As you prophesized VWM, I was playing the daily £100 tournament at 777dragon yesterday and scored 3rd place, but did not receive my winnings due to this migration - they are not available in any of my accounts when logging into CasinoUK. Infact when contacting their support I am currently at over 50 minutes and they have only just recognized I did infact win 3rd place in the tournament after insisting otherwise repeatedly and asking me to send screenshots etc despite me providing the relevant username at minute 1.
I am not told I must wait for an unspecified amount of time whilst they are migrating before I will receive my winnings.
What a shoddy and disrespectful implementation of a bullshit procedure forced upon these casinos unfortunately by our supposed government ... I am much more upset at the prospect of losing Fortune Lounge though, that really will be a big loss to us UK players, and I pray they might have a change of heart and arrange for a UK license...
The government didn't insist on a no notice overnight action well before the specified date of implementation. If they had given players advance notice, they could have avoided things like playing a tournament that straddled the migration. They would also have saved themselves the chore of unpicking such screw ups, and the bad publicity from players asking "where's my ****ing money!" when balance data is not properly tracked, as appears to be the case here.
If you can log in to 777dragon through the Casino UK skin, then surely this should not have happened in any case. The group has crossplay, and I have tested this before by logging in to Casino UK through the Crazy Vegas skin, and am able to access my Casino UK balance, and my Casino UK tournament alias. It looks like they fixed something that wasn't broken, and this caused this feature to lose your 3rd place payout.
I fear the same will happen at Fortune Lounge, but here there is NO UK skin proposed, so how on earth will things like tournaments that straddle the date they won't give us be dealt with. Retrieving a prize will be a chore, as it cannot be retrieved through a regular casino withdrawal, and a tournament that closes after the cut off can be started, but not finished, which means that UK players are PAYING INTO an event they cannot properly participate in. Worse, they won't be able to access the scores at the end, so will have no way of assessing what they are due, and whether it has been retrieved and paid correctly.
The only safe way to deal with this is for UK players to quit playing NOW at all Digimedia casinos, as we know this is coming, and since they won't make any announcement, it could be on any night between now and Sept 30th, although with a strong bias to being sooner rather than later.
So far, UK players seem safe at
32Red, Betway, Casino UK (after a bit of technical unpicking), and the entire Casino Rewards portfolio. There is some talk of Palace group possibly getting a UK licence, and part of Digimedia also splitting off and getting a UK licence, but until there is an announcement, they could be cut off en masse along with the other skins in the group.
Other than this, there are all the sites that already have their UK licence, and have some Microgaming games as part of their portfolio.