They also said that they ‘fully appreciated the dissatisfaction’ this would cause and apologized for the poor betting experience.

One commenter on the proceedings exclaimed that the amount should be paid anyway, as a customer who accidentally placed a bet online in excess of what they meant to place would be forced to pay regardless. To this, one Dave Leeds responded: “Really ! so if you advertise your car in the paper, but accidentally put £200 as the asking price instead of £2000 – can I have it for £200 ?” Such correspondences and debate have been rampant since the race.

What few people seem to take into account is that Betfair is not the one responsible for paying the winnings. They actually take a cut off the winnings so this exchange would have been very profitable for them. What has happened is that a better lay a wager at 29-1 odds and others took them up on the bet. But there should have been an exposure limit set. An exposure limit is the total amount a person can afford to lose. Once that is reached, no more bets can be laid. In this case, the computer systems ignored the exposure limit and bets were made in excess of what the better could afford. As this was due to a mistake on the part of Betfair’s system, it’s only right that the bets be voided in this case.

Some people will argue about everything.

The two were allowed to leave the courthouse unmolested but are barred from leaving the state and will likely be detained until their sentence hearing, due to the expected flight risk. Two others that were involved in the illegal gambling and sports betting operation are still on the loose. The US Attorney’s office maintains that it is still seeking their whereabouts. This event happened the exact same day that an 85 year old woman’s house was raided on suspicions of running an underground football betting ring in Corpus Christi, Texas. Unlike Lyons and Eremian, she was not considered a flight risk, though police did confiscate 2 handguns, $10k in cash, and it is believed that the woman had hundreds of customers.

While the debate about the legality of gambling and poker online rages on, it would appear that some investigators are cracking down on gambling when and where they can, making the entire issue an increasingly hot topic in the news.

In one instance, Audrey of West Lothian Scotland was told that she was possibly a fraud due to a mistake on her faxback form. She had accidentally supplied them with her old address as oposed to the new one she had used to sign up with the casino (which incidentally was only one street over). She verified her new address by sending them multiple utility bills and documents. iNetbet says they still do not believe she is who she claims to be, and cited a recent gambling ring of fraudsters who abuse bonuses. Audrey says she does not know how else to prove her identity, and it may be that she is a fraud, but she isn’t the only one who’s being accused of casino game abuse.

Louise of London, UK, has had her account locked because iNetBet believes she is part of a fraud ring. However, in terms of substantiating their claim, the site offers no evidence. By comparison, Louise actually has supplied multiple forms of proof that she is who she claims to be. Her Neteller account is linked directly to her bank, she is a vip member of Neteller and Moneybookers, she has proven her IP address, and has been able to show that over the course of 4 deposits, she only accepted a bonus the first time- a bonus she subsequently lost anyway. So if none of this is enough to prove who she is, what is Louise to do? There’s really no way to prove a negative.

The very same situation applies to Alice of Rochester, who has been told she is a ‘fraud’. Yet, in her case, she wasn’t even told what her fraudulent behavior might consist of. When pestered for details, iNEtbet will not give more than the most general and ambiguous of answers. If you’re going to accuse someone of being a criminal, surely you should at least know what crime it is you believe they have committed.

What all of this leads to is not necessarily that iNetbet is a rogue or disreputable casino, but that they may be suffering from some sort of security problems. In all cases, the casino has claimed that they believe the players to be fraudulent, despite whatever documentation they have provided. This occasionally happens but for three complaints to arise along these lines in a month seems like a bit much. If they have a sudden need to be this suspicious, it makes us believe that they are not as secure as they ought to be. Their claim that a ring of fraudsters has been in evidence also suggest that indeed some fraudsters might be abusing the casino’s games and bonuses- but if so then this is a new phenomenon and one which they are not prepared to handle.

For the time being, I recommend staying away from iNetbet. There’s simply too much confusion here to trust them or the security of their site. I would certainly not like to have my winnings voided or confiscated solely because they don’t know how to check up on their customers or maintain security on their end. And as previously noted, you can’t prove a negative, so once accused of being a fraud, how would I ever prove otherwise? It’s too much of a risk. Check out the open directory of casino games and sites at dmoz.org for places to play online that are more trustworthy than iNetbet currently appears to be.

