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Old 29th March 2006, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by caruso
A-frigging-men, my friend.

Does anyone really believe that? LOL, no - they don't. What makes me laugh though is they probably actually think people DO believe it. Yes, we really are all THAT dumb. We actually believe they missed seventeen deposit and three cashouts, then with spectacular coincidence caught it just when she hit big. Yes: we really are all THAT dumb.
I don't appreciate being called dumb in my own forum. If you feel that this is the way to handle this situation, take a hike Caruso - don't piss me off.

It has been made perfectly clear a number of times how this occured - I'm not going to invest a lot of time in rehashing what was said at WOL. The fact of the matter is:

The player signed up and was allowed to play.
The player won small amounts and was paid.
The player ended up winning a large amount and the account was audited per standard operating procedures.
During the audit it was discovered that she was under 21 in a juridiction that requires one to be 21 to gamble.

This is not rocket science - she was wrong and she knew it. This was made clear when she first approached me arguing that the servers were where the jurisdiction should be determined. This is what she told me:

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I will argue that my jurisdiction of play is in the Caribbean where the servers are located, not in the United States
All these claims that the casino was aware that she was not of legal age don't wash. She has yet to show me an email exchange between herself and the casino where she states - "I'm only 19 and reside in a jurisdiction that requires me to be 21 - can I play?" Sure, there is fault here from the casino not having extensive filters set up - but if you are aware that you are wrong, you are wrong.

If anyone was "ripped off" here it was the casino. The casino has paid back her deposists since it viewed her activities as void - this was done before she began to complain about this. So she has lost not a cent. Is she going to return her winnings? Nope, I don't think so. The casino is out of this amount as well.

To conclude - the player was wrong knowing she should not have played there. The casino was wrong for not having better safeguards set up to disallow 18-20 year olds from gambling from certain jurisdictions.

And I already mentioned that I was hoping to get something done with this, but you know what? Fuck it. I'm not wasting my time with this anymore.
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