Casinomeister Awards 2011 - Contenders, Suggestions and your input

[plasticnote]

I'm thinking that this year there could be extra awards - for instance,
Best casino: 32Red
Best casino that accepts US players: 3Dice

etc...

I agree, could we just seperate into Best online casino award for U.S. and Best online casino award for non-U.S.?

 

[Simmo!]

I agree, could we just seperate into Best online casino award for U.S. and Best online casino award for non-U.S.?

That's pretty much how it worked Best Worst 2010 with a "US Friendly" and a "Global" award.

 

[Nobunaga]

Best of the Best.

How about a category for best sports book and worst sports book? There are many sports books out there and would be important to know which ones are great and which ones are the crooks or somewhere in the middle.

Thank you Casinomeister for helping to protect online gamblers from online crooks.

Nobunaga

 

[francy5]

I think the best casino is Bet Phoenix and the worst is 99 Slot Machines. I had my check within a few days with Bet Phoenix and am still waiting for a payout from 99 Slot Machines from July.

How about a catagory of "Fastest Payouts"?

 

[chuchu59]

I'm thinking that this year there could be extra awards - for instance,
Best casino: 32Red
Best casino that accepts US players: 3Dice

etc...

Chuck these 2 casinos out of the way and raise them to the altar (chinese saying meaning they are better than anyone else and need not be compared with others anymore). Then we shall have keener competition in many categories.

 

[Simmo!]

Chuck these 2 casinos out of the way and raise them to the altar (chinese saying meaning they are better than anyone else and need not be compared with others anymore). Then we shall have keener competition in many categories.

Haha yeah good idea. From now on we should skip the "Best Casino" awards and simply have an award for "Second Best casino Of The Year (Global)" and "Second Best Casino Of The Year (US Friendly)"

Incidentally I think Bet365 is a really good "Second Best" casino - probably the best games choice, they will remove the Reverse time if you ask, cashouts are lightening fast although their bonuses are horrible LOL. And ultimately their sheer size means you'll never get that personal touch so I can't see how they could ever quite get to No. 1. Worthy of a mention though.

 

[KasinoKing]

My little 2c, using some of the award titles from last year:

Best Casino - US Friendly: 3Dice
Best Casino - Global: 32Red
Worst Casino: Cool Cat
Best Casino Group: 32Red
Worst Casino Group: Virtual, of course!
Best New Casino: Casino Luck (NetEnt)
Worst Affiliate Experience: Bwin
Best Customer Service: 32Red

Best Software Supplier Award: Microgaming
Best Games Award: Net Entertainment
Head in the Sand Award: Rival Gaming
Fall From Grace Award: Betfair (or was that 2010?)
Worst Named Casino: Vegas Amped
Stupidest Named Casino: iButler

Best Affiliate Program: Intertops
Most Annoying Affiliate Program: Victor Chandler
Best Casino Manager: Pat H
Biggest Disappointment: The USA situation getting steadily worse
The Most Annoying Forum Member: I could not possibly say...
The Stupidest Casino Trick: iButler Casino ripping off games from other softwares!
The Best Warning Robot: Vortran!
The Evil Player Award: Gid88 - Guilty or Not guilty?

KK

 

[ksech]

I'm waiting for the day when I can participate in these awards.
Where I have the freedom to play where I want. Without having to worry about if I am breaking some kind of law by using MY hard earned money for an entertainment my government deems illegal to fund.

 

[jazzup]

Best games provider: Microgaming.

As about casinos, I can only judge them by if I've won there and how were the winnings processed.
So, those few stands out from the rest:

32RED
GoldenRiviera
RedFlush / LaVida

 

[AlmostFamous]

Best Casino Vote

The best casino = Intertops

I have NEVER been denied winnings, had smooth and quick transactions
in both withdrawals and any problems depositing. I have NEVER had one
problem with this casino and had been playing quite frequently until USA
could no longer play at MG Casinos. However I do still very occasionally
play at their Intertops RTG format casino for us Americans. It isnt as much fun
and not a lot of winning, however if I do win, I know I will be paid. Peace of mind.
Money is not that easily to obtain in this economy so if I win, I want to know there
will be no B.s. about getting my money. I once hit a jackpot on their mg software.
Got 5 jacks and $21,500USD. They paid me in 4 checks all at once. it took 3 days.

Worst Casino has to be any of the Virtual Group Casinos. Terrible experience
with them. Won a royal flush without any deposit bonus, my own money and they
denied me (years ago) any winnings! I bowed out and stayed out of their way since then.

Leery of RTG Casinos (Casino Titan, WinPalace and slots Jungle) because of others postings
of not getting paid and bonus problems.

I prefer to play without a bonus so there is no question.
Seems you win the big jackpot on their dime and then you can't claim it anyway
because of some loophole either you blew or they just make a new rule.
I would just rather deposit what I can and hope I win.

Happy Gambling everyone and Merry Christmas!
Love this site and it has helped me safely navigate the online gambling waters
Thank you Casinomeister!

 

[stukas]

This year is more difficulty than the past.
Then for sure 32Red is the much appreciated here (i voted them last year),
but i had so many problems with their support, software crash, host disconnection, bonus issue.
Best casino: Paddy Power (quick pays) and Victor Chandler (games from many software providers)
Worst casino: Dash and Nedplay
Best casino manager: Pat of 32Red
Best software provider: NetEnt
Worst software provider: Microgaming

 

[pinkfloyd]

best casino 32 red
best cs tie 3dice/32red
best manager 3dice anna
worst group casino rewards and affiliates spam kings!



merry xmas all
have a safe and good new years .

