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Originally Posted by Black winter day
LMAO, thousands of players have their money frozen for over a year without any response and he needs more evidence.
Why don't you deposit to Battlefield poker right now? I heard they have a sweet $1000 sign up bonus...
The matter of fact is, noone was warned about this tusk issue, we all signed to those sites, because they were MICROGAMING skins, not because of some Tusk company we have never heard of.
Players were mistreated and cheated and noone gives a damn.
But because of people like you, this network is still up and running, raking millions. "My skin is safe, all those others skins were bad", not realising, this could happen to you as well.
I understand your hurt and frustration and I'm sorry for you guys who got burned by this.
I understand that players assumed that Microgaming was liable for the deposits, but I think you need to realize that no online poker account is federally insured. You knew that when you signed up, it was a risk you were willing to take to get that sweet $1000 dollar sign up bonus. There is and always will be some risk attached to keeping your money in an online casino/pokerroom, even seemingly large reputable ones.
In the specific example, the last case shows us that the money isn't a liability to Microgaming, its a liability to the individual skin or group of skins. Signing up with Ladbrokes means that Ladbrokes or its parent company (in the last case Tusk) is liable for your deposit. I would feel comfortable having an large cap exchange listed company, Ladbrokes, being liable for my deposit. It may go bankrupt, but its alot less likely to than the fly by night skins.
The bottomline is if you are willing to play sketchy sites, looking for fishier games, then you have to expect to take on more risk. GiftofGab had warning on his website about the Prima/microgaming network as early as mid 2004.