Rival gaming group - Wow

[kakata]

They should give you double what it's worth for the inconvenious
I say give my friend Kakata something to brag about.Because we know where the better games are lol.
Make it a Sunshine of a day for him.
Good Luck Kakata
They may surprise you lol

It would only be in theyr best interest.....since we all lose in the long run
They are not smart enough though.
How can they be so stupid and cheap about 5 bux which I didnt ask for btw????

...and yes I do use yahoo but Ive removed my filter completely , so I do receive 200 spam on dayly basis.....not theyrs???

 

[bb28]

Someone said something about yahoo's servers holding some mail (what they consider spam) for a few days before allowing it to go on through. That I can believe! I recently changed my email addy here at CM and with club world from yahoo to my gmail one and suddenly I'm receiving club world promo's in a timely fashion and also thread updates from here.
Those two things do confirm that yahoo is hanging on to those emails extra days. I can't give an opinion on the rival emails because I didn't use yahoo for them ever, I've always used my gmail for those.
To give you that freebie Kakata, wouldn't be a big deal you would think. Sometimes I'm amazed at the level of stupidity.

 

[dirtydealin]

Rival's Slots not tight here

Just wanted to add my two coins here, this Friday I made a meger $20 Deposit and got the 200% match at TIV. I played for about 2 hours off it and built my bankroll up to around $130. I then had a monster hit on Scary Rich, finally getting the three counts on the bonus round. It paid out $757 off a $.60 bet. This is obviosly the execption and not the rule, it just seems I get more play time from Rival than MG. Also, TIV has top notch CS. Thier manager John responds to IM's very quickly.

I seem to have the most luck betting $.60 per spin on the 5 reels and $.75 on the 3 reels.

DD

 

[bb28]

Just wanted to add my two coins here, this Friday I made a meger $20 Deposit and got the 200% match at TIV. I played for about 2 hours off it and built my bankroll up to around $130. I then had a monster hit on Scary Rich, finally getting the three counts on the bonus round. It paid out $757 off a $.60 bet. This is obviosly the execption and not the rule, it just seems I get more play time from Rival than MG. Also, TIV has top notch CS. Thier manager John responds to IM's very quickly.

I seem to have the most luck betting $.60 per spin on the 5 reels and $.75 on the 3 reels.

DD

Congrats! It is the exception but when it happens it's one of those WOW moments. lol

My best luck has also been with similar bet sizes, seems I have never hit squat moving it up. Believe me when I say I tried.

 

[peteyweestro]

i got the emails from cocoa and paradise 8 and after downloading both of them i had nothing also,what a sorry example of a biz

 

[anniemac]

I just got two emails from Cocoa and Paradise8 to my gmail account about their birthday bash bonuses. These were new ones. So email is working for some of them. Go figure?

 

[winbig]

I just got two emails from Cocoa and Paradise8 to my gmail account about their birthday bash bonuses. These were new ones. So email is working for some of them. Go figure?

I've never had problems w/Rival & gmail...

 

[thisisvegas]

this doesn't have anything to do with your own spam filters but it seems it is rather companies like yahoo either blocking them out completely or for some odd reason are delaying them. It is in none of our best interests to have emails delayed announcing a bonus that expires quickly so we are trying our best to avoid it and just not letting the bonuses expire that quickly as well. I am going to look into this further personally when I am back from Amsterdam.

John

 

[vinylweatherman]

this doesn't have anything to do with your own spam filters but it seems it is rather companies like yahoo either blocking them out completely or for some odd reason are delaying them. It is in none of our best interests to have emails delayed announcing a bonus that expires quickly so we are trying our best to avoid it and just not letting the bonuses expire that quickly as well. I am going to look into this further personally when I am back from Amsterdam.

John

This is the result of the spamming campaign that some casinos have engaged in. This has caused these big companies to take action. Since many are US based, they will naturally target casino related spam as this will get the approval of the government. Indeed, it may even be that the government have had "a quiet word" with these companies to get them to try to block casino related Emails so that US citizens are no longer lured into playing.
It probably hits casinos worse because they are not spamming, but sending promos, so they don't jump from one domain to another, or use botnets. This will lead to the Viagra and pharmacy spam still getting through to some degree, as well as some genuine casino spam, but promo Emails will be hit hard.

