Hanna Riihimäki
About the author
I spent six years as a business and consumer reporter for a regional newspaper in Tampere, which is where I learned that most consumer complaints are not about fraud but about terms nobody read aloud. In 2019 I moved to covering iGaming, mostly because the same pattern was everywhere: the interesting facts were in the payment conditions and the bonus small print, and almost nobody was writing them down in plain language.
I am the author of the reviews, payment guides and bonus breakdowns published on amppari.info, in both Finnish and English. I write about the Amppari casino as a reporter covering a company, not as a representative of it — this site is independent, it is not the operator, and I have never had an operator read a text before publication.
How I work
Every cashier I write about, I test with my own money. I register the way an ordinary player does, with no press account and no reviewer flag, upload the same identity documents, wait the same 24 to 48 hours, and then deposit small amounts through several methods. When I request a withdrawal I write two timestamps into a spreadsheet: when I pressed the button and when the money appeared. Those are the figures that end up in the tables — 120 € by Trustly requested at 09:41 and received at 11:08, a Visa payout that took two banking days, USDT on chain in 32 minutes.
Bonuses get the same treatment. I take the published wagering multiplier, the maximum permitted bet and the contribution table and convert them into euro of turnover, because 35× on a 300 € bonus is a much more honest sentence when written as 10 500 € of slot spins. Slot pages quote the RTP printed inside the game's own info panel rather than a number copied from another site, since operators sometimes run a different build of the same title.
What I will not do
I do not accept payment for a review, I do not sell a place in a list, and I do not remove criticism because an affiliate manager asked politely. The commission this site earns from links is disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page and it has no line in the scoring table. I also do not call myself a lawyer, an auditor or a licensing consultant — the correct description of an Amppari expert is somebody who has opened the account, read the terms and timed the payouts, which is exactly what I have done and no more.
When something cannot be verified, the text says so. A licence number I cannot find in a regulator's register does not become a paragraph of reassurance; it becomes a warning.
What I write about
- Payment methods, minimums, fees and real payout times in euro
- KYC and account verification, and why the first withdrawal is the slow one
- Bonus terms, wagering requirements and the maximum bet trap
- Slot RTP, volatility and what a 10 000× ceiling actually costs in dry spins
- Licensing, the tax consequences of a non-EEA permit for Finnish players, and responsible gambling tools
Corrections and contact
If a figure here is out of date or wrong, write to hanna@amppari.info with the page and the correct value. Operators change their terms without announcing it, and a review is only as good as its last check, so corrections are made quickly and the revision date is updated on the page. My current work is collected in the Amppari review, with the site's editorial policy set out on the about us page.
Everything I publish is written for readers aged 18 and over. Gambling is entertainment with a negative expected value, never a plan for making money; if it stops feeling like entertainment, the tools and help lines are listed under responsible gambling.