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So this is true? I am writing casino reviews for several sites and was of the opinion tha tthe MGA were a trustworthy licensing body. I have heard the stores of online caisnos supposedly being "Squeezed" at the moment, and lowering game RTP's as a result where possible, but anything less than 90% is daylight robbery in my book. If the MGA are allowing this it will have a dramatic effect on my opinion of them from this point forward.
 
Surely the UKGC are not allowing this?

Wow, I didn't know about this, amazing they decided it was necessary to do this because of the lockdown ?! I mean, have I got the logic right here - people are at home more and possibly gambling more, t herefore we should stop them reversing their withdrawals...???... Come on this is utter nonsense, give me a break!!

I like the idea of these tournaments and my winrate so far from about 20 or so has been completely amazing... a humongous zero dollars!! Not sure I will be going back 😛

I would say $20/£20 is much too little to take to a land-based casino ... especially if you want to play tables like blackjack and roulette as you mentioned. Maybe you can get away with it if they have some slots with low minimum bets - I've certainly had many enjoyable nights in playing online casinos with just £20 of deposited funds, occasionally even £10. But to get a seat at a table with decent(low house edge) rules playing Blackjack you usually have to bet £2/£3/£5 per hand in my experience, roulette can sometimes be different because of the way they work the chips at those tables, but if you want to play a lot of numbers at a time then again, I just don't think £20 is enough. They totally destroyed the high street bookmakers roulette games here in the UK when they enforced a £2 per spin max bet, I mean thats like 10p per number if you want to play half the board ... nobody is playing roulette to win £3.50, are they ? ...
Ultimately though, if you are enjoying yourself going out with your £20 then I'd say the alternative answer is YES, it surely is enough! Don't be surprised that you are losing it most of the time - thats just how gambling often works in general. Lots of small losses, occasional big wins. You can alter this a little with some strategy of course
 

Ah coco.. I remember seeing your pic on here a while back, I reckon you can't be much older than me... you just turned... 38 ? And you got 2 bonuses, 1 from your favourite haunt and one from somewhere you didn't expect. I'll reveal my own later this month

Not strictly gambling, but....
 
 

I demand sexual equality! ... we should all be allowed to gamble naked, or in our undergarments!

There's definitely a few levels that had me totally infuriated, the way I eventually got past them was not playing for a whole month as you now get an extra move for every day you don't play... the extra 30 moves made it JUST about possible to clear the level. But as AFI says a little further down, the number of "extras" they throw at you nowadays means any real challenge is gone and its just a sneaky way of milking money from people now. I won't do it,... I think they add new levels daily so I doubt I'll ever reach the end, but if there is one, I'm getting there without giving them a penny

I expect reverse withdrawals are going to be banned soon in the UK ... now thats at least a move I can get behind, unlike the ridiculous removal of quick spin from slots and limiting autoplay to 100 spins and the like... utterly garbage rules and dictats from people who know nothing about gambling.

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Personally I think its just disgusting behaviour, I've made my fair share of mistakes when I've been drunk, or much more often than that, just greedy - I dropped a tenner in the other day just for a bit of fun, played it up to £70 or so, but I'd set a target of 100 and so kept playing... sure enough I ended up back down at zero. Who's to blame for this CALAMITY OF INJUSTICE? *I AM* !!! Coming to a forum and trying to blame the casino in some way is just beyond ridiculous. 
But to be honest, its no different to any other walk of life - people will often try and blame others for their mistakes. Not to worry though, we can sniff out out BS around here like a fresh *****

Yup, thats exactly it I would say - the trend was heading in that direction with new games, the switch to HTML5 was probably seen as a blessing from god for some of these "hard up" casinos.... 

I'm sure this will be quite a common one, but lady luck works in mysterious ways it seems.... when I was in Budapest playing at the Blackjack table, I went up from £50 (or whatever it is in those crazy Forints to some quite ridiculous amounnt of chips, before losing them all right back down to  my last chip. I decided to play the last chip anyway... what good was it on its own. Bam, Blackjack. Popped my winnings on the spot, BAM, second blackjack ... put it all on the spot once again, 20 vs a dealer A... sure I was gonna be SOL.. nope, dealer bust. To cut a long story short, my incredible run of just letting it ride continued for about 10 hands until I was back up to around 500£ worth of chips ... I decided to walk at that point, I wasn't much up from what I'd started at the table with, but damn, just when you think your evenings over, the craziest things can happen!

