classroom alone can provide.
Areas of expertise
Andrew Patel's specialist interests include slot RTP and volatility analysis, the dissection of bonus terms and wagering requirements, payment-processor performance for both card and e-wallet methods, live dealer studio quality, KYC procedures and withdrawal-friction benchmarking, and responsible-gambling tools. Over the years, Andrew Patel has written more than 400 long-form casino reviews, examined cashier pages across a wide range of UK-facing operators, and tracked reported withdrawal times across more than 30 brands on a continuous basis since 2017.
Editorial standards
Reviews published under Andrew Patel's byline follow an internal Casino and Friends editorial process that combines hands-on testing of deposits and withdrawals, multi-session gameplay checks across desktop and mobile, and a further check by a senior editor before anything goes live, including comparison against publicly available licence information and player complaint reports. Andrew Patel follows a general professional standard built around transparency, factual accuracy and disclosure of any personal conflict of interest, and steps back from assignments where such a conflict exists. When an error is identified after publication, the relevant page is corrected promptly and a date-stamped correction note is added.
Contact
You can reach Andrew Patel via the editorial mailbox at editorial@casino-and-friends.net. They aim to respond personally to credible operator complaints, regulatory tips and reader corrections within two business days during normal working hours.