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I have not paid attention much to people winning on gambling sites. I do not mean people that just win, but people that win big like over $10000 or more. All I have known is that people that won so big are publicized and people know them from there.

That is dangerous, it means no privacy and people that are known to the public can be the victim of robbers and there can be physical attacks from robbers in order to steal from the winner. That is not all, even if there is no physical threat, people like me and some other people on this forum can be afraid, feeling unsafe of attacks.

I do not expect gambling sites to be publicising this kind of news. Will gambling site ask for the permission of the winner for the winning to go public? Or the winner can just be anonymous in a way his name will not be mentioned?

If I'm not mistaken, lottery winners in the US are being publicized?

I don't know about crypto based casino's though, I mean we only have usernames and such so even if they put it in public no one will know the real names behind it.

And the last one that I heard that won a raffle here in our community with a Cyber Tesla Truck is SyGambler. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5277365.msg55393872#msg55393872)

I'm not really sure if it is being publicized on not. In land base casino's I don't see names, I just saw that in this day, this x amount of money has been won, no names.

For the lottery, we might see the images of individuals claiming the prize money with that huge check with pictorial purposes but their faces are blurred out. But I do agree that the names shouldn't be made public because it is very dangerous for the individual. He/she could be a target for a kidnap for random, so yes, possible of physical harm.

I don't think a casino should make this public. At least not without the user's permission. If people have won a lot of money, would they want it to be made public? I don't think so honestly. You can only get in trouble with it. Imagine that you have won 2 million$ and you would appear on the website or in the news with your photo and name, I think that suddenly you suddenly have a lot of friends and your life is no longer safe because people can easily track you down. A gambling site will never do that. Privacy is to important for users.

I guess it depends entirely upon what country you are in or what possible terms you agree to when playing in the casino. For example if deep in the text of the freebie membership account that you open allows them to publicize your name in the case of big wins, then that might be fair if they throw some free chips your way to play with at the start. There are also privacy ramifications, which might make this setup hard in places like the EU which have some advanced legal restrictions on what you can do with personal data. Who knows, it's good for the casino to advertise the occasional big win so they might even offer a small premium to go with your prize.

They are free to publicize it through their usernames and I'm sure that it's hard to identify that person in real life by just being publicized and recognized through his username.

It's okay if that's the case and they don't have to go in depth of it because they just want to publicly announce the winner. Usually, that's what I see when a casino has got someone who won a jackpot.

Yeah, probably it depends on the country itself, but for the sake of privacy, I don't think that they are willing to have their name plastered all over, specially average joe gamblers.

But for whales, probably they will want to have their names on front, you know, for bragging rights to other big gamblers. But if I'm going to win big, definitely, I don't want my names to be shown.

I don't think it's too risky to reveal it in this forum and celebrate it with the community. Yes I mean because this forum allows you to remain anonymous because you don't need KYC and are known by many people. So I guess it's safe to celebrate especially if it's a rare win.

But of course some people will think it's not a good thing to do considering maybe they care about privacy. In fact they may not like to tell people that they are gamblers or the pope of gambling, it's just for personal.

Personally I love everything anonymous even winning bets because its create unwanted attention to some this could even lead to some of those things you mention.

The gambling sites or casinos actually publicise these winners for advertisement sake. If people read about the success rate of this gamblers and how they win big prices with small stake it drives them towards those casinos.
From my place here I don't think those platforms really ask for winners permission although I might be wrong but betting office here just announce you and your winning price without your consents

Some casino reveal their winners and some are not, it actually depends people are different and are born to be different and she will standout from others, I think I read this somewhere else, there's a still an obligation before you will decide that you will saving the money and I think the company will ask if it is okay that you will end live or you will not say your name so that it will safe for you.

Asking for some permission or not then it would be definitely be depending on the platform you've been playing.Some might be respecting on their users privacy and some doesnt really care and just simply publicize

since they do know that it would really be a good advertisement for their site which might boost up and make huge interest if people do see that there is someone who do make huge wins on playing on the site.

It cant really be that avoided nor be ignored that people do really gets easily hyped and boosted up their feelings and believe that they would really be ending up on the same
scenario of someone who do win big which is totally a wrong mindset.

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Like I indirectly pointed out in my thread which you also pointed out, such behavior is absolutely risky, it's uncalled for, display or showoff simply gains you the same amount of enemies as friends, aside being a major target to robbers and kidnappers, people seeking financial help will start plastering you around, you can't help everyone, and those you couldnt help will  definitely turn themselves to your enemy.
So such a winning requires silence, tell the casino not to publicized your winning because you are a private person, they won't do otherwise, most of the public displays we see about people winning big amount are actually started by the winner, and not the casino.

