The 5 million Euro Gold Rally Jackpot has been won, anybody knows where?

[jshort]

Let's not beat around the bush, you're saying that we're on the take or get some financial reward for not outing whomever it is you think we should be outing.

Why on Earth would you think I'm suggesting that???

Anyways good to see you have time to respond to my post; Hopefully you'll eventually have time to respond to the issue raised in this thread too

Anyways, I'm out of this little debate now...Cheers gang

 

[maxd]

Why on Earth would you think I'm suggesting that???

I quoted the relevant bit, read it for yourself. "The fact that they haven't done any of this ... must be business/financial related" is pretty hard to misread. I doubt I did.

Anyways good to see you have time to respond to my post....

Yes, it was Reported so I knew it needed attention. Pretty much the same procedure I recommended you follow, no?

 

[Finn]

However Casinomeister COULD acknowledge this problem or this thread and Maxd could (if necessary) issue an official warning statement about progessive jackpots at Playtech casinos. The fact that they haven't done any of this (and we all know everyone has seen this thread) leads me to ponder that the reason must be business/financial related and/or because it isn't official policy to investigate suspicious activities when no PAB has been issued.

I would say that there is pretty big emphasis already that you need to be picky with Playtech casinos when it comes to progressives

Not Recommended Casinos
Playtech Casinos with Progressive Limitations
https://www.casinomeister.com/rogue-casinos/

Also the thread about Playtech casinos with predatory progressive terms has been stickified, so despite of nobody posting in that thread for almost 7 months, it is still on front page, above normal threads that have had posts today in this forum section.

Important Stuff: Not Recommended Playtech Casinos with predatory progessive terms
https://www.casinomeister.com/forum...ith-predatory-progessive-terms.57604/?t=57604

 

[jshort]

I would say that there is pretty big emphasis already that you need to be picky with Playtech casinos when it comes to progressives

Not Recommended Casinos
Playtech Casinos with Progressive Limitations
https://www.casinomeister.com/rogue-casinos/

Also the thread about Playtech casinos with predatory progressive terms has been stickified, so despite of nobody posting in that thread for almost 7 months, it is still on front page, above normal threads that have had posts today in this forum section.

Important Stuff: Not Recommended Playtech Casinos with predatory progessive terms
https://www.casinomeister.com/forum...ith-predatory-progessive-terms.57604/?t=57604

Good point, thanks.

 

[petro]

I was in a land based casino and there was a machine malfunction that a technician came in and fixed.
I noticed after he fixed it, the jackpot meter was reset.
As a player I don't really like to see this because that money belongs to players. And some jackpots on machines are pretty high; where I'm from some go as high as ~9k.

I understand that there are rules against this in Las Vegas but not in my country.

 

[Casinomeister]

Thanks to KK's link in the upcoming awards for 2014 thread, did I finally have time to get involved here. Sorry for the delay, but there is always a hell of a lot on my plate, and sometimes it can take several prods to get me on something.

I'll ask to see what's up with this. Hopefully I can get an answer quickly.

 

[Casinomeister]

The Answer

See, all it took was an email to ask. Sorry about that.

It's been confirmed that the jackpot win was for Euro 4,615,263.40 at Bet365 on 30 November 2013. Sorry it took me a year to get it together, but better late then never, right?

 

[hoff1985]

See, all it took was an email to ask. Sorry about that. It's been confirmed that the jackpot win was for Euro 4,615,263.40 at Bet365 on 30 November 2013. Sorry it took me a year to get it together, but better late then never, right?

Do you know how fast they paid? I expect it should have worked flawlessly since Bet365 is üretty much the best Playtech Casino out there...

 

[zanzibar]

Hmmm I PM'd Bet365 a year ago and never got a reply...

Thanks, I PM'd the Bet365 rep yesterday so hopefully they will be able to find out what happened.

 

[KasinoKing]

Hmmm I PM'd Bet365 a year ago and never got a reply...

And it's very strange also, that a Google search for "Gold Rally winner at Bet365" only comes back with loads of results for a $1.5 million win in 2011, and no trace of any such announcement for this 4x bigger win in 2013...
You would have thought the casino would be doing a "song and dance" about such a massive win.

KK

 

[Casinomeister]

And it's very strange also, that a Google search for "Gold Rally winner at Bet365" only comes back with loads of results for a $1.5 million win in 2011, and no trace of any such announcement for this 4x bigger win in 2013...
You would have thought the casino would be doing a "song and dance" about such a massive win.

KK

It could be (only a guess) that the recipient may have wanted to keep it quiet (ex-wives, greedy relatives, tax collectors, etc.). If I bump into these guys in London, I'll try to remember to ask.

 

[vinylweatherman]

It could be (only a guess) that the recipient may have wanted to keep it quiet (ex-wives, greedy relatives, tax collectors, etc.). If I bump into these guys in London, I'll try to remember to ask.

It seems overkill to go so far as to hide the fact that the jackpot was even won, and this meant that for well over a year this cast a cloud of suspicion on a software that has a reputation for looking the other way whilst a dodgy operator pockets a progressive payout.

There should be no problem in announcing that a jackpot was won, but saying absolutely nothing about the player, nor even revealing his country.

