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Hi Jblum! Firstly, ALL casinos belong to one group or another. It's an operating strategy, necessary for better chances of survival and better revenues! Pooling of resources have definite advantages over singularity, very similar to MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) operations, if you are familiar with that. Bonuses and Free Play offers are entirely up to each and individual casino's discretion. No-deposit bonuses tend to be a little bit more controlled and restricted because of the $$ involved, hence some casinos do not allow a same customer to take up another no-deposit offer at any of their other casino within their group. Winward's group of Top Game casinos, for example, ALLOW taking up ALL of their no-deposit offers whenever available. I took all 7 or 8 of them when they offered! MGS, RTG, Rival and even Playtech casinos do restrict their bonuses and free offers, in one way or another. It's all up to their own management's policies. We can't change that. Accept and be conquered!!! Cheers! Afi

Luciana - Yes dearie, every word in that article is mine. It isn't an excerpt of a longer article, nor bits and pieces taken off from anywhere else either! ValDes - glad it made your day! Your points have been noted. No, my statements were based not only from my own personal experiences but also on various similar cases mentioned in other forums! Solid Gambler - thanks for your comments. Glad to know that there are other conspiracy theories followers here too! To me, what's most important is letting as many people know about this matter as possible - so that they are aware of the risks before putting down their hard-earned money into casinos. LATEST UPDATE...I am currently working on something that will show that fun play is indeed easier to win! Smoking Gun evidence or not? See and decide later! So keep TUNED IN!!! Cheers! Afi

Hi Luciana! Today is again another weird day for me - my replies all went through! Hopefully it stays this way...so I can start posting my replies! This isn't a complaint about any casino - just a complaint on the technical issue being faced by this website - may not be AskGamblers fault at all cos I had faced other technical issues with my other forum sites too. But 'All's well that ends well!' Afi

Hi Irine. Geeee...when I read your last sentence I was kinda wondering...didn't you set your email to automatically get rid of your spam mails every day, week or month? I literally clear all my unwanted mails daily - the ones that I want to keep I move them into relevant folders for future reference. Sorry Irine, I am not trying to teach you how to manage your mail, just telling you that it’s always a good idea to keep your mail clean and tidy. I am probably different from most others - I simply cannot stand untidiness! I too have had lots of old casino accounts mails ‘all over the place’ in my mailbox some years back, until I finally sat down and cleared all of them...one by one…it took me many days to do it, but I did it! Hehehe. So now, my new and old casino account mails are all safely in their respective folders, except those which had gotten lost or misplaced earlier on. Back to your question. What I would do is, first find your username for the casino you want to access, then go to its website, download and reinstall the software, if necessary. Once that is done, use your old username to login. Cannot remember password? Click on the 'Forgot Password' button, enter your email address and you'll soon get a new temporary one which you can then use to login. If you get a message saying "your account has been temporarily locked..." then you'll have to write in to the casino’s Support for account reactivation. At times, this can be a real pain-in-the-*****, as I found out with some casinos - too much hassling from them - so I just leave them be, as if they don’t exist! That's for the account part. As for your old forgotten money part, you'll have to follow ValDes's advice cos I have NEVER left behind an account with money still in it - only EMPTY ones!!! Cheers! Afi

Hello guys and gals. Please pardon and excuse me for not replying back to your replies - I am still unable to post any replies, until my 7-day period is up! I have read all your comments and have some interesting points to put forward...but all these have to wait for just a few more days. So please bear with me! Cheers! Afi

