Another capital casino thread (this is hilarious)

Matekh

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I really wish I would have read the threads about capital casino before signing up there and claiming a bonus... This is by far the worst I have witnessed in the casino business.

To make a long story short, I signed up, deposited, and claimed their 200% welcome bonus. I then began to play some games. I played Baccarat, Blackjack, French roulette and Casino war.

Before I knew it the wagering had been met and the entire balance was cashable (I only played with 5 bets and more so it went really quickly).

I then cashed out the entire balance (450). The cashout however was returned to my account within 2 days or so. I then of course contacted the live chat.

Here are their answers:

"Cyril : Mats I have reviewed your account and can see taht you have not as yet met the required wagering requirements in order to cash out on the bonus credited"


Of course I had, I had no bonus balance!

"Cyril : There are certain guilines for betting on bonuses and should a player player not bet in the required manner this is not cashable".


Oh sh*t...

"Cyril: The easiest way to meet the wagering requirements are by wagering games that count 100% towards your wagering requirement such as Slots and american roulette."

I am sure it is...

"Cyril : I have reviewed your account and can see that you played French roulette and used the exact same patern of play and made the exact same bets and used the same amounts and same collours consecutively and then altering the colour and continuing the same patern"

Yes I played French roulette but It is allowed for wagering AND I wagered on other games too! I even changed the color of which I placed my bets in mid game!

When I asked what I had to in order to cash out he told me:

"Cyril : The bonus is automatically removed from the account once a withdrawal is made what I can suggest is that you wager on a dofferent game that you will not be able to play and a patern be detected, I would say wager a little more and make a second attempt at a wiothdrawal, I cannot give you a fixed amount as you even be able to cashin after wagering the bonus amount on a different game I would suggest games like slots which will avaoid any suspician and contributes more towards wagering at the same time."

Oh yeah, slots! It's a great way of giving away money to the casino...

I then asked how is playing on slots any different than playing on roulette (this is the best part).

"Cyril : Slots count 100% and bets are entirely 50 /50 and no paterns can be formed even if you bet on the same amount continously. "

OMG, 50/50?! I couldn't believe my eyes :eek2:

But then he drops the bomb:

"Cyril : Whether you win on slots and double the credits in your account it will not be considered to be against the bonus policy 50/50 chance of winning or losing no guarantees can be made on slots you have a 50% chance of winnng or losing but this is just a suggestion you are welcome to play on other games as well."

I didn't know what to say so I ended the chat session...

I just wanted you to read this, I found it very amusing...

Anyway, the funds are in my account and have not been confiscated. But I can't cash out and wagering towards a bonus I don't even have seems a little weird.

Any suggestions?

And a little side note, his spelling actually was that bad, I haven't made any alterations to his comments!
 
you definitely did the "big bets then grind" strategy. casinos hate this, but given the gigantic wagering when one plays lower-edge games, how can you be in the wrong? you managed to make wagering, the money should be yours. patterns of play happen all the time. are all flatbettors in roulette and bj abusing the game? course not. they might also be taking offence because you used "autoplay" to grind out a bonus at low-ish bets, but again, the risky big bets off the start, and the exhaustive amounts of wagering make it difficult enough to win without arbitrarily voiding play based on a standard pattern of play that non-bonus players can and do also use. but if they're a rogue or quasi-rogue, you're beat. good luck anyway.

matekh, what are you, a klingon? :thumbsup:
 
Yes of course I doubled up my balance on the first bet, I always do this because otherwise it's impossible to complete wagering with any clearplay bonus. It also makes things so much more interesting since you have twice the roll now and can cause alot more damage to the casino :cool:

However I wouldn't call my wagering "grinding" since I played 10 hands on blackjack, 5 spins on red and then switching over to 5 spins on black. If I would have flatbetted 1 on red or black then I could have understood the casinos decision a bit more (however I still belive that a player should be payed if doing that and then locked out).

Anyway, I played some 600 spins on a slot with a low sized jackpot and then som more baccarat. I hope that they will aprove my withdrawal now!
 
withdrawal..an emotional issue! lol

More than big bet or grinding ..or any deviation of their considered "admin. authorized "form of losing ones money, the thing casinos really HATE,,is PAYING OUT!
I suggest if you continue playing in a casino of this caliber to bring a roll of toilet paper and some chap stick with you, cuz you will be wipin and kissin a lot of butt to get your winnings in your pocket.
 
