ONLINE CASINO DEFAULTS ON PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT
PAYMENT
12 June 2009
African Palace Casino fails to meet
installment payment
When a 66 year-old South African grandmother in the city
of Kimberley, South Africa hit a large progressive slot
jackpot at African Palace Casino.com on November 7th
last year she thought her financial worries were over,
but this week reports in the South African Sunday Times
newspaper indicated that they may have only just begun.
Marie Van Wyk was playing the Beach Life progressive
slot when she made a Rands 80 (about $10) and won a
jackpot worth Rands 8.5 million ($1,054 million). She
was feted by African Palace, who exploited the win
widely in a publicity sense (see
http://www.africanpalacecasino.com/news/fa_winnersnov08.php).
Apparently some arrangement was made with the
Playtech-powered online casino to pay the lucky winner
in six monthly instalments rather than one cash tranche.
Van Wyk trusted the casino owners because she had
previously been successfully paid out on a Rands 64 000
jackpot at the same casino.
Unfortunately, the
arrangement only worked for two payments, with Van Wyk
receiving only Rands 2.8 million in total, before
payments dried up and the April instalment did not
arrive.
Van Wyk fears that the May payment has
also been withheld, and this prompted her to tell her
story to the local newspapers.
"I have won
several times before and never have my winnings been
paid out in instalments," said the Kimberley
grandmother, who is a regular online player.
When she told the company that she was going to expose
their failure to pay her, she received a lawyer's letter
assuring her that a "workable solution can be found
without the need to air grievances in public."
Approached by the newspaper, African Palace finance
manager Tagore Dhanraj refused to comment beyond saying
that the company was trying to resolve the matter.
African Palace has been the subject of player
complaints regarding payments in the past, whilst the
progressives payouts of its software provider, Playtech,
have recently been criticised for being effected in
instalments instead of in a single payment as is the
case with more established software providers like
Microgaming and Cryptologic.
Van Wyk's big win
features prominently on the African Palace website
landing page and in its news section, where photographs
of the presentation of a mock R8.5 million cheque
abound.
In related news, Gaming VC Corporation's
CasinoClub.com announced over the weekend that player
'sunshine-muc' overcame the odds to win the Boss
Media-powered Fortunes of Egypt jackpot. His Euro 2.50
wager saw him win a substantial jackpot of Euro 393
043.31.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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