I recently watched a viral video of a young man who won millions of naira equivalent to about $50k some days ago. A huge crowd gathered around him and were celebrating his winnings. It wasn’t the casino that made the news public, it was his friends and the people he told about the bet. I don’t think online casinos reveal the identity of their big winners no matter the amount won, at least without the person’s consent. They may post the username and the bet won. But that’s all. They understand the risk involved in divulging such sensitive information public without consent.

that is very true. casinos are not disclosing the winnings of their clients. it is against their privacy terms. now, it is up to the player if he wants to show it to the world his winnings. nobody can stop him if he wants to. social media channels these days are easy to publish this kind of happenings. but should think of consequences by doing so. the casino can't protect him after releasing his winnings from possible fraudsters. so the gambler should not blame the casino afterwards, if he encountered any issues with his winnings.

Some crypto gambling site post a huge winnings from their players but it’s their nickname only and not their real identity. In lottery in my place, they don’t expose it for security purposes and I think this should be the rules for everyone. It’s the discretion of the gambler if he wants to announce his winning but for me it’s too risky and not necessary. If I won big, even my family members will not know it because I know it will change our lives and some of them will become more greedy, it’s better to keep it a secret and spend slowly.

The moment you play a jackpot gambling game, you should know the terms about it especially if winners will be announced in public or not like in lotteries in some countries where winners are publicized. But in most cases, jackpot winners are anonymous.

And even if we hide our winnings in public, there will always be a time that it will be revealed soon.

But before making that a problem, I want to experience being a jackpot winner first. That problem about being publicized or not can think later on lol.

If there is no publication from the platform, I personally will not publish it, won't it be quite risky if many people know about it? We don't know how many bad people there are around us, do we?

What's more, in my country, gambling is illegal, so if I publish it, it could be very problematic later and result in the loss of the prize, and it could even lead to imprisonment. So, it's better to keep it to myself, you don't even need to tell other relatives, other than your immediate family if you have to. Or don't even need to tell anyone later. Only, just give the money gradually so as not to arouse suspicion.

We have a privacy act in our country and publishing winners will be bad for the casinos as there will be lesser people playing there because of their policy of publishing the names and identities of their winners, if the casino you're playing does not have a privacy policy then you're in big trouble and you should personally ask them not to publish your identity as it will put you in harm and your family, this applies to physical casinos but on online I haven't seen online casinos posting pictures or mentioning real names in their page, because online casinos are also compliant to privacy policy unless stated that they will publish names and pictures.

AFAIK the real danger is family members and "friends" lottery winners haven't seen in years suddenly showing up and asking for handouts.   :D

Its good for lottery organizers to publicize winners. It causes the public to feel like the lottery is more real and less of a scam. Factcheckers can scrutinize winners for connections to lottery organizers to prove its not rigged. It gives people confidence they might someday be a winner.

I think statistically more than 80% of lottery winners end up impoverished and in debt without a short timeframe. While we are prone to looking outside of ourselves for biggest dangers and threats. The most likely scenario for failure with winning the lottery is usually our own lack of self control. Lack of discipline. Lack of knowledge for how to cope with and grow wealth. The same precedent could apply to countries nationally. People love movies about alien invasions and a zombie apocalype. But looking around the world today, the biggest dangers appear to be our own mismanagement of money and natural resources.

For some reason gambling platforms keeping the winners anonymous is really good and this will let the winners have privacy as well as enjoy the winning. When got exposed, they're into pressure of spending it on different purposes that are unwanted. Big problem is from the surrounding that expect from the winners. This situation can be really bad for the winners.

By the time if the winners weren't announced, this will also let the gambling site loss it's reputation. The market being competitive, someone will surely try to create some nonsense that the winning is made among them and the users were cheated.

I think permission is really very important considering that some people may mind and some people may not mind. A casino may like to publicize it to prove to people that day still have winners, so more persons can come use them. In a case where a winner do not want to be publicized and then a casino would like to show the public that they still have winners, they can meet at a compromise and decide to use different names which do not correspond to the correct name of the winner, and if there is a picture requirement, it can be taken but something be done to make the winner not easily recognisable/identifiable.

In Casino I think there will still be some level of privacy entailed to your winnings. Not much information will be divulged for security reasons and for sure you will still be asked by the casino if you want to share that you've won a huge amount. It is imperative that the casino SHOULD NOT do this without the consent of the winner because it puts the winner's security at risk, and we know how it works when huge amounts of money is involved. Privacy is important in this day and age, and if someone failed to do that, it could even lead to legal action that will seriously hurt the casino's reputation.

I do think that in most cases, gambling sites are not announcing the name of the winner in public.

Instead, they are mentioning the name by its username and you should often see that if you subscribe to a mailing list of a certain gambling site.

That's also the case in fiat online gambling sites I believed. A username is only what is mentioned in the public.

It usually isn't. At least from the casinos or lotteries, I've experienced they don't. The most that they reveal afaik was the location of the winner, and the most recent one was with the lottery issue in the PH where they revealed the number of users and their location afaik, but not their names. Casinos even more so, online casinos would at most reveal their usernames or something similar, land based casinos would only be known if you were on the spot and they wouldn't go as far as to publicly announce it.