More than big bet or grinding ..or any deviation of their considered "admin. authorized "form of losing ones money, the thing casinos really HATE,,is PAYING OUT!
I suggest if you continue playing in a casino of this caliber to bring a roll of toilet paper and some chap stick with you, cuz you will be wipin and kissin a lot of butt to get your winnings in your pocket.
:lolup::lolup: you nailed that one right on the head:D lmao
 
I doubt that would do any good, even If I would forfeit all my winnings and just claim my deposit back they still would give me trouble! This casino is not happy until I've lost everything.
 
Now they have confiscated all my winnings (over 1000) on both capital casino AND vegas palms, despite the fact that I played slots without even having a bonus balance!

On vegas palms I didn't play much french roulette to complete the wagering (mostly casino war I think) and they still tell me:

"You met the play through requirement, with close to zero risk of your initial deposit by only playing red on French Roulette."

How can 5 bets on casino war, a high house edge game be "zero risk" ?!

I even played slot machines for christ sake...

These casinos won't let you win...
 
Already done.

I told the fortune lounge floor manager (I was contaced directly by him) that I would go to ecogra.

But they obviously don't care.
 
Already done.

I told the fortune lounge floor manager (I was contaced directly by him) that I would go to ecogra.

But they obviously don't care.


In my view eCogra are not the solution - they are most definitely the problem. Consider the following precedent delivered by eCogra on complaint from a similarly affected player (as posted recently at WOL).

Dear R,

We have investigated your query with the casino and have made the following findings;

You purchased 60 and redeemed the sign up offer of 90 on the 6th of July 2007.
On the 11th of July you started wagering and placed 3 wagers on the game of Roulette. The 3 bets amounted to 150 (the deposit and bonus combined)
You won 300 on each of your 3 wagers
You then proceeded to play 2576 bets of 2 on the game of Casino War.

You were required to meet the following play through requirement:

90 bonus * 30 play through requirement = 2700
Since you played Roulette to the value of 450, the play through contribution from this game only counts 180 (40% of 450) and
Your play on Casino War, contributed 2576 (50% of 5152).

However, the manner in which you met your play through requirements on Casino War is covered in the term:

Before any withdrawals are processed, your play will be reviewed for any irregular playing patterns e.g . playing of equal, zero margin bets or hedge betting, which all shall be considered irregular gaming for bonus play-through requirement purposes.

Other examples of irregular game play include but are not limited to, placing single bets using your entire or the majority of your account balance, where the majority of that balance is made up of bonus balance. The Casino reserves the right to decide in its sole discretion which activities constitute "irregular play" for bonus play-through requirement purposes from time-to-time and to withhold any cash-ins where irregular play has occurred to meet bonus play-through requirements.

Equal betting is considered irregular gaming for bonus play-through requirement purposes, according to the published T&C's at the time of accepting their bonus offer. The fact that you proceeded to place 2576 individual bets of 2 each on casino war in order to meet the play-through requirements in a manner that reduces the margin of the game close to zero, in our opinion is equal betting. I regret that we support the casino's decision to withhold your winnings and return your deposit to you.

Regards,

Tex Rees


Apparently (if you believe eCogra) making small bets on WAR will render the game a close to zero proposition instead of -EV 2.17% as prescribed by WOO and other mathematical luminaries. Game return amendments are under hurried review at WOO in the light of this particular piece of eCogra erudition.

Of course the term irregular gaming is a recent creation that seeks to substitute and escape from the historically discredited vernacular of bonus abuse. Irregular Gaming also seeks to escape definition and any sort of prescription other than The Casino reserves the right to decide in its sole discretion which activities constitute irregular play.

Methinks such singular and unfettered discretion will be exercised and meted out by the size of your cash-out rather than by any sense of what may constitute fair, honest and reasonable commercial practice.

This e Cogra ruling provides the ideal precedent on which member Casinos can rely to confiscate otherwise perfectly legitimate winnings under the discretionary haze of irregular play. Dont bet too small because it reduces the house margin to all but zero which eCogra deems irregular play. And dont bet too big either cos under irregular play eCogra got you covered either way. Otherwise feel free to spend the bonus money in any way that takes your fancy (btw have you seen our new Slot Games?).

Small wonder that MG Casino groups such as 32RED and Ladbrokes continue to refuse to have any truck with eCogra. Long and hard won gilt edge reputations are not about to be risked or frittered away on the eCogra wheel of fortune.

From a Players perspective one must consider the security of depositing funds with any Casino operating under the eCogra seal (and the likes of Capitol Casino managed by the rogued Fortune Lounge). Whatever winning strategy you may chance upon the added risk of offending against what constitutes irregular play looms large upon every cash-out. And if there is a dispute ..eCogra are not the solution - they are the problem.


