Rogue casinos and casino warnings

This page lists all the blog articles I've written which outline corroborated online casino malpractice - theft of winnings, theft of bonuses, theft of deposits, use of unfair software and use and implementation of unfair terms and conditions.

Issues of industry malpractice, such as failure on the part of regulators or software providers, and any and all other industry issues which directly impact players but are not specific to individual casinos, will also be covered.

I will also provide links to all other relevant information, plus a short summary at the top.

• Casino Club warning
• Microgaming poker warning
• Virtual Casino warning
• Interwetten warning
• Bella Vegas warning
• English Harbour Casino warning
• Cherry Red Casino warning
• Moneybookers warning
• Fortune Lounge warning
• Buzzluck warning
• Eurolinx warning
• Sportsbook.com warning
• Rushmore Casino warning

Casino Club warning

Casino Club confiscated a legitimate jackpot win of €167,500 on the basis of previous apparent "fraudulent" behaviour, notwithstanding the fact that all withdrawals resulting from these ostensibly "illegitimate" wins were paid in full, which clearly demonstrates that the casino had no problem with the player in question until he finally won very big. The casino has also failed to return to the player his deposits, totalling €25,000.

Casino Club steals €8000, then gives it back
Casino Club confiscates a €25000 deposit and a €167500 jackpot
Casino Club warning

Casinomeister: Casino Club theft of €8000 discussion
Casinomeister: Casino Club theft of €167,500 jackpot discussion
Casinomeister: Questions concerning the confiscations of winnings

Roulette Forum (in German): Casino Club doesn't want to pay win
Kasino Forum (in German): Casino Club non-payment of jackpot win

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Microgaming poker warning

Microgaming poker licensee "Tusk Investment Corporation" went into liquidation, leaving total player debts of $5,500,000. Microgaming has neither offered to assist the affected players nor compensate them. In fact, Microgaming has ignored all attempts at communication, save one denial of liability after receiving a legal demand for information.

Microgaming licensee "Tusk" in liquidation, and poker players abandoned and owed $5,300,000

Midas Oracle: $5,300,000 owed to players of failed Microgaming licensee

Casinomeister: Tusk liquidation

Two Plus Two poker forums: Battlefield Poker and 27 other Microgaming skins to close
Two Plus Two poker forums: Open letter to Microgaming (Re: Tusk bankruptcy)
Two Plus Two poker forums: Microgaming poker scandal

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Virtual Casino warning

Interwetten warning

Interwetten stole at least £50,000 ($80,000 USD) from a handful of players, claiming "software malfunction" during a promotion. Since the "malfunction" in question was nothing other than that which was described in the relevant terms and conditions, the excuse didn't hold much water.

Interwetten theft of £5000

Casinomeister: Interwetten confiscating winnings

Winneronline: substantial winnings confiscation issue

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Bella Vegas warning

Bella Vegas revoked $20,000 USD of winnings because they claimed the player in question was "underage". However, her "underage" status for some reason did not prevent them from accepting her deposits while she was losing. Problems arose, as is usual with rogue casinos, when she won.

Bella Vegas rogued by Casinomeister
Bella Vegas: the underage gambling issue

Gamblog: casino profitting from underage gambler

Winneronline: Bellavegas won't pay 20K in winnings

Casinomeister: Bellavegas (Microgaming) won't pay 20K

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English Harbour warning

English Harbour implemented a standard "double up" feature into their video poker game. After collecting results, it was proven beyond question that the feature, claimed as "fair", was actually non-random. After denying everything, English Harbour finally claimed that the software had a "bug" in it and removed the feature, saying it would be replaced when it had been fixed. The feature was never seen again. This is only the second time I am aware of that cheating software has been conclusively proven.

English Harbour casino cheating at video poker

Casinomeister: Mathematical Proof that English Harbour is cheating

Winneronline: English Harbour dealing a cheating video poker game

Wizard Of Odds: Analysis and report about the English Harbour double-up bet software bug

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Cherry Red Casino warning

Cherry Red Casino, of the Rushmore group, solicited confidential player information from online wallet Moneybookers, which Moneybookers unfortunately and illegally provided. They used this information, viz-a-viz evidence of person to person transfers, to deny a withdrawal of USD $5000. Person to person transfers are not at all illegal, and are a part of the services that Moneybookers provides.

