Pistolo Casino

Pistolo Casino Review

Grab your pistol and start shootin’, cowboy – we’re headin’ out West in search for treasure! Okay, okay, you won’t need to get that violent to find the gold in the land of Pistolo Casino, you’ll just need to get very lucky! But is this treasure actually worth braving the dangers of the Frontier for, or is it merely fool’s gold?

To find out, our favorite reviewers here at CasinoAustraliaOnline decided to dig deep and uncover all of Pistolo Casino’s secrets! Are its bonus offerings any good? What about its games? What special features does it offer? Is it legitimate, or just a scam? We spent many hours answering those exact questions, and when everything was said and done, recorded those answers in the review you see before you! So, join us and let’s uncover the secrets of the West!

Bonuses

Welcome Bonus – 100% Match up to AU$750 + 200 Free Spins + 1 Bonus Crab

The first treasure Pistolo Casino has for you comes in the form of a welcome bonus that will be granted to you as soon as you make your first deposit. Although most online casinos offer a welcome package which consists of multiple different bonuses, Pistolo will give you all of its offerings at once, meaning that you’ll receive a cash bonus and free spins all at once… well, sort of.

You see, if you only make a minimum deposit (which is AU$15), the only bonus you’ll get is a free spin on the game “Bonus Crab” which will give you a small prize, typically some free spins or a modest cash bonus. However, boosting your deposit to at least AU$30 will unlock the rest of the rewards, including a 100% match up to AU$750 and 200 free spins. And although the match bonus isn’t particularly impressive, the free spins are extremely generous and a welcome addition to this bonus.

You’ll receive those spins in batches of 20, one batch each day, and the winnings from each batch of spins will need to be wagered x40 times in 10 days. As for the cash bonus, this one is a little simpler, only requiring it to be wagered x35 times (again, in 10 days) – which should be slightly easier. Worth noting that only bets on pokies will count 100% towards covering these requirements, but that’s basically how most casinos operate anyway.

Reload Promotions at Pistolo Casino

As we mentioned earlier, Pistolo will only give you one bonus when you first sign up for it – as opposed to other casinos that will keep rewarding you through your second, third, even fourth deposit. As such, you’ll have no choice but to rely on the reload bonuses if you want extra bonus cash – these offers will refresh (or “reload” if you prefer) once a week, letting you claim them as many times as you need.

The first of these bonuses can be claimed between Monday and Thursday, and will require a minimum deposit of AU$30. That will reward you with 50 free spins on a game that will change weekly – overall, pretty simple bonus! The second offer, available between Friday and Sunday, will be a touch more complicated. If you deposit AU$30, you’ll receive a 50% match up to AU$1,050, so at first it seems like a choice of whether you prefer free spins or a cash bonus. However, if you deposit AU$75 or more, you’ll receive both the match bonus AND 50 free spins – on top of the ones you might have already received from your previous bonus.

Pistolo Casino also has two cashback bonuses, one for live casino and one for pokies, but since they’re both tied to the VIP program, we’ll talk about them when we discuss it in more detail later on in our review. For now, it’s worth noting that the wagering requirements for the reload offers will be the same as for the welcome bonus: x40 for the free spins winnings, x35 for the cash bonus, and you’ll have just 10 days to complete them.

Games

Forget about bonuses – who needs those when it’s the games you should be most concerned about? After all, although a good welcome bonus may be enough to get you to sign up, if there aren’t any games to wager that bonus on, then you’re probably not going to stick around for very long! Getting concerned? No need to be: Pistolo Casino’s games are some of the best that any site can offer.

We aren’t just talking about the extensive selections of pokies and live casino games, although they’re a huge reason for why we’re so enamored with Pistolo’s games (though we’ll discuss them more in their own sections below). The casino also has a ton of instant win games, like Aviator, and even a very satisfying sports betting section. Regardless of your taste and preferences, if you enjoy placing bets online, chances are you’ll find something to do here!

