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In my previous article, The worthless and ineffectual Malta LGA, I highlighted the blatant shortcomings and failures of the Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority as a gambling regulator. Since then, more interesting facts have come to light. In the first place, Betchance, a deliquent sportsbook listed as "F" by top sportsbook watchdog site Sportsbook Review for reasons of total failure to honour

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Cold Mountain Resort Issues is my latest blog project, non gambling-related and born out of unfortunate necessity. In early 2006, a bunch of investors, myself included, were presented with the opportunity to invest in a Romanian luxury hotel complex called the Cold Mountain Resort, on what looked like highly advantageous terms. The project appeared to quickly come apart at the seams with endless

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The Alderney Gambling Control Commission oversees remote gambling within the states of Alderney in the Channel Islands. In the blurb on the homepage we find the following: The Commission ensures that its regulatory and supervisory approach meets the very highest of international standards. Nice. So, does this have any practical relevance to the player? As reported at Casinomeister, in early

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A new set of Real Time Gaming casinos has recently appeared: Planet 7 Casino Goldstream Casino Pharaohs Gold Casino Lucky Palm Casino Catseye Casino Ringmaster Casino Royal Ace Casino Captain Jack Casino However, these casinos are not new at all; they are, in fact, the casinos of the Crystal Palace group, under the ownership of the now deceased Warren Cloud, renamed by the new owner. To add

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Captain Jack Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.

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Ringmaster Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.

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Catseye Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.

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Lucky Palm Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.

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Pharaohs Gold Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group. See my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.

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Planet 7 Casino is one of eight new casinos formerly owned by Warren Cloud and now under the management of the Virtual Casino group - see my A Virtual rebranding of the Warren Cloud casinos article for the full details. Avoid this casino at all costs.

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Betfair Casino, the Malta-based casino branch of the UK Betfair sports exchange, has recently been subject to player complaints of bonus funds confiscation. For the first case, see the Betfair bonus funds confiscation discussion at Casinomeister: After receiving the sign up bonus, fulfilling the terms and requesting payment, the player in question received the following communication from

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The Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority is the governmental body whose job it is to oversee and regulate all gambling operations located in Malta. The 2004 Remote Gaming Legislation lays out the requirements, and it includes the following heartening clause: The Authority may order the suspension or cancellation of a license if...the license holder has failed to meet commitments to players

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The Gambling Industry Association was started in mid 2007 with the aim of gathering together all participants in the online gambling industry - online casinos, casino affiliates and players - in one place for convenient networking and problem-solving. Their mission statement reads: We aim to bring together the gambling industry stakeholders, one and all, and to create an environment of

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Promotion text Screenshot of terms Interwetten response Analysis of response Maltese law On the 3rd and 10th of February 2008, Interwetten sportsbook and casino ran what looked like a very good promotion on their non-download casino which uses software supplied by Chartwell. The relevant text went thuswise: Sunday Cashback Madness How it works: For every EUR 100,00 you lose at the

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Lucky Ace Casino, a white label casino of the 888.com brand and regulated by the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, has generated an avalanche of player complaints on the back of large scale confiscation of winnings. Lucky Ace Casino was launched in January 2008 - see news items Another white label for 888.com and Kamay and 888 launch online poker and casino sites, from the Casinomeister news

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For anyone unfamiliar with this matter: Absolute Poker, servers located, like many rogue operations, within the Mohawk Kahnawake territory, was caught in a cheating scandal in which hackers were able to read opponents' hole cards and gain an insurmountable advantage. The matter was commented on at length in the Two Plus Two poker forums. The Kahnawake Gambling Commission, who were looking to

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I came across HippoJo Casino, a relatively new Real Time Gaming operation, from Brian Cullingworth's Infopowa news report Hippo Jo Launches With RTG software thread, in the forum at Casinomeister: Also, see the Casinomeister HippoJo launch news entry in the April news section. These reports contain some pretty upbeat language: Experienced Aussie online gambling know-how is behind this

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Microgaming All Aces video poker has been added to HPG. Games with house edges under 0.1% are few an far between, but with perfect play this is one of them. Familiarise yourself with the play strategy, because although All Aces is a Jacks Or Better variant, there are sufficient differences between the two paytables to make the application of Jacks Or Better strategy very much sub-optimal. With

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In late May 2007, in the Prime Casino remove my money from Neteller thread at Casinomeister, a player reported having a winnings' withdrawal, originally paid into his Neteller account two weeks previously from new Microgaming operation Prime Casino, reversed out of his Neteller account, by Neteller, and returned to the casino. The payment back to the casino, from the player's Neteller account,

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There has been much discussion of, and opining on, the matter of the sale of confidential player databases since the re-emergence of the database sale offer revolving around well known online casino affiliate and owner of the CAP affiliate board, Lou Fabiano - see my previous article Casino Affiliate Programs owner Lou Fabiano selling confidential player details for background information.

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This occured two years ago now, but the nature of this behaviour on the part of an influential industry member makes it very relevant today. On March 3rd 2005, a post from Lou Fabiano, owner of Casino Affiliate Programs, essentially a trade association of online casino affiliates, appeared on the forum offering up for sale a database of 100,000 players, provided by a casino: Guys I am

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