If winners were shown willy nilly like that, I hardly doubt said casinos would have any users at all. A LOT of people want to be anonymous when they win big since a LOT of relationships tend to be complicated when one side suddenly earns a big amount of money at once.

Not even in lottery the real name of the winners are usually disclosed for an obvious reason... the privacy and security of the winners.
When it comes to casinos (especially those that accept cryptocurrencies) this privacy should be even greater, and in fact it is greater.
I don't recall ever seeing a winner's name or real identification, what I see is usually just the prize value.

Lottery organizers would definitely be that showcasing that huge win or lottery winners and you are right that there are people would be always having those doubts if the said lottery is fair and not been involved

with some draw fixing or to those winners which arent related to the lottery organizers or into their kins on certain degree. Whether they would be asking out some permission or would directly be that exposing
those winners.
Its true that even those so long friends which you havent seen for years will definitely be popping out like mushrooms once they had heard off on the huge hit.
Its true that winners most of the time do waste up those money that they had get and didnt able to manage it right until they do go broke after how many years or depending
on how fast they do spend up those win amounts.

True, there are a lot of this kind of story in our country when suddenly you have a lot of relatives waiting for free money.

Yeah and you don't know if winning lottery is a cursed or what. It supposed to give you a good lifestyle, even to your families. Unfortunately, there are winners who don't know how to control and with this huge money on their pocket, they simply by everything including to their close relatives that makes them bankrupt in the next couple of years and those who you help during that time of your money and fame will suddenly disappear. Just but true. But for those winners who manage to stay low key, then congrats to them. Investment in the key.

I'm not sure about casinos, but I would say not in general, at least where I live, unless it is part of a promotion that has in the ToS become public. Not in lotteries either, if you win, nobody will know if you don't make it public, as happens with Euromillions, for example.

In these things, the less you publicise it the better. It's one thing if you win €1,000 and another if it's a million or a hundred million. Although I suppose it's harder to go unnoticed if you win a hundred million because the level of spending is obviously going to increase.

But if you get an amount in between, say €250,000, it's better not to advertise it, and it's an amount you can handle without anyone noticing much.

If a gambler's winning prize refers to a large amount and the gambler is unwilling to disclose it, the casino platform will never disclose it. Because if that gambler is disappointed then he will dislike to play gambling on that particular platform. This is definitely convey loss of the casino company. Usually in the case of big wins, the person's name is often anonymous, only the amount of the winnings is published.

If I'm not mistaken, we already have a thread discussing the same subject.
but regarding the publication of lottery winners or the like related to gambling, most lottery lottery winners are usually always published with the name of the winner, but not with the detailed address and place of residence.

As for crypto casinos, I think your fears are overblown, after all I've never seen any of the casinos we have here publish someone earning with the bet amount you mention in this post. except, he was someone famous. the reason is, there are many.
so don't worry, it looks like it will never happen. you will always be safe with the privacy you have, after all I personally don't really think about things like what you say here.

It depends on the laws of your country whether to publicized it and even if the site does publicize a user's winnings, it is very difficult to find someone in your personal life through a username because you would never create a username using your real name.  And there is no problem in doing so.  Because it is normal that there will be more than one person in a country with the same name.  And no casino will ever publicized anyone's personal identity so I don't think that would be a problem.

It makes no sense for a casino to disclose someone's personal data, especially since it would most likely be illegal. You are also right, it would worsen the reputation, but since I have not seen such cases, it means that if they happen, it is extremely rare. But if you are registered at the casino under a username that, of course, is different from your real name and you have not passed verification, then you simply have nothing to worry about...

I agree.

When you're outspoken and vocal about your money publicly, danger could follow you and worse if your family is being involved. That's why don't be too outspoken about it and keep it to your and to the people whom you trust.

Be subtle on it and you don't have to celebrate that with people that are not there when you've bet for it. They'll be your friends temporarily and when you're gone out of money again, they'll dump you.

Mostly here in the crypto arena we are in pseudo anonymous mode since we are playing with crypto and most of the times the casino that publish such big wins has only a user ID and nothing else when they publish the news,they do not take data from KYC they may have as that can be cause for the user to sue back the casino by publishing personal information without consent so no casino does this without permission.

Beside that most users post their winnings from what I have seen in the ANN thread of the casino or in different threads related to big wins,of course they just show the screenshot and that is enough evidence for me and it is not risky at all.

I do not see a reason for you to be afraid if you legitimately won the bet, the forum should not be an issue either because this forum is anonymous enough. Nevertheless, you can't avoid this if you won a huge amount of money, especially through a lotto and others, it is the right of the company to publish your name. And if they pay you indeed, it is in their honour to do this, which is another avenue for them to advertise that they pay irrespective of how much you won. I have read many stories of big winners online and offline, but I have not read of anyone being attacked due to the publicity.

