I consider my self a Playtech Fan... I love their gaming software as well as the admin software.
One thing I do dislike and hate about them is that most of the companies who run Playtech are a bunch of scammers and Playtech does nothing about it.
Sites like:
CD Poker aka Club Dice Casino
Bet Royal
Joyland
among others... have given this brand an awful reputation. Never the less, thera are few sites which are amazing:
Bet365 (weird they use Microgaming poker)
The Main Street Group
XXl Club Casino...
I dont believe the starter of this thread took the time to write that post only to give some trouble to them. I am pretty sure he did face some problems with them.
Let me tell you a little bit about poker. A honest business will never do those things since when you deposit money in poker, the site is not proffiting from the actual deposit.. Rake is what gives them money.
The Dark side to the "Rake" is the following... Let say you open a poker site, and you have 1000 players, all of them depositing, playing, winning, losing, etc. You are making your money from the percentage you take on ring tables from every pot. So either if a customer wins $100000 or loses $20000 you dont give a "%"%" because some other guys won it. But what happens when an operation becomes evil and they are putting players from their own site playing with their customers????????
Thats when the story becomes dark and evil. So the company is profitting from rake, and in addition they are placing players from their site playing in ring tables and probably you have 3 guys in the same office taking the money from 7 customers.
When you have 3 guys who know what hand each of them have is pretty easy to take your money....
Now, if this happens... then the site does worries about a guy proffiting every day... Why let him withdrawal all those winnings if I can place 3 of my guys and keep it to my self???? Sounds good or not...
I live in Costa Rica.. a gambling paradise... 70% of your social life is with people who works for online gambling so you hear everything that happens.
As far as I know, there is no Playtech Poker in this country operating at this time.
However we are home to several respected sites, so let me give you some tips of sites that will never invest money or efforts to steal from customers like that.
I had friends who were paid $7 an hour just to play poker for 8 hours a day.
You want my advise... play in the following sites where you will never be sitting on a table with some guy who was hired to steal from you.
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(I dont like tribeca, but they are honest)
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Americas card room I believe it is.
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www.betus.com (microgamings Prima Network)
(their poker blows, but is honest)
I konw people from those sites,.. I guarantee you they will never pay an 8 crew staff to sit 24 hours a day to proffit out of their poker customers.
Regardless what people think of Costa Rican sites, we do have some good people who are very interested in providing a reliable, honest and professional service to the online gambler.