THE TRUTH BETWEEN REAL PLAY AND FUN MODE PLAY Hi there everyone! Being a veteran gamer (have been playing slots for donkey years), I feel I should give my few dollars and cents worth (surely worth more than just cents, hehehe) of input regarding this matter. I'll try and make it as simple as possible so that everyone can understand easily. Firstly, the definitions: REAL PLAY - meaning, playing with real money that you have deposited into your casino's account, with or without bonuses offered by the casino (a depositing member having a real money account). FREE PLAY - meaning, playing with credits (money) or free spins offered by a casino, usually for new players, to let them play in the casino for free, to let them get a taste and feel of the games, with an intent of recruiting them into the casino as new depositing members. PRACTICE PLAY – or more commonly referred to as FUN MODE or PLAY FOR FUN, means playing games with fun money (not real money) given by a casino, either for practice (to familiarize oneself with any particular game or games) or simply for trying out the various games available in the casino, with an intent of recruiting new players as depositing members. So, is Real Play really any different from Free Play, Fun Mode Play or Practice Play? On the surface, no blatant or obvious differences are noticeable, as designed to be. The times when any player wins easily in the Free Play or Fun Mode Play is usually attributable to just being lucky or having good luck! However, notice that in some casinos, an on-screen message would pop up whenever a big win has been encountered, with the message “Lucky you! Would you like to play for real money now?” Hmmm. Excited new players, especially those who cannot control their emotions well enough, may eventually switch over to real money play! They get registered, make a deposit, gets a huge welcoming bonus and off they go into real money play, full of excitement and anticipation, hoping to make that big win again. But do they? Very rarely indeed! Only real lucky ones do make a win. To all others who did not, they would probably be thinking “darn…no luck today…maybe next time?” Sounds familiar? Why is this so? Why is it always ‘seemingly’ easier to win when you are in the Free Play and Fun Play Mode? Now here's the most probable catch! In order to make new players become overwhelmed with excitement when playing in a casino, software developers have provided and/or introduced subtle tweaking provision/s of the non-real money gameplay in their software, which does not interfere with the real money gameplay settings! The end result? Non-real money play can therefore be manipulated and tweaked as how a software client (casino) wants it to be! Believe it or not! The proof? Here’s one. Why is the Real Play mode (having a real money account) always separated from the Fun or Practice Play Mode (having no account)? In truth, to allow players to play in both real money and fun modes, without having to ‘switch over’ accounts, does not need state-of-the-art technology to separate them apart! There are other crucially important undisclosed reasons for keeping them apart! One of them is none other than for making wins come easier in the free and fun mode play! Playtech software provides many extra gameplay variations NOT FOUND in any other software. For example, any player who already has a real money account would be required to register a second time in order to use the Play For Fun mode whenever CONNECTED to the internet. But an alternative is available - any player can use the same registered username and password to play in the Play For Fun mode ONLY when OFFLINE! To all those familiar with Playtech software, this is indeed a very useful variation, allowing any player to play for fun with UNLIMITED non-real money! You can either start off with the given $2000, or manually increase the amount up to $999,999! Whatever fancies you! However, this alternative fun mode is only available at fully dedicated Playtech casinos, without having any mixture of other software games. William Hill Casino, for example, is not a fully dedicated Playtech casino because it is using a mixed platform (you can read my review on William Hill Casino if you haven’t done so already). Needless to say, I, for one, ALWAYS find it easier to get wins when playing in the fun mode! I should know better too because I have played and practiced in the fun mode for about 3 years before finally going into serious real money play! Still not convinced? Here’s another proof! I am sure that every player has taken up free play and free spins offers at one time or another. Free spins offers in particular, NEVER FAIL to end up with some win at the end of the free play. Most of the time, most players would end their free spins play with a PREDETERMINED win – notice how the wins would always be in and about certain amounts such as $10 or $20. If you so happened to win more, lucky you! Hehehe. Then, why is it that whenever you continue playing with that won money you would end up with zero balance eventually? Just pure coincidence? No luck at all? No, not really! The truth is that the free play and free spins mode had been tweaked to give a predetermined win - and then switching or reverting back to real money mode to recover all the money back!!! It’s all in the software tweaking provisions, believe it or not!!! In short, although no one can really prove what I have just described above (you think software providers would openly admit this?), I openly dare say that playing in the free play and fun modes can never be the same as when playing in the real money mode! A casino’s existence is everything about making money, in every possible legal way, and recruiting new customers is a NEVER-ENDING task and target to any casino for survival! Ponder on this! Cheers! Afi

Hello everyone! I am new at AskGamblers but certainly not new to forum sites and casinos! Just to let you know that when and if I have a complaint, I'll know what to do and where to post it. Cheers! Afi

Sorry about that tiny winy fonts in my earlier messages. Testing out which font size I like now...hehehe. (over and out...)

Hi there ValDes. I have just PMed you. Please take a look. Thanks.

Hi there Lucky13, Luciana and everyone else too! I have just joined AskGamblers a few days back after noticing that you pay $5 (yum-yum) for casino reviews here. I have done many many reviews at other forum sites but I am now gonna stick here where my reviews can be read, enjoyed and paid for! Hehehehe. So far, I have completed 10 reviews on Playtech casinos and I have just posted a review on Rome Casino today. I plan to write a few a day, until I have covered all casinos that I am familiar with, if that's okay with you! If you need anything or any info from me, kindly message me or just reply to this message. I'll take it from there. Thank you all! Cheers!

Hi Pokec! Talking about 7 Regal Casino, I have made many withdrawals from this casino without any problems or complaints. Processing times are more or less standard, as with other Playtech casinos, being 4 business days. I have never experienced any missed, delayed or declined payments from them. In this sense, I dare say that 7 Regal Casino can be considered safe, secure and reliable to play at. I know better because I am an avid fan of Playtech and I almost exclusively play at Playtech casinos. I have many casinos that I regularly play at and 7 Regal is one of them!