This is why some gambling companies ask for kyc, they will have to know the kind of job you do that will fetch you big money to win Big rewards. that is by the way, if they want to publicize the winning they will not attach it to your personality, they will only have to post on their website or newspaper about that winning to make other people understand that such winning can be achieved in gambling.
They will not add your name or your passport to the winning but they can say an anonymous person won so amount of money

I will only approve my username to be publicized if I win big in Casino or gambling in my country revealing my indentity can be very dangerous considering the high rate of kidnapping and other criminal activities taking place especially in my locality, honestly online gambling sites has brought succour to anonymous gamblers, it's the best means of gambling that cover up a gambler even among his/her colleagues, relatives e.t.c compared with physical gambling shop where winning a huge amount of money or jackpot will made such  person a popular figure at the expenses of personal safety of that winner.

Even after winning big amount in gambling we don't know about that person. What every gambler needs with an interest in hiding personal information. Because if that information is leaked then the gambler may face various disadvantages. It is need to keep the information confidential for his safety. And this information is more secure when the gambler is gambling in online. Any big win in online is safe. It is not possible to get any information from anyone.

Don't put your real name on it. That's how you secure your privacy. About them publicly telling the winner is with full name and details then that is wrong.
Can you give an example of a crypto base casino or any gambling site that did this? Perhaps we could dig deeper on why they did it.
I only know people who won big that are publicly seen are streamers, but I doubt those are real and maybe they are just being funded by the casino itself to show the possibility of winning the jackpot.

On Stake.com they publicized the winning bet and the game but there's an option if you want your privacy kept by doing some tinkering in the settings.
https://i.imgur.com/ei5sES9.png
But there are those who just use usernames so it's not really their names that will be shown unless he did want his name to be shown publicly.
I don't think they are showing this in media outlets or anything, it's all just for the record if ever mistakes happen, a glitch, or for customer support if ever a user thinks an error happened.
National Lottery though, gives an option for the winner if he/she wants to go public.

If I won a large sum of money in a casino, I would prefer that my personal data not be disclosed to the public, because otherwise it could be considered a violation of privacy. In my opinion, in such a situation, the decision should be made by the person who got lucky. If he wants to brag to the public, why not give him the opportunity to do so. But someone who values his privacy would never agree to that.

I think that there are some online gambling websites that publish or show real-time winnings on their website and the amount wagered by a certain player. But I do not think that they will certainly disclose the actual name of these players, despite having a KYC function required by them.

Like what some have asked, does the USA publicize the winners of their lottery? Like what you mentioned, this will pose some serious and potential threats of danger to their security if this should happen.

It should not be publicized I have not known casinos that openly publicize the name of their winners without their permission its risky they are literally putting their clients at risk, if they have this kind of policy then they should state this before letting people play in their casinos, and they also should grant request from their clients that they don't want their information to be exposed I don't want to patronize this kind of casinos even if I'm a small player, there's still possible that I can win big in the future.

Some site used those winnings to attract more gamblers and I think that's fine as long as they will not exposed the real name of the winner but sometimes some gamblers think it's a fake advertisements. The security of every gambler is very important, you should not exposed your big winnings if you think it will not be safe for you, it's better to keep it a secret. I'm thinking what will you get if you exposed your winnings? I think its more about your pride.

To begin with some lottery (https://lotto.bclc.com/claim-a-prize/publicizing-lottery-winners.html) winners have to give their consent for some details such as; name, city/ town of residence, photograph (of true current appearance), prize details, occupation to be published. They do not publish these information - age
address or other contact information, personal information belonging to a third party. As far as I can tell, I have heard about gamblers winning big in the bookies but I have never seen them publish the information. It is usually a friend, who tells a friend and that's how the public becomes aware etc.

I think it will depend on each casino's policy because there are casinos that do not announce the winner's full name and abbreviate their name so as not to provoke bad things that can happen to the winner. But there may also be a casino that will provide the winner's full name so that the public can find out.

Or we can ask the casino not to mention our name as the winner, but the casino has already mentioned it publicly. But maybe for online casinos, they only mention the winner's anonymous name and their other signs. In addition, the casino will also definitely notify the winner privately that he is the winner.

This is right. So far crypto casino doesn’t have records of users personal info unless they undergo on KYC so it’s impossible for them announce it publicly and also there ToS stated that they should protect players privacy which means they can’t do it without the player consent. 10K profit is just a normal day for whale players that has a 6 to 7 digit balance on there casino. I think the only time that I saw the name of a winner is through the casino main event giveaway but in a form of username and not there personal identity.

Even IRL casino and government lottery doesn’t do this kind of public announcement for big time winners.

I don't think there's even a policy regarding that.
It is the casinos responsibility to secure their client especially that we're talking about money. Winners (especially in lottery)
will never be announced publicly with their names and any crucial info for their safety.
There should always be another way to announce it without mentioning the specific winner.
Lotteries and local casinos in my region only announced winners that the current jackpot pool has already been grabbed, without mentioning any named or from where they were situated.

