Cirrus Casino

Worst Casino of 2007
Every year, rogue operators huddle in their lairs - gleefully wringing their hands in hopes that their casino operation will be named the "Worst Casino of the Year". This is a coveted award since it is given to the absolutely worst casino operation in existance, and there are a lot of crappy casinos climbing over one another grasping - clawing at this award. I am happy to report that one casino has arisen to the call earning this award - hands down.

Let's give a happy round of applause to Cirrus Casino by far one of the worst casino operations period. It is a member of the infamous Virtual Casino group and is operated out Costa Rica.

When they launched a few years ago, they started on the wrong foot and have been out of step with the rest of the industry (except for their roguish brethren) ever since. Their operation began with a lie - they claimed to have nothing to do with the rogued Virtual Casino group, yet I proved beyond a reasonable doubt that they were 100% connected to Prism Casino and the rest of the Virtual Casinos. This has been documented in detail here. Of course they denied this, yet IP addresses don't lie. They finally fessed up three years later stating that their operations are one-in-the-same.

But what makes Cirrus casino so special? It's mainly from their reluctance to pay players who win more than they have deposited. With the complaints that appear in the online gambling fora, one would assume that this is standing operating procedure: ensure large cashins are divvied into small sporadic payments, and when players call to seek information on these elusive funds, they're told the manager has stepped out.

This is by far the worst casino on the net.

It was brought to my attention that a recently launched casino Cirrus Casino, had all of the identifiers of a casino from the Virtual Casino group. And they do. They have the same web design, they have some of the same indicators in their registrant information; opened with a yahoo account. They have their own servers which is fine and dandy. Many of the Virtual Casinos do, especially the newer ones. I got spammed by Matchmybet.com with an email I've only used when downloading the software from Prism Casino. Imagine that! It was a spam ad to open an account at Cirrus Casino. No problem. Matchmybet is a shill portal for the Virtual Casino group. They are on the same server as casinosupportcenter.com. This seems to be the flagship casino of the virtual casino group.

Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by taurus.matchmybet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274065DBF9
for <my@emailaddress.com>; Wed, 28 May 2003 20:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Cirrus Casino" <jennifer@cyruscasino.com>
To: my@emailaddress.com
Reply-To: "Cirrus Casino" <jennifer@cyruscasino.com>
Errors-To: admin@taurus.matchmybet.com
Subject: Get a $25 f_r_e_e chip now

I figured this was an open and shut case. Cirrus belongs to this group. But oh, the cries of foul I heard from a number of people who claimed it was not true. Some of these "webmasters" called the casino support center, asking them if they were connected. Of course the support center is going to deny this.

My Findings:
I decided to prove my point by using firewall software, Sygate Firewall, that is free to use freely. What this software will do is prompt you anytime an outside source requests information from your computer. When it does, it will show you the IP address and/or the website that you computer is communicating with.

I had the firewall running in the background and downloaded the casino software from Cirrus, Prism, and from U1Casino.com, another sibling of the Virtual brood. When I launched Cirruscasino, my computer connected to affiliate.cirruscasino.com. I closed the program, then launched Prism Casino; it prompted me to connect to affiliate.cirruscasino.com. I closed this casino, then launched U1casino with the same results. You can view a screenshot here. These casinos are located on the same server, obviously they are related.

But this ain't good enough for some of the webmasters who have contacted me. They are up in arms getting all hysterical stating that, "They share the same servers, so what?" Okay, I agree. It shows that they are on the same servers, but that's about it. But what about my trump card?

My trump card: what if I were to tell you that someone forwarded me a URL that lists all of the Virtual Casinos and their daily and monthly stats. It wasn't password protected, until this was announced on my webcast, so I wasn't doing anything wrong by looking at it. But it was for a statistics program that was used on all of the Virtual Casino casinos up until the beginning of May 2003. I didn't believe they were using it any more since these stats ended there. But it listed all of the Virtual Casino
casinos, to include Cirrus Casino. Now why is that? Well, you still may believe that Cirrus Casino has nothing to do with all of the Virtual Group, but then why was it there? Why would the webmasters or the operators of Prism Casino, Casinosupport Center, U1casino, Lolita Casino, ad nauseum, have access to Cirrus Casino stats? My question to the unconvinced is how are they NOT connected?