first of all - its not run by those guys anymore ( if you are referring to evenbetgaming), and never was, they only supplied software to highstakes.
second - they switched to stretchnetwork recently, which i am a part of ( we are a b2b supplier as well)

How can you cooperate with such a scam room?

Highstakes neither pays its players nor responds to support requests - they have been practising this illegal behaviour for 2 years now.

Furthermore, many players of Highstakes have accumulated thousands of dollars on the old software, as their MTT's basically consisted only of generic housebots. This money is now being "legally" flushed over into the player pool of Vbet / Betconstruct - it's all shady as ****.


These are not just my own experiences, you can read about them in any forum.
https://forum.gipsyteam.ru/index.php?viewtopic=165554

https://www.cardschat.com/forum/poke...oughts-412441/

Poker is supplied through an API integration. They have their own master system, meaning they control deposits/players funds etc as well as their policy to that.

We as a network supplier are responsible for gaming anti-fraud (bots, chipdumping,colluding etc), software support, network promotions.

as for this - idk how other suppliers handle bot policy with their clients, we have 0 tolerance for it, and try our best to detect/ban/refund across our network.

Regarding money flushing i dont see the benefit from this. Our network consists of a lot of skins, their players loosing money to bunch of other skins, leads to what kind of gain? or did you mean something else.

In regards to business ethics and due dilligence from not only legal side, but also players side. -its diffucult


Here is an example - After the war in Ukraine started, Pokermatch ( now Poker-bet) banned\froze all russian players accounts that they gladly accepted before on the site, and seized all their funds. Then after around 8 months of working on essentially russian software they switched to playtech (Ipoker network) ,did playtech cared about 1000s of players having their money stolen?as a supplier i dont think they did at all.

Hi, thanks for your answer.

First of all, I'm not accusing your software of anything - I actually like it a lot. It was just about the fact that the old software of Highstakes.com was really infested with housebots (the same 5-10 accounts always bought in shortly before the end of the late-reg and then let themselves blind-out (they also never took an add-on) so that you actually reached ITM in 90% of the cases as a normal player), so it was very easy to accumulate money there and can now spend it in your player pool. But I am glad that you handle this differently.


Because of the fact that it was very easy to accumulate money there, many players are now sitting there with thousands of dollars in their bankrolls, which they could never pay out - and that is my main concern.

Highstakes.com has not been paying their players for a year or two, nor do they respond to support requests. It doesn't matter if you meet their already utopian payout rules (e.g. at least 50%-100% of the payout amount has to be raked before - like wtf?!), you are simply ignored, your payouts are permanently rejected with always new accusations like VPN usage, too little rake, other payout method or other nonsense. There is simply no way to withdraw your money, which is why all the affiliate partners have left this site.

The difference to Pokermatch is also that they have banned only RUSSIAN players due to geopolitical actions, but are otherwise a reputable poker room which does not show this behavior at all. So in my opinion, your comparison is also inappropriate at this point.


And how should I understand your final statement now? So you don't care that you cooperate with his room, which doesn't follow its own rules, thus doesn't pay out players and doesn't respond to support requests, but generates nice money for your network? Hallelujah

In the end, I had simply hoped that the mentioned issues regarding lack of support and non-payment to players would be resolved with the new software and new network, and that Highstakes.com would become a reputable poker room.

As I mentioned, I really like the new environment, and since Highstakes is your only skin I can play on from my country, I would really like to continue doing so - and obviously, many other players feel the same way, given that the traffic is still quite high at the moment.

However, it's clear that as long as Highstakes continues this behavior, it is neither beneficial for the overall player turnout nor for the generated revenue, because many players understandably feel scammed.

Perhaps you, as partners, can somehow influence Highstakes.com . I personally will only play there again once I am sure that withdrawals are approved without problems - as it is the absolute standard in all reputable poker rooms.

we actually do care, will monitor more closely activity from their side, in light of this information, but suppliers cannot enforce anything on the operators side of things, unless its network related.
i.e if we see unusual ammount of teamplay of bots from a skin, we will take action of course.

as for pokermatch,even though i respect their professionalism, i dont understand the geopolitical reasons of stealing RUSSIAN players money, but using RUSSIAN software at the same time. also make a guess who is the supplier for poker-bet now, after their relationship with ipoker ended)

*Update*

Highstakes has now paid me for the first time!

However, the rakeback payments are now completely missing, otherwise they always came on time every Monday and on their website they also still advertise it.

I find their withdrawals reasonably fast and consistent as long as you are meeting the rake requirement. I have been withdrawing about $90us per week for awhile and no problems as long as I rake enough.

Since the move to the new software rakeback payments have stopped.

Secondly there has been an occasion when my table balance of about 700 Euros was not credited back to my overall balance. I have contacted Stretch Network about this but am yet to hear back.

Stretch Network is a b2b provider, we dont work with players requests directly. Since there is integrationinvolved, a bunch of things could have happend when you leave the table ( normally poker server and platform correspond, and balance adjustments are made) but if connection was lost between systems, it would take time to find on which side the problem occurred (poker or platfrorm) , DM me details, cant guarantee anything sadly though

after joining stretchnetwork i was withdrawn 99$ 2 times
that's all
Now i can’t even open the client, it simply won’t let me into the room, i can’t even open the web version on the site
im very sorry for the lost time and 1k$ that i so need for life

poker on highstakes from stretch was switched off

They are gone with the money

It seems he thinks he is safe in Thailand.
https://www.facebook.com/JamieNev

Are you saying Highstakes is down and ran with everyones money? They emailed me on the 30th with some deposit offer codes or something. Unless it's a different site? Subject title of email is "New Year, New Updates"

He is still fishing for any deposits... -I didn't receive that email.

There is no Highstakes poker. He got kicked out of Betconstruct's Stretch network recently, there is no poker room.
Casino games seem to still be up, but we shall contact providers.

It has prob been a one man ''operation'' (Jamie Nevin) and he was hustling deposits with those codes/ email offers for some time now.

Balances are still showing if you log in on the web portal. I suggest you run up a little play playing basic strategy blackjack and then try to withdraw the $99 per week.

Just FYI they are also having problems paying affiliates.

They probably detected IP collision between you and another affiliate

LOL!