If we talk about the level of anonymity that casinos offers, then it's not that good. They might require full KYC or AML to withdraw your winnings but this whole process is quite shady so an identity on their systems might be compromised and exposed to others. And they can use it to get your personal information and use it for their own purposes. It is possible that some casinos might even sell this data to third parties. Even if your real identity isn’t exposed while you’re playing online, there are tons of other ways in which casinos can potentially violate your privacy. They do this to maximize their profits, by gathering your demographic information, behavior patterns and even psychological makeup. Some casinos track your movements on their websites, by using cookies and other types of software. This way they can collect the data about what you do while playing and how long you spend on a certain page or game. They also use this information to optimize their websites for better conversions and revenue from players. This information can be used to create targeted advertising campaigns and increase their revenue. Even though this doesn’t seem like an issue, it is still a breach of your privacy.

Most of the casinos ask for our username or alias, I think it's okay if they'll publicized it as long as our real name will not appear. I mean, when gambling, we would appreciate if they will give us privacy and that includes keeping our information private. That way, it will protect our safety and casinos would also be safe in case the name of the winner will caught the attention of the authorities.

For me, there’s no wrong actually if casinos publicize every time there are huge winnings happening in that certain casino as it’s a part of their advertisement, that they can be reliable and can eventually grant a huge payout without delay, provided that their real names will not be disclosed. Just like in lottery, every time the jackpot prize was hit, they will eventually announce to the public that there is already a lucky winner, but rest assured their personal identity will not be disclosed. Otherwise, the winner will be a target for scamming, and the lottery staff might be blame for that.

In the case of most lotteries where the prize won can be huge the winners are given the option to let themselves be known or to keep their identity a secret, to me this is the right path to take, those which want to publicize their win can do so and get all the attention they deserve for a short amount of time, while those which are more reticent to let the world know about their win can keep this information private and only tell to their loved ones about this situation.

Government-hosted gambling activities like lottery will be publicized that the jackpot has been won but will make the winner anonymous.  A private establishments like Casino won't publicize their player winnings.  I believe it is part of data privacy law.  So you don't need to worry about leakage if you are playing in a reputable casino.


It is really dangerous to make the person who won a huge amount in public.  It will cater lots of harmful attention especially to criminals which main source of income is robbing.


Gambling platform has a responsibility to protect their player identity, in case the winnings need to be announced in public, they will need the player's consent on this except if the agreement between the two entity is agreed that whoever wins will be announced publicly.  But I think the gambling site will just announce the result with the winner being anonymous or given an alias.

Sometimes people win such amount of money but the problem is that they will not have the time to let anyone know because of security purpose, but what i know is that the lost of people who plays gambling, if we should calculate the statistics, i will tell you that the one of people lose will be higher, and when people lose in gambling the information will circulates to the environment, but when they win. They will have to keep it on low so that people will not trace them, i think that should be one of the things that make people not expose their winning.

When a gambler wins a large amount of money, he experiences joy as well as panic. He thinks that if people get to know about that winning, enmity can increase. There may be a terrorist attack on him to snatch the money. As a result, a gambler naturally tries not to reveal his greatness. On the other hand, when the gambler loses, he has no difficulty in saying that he has lost. He has no problem saying that he lost. Basically these works are done for the sake of security.

I don't mind being publicized as long as I will get the winning. I can think of that later on.

It's already usual that many people will know our winnings and it's not new. To take care of ourselves, I know we already know some safe things to do. We can't control people that's why to be ready.

We will never know what regulations or policies are written and unwritten in the casino. Indeed casinos need to be responsible for securing their clients who can win a lot of money from the lottery because that can lure criminals to try to get close to them.

I agree with the local casinos in your area by simply mentioning their name or where they are from because it will give the winner a sense of security and can avoid criminals. It would be better if all casinos could do this for the safety of the big winners in their casinos.

Gambling sites don't need to do that, without publishing news of the winnings that their visitors just got, gambling sites are still crowded. Publishing winnings should not be done by gambling sites, visitors may think that the published winning news is a lie or is anonymous. Let those involved there know about these big wins, gambling sites should not go any further which can reduce visitor confidence.

Here in my country in the case of lottery I believe people who wins the biggest prices have the option not to appear in TV, which is reasonable.
When comes to casinos, I am not sure how it works, since I have not seen people on TV talking about their winning in our casinos, then I assume there is some grade of privacy.
On online casinos, I have seen there are options not to show off one's winnings to other users on the recent bets tables, they are displayed anonymously instead.

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Depending where you live, I believe you would appreciate more or less the fact of a casinos guarding your right to privacy, specially when comes to money.
Keep in mind that those safety measures you mention would be more effective if the casino did not display your face/name and the money you just pocketed.  ;)

Sometimes the gambling site will publish your information that this man won this much amount from our casino and you can try your luck too. They do it for advertising purpose but in fact this could make the person in trouble who have won a large amount of money. They should at least get consent from the gambler before publishing the personal information.

Also, it is not always about the security threat that you want to hide your identity. People hide their identity because they do not want the tax authorities to bring problems for them and also they do not want their friends n family to know that they now have money and those family/friends start asking for monetary help or loans.