 
Aww there goes 1000 of winnings (or 500 at least, since capital isn't a member).... I thought players hade been able to recover their money trough ecogra, I guess I was wrong.

And fortune lounge isn't rouged, then I of course would never have played there.
 
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In my view eCogra are not the solution - they are most definitely the problem. Consider the following precedent delivered by eCogra on complaint from a similarly affected player (as posted recently at WOL).
I don't have high hopes for a successful outcome either, but filing a complaint does not cost anything, and even if it is unsuccessful, at least it will be recorded in the statistics.
 
Equal betting is considered irregular gaming for bonus play-through requirement purposes, according to the published T&C's at the time of accepting their bonus offer. The fact that you proceeded to place 2576 individual bets of 2 each on casino war in order to meet the play-through requirements in a manner that reduces the margin of the game close to zero, in our opinion is equal betting. I regret that we support the casino's decision to withhold your winnings and return your deposit to you.

Pardon my ignorance... but how is it possible to place an equal bet on Casino War, since there is only one betting spot?

Low-risk betting, I agree. Equal betting, I do not unless I misunderstood the definition of equal betting. What was done here was flat betting...
 
Finaly some good news!


"Hi Mats

Codie here from the Fortune Lounge.

Mats your matter has been referred to the Head of Operations due to the nature of the query.

He has reviewed the matter and decided to process your full withdrawal amount on both the Capital and Vegas Palms Casinos. He has however agreed that the betting pattern you displayed is not one of a player who has any intention to game with the casino in future as we have seen the same happen with all other players who abused our bonuses.

It is for this reason that your casino accounts will remain locked and that any further accounts registered with the Fortune Lounge will be locked on registration.


Kind Regards

Codie

Floor Manager"



Looks like they are paying up!
 
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Seems like they are back to their old antics. See the old Vegas Palms threads and Rogue Pit for more info.

Basically if the player played French Roulette and/or Baccarat and won with the bonus money, they had their winnings removed and account locked. Vegas Palms / Fortune Lounge claimed that they abused their bonuses. Players had to go to eCogra to get their monies back.

Not a very good business practice.
 
Seems like they are back to their old antics. See the old Vegas Palms threads and Rogue Pit for more info.

Basically if the player played French Roulette and/or Baccarat and won with the bonus money, they had their winnings removed and account locked. Vegas Palms / Fortune Lounge claimed that they abused their bonuses. Players had to go to eCogra to get their monies back.

Not a very good business practice.

Of course they changed their terms after that debacle to include the 'hedge betting' or 'even' money etc. But from what we know of this player's plight, they did the right thing in reversing the decision... but he was borderline.
 
Of course they changed their terms after that debacle to include the 'hedge betting' or 'even' money etc. But from what we know of this player's plight, they did the right thing in reversing the decision... but he was borderline.

I see your point. In any case we can clearly see that the support staff is pretty clueless. I believe it is a better practice to investigate first and then ban, rather than to ban-on-sight and investigate later IF eCogra intervenes. :what:

But I guess the latter one makes more $$$ to Fortune Lounge.
 
I see your point. In any case we can clearly see that the support staff is pretty clueless. I believe it is a better practice to investigate first and then ban, rather than to ban-on-sight and investigate later IF eCogra intervenes. :what:

But I guess the latter one makes more $$$ to Fortune Lounge.

Yip, because I would bet a majority of players are clueless as to whether there is anything they can do if they feel 'screwed'.

We can only hope that with the bonus situations that major groups and casinos don't go to the 'delay, deny, defend' practice that auto insurance companies have
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with link to original story. That would be another form of rogue behavior, IMO, but it seems inevitable in the longrun.
 
Apparently (if you believe eCogra) making small bets on WAR will render the game a “close to zero” proposition instead of -EV 2.17% as prescribed by WOO and other mathematical luminaries. Game return amendments are under hurried review at WOO in the light of this particular piece of eCogra erudition.

Of course the term “irregular gaming” is a recent creation that seeks to substitute and escape from the historically discredited vernacular of “bonus abuse”. Irregular Gaming also seeks to escape definition and any sort of prescription other than The Casino reserves the right to decide in it’s sole discretion which activities constitute “irregular play”.

Methinks such singular and unfettered discretion will be exercised and meted out by the size of your cash-out rather than by any sense of what may constitute fair, honest and reasonable commercial practice.

