Callum Reid
Spent six years as a gaming-floor attendant in Victorian pubs and clubs before moving online. Reviews pokies by RTP, volatility and hit rate rather than by theme, and keeps a running list of which offshore casinos run the 94% versions.
Callum grew up in Geelong and worked the gaming floors of pubs and RSL clubs across western Victoria from 2016 to 2022, first as an attendant and later as the person who reset machines and read the meters at close. That job taught him two things he still uses: a pokie’s published RTP is a range, not a number, and most players never find out which end of the range they are on.
At TeleVega he covers the pokies side of every review. He checks which studios a casino actually carries, whether Aristocrat-style titles are the real thing or licensed look-alikes from Booongo, Playson and Platipus, and which RTP configuration the operator has chosen. He writes the individual pokie pages and the RTP and volatility guides, and he is the one who insists every game page states the RTP the casino runs, not the one the studio advertises.
He plays low stakes on a fixed monthly budget and is open about that in his reviews.
Writing for TeleVega since 2024.