Casino Authority wants to gain more popularity. And when a big bet wins in his casino, casino can certainly publicize the win as an advertisement. I have seen in some casinos that big winners keep their names private and share other information such as betting amount, winning amount and country of citizenship. As a result no one finds the gambler and the casino's advertising strategy work successfully.

When the big winner is announced in the casino, the winner is usually criticized at different times from all fields. So if a casino site wants to publish the winner's name directly, it must get permission from the winner.

Gambling sites do it, they publish the winnings of their clients. There is no how people will think it's a lie, because sometimes they include usernames if you don't set your privacy to hidden.  The winnings are also verifiable in their website. A gambling company will gain nothing by posting fake winnings in their handles

I'm fine with winning publication as long as the publication is not related to my personal information such as real name, address, photo, etc because it can be very risky for me, it may make me to be a target of crime. I mean it is fine to share the big win, but it should be something like sharing my username only. Most casinos do share big wins by their players as part of marketing strategy, but I believe the casino ask a permission first from the player to share the bet details and username.

I think the very serious risk you mention may indeed happen, but the risk that often occurs is the many disturbances from people who know about the victory, as for one example you can see in the link below.

https://www.wionews.com/india-news/week-after-3-million-lottery-win-keralite-says-hes-surrounded-by-people-asking-for-money-519832 (https://www.wionews.com/india-news/week-after-3-million-lottery-win-keralite-says-hes-surrounded-by-people-asking-for-money-519832)

Indeed. There are casinos posting their gambler's username (particularly on Twitter) who won a huge amount. It's also a way to advertise their platform as well as the game to attract gamblers to try their luck too. Posting a username would be fine as we dont know the person behind, and it's a real proof that there's a player who made such win by playing on that platform. But in lottery, I dont think it's safe to disclose the winner as it's often huge amount.

Here, when they made an announcement that the jackpot is already won by a certain user, often, only the ticket is shown to the public. This is to ensure the safety of the winner and to prevent the people from going to the winner's house (specially the friends and relatives) to ask for a share.

I also prefer not to tell anyone about big winnings except my family. But I'm actually more concerned that as few people as possible know that I gamble than that criminals might be interested in my winnings. Everywhere in the world there are neighborhoods where very rich people live. I don't think it's more difficult to rob such people than a person who won a lot of money in a casino.

Can you specify what country or physical casino is that? Afaik even at physical casinos, they won't just publicized your identity without your consent. They know it will be dangerous because criminals can target not just you but also your colleague or relatives,


I haven't heard of a gambling website reveal their user's real info before. They will never ask for it and only use your account username if they are going to post it on their social media that you raked a huge jackpot.

I think gambling sites will ask for permission first to publish big wins from gamblers on their sites, obviously it is very threatening to security, especially close friends, they can approach the winner to borrow money, so I think it's better in my opinion that winnings in gambling are hidden or not published because to keep the gambler safe, but usually gambling sites publish it because it is just a promotion to attract many new gamblers to try their luck there

if i win in gambling or casino i will hide it instead of having to publish it on my social media

It's possible in a fiat-based site but on Crypto casinos, I have not known casinos that divulge the sensitive information of their winners, it's on the user if he wants his name to publish but it should be on his own action not on casinos

You don't have to be paranoid because no casino here will divulge your sensitive information even if you do KYC they are compliant with a privacy policy that they will adhere to that or they will ruin their reputation and can be charged in court.

We all do not expect this and will give that casino bad feedback if they divulge sensitive information about their players, so far we have no complaints about casinos posting their winners with their sensitive information, even on offline casinos they are not going to do that.

Believe it or not, generally speaking, every online casino refers to certain points of control and laws.
For example:

From the quote points above, it can be concluded that online gambling sites have a direct relationship with players, especially for high-level winning players.

In my understanding, the option to publish one of the customers in winnings and high level payouts, has become the main option to attract and tempt newcomers to join certain online gambling sites, I believe in the publication option of customers who win big, the gambling site does not need to ask permission from the winning user, the online gambling party has certain laws in taking action for that, meaning they are free to do it publicly, without having to ask permission first, they have the right to it and that is a positive point for them, to gain the trust of the public.

In my country some casinos publicize their winners,the casinos even go to the extend of having a T.V show where they will call the name of the winner of the biggest win for the week Before this they must have contacted the person. Funny enough, you see the winner happy,he will be treated like a VIP and people will see him like a celebrity. The casinos are doing all  these to advertise their business,in other to lure people into gambling on their platform,also for you to know that they are legit and reliable. Although some persons don't like being publicize for privacy and some personal reason but in my country everybody wants to be known for something.

Winning a bet is not something you can hide, because where you win the bet is not a private place but probably a casino hall and people are there. But if you win small people might not hear it but if you win big only you will jump up because of the excitement and people must know at that time. I think most gamblers are beggers, they beg from other colleagues when they win so has you win yours your friends will also beg from you so from there people would know you have won a big amount of money. On your own you too would tell that you won some amount of money. You can't keep quit when you have won big. according to a saying (money is the root of all evil)

Personal details about lottery winners or huge amount winners are usually not disclose to the public especially on online crypto gambling platforms. They'll likely provide the user ID or username instead as that will not provide any personal information about the winner. However, it is not the same to physical lottery and casinos.