This Mega Milestone promotion includes a grand prize of $70,000 that will be awarded to one lucky player on top of the other cash winnings they earn through the course of regular game play. Every player dealt into the game gets $50 and an additional $50 for every VIP point they accrue while ‘at the table’. The last time Pokerstars.com ran a promotion like this, over 1,600 players received a cash prize. Players can download a special counter that allows them to see how many hands have been dealt thus far. The first Mega Milestone hand was on Friday but the deal will be running until the 70 billionth hand has been played out. Sadly, Pokerstars.com no longer accepts US players on their regular play for real money website. US players can visit Yahoo gambling for a directory of online casinos that will accept them, or simply play for fun (no real money) on Pokerstars.net.

It makes sense when one considers that poker is different from games like roulette or craps in that it relies heavily on skill, talent, and the individual player’s abilities. One may learn the rules of any given dice game, but one does not have the ability to predict the roll of the dice and alter their bets accordingly beforehand. There is an element of chance in poker, certainly. One cannot predict the cards they will be dealt. But the player does have the option of altering their mode of play according to the cards they been given, and to make choices and decisions that affect the eventual outcome. Much like in sports, the ‘athlete’ is the one who has the most power in determining how events will turn out. Rather than having spectators bet upon them, or the house wager against them, the athletes of poker are putting money down on their own talents and prowess at the game. The establishment offering the opportunity for players to bet and win real money against each other  traditionally charges a fee for processing the transactions and maintaining the venue but does not (or should not) place bets on or against any of the players. The house does not stand to profit specifically from the losses of the poker players.

However, does this line of reasoning work in online poker? Consider that there are fees associated with maintaining the servers, licensing, software, customer service, as well as other facets of running an operation that are incurred and therefore chargeable to the players by the online casino offering the game playing platform. Yet it’s also true that the house does seem to profit at the losses of its patrons in this case, if only marginally. I believe this is where the bonus and special promotions factor comes in. When a player accepts online casino bonuses, they are basically taking money from the establishment and using it to bet upon themselves. This is akin to the house betting on them. Though in this case it is done vicariously, it is still done with the casino’s permission and credits. This means the online company is placing wagers on the outcomes of the games. What’s more, the house always wins because it’s betting on every player and at least one is always going to beat the others.

I have to say that, given these arguments, perhaps online poker is gambling in a sense that regular poker might not be; and perhaps they were not simply being crazy when they signed that Act into law. Honestly, though, I will still always feel that poker, traditional or online, is a form of gambling whether the house bets on the outcome or not. I am also the kind of person who would not see the point in making the distinction US law currently makes anyway. I feel that online gambling should be legalized and regulated everywhere. In which case, it does not matter if you play poker, blackjack, or anything else, the option to engage in it (and possibly win big) would still be yours and this entire debate is over a moot point.

In the end, the definition used to classify gambling in the 1988 Act seems neither particularly useful nor precise to me. If anything, it strikes me as a loopholed-blow made by lobbyist who are anti-gambling but like to play poker.

What you probably haven’t stopped to think about is how much we owe him and the Apple company for their contribution to the world on online casino games. The user interfaces designed by Jobs allow us to play our games as never before. The iPhone is almost solely responsible for the huge surge in interactive  mobile devices, thus, the increase in the types and styles of games that were created for mobile devices by various other companies. If you stop and think about it, we owe Apple computers a lot just in terms of the capabilities of our personal computers, the graphic-based, user-friendly designs that allow us to surf the web and enjoy the online content that we do. Furthermore, Pixar would never have made it as big as they did without his leadership and funding. Without Pixar, animated graphics and computer vectors would never have developed as quickly as they did. They were the fore-runners in concept modeling and design, all of which have changed the face of what we see when surfing the Internet.

Indeed, Steve Jobs may not even have stopped to consider it himself, but we here at internetcasino-gambling.com feel that the entire industry of online gambling owes him a lot of thanks. What would our free slots games look like without him? How would our virtual poker hands be dealt? Sure, these things are not the most important aspects of Jobs’ innovations, but we’d sure be having a lot less fun without them. Let’s all take a moment of silence to wonder at the brilliance that Jobs brought into the world. Thank you, Steve Jobs. Your contributions to technology changed the future.

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