He is the INT Content Team Lead at iGaming.com and Gambling Expert & Content Lead at Casino.net.
| Born: | 1990 |
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| From: | Varna |
| Lives in: | Sofia |
| Joined iGaming.com: | 2019 |
| Position at iGaming.com: | INT Content Team Lead |
| Joined Casino.net: | 2024 |
| Position at Casino.net: | Gambling Expert & Content Lead |
| Interest in Gambling: | Sports betting, fantasy sports, Texas Hold’em, Omaha, blackjack, roulette |
| Gambling Experience: | 17+ years, over ten in land-based casinos and more than seven in iGaming |
| Gambling Expertise: | Sports betting, casino, fantasy sports |
| Other Areas of Expertise: | Football |
| Education: | Bachelor’s degree |
| E-mail: | momchil.chonov@casino.net |
Momchil Chonov joined iGaming.com in 2019 and is now its INT Content Team Lead, and became part of the Casino.net team in 2024 as Gambling Expert and Content Lead. He holds a bachelor’s degree, comes from Varna and lives in Sofia. Away from work he is a football fan first, plays Fantasy Premier League, follows the NBA, and keeps an eye on crypto and NFTs.
The most important thing he can do at Casino.net is help players understand the environment they are stepping into: how bonuses actually work, what the terms mean in practice, and why one operator is a safer bet than another. Nothing gets published on trust alone. He opens an account, plays the games, runs a withdrawal and reads the fine print before a single line of the review is written. As content lead, his job is making sure that standard holds across everything the team publishes, not only the pages carrying his name, a standard also introduced on the page about who stands behind every review.
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More than 17 years in gambling, split between land-based venues and iGaming, have given him a view from both sides: what a live table feels like from the player’s seat, and what an online product has to get right to earn the same trust. That trust is exactly what the testing methodology behind every review is built to protect. He specialises in sports betting, casino games and fantasy sports, and stays current by testing sites himself, following regulation in the markets Casino.net covers, and talking to operators and players rather than reading press releases. Playing in casinos across more than ten countries has also taught him how differently each market behaves, which is hard to see from behind a desk.
Sports betting is where he started and it is still what he follows most closely. He judges a bookmaker on the things that decide whether a bet was worth placing at all: margin, market depth, how live prices hold up when a match turns, and how long the money actually takes to arrive. Football is his sport, so he can tell a genuinely deep football offering from one that pads the market count with variations nobody bets on.
Texas Hold’em, blackjack and roulette are the games he keeps coming back to, learned in land-based rooms long before he reviewed a single online lobby. He tests a lobby the way a player uses it, looking at table limits, live dealer quality, RTP and how the software behaves when the stakes go up, and he reads bonus terms to the end, because that is where the conditions that matter are usually kept.
Fantasy sits close to betting but rewards a different skill: squad building and planning weeks ahead rather than pricing a single outcome. He plays Fantasy Premier League seriously himself, which keeps him honest about what a fantasy guide has to deliver to be worth a reader’s time.
He plays and writes about sports betting, Texas Hold’em, Omaha, blackjack, roulette and fantasy sports. These are the three he would keep if the rest went away.
The only game in the casino where the player he has to read is sitting across from him, not behind the table. He learned it in land-based rooms long before he reviewed a single online lobby, and it is still the game he plays for himself.
Blackjack is simple enough to learn in a minute and deep enough to keep you interested for years. It is one of the tables he kept coming back to in land-based rooms, and one of the first he checks in an online lobby: table limits, live dealer quality, RTP, and how the software behaves when the stakes go up.
No other bet puts your own knowledge of a game on the line. Football is his sport and the one he follows closest, which is also why he can tell a genuinely deep football offering from one that pads the market count.
His answer is not about odds or bankroll management. It is about the moment you are ahead.
Nobody tells you that the hardest skill is walking away from a table you are winning at. Losses teach you that lesson eventually; wins never do, and they cost more in the long run.
The same standard also runs through the scoring model behind the rankings: responsible gambling starts before the first deposit, not after the first problem. Set a budget you would be comfortable losing entirely, decide in advance when you stop, and treat both as fixed. Always play responsibly.
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