The ground we cover
This site is a working guide to the Pompeii pokie and nothing else. We set out the published return-to-player figure and what it means over real spin counts, how the volatility behaves in practice, and what the demo version can and cannot tell you. We also cover the mechanics — paylines, wilds, scatters, the free-spin round — in plain terms, without dressing them up as secrets.
The other half of the site is the casino side: which Australian-facing operators actually carry Pompeii, what their cashier desks accept, and how their bonus terms interact with this particular game. We do not review pokies we have not played through, and we do not list casinos we have not checked ourselves.
Where our numbers come from
RTP figures on this site are the published values from the game’s own documentation, not estimates we have invented. Where a provider publishes more than one configuration of a title, we say so and give each figure separately, because a 96 per cent version and a 94 per cent version are different products wearing the same name.
Volatility descriptions come from watching extended play and from the provider’s own classification, and we treat them as a rough guide rather than a promise. No RTP figure tells you what a single session will do. We say that plainly because the alternative — implying a game owes you something — is how players get hurt.
How a casino earns a place on this site
A casino appears here because it carries Pompeii, holds the licensing it claims to hold, and pays withdrawals without the kind of stalling that turns a win into a complaint. We check the cashier before we check the bonus. A generous offer attached to a slow payout desk is not a good offer.
We also look at whether the terms are readable. Wagering requirements, game-weighting for pokies, maximum bet rules while a bonus is active — if those are buried or contradictory, that counts against a listing. We would rather list fewer places and be able to stand behind each one than pad the page.
Who pays for this site
The site is funded by affiliate commission. When a reader follows a link from here to a casino and signs up, that casino may pay us. This is how the site exists, and we would rather state it in the open than let you assume otherwise.
Commission does not buy a listing, and it does not buy a favourable write-up. If a casino’s terms are poor or its cashier is unreliable, we say so, and a commercial arrangement does not change that. Where a casino does not accept a payment method, we state that too — the cashier here takes VISA, MasterCard and crypto (USDT, BTC, LTC, ETH, DOGE, TRX), and does not accept PayID, POLi, Neosurf or BPAY.
Corrections and complaints
If something on this site is wrong — a stale RTP figure, a casino that has changed its terms, a payment method listed incorrectly — tell the reviews desk and we will check it against the source and correct it. We would rather be corrected than be quietly wrong.
Complaints about a casino are a different matter. We are not a regulator and we cannot retrieve money or force a payout. What we can do is look at the facts, and if a pattern of complaints about a listed operator holds up, that operator comes off the site. Send the details and we will take it from there.