Cherry Red Casino and Moneybookers: theft of winnings and apparent breach of the UK Data Protection Act

Rushmore Casino voids my xmas winnings after 5 months of stalling

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Moneybookers warning

Moneybookers are getting into the habit of sharing confidential player information with their casino clients.

Moneybookers: potential breach of UK law

Cherry Red Casino and Moneybookers: confiscation of winnings and apparent breach of the UK Data Protection Act

GIA: Rushmore Casino voids my xmas winnings after 5 months of stalling

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Fortune Lounge warning

This is long overdue section, which unfortunately does not yet include a blog article. Since early 2006, a few months after the passage of the anti-gambling legislation in the USA, the Fortune Lounge group started confiscating winnings for a variety of reasons, from "bonus abuse" to "irregular betting patterns". Players guilty of no transgression were caught up in the fracas.

The instigator of all this was an unfair and unjustifiable cluase in the Fortune Lounge terms and conditions which allowed for funds' confiscation of the basis of the "irregular betting" I mentioned above - see the second link below. The group, though having been invited to reconsider this clause by business partner Bryan "Casinomeister" Bailey, have not done so.

As such, the Fortune Lounge group will confiscate your funds if your manner of betting follows a "pattern" that they are not prepared to disclose; therefore, any manner of betting should be considered fair game for this treatment.

Vegas Palms "irregular betting patterns" - term 26

Winneronline: Fortune Lounge discussion

2+2 forums: Get your money out of Fortune Lounge

Casinomeister: Vegas Towers winnings confiscation issue
Casinomeister: another Fortune Lounge discussion
Casinomeister: Fortune Lounge terms and conditions suggestions

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Buzzluck warning

Buzzluck casino confiscated a €33,000 slots win on the basis of increasing bizarre bogus excuses: first, the player redeemed a code for which he was not entitled, but which he didn't actually use; second, his phone didn't work; and lastly, because he was a fraudster, an allegation which was neither corroborated nor ever actually mentioned to the player.

Buzzluck: winnings confiscated on the basis of an increasingly confused and improbable series of excuses

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Eurolinx warning

Eurolinx has been delaying withdrawals, with varying excuses, since April 2009; at the time of going to press - August 2009 - payments appear to have moreorless dried up; supports directs all enquiries to the finance department, which does not appear to reply. Eurolinx is most likely insolvent.

Eurolinx: withdrawal problems and almost certain insolvency

2+2: Slow Eurolinx withdrawals?

Casinomeister: warning Eurolinx: non-payment, no response to player issues
Casinomeister: Eurolinx non-payment of affiliates
Casinomeister: no help for Eurolinx

Poklernetwork: Eurolinx/microgaming cashout problems

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Sportsbook.com warning

Many issues. I was alerted to this sportsbook by a player who contacted me after having a $2500 win confiscated on the basis of a previously-declared gambling problem, combined with the opening of a second account sometime after the original was deactivated in apparent violation of the "multi-account" rule. Subsequent investigation unearthed many more problems.

$2500 confiscated and a long history of theft from players

Sportsbookreview details of Sportsbook.com issues

Casinomeister: Be wary of Jazette Enterprises books

BMR: More slow pay complaints and more blatant lies from BetUS
BMR: Italian player submits a slow-pay complaint
BMR: Sportbook.com - everybody loses
BMR: Sportsbook.com bouncing checks
BMR: Jassy Sports Events Ltd changes names to Domain Holdings Limited
BMR: Sportsbook.com payment complaints add up to another change of ownership
BMR: Player asks BMR whether Sportsbook.com has gone bad

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Rushmore Casino warning

Rushmore saw fit to zero out a player's account on the basis that he hadn't logged in for over six months, claiming that this was within their rights as per the terms and conditions. They eventually paid, but still carry this absurd term and will presumably enforce it in the future.

Confiscation of winnings and deposit because player didn't log into account

Casinomeister: Rushmore- sucky rule to confiscate funds

GIA: More Troubling News About RUSHMORE CASINO

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