Two clocks, two counts
Every floor on the board is counted twice per casino per week: at 20:00 UTC — European prime time, when stages run fullest — and at a rotating off-peak hour drawn from 10:00–15:00 UTC. Counting means opening the live lobby and tallying every table actually streaming, grouped by game, with studios attributed by felt branding and lobby tabs. Both counts are logged with date and hour; both appear in the reviews, because the gap between them is the honestest sentence any floor gets.
Counts are taken logged in, from the same lobby a player sees, without casino accompaniment. Where a lobby's own counter disagrees with our tally, we report ours and note theirs.
Sessions at working stakes
Numbers without seat time are wallpaper, so every floor is also played: a minimum of eight logged sessions per season at $1–$10 base stakes — the register a working bankroll actually holds. We log pacing (results per hour), seat availability in the $1–$25 band, dealer interaction (does the chat get read), stream incidents to the minute, and the practicalities: stake ladders, VIP door minimums, show catalogues. Sessions are cash, not bonus, unless an entry is explicitly about bonus terms.
The register is a choice and a limitation: our stakes are mortal stakes, so the salon privé experience is logged from the door (minimums, availability, viewing) rather than from the chair. Reviews say so where it matters.
What the floor score weighs
The score is a weighted read of the season's log, not a vibe. Depth (45%): prime-time table count and show catalogue, on a diminishing curve — the 381st table adds less than the 91st. Reliability (25%): stream incidents per session, seat availability, off-peak resilience. Access (20%): the stake ladder's shape, the entry minimum, the VIP door's reachability. Distinctive character (10%): native tables, boutique studios, crypto-denominated pits — the corners money signals seriousness.
Deliberately unscored: the welcome offer's size (terms pages, not floors), slot-lobby depth (another department entirely) and withdrawal speed (a different scoreboard, kept by other sites). Where those touch the floor experience — bonus stake caps at the felt, say — the review says it in words.
Independence and the limits of counting
The desk is editorially independent and affiliate-funded; placements never move a count, a class or a rank, and the weights above are published precisely so that claim is checkable against any review's numbers. Figures are a photograph of Season 26-E: stages reallocate, studios come and go, minimums are retuned. Reviews carry the season tag for that reason.
Known limits: counts are samples, not censuses — a floor can run three tables heavier or lighter than our tally on any given hour; studio attribution occasionally relies on branding when networks white-label; and the VIP tier is logged from the door. Reader logs that contradict ours get checked and, when they hold, printed — the counting desk reads its mail.