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Blacklisted: Villa Fortuna Casino and Eight Others

Villa Fortuna Casino, along with eight other Microgaming sites that were promoted by Grand Prive Affiliates, have been blacklisted at The Online Casino Gambling Directory for breach of contract with its affiliates.

  • Grand Prive Affiliates contracted with affiliates to have affiliates refer customers to various Microgaming sites (Bella Vegas, Fortune Junction, Jackpot Wheel, Jupiter Club, Lake Palace, Road House Reels, Casino Grand Bay, Grand Bay Poker). In exchange for referrals, affiliates were to be paid a percentage of the lifetime revenue generated by referred players (see bottom page at the above link).
  • Weeks ago, Grand Prive Affiliates went out of business, while the sites that they were associated with, and to which affiliates referred players, remain operational. However, the sites are no longer paying affiliates for revenue generated by previously-referred players. This is theft and breach of contract.
  • Villa Fortuna Casino, while not an original part of the eight Grand Prive-branded group of sites, is being run by the same outfit as that which operates the eight Grand Prive sites.

The net-net of all of this is that, in my opinion, these sites are not to be trusted with your money. If they are willing to steal from and breach their contract with affiliates, there is sufficient evidence to think that they are perfectly capable of doing the same to its players.

Trust me on this one… I’ve been in this business for years. Stay away from these nine sites.

Besides, there are plenty of other top-rated, trustworthy Microgaming casinos and Microgaming poker rooms available to you.

(Please note: Microgaming casinos and Microgaming poker rooms do not accept players from the United States. Wherever you live, please check your local, state, and provincial laws before you gamble online.)

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NoXWin Blacklisted at The Online Casino Gambling Directory

NoXWin operates a casino, poker room, and sportsbook. Recently, they and their affiliates began emailing me at various email addresses on the theonlinecasinogamblingdirectory.com domain.

  • On 29 Oct 08, I initially asked to be removed for their mailing lists.
  • On 03 Nov 08, I repeated my request, outlined my domains that I wanted removed, sent that email to multiple email addresses on the noxwin.com and noxaffiliates.com domains, and gave a date of 13 Nov 08 by which I expected to be removed from their mailing lists.
  • On 18 Nov 08, I again received email from the noxaffiliates.com domain (specifically, tom@…).

I can only conclude that the noxwin.com properties condone spamming, as their noxaffiliates.com affiliates clearly do. Thus, I have blacklisted both the noxwin.com and the noxaffiliates.com domains, bringing the total number of sites on the blacklist to sixteen.

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KGC completes investigation of Absolute Poker

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) has issued their report on the cheating scandal at Absolute Poker (AP). For those that may not be aware, in the summer and fall of 2007, it is alledged that some AP player accounts had access to other player’s hole cards.

The KGC found that this was indeed the case. Among other findings, it found that the AP executives failed to notify the KGC within 24 hours of their becoming aware of this breach. The KGC has fined AP $500,000, required AP to pay for the full cost of the report and audit, and will require that AP be subjected to random auditing for the next two years. (View the full report here in PDF format.)

My take is that AP dropped the ball when they found out about this scandal. While I have not taken the drastic step of blacklisting AP at The Online Casino Gambling Directory, it has been given a one-star rating at my site. I recommend staying away from AP until such time as we see if they can keep their card room free from any similar scandal in the future.

After all, there are plenty of other online poker rooms where you can play — with FullTilt Poker being one of my long-time favorite sites.

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