Tyler Hayes
Tyler Hayes is a games editor at Arcade Spot, where he looks after the casino and slots catalog. That covers the table games — roulette, baccarat, poker, blackjack — and the video slots that sit alongside them, plus a share of our HTML5 and multiplayer titles. Roughly 1,000 games on this site fall under his beat.
Tyler has been with Arcade Spot since 2025. Casino games are the part of our catalog that needs the most careful handling, and that is most of what the job is. Every title he publishes has to state plainly what it is: free to play, played with play-money credits, nothing to buy, nothing to win.
He scores games against Arcade Spot's published rating criteria — the same five weighted measures used across the catalog, with the score assigned by the editor who played the game. On casino titles the emphasis falls on clarity of rules, honest labelling, and how a game behaves during a losing run.
What Tyler covers
- Table games — roulette, baccarat, poker, blackjack, and their variants
- Video slots and reel games
- Solitaire, rummy and other card games
- HTML5, multiplayer and .io titles
- Category labelling and age gating for everything in the casino section
How Tyler works
- Plays every game he publishes or scores — minimum 20 minutes or a full round, whichever is longer
- Tests in current Chrome and Firefox on mid-range hardware, from a fresh session with no saved progress
- Tests on a phone before any game is tagged mobile-friendly
- Confirms every casino game states it is free and play-money only, on the game page and in the game itself
- Rejects any title with purchase prompts, coin-package offers, or outbound links to gambling operators
- Checks that the 18+ label and the Responsible Gaming link are present on every casino page
- Re-tests when a game's source changes, when players report a fault, or on the routine review cycle
What our casino games are — and are not
Nothing in this category can be bought and nothing pays out. Chips and credits are free, have no cash value, and cannot be withdrawn, transferred or redeemed for anything. Arcade Spot is not a casino, holds no gambling licence, accepts no wagers, and does not link to or advertise real-money gambling, sportsbooks or sweepstakes casinos. Our full position is set out in the Editorial Policy and on the Responsible Gaming page, which also lists free, confidential help services.