Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Casino Rewards Network Says No to Advatage Players - part 3

By Steve Briggs

If you are one of these kind of players the terms seek to discourage, and you still choose to play at at Casino Rewards site and you try to beat the system in an obvious method, expect to not get paid. The casino is being quite upfront about this matter and in fact is giving away the recipe for not being accused, simply play a little deeper than the minimums.

Advantage players are very savvy and know the casinos do not want their business but they choose to force the issue because it is the only chance they have to enter into a gambling situation and have a positive expectation. It is already understood that a casino cannot stay in business if it is giving out better than it receives, and players choose to give up that percentage the house has over them in order to have a place to go gamble and know they will be paid when they win.

What these kind of terms really hurt is the casino because it will be taken wrong by a percentage of people, and legitimate players who read about these issues and have not yet been involved with online gambling long enough to realize the casino is in fact saving money that can be given to them, will not sign up to play there. Those players lose out because Casino Rewards have been the top of my reputable list for nearing ten years and I've had only one complaint in all that time and that one was due to the player misunderstanding when they were to get credited for a high hand bonus at the poker site. That's an outstanding record in my book, by any standards actually, but especially when you know the incompetence, greed and over-indulged egos that lurk out there in the virtual casino world.

These are casinos time-proven to pay even the biggest of amounts of money, such as the recent winner located in Finland who was paid a whopping five and a half million dollars from BlackjackBallroom on a fifty cent slot machine bet that resulted in the jackpot.

If I can trust Casino Rewards in knowing they pay those kind of jackpot amounts, then I think I can trust them to be able to look at my proven play history and determine I am not a bonus chaser. I do not deposit and play the minimum, only then to cash out. The only people who will have such reason to complain about these terms are those who are first time players that have accepted a bonus and then played the minimum required wagers to cash out. If that isn't the definition of an advantage player then what would be? The casinos are making it very clear they don't want this kind of player, they are not welcome, and that they are not going to have how they run their business dictated to them by a group of opportunists. If you choose to call the casino unfair for making these terms and conditions clearly available to be known before any money exchanges hands, then so be it.

However legitimate players with a savvy of online gambling will not find such terms threatening and enjoy having the confidence in knowing they are playing at an online casino in the network of the likes of Blackjack Ballroom which as mentioned just paid out five and a half million dollars. This was reported on Fox news the month of April, 2008 and is a matter of public record.

One last thing, Casino Rewards, the network accused of trying to avoid paying the small withdrawals by those profiled as not accepting the bonus in spirit given, is the same network that just recently bought the failed network of casinos that included Golden Reef, Challenge, Nostalgia and Music City, who closed their doors while still having many of their player's money. Casino Rewards announced when they bought the failed network that all outstanding debt to the players would be paid by them thus ensuring nobody got hurt. Rather an odd act of charity to come from some place willing to stoop to cheating bonus chasers out of a few dollars, wouldn't you say? Or is it that Casino Rewards has taken their stance based on principal, rather than on trying to save a few dollars?

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