I have also had serious problems SENDING Emails to casino support desks, and this could be related to this issue.

One way around this is for casinos to make more use of in-lobby messaging for promos. Microgaming have had the facility for ages, but many MG operators do not bother with it.

The only thing players can do is to complain to their Email provider, or move to another (not always that easy).

 

[thisisvegas]

Well I hope that is not the case but I never rule out anything these days. It would be unfortunate if they were targeting casinos but it is tough to tell. This would hugely benefit rogue operators who are using every trick in the book to find a way to get you their emails, likewise with viagra and penis enlarging ones and whatever else is left. If players do check their account the bonuses show up in the lobby for them to see so it is one thing we do naturally but the emails help especially for this month where they have something happening almost daily. I would like to see players complain to their providers to ask for the reasons this is happening. In my opinion it does cross a line of censorship but if this is what they want to do then again casinos that don't spam will go out of business because their legitimate offers will never make it to the players. The rogue casinos that use spam as their means of doing business will always find a way around this system with the current system. I highly recommend gmail but I hope that other providers don't try to do this. Either way it's a great way for companies like yahoo to lose subscribers.

Once again I am not 100% sure this is truly the case but it looks like it at the moment.

 

[gerilege]

I'm at Yahoo as well, and experiencing problems with receiving casino emails. However that is somehow undeterministic, sometimes I receive emails from the same casino promptly, sometimes only after four days. Usually the promotional emails are delayed.
From a Rival casino I only received a promotional email sent on Wednesday on Sunday, that is the biggest delay I experienced so far. Just to be on the safe side, the Rival casinos could also have another look into the issue, ask some players to volunteer, and track the emails sent out. Sometimes the Playtech offers are also delayed 1-2 days, but sometimes the same offer is instantly in my inbox.

 

[classymom]

I would like to add my 2 cents on Rival ( which lately is the only software I play) I have had more play time on my deposits (50.00 lasted me all weekend)at Rival ( TIV and Divinci Gold) I would love to win something big, but being able to play on my small deposits is a big plus in my book. I do agree the new I slot game is very tight -

 

[vinylweatherman]

Well I hope that is not the case but I never rule out anything these days. It would be unfortunate if they were targeting casinos but it is tough to tell. This would hugely benefit rogue operators who are using every trick in the book to find a way to get you their emails, likewise with viagra and penis enlarging ones and whatever else is left. If players do check their account the bonuses show up in the lobby for them to see so it is one thing we do naturally but the emails help especially for this month where they have something happening almost daily. I would like to see players complain to their providers to ask for the reasons this is happening. In my opinion it does cross a line of censorship but if this is what they want to do then again casinos that don't spam will go out of business because their legitimate offers will never make it to the players. The rogue casinos that use spam as their means of doing business will always find a way around this system with the current system. I highly recommend gmail but I hope that other providers don't try to do this. Either way it's a great way for companies like yahoo to lose subscribers.

Once again I am not 100% sure this is truly the case but it looks like it at the moment.

Tried it, just get fobbed off. They lay blame on the sender (not having sent it), and the recipient (they missed it, filtered it, etc).

Research on the internet shows that there is a central domain blacklist that Email providers can use to block entire domains and servers. This is meant to target spammers, however when spammers "spoof" genuine domains, these get added to the blacklist too!
Spammers get round this by constantly changing the headers, however a victim whose domain gets accidentally blacklisted has no idea it has happened unless they check their domains against the blacklist.
It is difficult, as the domain from which an Email comes often looks nothing like the one where the casino resides, and this is probably because casinos subcontract to bulk Email senders. If these bulk senders also send "spam" thinking it is a legitimate marketing contract, their bulk sending domains will end up on the blacklist as recipients complain.

Owners of domains can create an entry for their domains that specifies how to detect genuine Emails originating from it, and this is supposed to let genuine Emails through, but stop those where their domain has been spoofed.