It varies depending on the location if they are allowed to disclose such information to the public on physical lottery and casinos. However, if in any instances the winner would like to conceal their identity they are free to request it to the institution. If I am correct, they have the right to conceal their personal information if they don't want these institutions to publicize their name especially that it could cause harm or be a target of harm.

I won't show off if I win big at the casino, it's the same as exposing myself to criminals

A few years ago I heard news about a jackpot winner who was tricked by a woman he just met on social media because he was showing off his winnings

There are a lot of scammers hanging around out there, be it on social media or in real life. acting normal will make life calm

I actually never thought about this. I know one thing, you can choose to stay unknown/anon if you win lottery through state protected systems here. I read news like that saying winner was from İstanbul or something but preferred stay disclosed. But in casinos, I don't know. I would like to stay anon honestly because it can be huge headache to be known after you win great amount of money. I am scared of mafia especially.

I am not sure about the land based casinos and lotteries but crypto based online casinos generally doesn't publicize such info.
Almost every week there are winners of certain rounds but only their names/alias are being displayed as winners.
Even if some website decide to publicize the winner info then it becomes their due diligence to take the require consent from the winner before they post their info.

There are some differences between online and land-based casinos. In land based casinos the information on big bets stays in the casino where other gamblers can get that information. But neither the player's name nor the winning money is displayed in the online casino. If they want to publish it, they must try to connect with that user for his permission before publishing his or her information.

I don't think the casino needs to ask permission to publish the list of winners even without covering the names or just showing aliases, because if only the names are displayed it's very common and anyone can't guess the name correctly because of the similarity of the name with another username that already has an account at the casino.

I hope they will, but then if they are going to post the winner I wonder what name they are using? a pen name or a Real ones? because it could be good if I will be a winner and they will still hide my identity by not giving the whole info. but then casino player id is quite good enough for this kind of things, and it will also good if people want to see his playing record

It’s automatic in casinos to protect your identity and they don’t expose it even if you give them the information, nickname might be posted though but not your whole identity. We all don’t want to be on a situation where it can be more risky for our lives, winning big profit is too risky once you expose it publicly. Lottery winner should also think this way, it’s better to live at peace and enjoy the money than to stress yourself on how you can protect yourself, you have to stay low key and keep living the normal lives.

I've not seen a gambling site publicise people's winnings and their Identities. what I've seen are people in this forum show huge winning bets(usually coming from high rollers) but all of them only show their username on the gambling site which doesn't really affect the gambler(even the one cryptomaniac_xxx mentioned) since we don't really know their real Identity even if we see their usernames.

I think if it's pertaining of getting the information of other players in a land based casino, this is through like the casual talks but not being provided by the casino itself.
Censorship is important to their customers so they have to protect them especially those big winners. They wouldn't just hand out easy information to those that are asking for it specifically targeting big winners and they won't display that randomly as well.

I think most are responsible and their big winners won't be in public. According to the story in the OP, when the winner claimed it at the betting establish, that's the confirmation that he is the winner. Maybe in the process, someone notify the people around there that the man was the winner and did not really intend to do it in public.

That already happened though and the winner just has to accept that he is now popular. He needs to take care of himself for now.

If there is, that the casino publishes people who win a lot I think it's just a marketing strategy to attract more whales because they like to declare themselves as a trusted casino and can be a place for whales to entrust their money to play there.
Usually, only the amount is published while the person is hidden or if there is news then it must have been through an agreement between the person who won and the casino

To advertise it, it has to be in their ToS and, being honest, they would have to tell you expressly and not wait for you to read and understand their ToS. Something similar happens with prizes in shopping centres, where you enter a prize draw with your shopping receipt and you can win, for example, a car. The conditions state that you have to agree to take photos of yourself receiving the car as a prize, and if you don't, you don't receive it.

This public show of winners has increased in recent times. I have been seeing news and pictures of people that win big in newspapers and social media recently. I might not know the reason why the winners or the companies choose to showcase their wins. Maybe the winners are so excited that they can't hide their surprise and joy or the gambling firms want to use these wins as advertisements to prove that you can win big by playing games with them.

But generally, I would never want to publicize my big wins. The rate of crime such as kidnapping is increasing every day and this publicity can make one a prime target of these criminals. It is only my bank account and a trusted family member that would know about my win, no one else. These gambling firms should also train their staff on the importance of privacy because sometimes they are the ones that openly announce these big wins.

Please note that not all countries legalize gambling, and I live in a country that does not legalize gambling at all, so I will not publish about my gambling game for fear of what I say.

Yes, I saw it too and they confidently advertise big wins, and I think maybe because of their pride because a lot of people expect big wins in betting and he shows that he got them. And it might motivate those who haven't got it, and it could also be because of his arrogance.
but actually it's not necessary because people's luck is different and will only be misleading because they want to be like those who get big wins who end up always losing or even losing big. And I personally will not publish it because it is useless, in fact I am worried about crime because it can happen suddenly.