Yup, thats exactly it I would say - the trend was heading in that direction with new games, the switch to HTML5 was probably seen as a blessing from god for some of these "hard up" casinos.... 

I'm sure this will be quite a common one, but lady luck works in mysterious ways it seems.... when I was in Budapest playing at the Blackjack table, I went up from £50 (or whatever it is in those crazy Forints to some quite ridiculous amounnt of chips, before losing them all right back down to  my last chip. I decided to play the last chip anyway... what good was it on its own. Bam, Blackjack. Popped my winnings on the spot, BAM, second blackjack ... put it all on the spot once again, 20 vs a dealer A... sure I was gonna be SOL.. nope, dealer bust. To cut a long story short, my incredible run of just letting it ride continued for about 10 hands until I was back up to around 500£ worth of chips ... I decided to walk at that point, I wasn't much up from what I'd started at the table with, but damn, just when you think your evenings over, the craziest things can happen!

I really hate the fact that many games have had the selectable line options removed when the games were updated to HTML5. I understand the transition was absolutely necessary, its not long now before the plugin is removed from our browsers altogether, once and for all. You'd think something like that would bankrupt the host company who provided the service for all those years.... but hang on, that company is.... Adobe! They'll probably just shove another few quid on the price of photoshop or something won't they. 
Do you think this change was made in order to force people to spend more money by playing all of the lines ? I don't know, doesn't seem quite right to me. I can understand it must make calculating paytables much easier but these are games that already had support for these features, the work was already done... does anybody else have any ideas for what could have caused this huge switch towards fixed lines? I reallly hope Playtech continues to offer this feature.... and it SO better not be another UKGC enforced mystery change.. those guys really haven't got a damn clue.

I really hate the fact that many games have had the selectable line options removed when the games were updated to HTML5. I understand the transition was absolutely necessary, its not long now before the plugin is removed from our browsers altogether, once and for all. You'd think something like that would bankrupt the host company who provided the service for all those years.... but hang on, that company is.... Adobe! They'll probably just shove another few quid on the price of photoshop or something won't they. 
Do you think this change was made in order to force people to spend more money by playing all of the lines ? I don't know, doesn't seem quite right to me. I can understand it must make calculating paytables much easier but these are games that already had support for these features, the work was already done... does anybody else have any ideas for what could have caused this huge switch towards fixed lines? I reallly hope Playtech continues to offer this feature.... and it SO better not be another UKGC enforced mystery change.. those guys really haven't got a damn clue.

Hope this hasn't been discussed to death already, I was surprised to see no results when searching, as this topic was seriously hot a couple of years ago... 
So, I have a friend who quit gambling a while back as they acknowledged it had become something of an unhealthy habit for them ... a position I supported, as a friend, though I'll be honest I was real disappointed to see the end of our regular poker games and Friday nights sat in playing online slots together
Fast forward a while, and it turns out this same friend has ended up spending just as much, if not far more, on loot boxes and in-game rewards on Xbox ... the UK Gambling Commission have decided that these services do not constitute gambling, primarily based on the fact you cannot convert your "winnings" back into real money .... Belgium on the other hand disagreed, and decided that paying real money for an opportunity of a randomised prize, does infact, constitute gambling.
For me, seeing a friend with a known gambling problem become addicted to these products is enough to convince me that it is certainly very similar, especially in terms of the psychological effect on players. I actually believe you could argue it is far worse, after all there is no chance of coming out"on top" even for a moment when all you are buying is virtual football stickers in FIFA, or buying 1,000 random boxes praying you might receive the gun, costume or other piece of digital bullsh*t you actually want from that next box.
I don't play modern games myself, or at least not 95%+ of them ... I can't resist a bit of GTA and am looking forward to Cyberpunk but this whole DLC/ Season Pass/ Loot Boxes ~ Constant nickel & diming of players is a major reason why I just absolutely hate it. 
I'd be fascinated to hear what people hear think, and if you feel the industry has cleaned up its act much since this was a major scandal 18-24 months ago... whilst I agree the most egregious cases of this ***** were swiftly put to bed (eg. Star Wars Battlefront 2), the Fifa/Madden Ultimate Team ***** is still alive and well and generating as many billions as ever... I've just bought my younger sister a PS5 this morning and I do worry about her being constantly exposed to this *****. That said, she works for Ubisoft herself so I'm sure there will be some who will say she deserves all she gets

Hey coco, I wasn't very clear with my first post, as I did have other things come out of my account which were for legitimate purchases I'd made.... the total value of "Kindred" transactions adds up to just under £250. The bank claim that the "timeline of events", IE the fact I also made purchases on Amazon during the night whilst I was at work, makes it unlikely anybody but myself made the other transactions too... when I made those purchases I got a notification on my phone asking me to authorise the purchase, which I did, and they ask me why I did not notice these other transactions at that time... but I simply get the notification, authorise with my fingerprint, and thats it, I don't necesarily look at the banking app at all during that process...

