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6 November 2003
Issue #170
weekly
Dear Reader,
A very busy week at Casinomeister it was. And I won't distract you with any anecdotal meaderings in this intro, so you can get straight to the nitty gritty. So grab yourself a hot cup o'java and scroll down.
Succinctly yours,
Bryan
In this issue:
1. What's New at Casinomeister
2. Casinos You Ought to Join
3. This week's humor
4. Forum Highlights
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| WORD FROM THE MEISTER |
| WATCHDOG OF THE YEAR 2003 |
Casinomeister was voted "Watchdog of the Year 2003" by the readers' poll at Gambling Online Magazine. This is the second year in a row that Casinomeister received top honors in this coveted award, and I just want to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and confidence.
As most of you know, I've always felt that online casino operators need to be completely honest and straightforward with players and with themselves as well. Over the past five and a half years Casinomeister has exposed the scam artists and shamsters. Vortran007 has always been helpful issuing "Casino Warnings" via our newsletter and webcast. If you haven't listened to the webcast, you are missing out in the real meat behind Casinomeister. The webcast is broadcasted continually with a new show almost every week. These half-hour segments showcase rogue elements of the industry (both casinos and players) and many times, I walk listeners through evil casino sites, showing them what to look for and what to avoid.
Sections at Casinomeister are dedicated to expose evil casinos as well as evil spammers, I give advice on how to spot shill "watch dog" sites and how to be your own casino detective. I also make myself available to assist players who are having difficulties with online casinos in my "pitch a bitch" section. So far this year, I have assisted players in collecting over $70,000 in disputed winnings and deposits.
So thanks to everyone who voted for Casinomeister. Casinomeister will continue to be that beacon of light piercing through the darkside of this industry.
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| NEW WEBCAST IS UP! |
This week is a must listen!! Ray St. Jonn from Slotland joins me and Vortran for an exclusive interview.
This week's topics:
Casinomeister - Watchdog of the Year 2003 award
incashcasino.com - Rogue
Fair Gaming Labs - Fake Watchdog Site
Exclusive Interview with Slotland's Ray St.Jonn
All this and more here.
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| NEW CASINOS JOIN CASINOMEISTER |
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| 1CNP WARNING |
| Hopefully most of you have enough functioning braincells to realize that these guys are bad news. 1cnp (one click and play) casinos have in the past spammed message boards with rude half-witted twits describing the fabulous "wins" they were making. They were "rogued" at Casinomeister in July 2002 for publishing the email addresses of their "winners". When I took the initiative and contacted these "winners" to let them know that their email addresses were being displayed, most of the became incensed. One wrote back:
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Thanks Bryan, This casino has robbed me and now they are publishing my email to be seen by all?? They took money from me. I used my creditcard that was linked to my checking account, and I didn't realize this of course till I had bounced checks, and reading the bank statement in front of me.
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| Some winner. When a webmaster contacted mycasino-builder.com (their casino breeder) about their roguedom, they wrote back this:
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I've couple of minutes and read your last e-mail containing text from
casinomeister.com site. Oh, my God! This is Brain Beily, he asked us to pay him
$5,000 monthly otherwise, he published "bad" review about us. No, he didn't get
penny, but you have to understand: THIS IS THEIR BUSINESS!
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Yeah, right. What dweebs. Anyway, they have thrust themselves in front of a moving train once again. A few days ago, one of their belligerent spammers emailed me stating that a well known webmaster was doing business with them. They used his name as a reference stating that if he could do business with them then so could I, thus removing them from the "rogue list". They disclosed the name of "his" casino, as well as the number of players and the amount of $$$ he was supposedly making.
I immediately contacted this webmaster letting him know that this ethically challenged casino group was "spilling the beans" so to speak. It turns out that this webmaster gave this casino group a trial run and dropped them after realizing that their primitive software would be a marketing embarrassment to anyone in this industry. I hope his lawyers are able to finally boot these people out onto the street and into a cardboard box where they belong.
In essence, if you value your privacy, stay away from these morons. They have no business ethics nor principles.
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| GONEGAMBLING'S PARACHUTE DROP |
Yes, my dear reader, I still am kicking butt because of you! Casinomeister is now in second place! Woo hoo! Thanks everyone!
If you haven't played yet, check it out here at Gonegambling! Voted "Best Portal" of 2003 by Gambling Online Magazines Readers Poll (Casinomeister came in third in this catagory, by the way). |
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2. Casinos you need to join!
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MUST JOIN CASINOS
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3. This week's humor
Three Italian nuns die and go to heaven. At the Pearly Gates, they are
met by St. Peter.
He says "Sisters, you all led such wonderful lives that I'm granting
you six months to go back to earth and be anyone you want to be."
The first nun says, "I want to be Sophia Loren;" and *poof* she's gone.
The second says, "I want to be Madonna;" and *poof* she's gone.
The third says, "I want to be Sara Pipalini."
St. Peter looks perplexed. "Who?" he says.
"Sara Pipalini;" replies the nun.
St. Peter shakes his head and says; "I'm sorry, but that name just
doesn't ring a bell."
The nun then takes a newspaper out of her habit and hands it to St.
Peter.
He reads the paper and starts laughing.
He hands it back to her and says....
"No Sister, the paper says it was the 'Sahara Pipeline' that was laid
by 1,400 men in 6 months!"
ha ha ha
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4. Forum Highlights
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jetset
Meister Member
Username: jetset
Post Number: 3218
Registered: 02-2001
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Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 12:00 pm:
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Two good posts from Dave R and Cypher, imo.
In principle I am one of those who does not find the possibility of redemption unacceptable - but I
think that it should be contingent on the casino concerned redressing the wrongs it did to the many
players that were so disgustingly ripped off by Mark Francis, Jack Strulovich and the rest of the GP
crew back then. Those that can still be found, that is. There are still many with bitter memories
and a lot of money was involved.
It is true that GP rarely makes the bad news pages these days, and they may have made a conscious
business effort to reform, but I also find it difficult to forget that some of those involved were
convicted of one the biggest telemarketing frauds ever perpetrated on Canadians - many of them old
folks - prior to their move into Got2bet.
If Dave R's information above regarding the investigation and informing on Steve Adkins is true
(I had not heard that story before but based on some of the other things GP did at the time it
would not surprise me) then I would say GP did the industry a favour in exposing Adkins in their
efforts to take him out. His work on behalf of players was largely wiped out by his conviction for
fraud and the disgraceful way in which he took advantage of the hungry.
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Peace |
Bryan Bailey
Webmeister
Casinomeister
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