 

[bonustreak]

It's been confirmed that the jackpot win was for Euro 4,615,263.40 at Bet365 on 30 November 2013. Sorry it took me a year to get it together, but better late then never, right?
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

That is one hellva beer haze my friend .. HAHA
Can't wait to see you in London so we can start the next yr off with a proper beer toast to 2015

 

[LeanneP]

Supposedly Jackpot Tracker

This site here claims to be a "jackpot tracker"

URL: (hopefully I am allowed to post a URL, please excuse me in whatever way you must, including deleting my post, if I'm out of line, Mr. Webmaster, with my apology censored )

You do not have permission to view link Log in or register now.

Anyways -- thar she be.

Cheers.

 

[KasinoKing]

Yes, but that site still does not confirm that it actually was at Bet365, which is what Bryan was told.
But he didn't say who told him: if it was Bet365 themselves I would 100% believe it, but if the info came from Playtech... well I wouldn't be quite so sure...

KK

 

[vinylweatherman]

Yes, but that site still does not confirm that it actually was at Bet365, which is what Bryan was told.
But he didn't say who told him: if it was Bet365 themselves I would 100% believe it, but if the info came from Playtech... well I wouldn't be quite so sure...

KK

If it wasn't for the lack of trust caused by cases like the theft of some $2 million by Joyland casino, both from the winning player and the player community as a whole, we would be more willing to assume that the jackpot was won and properly paid out to a player who had requested anonymity.

The issue in this case was that the secrecy raised serious questions as to whether this was another case of an operator pocketing a progressive and a player getting ripped off, with the secrecy simply being down to the cover up needed to keep the matter out of the gaze of the player community. After all, the stolen $2 million at Joyland was shown by trackers as having been properly won and paid, and had the victim not come forward, we would have been none the wiser. A player from South Africa was ripped off in a similar manner before this, yet in both cases Playtech just sat back and allowed the operator to get away with it.

It is still very odd that Bet365 didn't simply issue a press release as per usual in such a situation, but one that gave away nothing that could identify the player that won, and stating that the winner had requested anonymity, a request that was being granted. It should not have taken so long to get an answer if it was REALLY just a simple matter of asking around in order to be given confirmation from a respected operator that the jackpot was won and duly paid out at their venue.

 

[dusky]

There's definitely something not right with it.

 

[xxshepxx]

I don't play at playtech casino's since the warning arrived on here. I mean that's why we're all on the site to heed these warnings is it not!?

I won a £2500 or thereabouts random marvel JP at a playtech casino a while back before the warning was introduced, I was messed around, and in short I never recieved a penny from them.

But it's frustrating, as when you play decent casino's there isnt a problem paying out, I won a £1100 marvel JP @ 888casino without ever making a deposit, and it was paid out by personal cheque as I hadnt put up any bank details due to never depositing before, they were most helpful in getting the money to me.

But it's swings and roundabouts, as I've heard horror stories from 888casino aswell.

Playing online can be an absolute minefield.

 

[vinylweatherman]

I don't play at playtech casino's since the warning arrived on here. I mean that's why we're all on the site to heed these warnings is it not!?

I won a £2500 or thereabouts random marvel JP at a playtech casino a while back before the warning was introduced, I was messed around, and in short I never recieved a penny from them.

But it's frustrating, as when you play decent casino's there isnt a problem paying out, I won a £1100 marvel JP @ 888casino without ever making a deposit, and it was paid out by personal cheque as I hadnt put up any bank details due to never depositing before, they were most helpful in getting the money to me.

But it's swings and roundabouts, as I've heard horror stories from 888casino aswell.

Playing online can be an absolute minefield.

Yet another, albeit pretty minor, operator theft of a progressive pool payout. It seems this is pretty much routine, and obviously condoned by Playtech. Operators are using the confiscation of progressive payouts as an additional revenue stream when this money should either be paid out or returned to the progressive pool from which it came. The revelation that Playtech actually OPERATE some casinos (the white label portfolio) out of a subsidiary company in Manila is even more damning as one of their excuses has been "we are merely the software supplier, we do not operate any casinos ourselves".

By being less that transparent over this incident, some of the tar from the brush has invariably splashed onto Bet365, and it seems that "something still isn't right" despite this recent explanation.

 

[jshort]

By being less that transparent over this incident, some of the tar from the brush has invariably splashed onto Bet365, and it seems that "something still isn't right" despite this recent explanation.

Yeah it would've been nice if Bet365 gave an explanation. Weird.

 

[xxshepxx]

Yet another, albeit pretty minor, operator theft of a progressive pool payout. It seems this is pretty much routine, and obviously condoned by Playtech. Operators are using the confiscation of progressive payouts as an additional revenue stream when this money should either be paid out or returned to the progressive pool from which it came. The revelation that Playtech actually OPERATE some casinos (the white label portfolio) out of a subsidiary company in Manila is even more damning as one of their excuses has been "we are merely the software supplier, we do not operate any casinos ourselves".

By being less that transparent over this incident, some of the tar from the brush has invariably splashed onto Bet365, and it seems that "something still isn't right" despite this recent explanation.

I remember asking on here, (and it may have been the reason I joined) when I won that progressive.

I was informed it was an independent pool and that I should have no problem having the progressive paid out, but alas it wasn't the case.

I tried emailing the regulatory body at the time, and don't recall ever hearing back from them, same with Playtech.

I learned my lesson the hard way about playing with Playtech casinos and from now on I don't go near them.

Why high street retailers are entertaining them I'll never know, some of the behaviour is up there with the roguest of rogues.

 

[zanzibar]

Well Playtech is majority owned by Teddy Sagi who did time for stock market fraud and bribery in Israel in the 90s. The fish rots from the head down as they say.