Alderney Gambling Control Commission Interview: APCW Perspectives Weekly for October

[vinylweatherman]

In the interests of accuracy I think it needs to be noted that in the Tusk affair eCOGRA was not monitoring poker operations but the casino activity, which is where the accrediatation was pulled as far as I can recall. Casino Rewards subsequently took over the player obligations so little harm was suffered in this area by players, but VWM is correct in noting that the poker debacle was an entirely different story with great harm done to players and millions lost.

The "slap on the wrist" that KGC administered in the Absolute and UB affair was, again as far as I recall, quite an expensive one - tens of millions of dollars in reparations and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. It took the Commission a while to get itself into gear, but it then mounted a comprehensive enquiry under Frank Catania and addressed the issue strongly imo.

I suspect the KGC only pursued the matter strongly after their initial actions were widely regarded as a "whitewash".

In the TUSK case, it all happened so quickly, and eCogra failed to warn players of the severity of this "minor administrative issue", which made it look like they were "asleep at the wheel" as far as players were concerned. It was only mitigated because Casino Rewards did a deal that saved players. The later Stryyke collapse demonstrated how truly LUCKY casino players at TUSK had been, as in the latter case, no "white knight" came to the rescue, and casino players lost everything in what they believed was a top of the range operation powered by Microgaming, and licensed by a UK white listed jurisdiction. It was also the first case I am aware of where players lost their money in a collapsed Microgaming casino.

[jetset]

Surmise if you will, but the facts remain the same.