Education
Diploma in hospitality management, with in-house training on slot-floor operation.
Online gambling experience
Eight years testing online slots, six of them writing full reviews.
Key skills
Slot reviewsHigh volatilityHold & WinFishing slots
About James Thornton
James Thornton has been playing and writing about slot machines since long before Hold & Win became the default bonus round. He started out on land-based cabinets, moved to online demos when the catalogues opened up, and has spent the last eight years testing new releases full time.
His speciality is the family of games built around collecting symbols: Hold & Win, Hold & Spin, Money symbols, cash-on-reels. He plays several hundred spins of every title before writing, tracks how often the feature actually triggers and compares that with the provider’s own numbers.
On SpinEmpire he covers the fishing and high-volatility catalogue and leads the slot-review team. His rule is simple: if the bonus round does not pay for the wait, he says so in the review.
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