This e Cogra ruling provides the ideal precedent on which ‘member Casinos’ can rely to confiscate otherwise perfectly legitimate winnings under the discretionary haze of “irregular play”. Don’t bet too small because it reduces the house margin to all but zero which eCogra deems “irregular play“. And don’t bet too big either ‘cos under “irregular play” eCogra got you covered either way. Otherwise feel free to spend the bonus money in any way that takes your fancy (btw have you seen our new Slot Games?).

Small wonder that MG Casino groups such as 32RED and Ladbrokes continue to refuse to have any truck with eCogra. Long and hard won gilt edge reputations are not about to be risked or frittered away on the eCogra wheel of fortune.

From a Player’s perspective one must consider the security of depositing funds with any Casino operating under the eCogra seal (and the likes of Capitol Casino managed by the rogued Fortune Lounge). Whatever winning strategy you may chance upon the added risk of offending against what constitutes “irregular play” looms large upon every cash-out. And if there is a dispute ………..eCogra are not the solution - they are the problem.




Great post about these bull**** with these Terms they can wipeout nearly every winner who dosnt played slots.

Its really crap, if you wager with low bets on a medium HA game like War, you are in bad shape, if you make big wagers on any other games then slots, you are in bad shape...

I wonder why they even offer other games then slots, if they blame all not slots winners, that recived a bonus as bonusabusers, even if they did not broke any of their casino rules. Expekt these "fuckyou" rule that can be used on nearly every non slot player.

I renember that casinomeister said, as long as the player did not broke any rules its totaly legal, because the casino has all options to prevent bonusabusing in their hands... restricted tablelimits/games playthrough and so on. If they didnt make use of it and steal from the players they are evil!

Casinos that use these "fuckyou" rule against winners that did not broke any other rules are dirty thieves and nothing more!
 
In my view eCogra are not the solution - they are most definitely the problem. Consider the following precedent delivered by eCogra on complaint from a similarly affected player (as posted recently at WOL).....

Excellent post by pangloss. I think everyone should read it. He really nailed everything about the subject.
 
FL could be found guilty of misleading advertising by even allowing the non-slot games to count towards WR. It seems they are misleading players who prefer the tables to deposit, yet seem to have a near infinite number of definitions for "irregular play".

Tis Bollox, in Vegas you see many players drop single bets of $100's, if not several $K on a SINGLE hand of a table game. Many players here post screenshots where they have made huge bets.

When we discuss the games, amd whether they are rigged or not, we are told the PATTERNS we think we see are not real, the results are random, but our brains are programmed to seek patterns in natural events, even when we see cycles where two scatters appear every other spin, and cycles where a pair is absent for well over 100 spins on the same slot.
Surely then, placing 200 bets on French Roulette is no more a "pattern" than an exceptional spell of 200 hands of Blackjack where the dealer continually screws you down every time you think you have half a chance means the table is rigged!

What the casino REALLY means is that players who play certain games, and use certain bet combinations, have MORE CHANCE of winning than players who have seen the games for the first time & make silly bets.
The currrent WR for EZBonus means that a player who plays slots only has next to no chance of winning due to the steep WR for games that return only 95%.
In order to deny payments, they have increasingly extended the secret rules that govern "cheating", and eCogra have swallowed this without question, to their eternal damage I believe. Unlike eCogra, the UK courts recognise such a thing as an "unfair contract". These T & C, while there, constitute such an "unfair contract", and would be struck out by any UK court. The unfair nature is down to the fact that they have a term that they can interpret how they like, and the player cannot know in advance what is expected of them, whereas the casino gives itself near limitless rights over the player, and even holds them to reguirement they are not allowed to know. Players who LOSE, yet breach the contract, are do NOT have their bets voided, but those who WIN DO have their bets voided. I think this borders on FRAUD, not just "unfairness". For it not to be fraud, ALL players have to be treated the same, whether they win or lose, bets should be voided or not regardless of the outcome, just as in the real world where there is evidence that a sporting event has been rigged.

It has got to the point that NEW players might as well give up on the SUB, and choose a casino based on other factors, and casinos that rely on bonuses and exaggerated advertising might as well start treating their REGULAR players a bit better, and forget about throwing huge carrots to newbies while regulars are offered scraps.
 
This e Cogra ruling provides the ideal precedent on which member Casinos can rely to confiscate otherwise perfectly legitimate winnings under the discretionary haze of irregular play. Dont bet too small because it reduces the house margin to all but zero which eCogra deems irregular play. And dont bet too big either cos under irregular play eCogra got you covered either way. Otherwise feel free to spend the bonus money in any way that takes your fancy (btw have you seen our new Slot Games?).

Superb point. "We've decided to confiscate your winnings because you weren't flat betting, you were gambling your entire stake." Um, isn't that the idea?
 

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