Pokies

The pokie sections of Australian casinos can often be… flawed. Many providers don’t wish to operate on our territory, which, at best, leaves the section devoid of most of its content, and at worst, doesn’t remove any games at all, but still throws up an error when you try to play a game you’re not supposed to. Well, Pistolo is one of those rare sites that somehow manages to avoid falling into either of those pitfalls!

For starters, it does remove any game that it offers, yet you won’t be able to play as an Aussie – no error messages or teases with unavailable games here! But even better, Pistolo seems to have adopted the philosophy of “since we can’t offer games that are unavailable, we’ll offer as many games that can be played in Australia” – and the result is more than 3,000 different games from major industry players like Spadegaming, BGaming, or Microgaming. At this point, there’s very little to complain about here!

Live casino

But not everyone wants to play pokies – many find them too random, or too inelegant, and prefer to rely on traditional casino experiences, such as blackjack. If that describes you, then no worries, because Pistolo’s live dealer section is just as good as its pokies! The casino offers a very impressive amount of different games, including some that aren’t commonly found online, such as sic bo.

Admittedly, the quality of this section mostly rests on the shoulders of Pragmatic Play – but what mighty shoulders they are! Although Pragmatic isn’t the only provider available here, you’ll find that most live rooms at Pistolo are, indeed, offered by them. Which is great, because on top of the wide diversity of different games, as well as different game types (like speed roulette), another huge advantage Pragmatic Live’s rooms offers is that they’re of very high quality in terms of video connection, latency, and user interface. What more could you ask for out of a live dealer section?

Deposits & Withdrawals

Have you ever signed up for an online casino, only to find out that they won’t accept credit cards, and most of their methods are either ones Australians can’t or simply don’t use (like Interac) or ones that you aren’t too fond of (like crypto)? It has certainly happened to us, which is precisely why we put such a great emphasis on the payment options available at any casino site we review.

Although Pistolo is a little odd in that department, ultimately it offers a satisfying choice for Australian players. The only odd thing is that you can only deposit using MasterCard – Visa (and bank transfer for that matter) is only available for withdrawals, not deposits. The rest of the methods are very reasonable though, mostly including e-wallets like Jeton, Mifinity, Neteller, and Skrill. You can also use pre-paid vouchers if that’s your preference, such as Paysafecard or Neosurf.

Finally, you can also use most of the popular cryptocurrencies, if you fancy yourself something of a crypto bro (or simply find them convenient). Those will include not just the likes of Bitcoin and Tether, but also less ‘mainstream’ coins like Bitcoincash and Ripple. You won’t find anything too out of the ordinary here (like Solana), but chances are that if a crypto has a substantial following online, you can use it here.

Withdrawal time

Ready to withdraw your winnings from Pistolo? Awesome – but you might need to wait a little bit. For starters, Pistolo itself (much like almost every online casino out there) will take a few days to process and dispatch your winnings, though it shouldn’t be longer than 3 or 4 days. Once they’re on their way, how quickly you’ll receive them will depend on the payment method you’re using for that purpose.

E-wallets, like Jeton or Neteller, will generally process the transaction fastest, getting your hard-earned winnings to you within a matter of seconds. Most cryptocurrencies will also be extremely fast, only taking a few minutes (Bitcoin and Dogecoin can take a few hours). Finally, credit cards and bank transfer will be the slowest, taking a few days up to a few weeks in the absolute slowest case.

VIP Program

Way earlier in our review, when we discussed the bonuses of Pistolo Casino, we mentioned how besides its two weekly reload promos, it also has a VIP program with two cashback features. But how does that program actually work, and more importantly, is it worth participating in it at all?

Well, if you’ve ever played at a casino site before, then you already know precisely how this works: when you place wagers with real money, you’ll receive points – and then when you accumulate enough points, you will level up, unlocking passive features. Those include not just the aforementioned cashbacks, but also things like higher maximum withdrawal limits and VIP customer support. Sounds great, right?