It's not perfect, and the system is still under development, Unfortunately, it is incompatable with Microsoft's "sender ID" system, and this only makes matters worse.

 

[anniemac]

I, too, sent a scathing post to Yahoo! about my emails, not mentioning specific names. They can manage to send me the emails from "Simon Cowell" 5-10 times a day, which is gambling related by the way, but not emails I want. I have marked that sucker as spam everytime I get one and it still comes in my Inbox.

Am starting to receive emails through my gmail account so I hope that works.

John, thanks for coming on this forum and letting us know what is going on. It might be a good idea if some of the other reps from the other ones did the same thing. Just my opinion.

 

[bryand]

I play at Rival a lot and do not understand all the problems. I use gmail and never have an issue with emails. Paradise8 and ThisisVegas are always hassle-free.

 

[SlotsWizard]

I think the main culprit is Yahoo. I am signed up to a few Yahoo Groups and have it set up to email me instantly (to a reliable, non-Yahoo email address) whenever someone posts a message to the group. Lately, it has not been uncommon for messages to get delayed, and then get sent all at once several days later. Other group members have brought up the same issue.

My advice: switch to GMail if you want to get rid of the delayed email problems. I can almost guarantee that will cure it. Anything going into or coming out of Yahoo is met with a delay.

 

[winbig]

To be brutally honest, the only reason I haven't deleted my yahoo account is because I still use it to keep in touch with people via yahoo messenger and several groups. I've had it since 2003, and for the past 3+ years I rarely look at my 'inbox', let alone use that email address for anything important.



When compared to GMAIL, I really don't see any advantage to using Yahoo for email. At least GMAIL doesn't block certain messages from coming through!

GMAIL also runs circles around Yahoo when it comes to the amount of spam that somehow inifiltrates your inbox. It's amazing how many emails from spammers mysteriously gets through Yahoo's spam filters, but legitimate emails get blocked altogether.

 

[bb28]

Gmail being blocked??

I came across this article dated today a few minutes ago. This is getting strange. No mention of yahoo mail being blocked but gmail is.



Have you had problems receiving e-mail from Gmail users recently? If so, you're one of thousands. Over the past month, major anti-spam vendors have had to apply scrutiny to Gmail in a way they haven't had to before, and the result is reduced delivery performance and sometimes outright blocking of Gmail. Some messaging hosts are being instructed to reject SMTP connections from Google. Ars Technica has independently confirmed this.

It all began when Google's bot-busting CAPTCHA for Gmail was defeated sometime in February. According to sources around the anti-spam industry, the result has been a marked increase in spam originating from Gmail SMTP servers. Some say the spam increase started even earlier, but all are in agreement on one thing: this is a serious problem.

After we learned of mail being greatly slowed by MessageLabs' corporate filtering service, we contacted them to see what's up. A support analyst with MessageLabs, a major provider of software-as-a-service anti-spam filtering, told Ars Technica that "some spammers have hacked into the Gmail captcha system, and were able to relay spams appearing to come from Googlemail's IP addresses. This has caused many IPs of theirs to appear to be sources of spam." For their customers, this means a decrease in performance. "We have a traffic-shaping system that throttles IPs that we believe to appear to be a source of spam. The result is that for the past couple of days we have been seeing issues like this with Gmail," the analyst concluded.

Later, once we confirmed that their servers were not only slowing the delivery of mail but sometimes outright refusing connections to some Gmail relays (we have connection refused errors to prove this), another support analyst told us that "Gmail has sent out a lot of spam recently, and they are registering on our traffic shaping system." When spam is sent out over a Gmail relay, that relay can sometimes get completely blocked, causing problems for thousands of legitimate Gmail users. MessageLabs then has to play whack-a-mole, trying to throttle only the SMTP relays that are spamming.

We have been able to verify the blocking problems, as well as extremely long delays in delivering messages (delays of four hours and up to 24 hours have been seen on hundreds of emails in our investigation). The problem can be maddening because not all Gmail relays are affected, and the relays effected change frequently. Hence you may be getting some e-mail on time, while others aren't coming through. Even some corporate Google e-mail has been blocked, we have confirmed.

