Jackpot won at Partycasino (?)

[vinylweatherman]

Sorry for the late response guys. The rest of the money is safe now and my friend can't have access to it.

I told him about this topic I have made, he isn't very happy with it.

If he wants to through this in public and make a case of it he wants to be sure he can get a part of his money back.
I don't think that ever will be the case because it is his own fault but the casino could have done something about.
But i don't think he will make any change in court or something right?

For now it is important for him to lock up the money, maybe I can convince him afterwards to post the evidence here.
There a dozen of mails between casino and play about the 'deal' to play for points. Also he mailed them several times about his losses.
None of them replies from them suggests to take a break or self exclude him.

The manager who told him 'my job is to keep you playing' was a convo over the phone.

Money is safe, so the immediate danger is over. At least preserve all this evidence even if now your friend doesn't want to make a case of it. Should he change is mind later, the evidence will still be there. It doesn't matter that the statement by the VIP manager was "off the record" over the phone, the email evidence will show whether the casino was handling this properly.

Your friend may be unhappy now, but hopefully he will come to realise that he could well have ended up with NOTHING had you not intervened and put the remaining money out of his reach.

He may not get any money back with a court case, but this matter COULD be used to tighten up the regulatory regime, as the suggestion is that something has gone terribly wrong, with the casino focussing on using the installment rule as a means to get players to lose big wins back to the casino, rather than using it CORRECTLY to manage the variances of cashflow.

[zanzibar]

For those wondering if there was a recent million dollar win at Party Casino, their Gold Mega jackpot was won for 942,659.72 on September 21.

They have a webpage linked from the software that lists current jackpots and recent wins. I copied this data from it:

Jackpot Name: Gold Mega Jackpot
Current Value: $1,243,262.55 USD
Minimum Qualifying Bet: $0.01 USD
Jackpot Games: [SuperFortuneWheel, SuperJoker, SuperStar, SuperMystic, MegaFortuneWheel, GodFather, thesting]
Last Jackpot Win: $942,659.72 USD
Last Win Date: 09/21/2011 04:06 ET

[evelstrikes]

Another problem he may have.

Try explaining where that income is coming from to the finanzamt (German tax office). Online gambling is illegal in Germany. Illegal to offer it (unless you are a state monopoly), and illegal to play. Games of luck are free of income tax - but the actual playing is illegal. The lotto is very popular in Germany but is under the State Monopoly and taxed.

Poker counts as a game of luck. But for example blackjack is strictly banned. I don't know about slots etc. Would expect that they fall into the latter.

Partycasino / partypoker etc have been specifically targetted, and have had appeals turned down to operate in Germany. They are appealing (unsuccessfully I belive) to challenge the decision in the european court. There are of course many germans playing (black-market), I just think this kind of regular income or €1m in cash is bound to attract unwanted attention too.

The blackmarket status means though - no german regulator to report them to.