KIWI changed hands, and is no longer owned by Christchurch gaming, but by an outfit in the Phillipines. ALL Playtech casinos stopped serving US players when UIGEA came into effect. Very few reputable casinos now accept US players. A good many rogue casinos still do.
Withdrawals are a big problem now for US players, however, KIWI should have sent out a refund as soon as Playtech pulled out. This was quite some time ago, and at the time, most casinos promised they would refund remaining balances to US players within timescales of around a month.
KIWI have probably long since lost the ability to send gambling related payments to the US, so this money could be quite hard to extract from them.
The situation for US players recently got even WORSE, with a seizure of several bank accounts used by current payment processors that still process payments to US players. At this time, it would be uncertain which casinos have been affected, and by how much. There may soon be a flurry of complaints about non-payments and bounced checks as this seizure begins to stall the payment systems used by online casinos. In order to honour payments, the casinos will have to come up with a replacement for the $26M seized, as well as take the risk of further seizures.
BoDog seems to have been the main target, with the rest being "collateral damage". Calvin Ayre has publically embarrassed the US authorities, and has made a public spectacle of their inability to catch him, or stop him, so it is no wonder they put their all into hitting BoDog as hard as they could.
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Back to port for unloading.
Full Sails - before we get raided ourselves.
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