Notably, the Postini anti-spam filtering service does not appear to be affected at this time. Postini was acquired by Google last year. Purely client-side filters such as SpamBayes are also not affected, but clients using IP-based blocking like the RBL may experience delays or blocks as well.

The real damage currently appears limited to select SaaS filtering solutions, such as MessageLabs and Antigen (we have reports, but no confirmation from Microsoft at this time). A source at another anti-spam company who wished to remain anonymous did say that Google can expect more problems if the CAPTCHA crack cannot be stopped. His product team was already working on the issue, but they were unsure how best to handle it.

 

[Nifty29]

I then had a monster hit on Scary Rich, finally getting the three counts on the bonus round

Did you mean to put the extra letter in that word???

 

[chuchu59]

Did you mean to put the extra letter in that word???

I suppose he had to. Cant handle so many simultaneously.

 

[stepfordwife]

ITA

I have heard a lot of bad stories about RTG casinos, but wow Rival is slowly catching up. I spent a total of $2500 in 4 days about two weeks ago. I luckily most of that back, but proceeded to spend another $1800 last night in 5 hours. This is all on a penny machine with $2.00 being the max bet. Their machines are becoming very tight! I could not believe it. Out of that $1800, I got a mere $20 in comp points, and no player bonuses! Anyway, that's not the worst of it. I've been waiting for a withdrawal from Pantasia since March 8th, and from Simon Says since March 15th. They just keep telling me that their ACH processor is down, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to get money to USA players. They sure didn't have any problems taking my deposits though. Also, for a couple of days, every time I got a bonus round, the casino shut down. This happened at three different casinos of theirs. I have contacted support, and they said they were looking into this issue, but alas 10 days have gone by, and I have heard nothing. I play the machines for the bonus rounds, because that's where you usually make your money, so to have them shut down during the bonus round at least 10 times, made me angry. The casino actually shut down and booted me off during bonus rounds. Anyway, I've played here for years, and usually love their casinos, but I don't know what is happening lately. It seems like this last month has just been bad. To go through almost $4000 on a penny machine is a little much.

I have been waiting since March 14th for my withdrawal from Simon Say's also. Just e-mailed again and they gave me the old ACH song and dance. Have to admit, they do respond pretty quickly. Just don't tell you anything. Also, I liked playing there because it was pretty loose. Especially in the Art Heist slots. They don't pay real big, but at least I could win consistanly and play for long periods of time. But I also have the complaint that has been brought up before about the Rival Casinos. When you do hit the big one, it is not a big payoff. In Art Heist when Robin Hood pops up, it should be a big win. Instead it is'nt any more than you win with just a lucky regular spin. One time I got five in a row in the I slots which should have paid off 30 bucks (whoop ti doo) and it didn't credit me. I called and talked to them and they never could find out what happened. TFB
I long for the good old days, when I just had them ach money from my checking, and when I won, it showed up like magic back in my checking. I don't know what Bush was thinking when he signed that bill to make "illegal" gambling into the nightmare it is now. Prohibition didn't work, and neither will the policing of this business. If this government had any brains, they would make it legal and collect taxes on it. I for one, though I hate taxes, would still be ahead and a LOT LESS FRUSTRATED. If this keeps on much longer, I will have to give up all together and I really love the online games. They are so much better than land casinos! JMHO

 

[Kendra-SSC]

Hi Stepfordwife,

If you would like to PM me your account details then I can look into this for you asap.

Thanks!
Kendra

 

[dirtydealin]

Didn't realise grammer counts

Did you mean to put the extra letter in that word???

Umm, yeah. You see there are three of them, you know the expnading wild count. So when I say I finally hit the "three counts" that's what I mean.

DD

 

[winbig]

Umm, yeah. You see there are three of them, you know the expnading wild count. So when I say I finally hit the "three counts" that's what I mean.

DD

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the word counts...and taking out the O

 

[dirtydealin]

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the word counts...and taking out the O

Ahh, I see now, you guys need to take your head outta the gutter.:icon_twis


DD