Bellavegas(Microgaming) won't pay 20K

**autumn12** · 31st March 2006, 09:31 AM

"Any and all play by any ineligible person shall be voided, including any winnings accruing to any ineligible person."

And also the above term was only added after my incident at Bella Vegas...

**Let_It_Ride** · 31st March 2006, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Trezz

That's like asking me how I can play in US$. I don't understand your reasoning here suzecat? Unless it's based on the T&C's of "Players residing in the United States of America may only wager in US dollar.".

I understood the question how do you purchase chips in pounds when living in the US where I assume you have a card/account with a US bank.
Maybe autumn12 has a bank account in the UK.

Agreed pounds are worth more than dollars but you lose out on the exchange rate and also stand to lose more when playing a �1000 instead of $1000 and as we all know in the long run we all lose

Interesting question about which currency casinos prefer you to use, is it the currency of the country where you live or the currency of the country of your bank? Any one any thoughts on this?

Let It Ride

**LisasLuck** · 31st March 2006, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by autumn12

"Any and all play by any ineligible person shall be voided, including any winnings accruing to any ineligible person."

And also the above term was only added after my incident at Bella Vegas...

I figured that ...

**caruso** · 31st March 2006, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by suzecat

I am done with this thread and hope it goes away.........

Interesting comment.

I hope the reverse.

**Pinababy69** · 31st March 2006, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by suzecat

I am done with this thread and hope it goes away.........

God Suzecat...Amen to that!!!! So sick of seeing it and reading about it.

One thing I gotta say is that I never thought I'd see the day where a Micro (and especially one with an ECogra Seal) would be rogued. Not even sure if I totally agree with it, but I see the point about allowing her to play at six different properties without catching her age before. My only problem with this whole scenario is that I doubt there is one single casino on the internet that somehow doesn't have at least one underage player. Fact is that you don't get "carded" sometimes UNTIL you win big. I've had cashouts of $500, $1000, even up to $7,000 and never been asked for one piece of ID, not even so much as a phone call to verify that I'm not a 12-year old (I'm 42). All too often the only time ID gets asked for is when a progressive gets hit or an amount say over 10K. I'm not saying that's right, just saying that I think it's very common practice is all.

**winbig** · 31st March 2006, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Let_It_Ride

Agreed pounds are worth more than dollars but you lose out on the exchange rate

She had said above she only played in pounds to take advantage of the bonuses. Hell, they could have voided the winnings claiming "bonus abuse" and avoided half this scandal.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but don't you wish you would have just kept cashing out @ $5,000 a pop and left the remainder in there?

**LisasLuck** · 31st March 2006, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by winbig72

She had said above she only played in pounds to take advantage of the bonuses. Hell, they could have voided the winnings claiming "bonus abuse" and avoided half this scandal.

Yep Yep Yep

**caruso** · 31st March 2006, 05:05 PM

No they couldn't. They couldn't possibly get away with that.

Originally Posted by paul02085

I surely think Ecogra will delist Grand Prive and rightly so.

I emailed Da Boss about this, and sadly, it's not going to happen.

Although Bryan Bailey's roguing of Grand Prive - correct and supported 101% my end - does not represent the emergence of any new information on the matter, I believe that the group's gross irresponsibility in accepting this player for SO long puts them in violation of eCOGRA's terms. I cannot accept that this behaviour is not grounds to lose the seal of approval of an ostensible regulatory body. I simply cannot accept this. How can you "play it safe" with a casino with a record like this?

**winbig** · 31st March 2006, 05:16 PM

Why doesn't MG (or other s/w providers for that matter) simply put code in that compares a person's age compared to their country? USA = 21, all others = 18. As it was said earlier, it wouldn't be hard to do at all. This would cover everyone's ass.