Well, the theory is sound, but it’s the practice where everything falls apart. You see, Pistolo starts you off at level 0 in the program, meaning you’ll need to play through hundreds of dollars before you even reach level 1 – and the cashbacks activate all the way down at level 3! There are also only 5 levels in the program, meaning that instead of your perks growing incrementally better, they’ll improve very rarely and after far too much work for it to have been worthwhile.

Tournaments

Unlike the VIP program, which was disappointing all around, the tournaments available at Pistolo will at least please some people – even if they’ll still disappoint another group. But how can this be? Well, on the surface, everything looks fantastic: you’ll have access to weekly and monthly tournaments for pokies, as well as occasional tournaments dedicated to sports betting and live casino. And that’s without mentioning the Drops & Wins promotions which Pistolo also supports Safe to say that, regardless of your preferences, you can find a tourney here that’ll be to your taste.

Unfortunately, most of them will reward you not with real money, the kind you can play through or withdraw, but with points that can be exchanged at Pistolo’s shop. You can use them to ‘buy’ bonuses, like free spins, which will then give you bonus cash that must be played through a set amount of times before it can be withdrawn. You can see right away how a large subset of players will instantly be turned off by this, and will find the whole feature to be worthless. After all, who cares how good tournaments are if you can’t win any money from them?

Verification

Verification is one of the most annoying things you need to deal with when joining a new online casino – but as infuriating as it can be at times, at least it’s necessary to keep the casino safe from bad actors who only seek to use it for money laundering. For those of you who aren’t familiar with verification (or KYC, as it’s officially known), this procedure necessitates that you present some identifying documents to Pistolo Casino when withdrawing for the first time.

This process is done not only at online casinos, but also at e-wallets, crypto trading services, and any other sites that deal with depositing and withdrawing cash. The reason why it’s annoying is mostly because it comes up at what should be an otherwise fun and happy moment, your first withdrawal, and it delays it by as long as several more days. To Pistolo’s credit, at least you can verify yourself at any time from your profile, so – in theory, at least – you don’t need to wait for your first withdrawal to do it.

Is Pistolo Casino Legit & safe?

You must have noticed by now that we’ve been pretty positive about Pistolo Casino throughout our review, praising its games, bonuses, and most of its features – but all of that goes out the window if the casino is unsafe or illegal. And since (at least at the time of writing) Pistolo doesn’t have any license information in its footer, it’s very easy to assume just that. But we’ve done our research, and can confirm that the site is, in fact, safe and registered.

It’s regulated by Anjouan Gaming, and the veracity of the license can be confirmed on Anjouan’s website. That also gives us the name of its parent company: NovaForge Limited. As for why this information isn’t listed anywhere on the actual casino website, well… we can only speculate on that. It could be a simple oversight, or it could be that NovaForge don’t wish to be associated with Pistolo. Which one precisely it is, we leave up to you.

Customer support

If you ever experience an issue while playing at Pistolo – whether a technical one (like your best not registering or your favorite games not loading) or one related to payments (like your withdrawal requests always getting denied) – your first recourse should be to contact the site’s customer support team. But how can you do that, and more importantly, is it worthwhile?

Just like at most casinos, you can reach out via email or live chat. We tried out the latter, since we assumed that we’d get a reply to our questions quickly and reliably. Alas, this wasn’t the case at all, because not only were the answers not very good, but we also had to wait a long time between messages. As such, we’d advise you to stick to email. If you’ll be waiting a while for a reply anyway, might as well make the wait worthwhile!

Mobile casino

At long last, it’s time to examine Pistolo’s mobile version – something that seems almost like an afterthought, and yet, in an era in which most players will interact with the site through their phones rather than their computers – can make all the difference. If you fancy yourself something of a mobile gambler as well, then you should be happy to know that although Pistolo’s mobile version doesn’t stand out, it’s at least functional and fairly easy to use.

As is the case with most casinos, you won’t need to download anything to access the mobile version. Simply opening the site’s domain through your browser, just as you would on a computer, will deliver a dedicated mobile version that is scaled vertically and optimized to run well even on older devices. Through that, you can access all of the games that the site has to offer (even the live casino ones), as well as make deposits or claim bonuses.