 

[dreamgirli27]

My opinion for the Casinomeister Awards

In my opinion, the Best Casino group is Fortune Lounge but since US players aren't able to play with them right now, I would say Club World is great! No problems with getting comps, tournaments are great, and you can actually get someone to answer the phone with this group of casinos! That is alot more than I can say about some!

 

[Flyer187]

In terms of Best Casino Manager this year I'd like to nominate Steve @ 32 Red.

 

[Flyer187]

and Worst Casino Software as Microgaming as the disconnections are really getting on my wick

 

[footdr]

Fastest Payouts(100% of time) InetBet
Best Casino Club World
Best Deposit Bonuses: Club World

Worst Percentage Payout: 3 Dice (also worst deposit bonuses)

Slowest Payout: Rushmore Casino Group

Fastest Payout via Courier Check 2011: Liberty Slots (overnight)

Best Software: Net Entertainment
Best Games: Net Entertainment ( so glad they are back)

Worse Games: Grand Prive



Will add more as I think of it

 

[jjezebel37]

I think The best casino is the William Hill Casino, and betting main site, they deserve to win this award.

I am with this one.

 

[dazlazz]

New Awards

Hey Bryan,

How about some internal awards this year? (mods not included)

i.e.
Best poster
Fun poster
Helpful poster
Funniest thing

That sort of stuff?

Regards,

Daz

 

[colly]

Best Casino- 32red
Best CS-32red
Best new casino- hard one as not that many- early day but the rebadged RTG Slotocash to date has seen good bonuses fast payouts and good email CS.




SUggested New category
Silliest management decision designed to lose players-
Jackpot capital group doing no weekend cash out processing and extending the pendng period

 

[incrediblestuff]

Hi CM & team,

as per request some input

It's hard for me to come up with anything new, in terms of awards, but ill say my say regardless

Well best casino would still be 3Dice, although im slowly leaning more to 32Red, since they have been really nice to me and i haven't been using the chat perk in 3Dice, which balances the scale more, but also plainly looking at the dazzling amount of slots/games to pick 32Red is ahead (regardless of the fact that 3Dice makes their own)
its still hard as i know the support pretty much personally (as far as possible online) in 3Dice and have a superb relation with them, and regard their professionalism highly, i also am getting to know mark and steve from 32Red a bit, and they seem very attentive, and professional too, however i feel customer support could be better, when i logged in a few times in 32Red the CR was either sleepy, very busy, or unmotivated...thers different names so i dont know if the full time chat reps there are included.

Both software has letdowns unfortunately, like glitches, crashes or connection errors.
But i guess that cant be helped in an online gaming environment? please prove me wrong ^^
To stick to the scaling: i think they are evenly matched in terms of occurance and solving matters.

So after carefully weighing them, i have to go for 3Dice still, since i am a vip there and have all perks.
The difference is negligable atm, so who knows, maybe next year..

Long story short:

best casino: 3Dice

best management: 3Dice

best support: 3Dice

best newcomer promo: gold rush from Club Gold
(regardless of the fact i still dont know if they are a good outfit or not, i purely love that promo!)

best new slot: Star Struck, closely followed by Immortal Romance.

best Casino site: Casinomeister

I'd love to add fastest payout, but im unfortunately biased as i only cashed out in 3dice so far ^^

worst casino: ibutler (no fun games or slots, accept for a few rip offs, but tbh, they could have at least ripped off some cooler games
why did i even register??)

worst support: OKcasino (nonexistent, offline 24/7, no reaction to emails.)

worst management: inetbet (not in touch with their possible depositors, was the only rtg i deposited at albeit very low amounts and very wary, uninstalled for good now.)

Now for suggestions,

Adding an award for best and worst rtp, with percentages clearly printed would be cool, but that could not be done by the likes of me, would this be possible at all?

Best website layout/clarity? and worse of course, weighed on terms and conditions and clarity on methods of payment/withdrawl, the times they take and verification process applied.
It would take some digging but to see an award posted on thaose notes might be helpfull

thats all i can think off.
Cheers Bryan, Max and Simmo for running this great site and valuing our input!

 

[herlisfood]

this is based from my own experience playing online -

best casino is 32red

worst casino group - casino rewards


not much but its the truth.

 

[hausse222]

I don´t think 32red should be casino of the year this time for one reason: The technical errors / server problems increased much and when i pay to play i expect not to restart the casino every 15 minutes to play on.
Some MG casinos have technical problems but 32red is worse in this.

 

[hausse222]

But 32red should get the award for best customer service and if you manage to cash out, they are really the best.

 

[Realitybitez]

oh good its not just me

I loved the games on 32 Red but was forever having problems with the software. Well thats what I thought it was. Then I presumed it had to be my computer or my ISP provider or whatever because 32 Red was forever crashing. But I've noticed a few people have posted comments that they have the same problems so its the casino itself. Interesting:

I don´t think 32red should be casino of the year this time for one reason: The technical errors / server problems increased much and when i pay to play i expect not to restart the casino every 15 minutes to play on.
Some MG casinos have technical problems but 32red is worse in this.

 

[Simmo!]

I loved the games on 32 Red but was forever having problems with the software. Well thats what I thought it was. Then I presumed it had to be my computer or my ISP provider or whatever because 32 Red was forever crashing. But I've noticed a few people have posted comments that they have the same problems so its the casino itself. Interesting:

Actually it may be a Microgaming thing. I've been having some issues recently too but also at other Micros, especially Flash versions running on MG's "gameassists" server. For 2/3 months I've been having timeouts and stuck spins and stuff like that on a reasonably regular basis. As one example, I tested 188bet and it was virtually unplayable on 3 seperate occassions over a 2 week period. I am wondering if the MG server is getting overworked with all the Quickfire casinos.