Absolutely have confronted people, my girlfriend at the moment doesn't gamble no, but she has told me who continued to play after I left... of course she was assuming they were playing with their own money, but admits she paid little attention, she was too busy catching up on the weeks hollyoaks... lol... said person claims to have used their own card, and has even shown me a screenshot of their account proving so ... but that doesn't mean mine wasn't also used of course.
Thankfully I did manage to sort out a few quid to get me by in these interim few days before I get paid again, Action Fraud were helpful but just like with the regular police, theres always this feeling they are basically blaming you for everything... when I was burgled, well I left a window open so should learn my lesson.... when I have money stolen from my account like this, its my own fault for saving details in my computer.... I have to make a decision if I'm going to give the person I suspects details to them, as he doesn't appear he is going to admit to anything... the casino don't appear interested in helping either, and have already permanently closed at least two of my accounts simply for reporting it to them ... truly horrible situation all around.
TBH I'm now considering myself lucky it wasn't a more substantial amount of money or anything, on a regular month I probably wouldn't have been quite so upset, but right after christmas when things are already tight, my own budget has been £50 a week for gaming .... I mean come on, if I'm losing £250 to a casino I at least want the pleasure of doing the actual spinning! 
I'm gonna be a thousand times more careful about who sees my new physical card going forward though, thats for sure... this could have been avoided if i'd been much more careful with my CVV code, which isn't saved into any devices ... obviously my friends need an upgrade too, but drunk people are always going to do stupid things aren't they...

Hi all,
So... yesterday I've had something of a complete nightmare with my bank account, came in from work in the morning and went to bed for a few hours (night shift you see).... by the time I got myself up I found myself with just £50 left in my bank account, which had £600 in it the night before. 

Didn't recognise most of the transactions that were showing, "kindred" was the name of the company... but whatever, I contacted my bank immediately and told them, who informed me it was an online gaming company .... Unibet, to be exact. Strange, I do play at Unibet occasionally and it always shows as Unibet on my statement. Furthermore, I am normally required to confirm my transactions using my mobile phone at point of purchase, but this strange "kindred" tag did not trigger this fraud prevention mechanism.
Obviously I reported to the bank immediately, had the card blocked, spoke to the casino who said they will need to talk to the bank.... but were friendly enough to shut my account immediately too... the bank asked for a crime reference number, which I acquired, but was also told I need to talk to action fraud on Monday as well. 
My worry is, I had my card details saved into my laptop ... that may or may not be a factor here. I work in IT and don't really protect my machines as most people do, I guess you could say I am cocky. But the most likely thing that has happened is that the people I left in my flat when I went to work the previous night figured they would keep on playing, as I'd been spinning Sky and Videoslots before I left... both sites that I have sensible limits set on... and again, whenever I deposit there I have to confirm the purchase with my mobile. Or it could just be that my machine is hacked also. Whatever the case, this is £250 i really could not afford to lose, and I'm worried that chasing this up to get it back will get it barred from playing at other sites now too.
Does anybody have any advice what I should do about this at this stage? I need the money back desperately at this stage, I don't get paid again for over  a week and have been left with next to nothing.

Don't know how I missed this in the past but I've posted a solid review now... amazing how much BS people write on sites like that, what is it, competitors making trouble?

How did you prove it beyond doubt and did you keep a chat log of this supposed confession? Sounds a bit fishy to me ... though I have heard Bovada are a bit shady these days...

Don't know how I missed this in the past but I've posted a solid review now... amazing how much BS people write on sites like that, what is it, competitors making trouble?

How did you prove it beyond doubt and did you keep a chat log of this supposed confession? Sounds a bit fishy to me ... though I have heard Bovada are a bit shady these days...

That's great news Conor, so is it fair to assume that the other Aspire casinos aren't necessarily tied to this 48 pending period either ??? Wonder why so many of them choose to insist on it despite the fact it's surely hurting their businses if that's the case... I won't usually play past my welcome bonuses if my money sits in reversible pending for 48 hours ...