Hannah Cutajar.

Malta is one of the few places where iGaming isn't a niche — it's a fixture of public life, anchored by the Malta Gaming Authority's role as a major licensing jurisdiction. Hannah grew up hearing the wins and the losses in equal measure, on the news, on the billboards, in conversation around school.

What stayed with her was a pattern: how often the bad outcomes traced back to misleading information players had picked up online. After finishing her commerce degree at the University of Malta, the honest-content gap looked less like a market opportunity and more like a problem worth fixing. That's the brief she set herself.

Counter-intuitively, not the casino. Hannah's first stop is the people already playing there. Reddit threads, Trustpilot complaints, niche forums — the unfiltered noise tells her where the friction lives before a single line of marketing copy gets a vote.

Only then does she fund an account, run a deposit, work through the games and stress-test the cash-out. That community-first sweep happens before Casino.org's twenty-five-step internal review even begins. The casino's own pitch deck is the last document she reads, not the first.

Poker — and not for the romance of it. The combination of incomplete information, opponent psychology and a non-trivial luck factor keeps the puzzle fresh hand after hand. Every session is a different problem to solve.

She studies the game seriously. Daniel Negreanu's training material is a regular reference for the parts of the game that don't sit on a probability table — bet sizing, table reads, the rhythm of an hour-long session. Poker, in other words, but the version where you keep getting better at it.

One that matters to her: Rising Star Idol of the Year at the 2022 iGaming iDOL Awards, the industry's recognition for emerging talent contributing meaningful work to the field.

Hannah talks about it less as a trophy than as a checkpoint — a signal from her peers that the long hours of bonus-clause reading and regulatory cross-referencing were heading somewhere useful, and that the work was beginning to make a difference for the players on the other end of it.

Her current byline lives on her Casino.org writer profile, where every review, guide and explainer she has filed since February 2023 is listed in chronological order. Her wider professional record is mirrored on Muck Rack and LinkedIn.