After a long detailed talk with the owners of the casino, we have decided on the following to resolve this issue once and for all:
The player's initial withdrawal was $5854.08 - Minus sticky bonus $300 = $5554
and the win from the non-allowed game was $14 = 9.33% boost on deposit of $150
9.33% of win = 518.37
Remainder = $5035.62 which iNetBet has agreed to pay.
Now I want everyone to be 100% clear on this:
iNetBet is giving the benefit of doubt to the player, that a mistake was made, and that the casino is willing to remove that "win" the player made from that illegal bet - and that the casino is now willing to pay out of pocket. It's not RTG's money now since that jackpot money has already been returned - it's coming from iNetBet. This should underscore the fact the Max and I have harped on - that the operators of iNetBet are not the monsters or rogues that a load of people are trying to make them out to be.
I think that this resolution is more than fair. Again, this was an unauthorized game, the player should have known, and
the casino had no obligation to hand over RTG's jackpot funds to a player who violated the rules - no matter how minor a number many of you made it out to be - paying him would
not have been the right call. But in all fairness - the owners have decided to look beyond this.
A final note: for those of you criticizing my judgement, Max's, or making demeaning comments towards my standards or the motto "Advocate of fair play" need to be honest about your motives. Advocate of fair play is to be advocating fair play
to all - which includes not only the player in question, but to the operators, to the software provider -
and to other players who may be affected by a jackpot that was unfairly won.
This thread will remain locked because I have no more to say about this matter in the public fora.
This issue has gone around in circles in public mainly from a load of misinformation, assumptions, untrue statements, and some downright bullshit. If anyone has anything to say to me in private about this, by all means feel free to PM me. For those of you making public false statements about me or my brand Casinomeister based on some of the BS that was being regurgitated in this thread,
I would recommend retracting those statements or correcting them. That would be the right thing to do.