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Be interesting to see how this plays out.
Given that online casinos' sole purpose is to prey on the weak and addicted, I hope that Joyland does the right thing, admits all of the issues were of their own doing, and pays out players what is owed to them, in full.
That said, I wouldn't hold my breath. Plenty of online merchants have mistakenly posted products on their websites that are listed at a fraction of what they would normally be, obviously listed in error. Those "deals" get posted and distributed widely, everyone and their monkey buys 30 of them, and the merchant ultimately says "Look, no deal, that was an obvious error and we're simply not going to honor it." and returns everyone money and possibly throws a $5 gift certificate their way.
It's more complicated than that, though, as I'm sure the size of the withdrawals in question are also directly related to the problems with the comp system, as savvy players could essentially freeroll with the comp money and be much more aggressive than normal with their targets.
If I deposited $1,000 into a Scottrade account, a computer glitch turned it $1,000,000, and I immediately invested it in some volatile stock (knowing I'd never be on the hook for the non-existent $1,000,000 no matter what happened), and flipped it an hour later for a $50,000 profit, I wouldn't expect to be allowed to keep the profit when Scottrade eventually discovered the error. It wouldn't mean that I wouldn't try to flip it, or squawk when they took it away, but it's hard to argue that I'm somehow rightfully owed that $50,000 in "profits".
Like I said, though, hope everyone gets paid. Good luck.
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