Other than tax and this is also a big problem for sure https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63030960

When others heard you were winning big amounts of money from lottery and then they wanna ask you to give them all loans from what you have been winning. they will be also starting to disturb your life too. That will make you even more difficult to live in your environtment caused by your close people need loans from yours.

I don't believe online gambling will reveal your winning that easily. I can vividly remember that only those who plays at the local shop can do that, a week ago i was told someone won a big sum of money which the local shop he do places bet screamed loudly saying he won all his games and people around same shop with him follows and jubilates with him to an extent the streets heard about his winning which made him too vulnerable to the public and is prone to attack or not even to skip being rubbed by some people who don't feels happy with him.

Or maybe some people bet with the previous winner and when the casino announced the winner's name, that person called his friend and asked him to see the winner's name and it turned out that his friend was the winner. But it's also possible that the casino will contact him because usually, if we play the lottery, we will be asked to write down a phone number so we can be contacted when we win.

I remember the story of my sister who won a prize. The employee called my sister and said my sister had won a certain prize and was asked to come to the office. When my sister went to her office, she only saw the name listed with an asterisk and did not write down her full name. It would probably be like that if the winner at the casino were announced.

With the extremely high rate of crime and kidnapping in my home country, if i win a huge bet from our local physical gambling houses and the gambling house didn't seek my permission before making my winnings public, i can tell you categorically that i would be dead worried, as a matter of fact i am definitely going to change my location ASAP, i say so because of the situation of where i live currently, which isn't safe. Thus i think gambling houses should seek permission first before making such info public, and even if they must publicize it to increase the credibility of their platform, then it should be done in such a way that the personal info of the winner would be obscured and made impossible to track.

Having said that, as for online gambling i don't think they have this type of risks, winners i think are only published through the usernames they provide, and it is possible to register on a gambling site without any of your personal info, so there might be no way to target you if you win big whilst playing online.

I think it depends on the casino, but as far as I know, they only publicize username of the winners and not their real name, so it wouldn't be an issue of privacy. Personally, I believe things like these shouldn't be made public because of security reasons. The good thing with crypto-based casinos is they also take into consideration the privacy of their players, hence, making an announcement with the real name of the winners isn't really done.

Consent is really needed in making things public such as this one. There should be an agreement between you and the casino whether what kind of announcement they will make to the community. Because exposing the identity could make him vulnerable from perpetrators. Once people knew the identity of the winner, they might plot some sort of scheme against him and some might even find it a good opportunity to rob him making his safety compromised.

I am also a supporter of anonymity and also prefer to remain in the shadows, but if we look around, we see that quite a large number of people live without hiding their wealth and personally I do not observe such a trend that they are constantly robbed. Each of us knows bloggers, streamers, artists who earn big money. They behave openly enough with the society and flaunt their wealth. Why don't they get robbed, but if you win a large sum of money in a casino, you are bound to be visited by intruders?

That's what documentation is, if the shopping centers didn't did that, many participants are doubt if there's a real winner of the lucky draw. Similar like casino, they need a documentation if the winner is actually a real human and not using multiple accounts.

I think even though many users are saying if they would care their privacy and don't want their personal identity got publicized, but I believe when they're under that's situation, they will accept to publicized their identity in order to get the money.

Indeed, it's dangerous but in the past it safe and to avoid unpleasant incidents, we can private ourselves with other nicknames.
Lottery sites usually announce winners, but other online gambling sites its not. I've never seen a sportsbook platform announce a winner, unless that person is an artist or brand ambassador, it's usually a form of promotion to the public too. Also only casinos have user data, so even if it was go public then everything would be fine.

Location and security level of such location will decide. In Nigeria although the publicise it but it is not safe for the gambler because even law enforcement agencies are not trusted enough not to mention the other insecurities happening around the country. It will be nice if casinos address their winners by serial number or identification number that doesn't reveal that real identity and also ensure the winners wear mask to protect their lives and what they have won

That's not true because I have seen online casinos displaying the user id as well as the winning amount in the casino.
For example freebitco.in has draws every week and displays the list of winners and winning amounts.
But the catch is that their user ids are just numbers and nobody can make out who the actual winner is.
BC.GAME has some lottery rounds and declares the winner name and prize amount but the amounts are relatively small.
So there are casinos which displays this information since they must be already having it in their policies.

Ofcourse not, unless you allow it. But more likely, they would first ask your consent, but some casinos won't even think about posting the picture of the jackpot winner, perhaps, just to protect his/her identity and to avoid endangering one's life. That simple.

User ID would do, as long as personal informations are still hidden. User ID makes someone still anonymous because that is considered to be just a 'screen name'. But as we have seen on online platforms, some people are using their real names as user ID which is somehow not a smart move.

It's dangerous to announce such winnings at your local community where people around you can be a threat to your physical integrity, but I don't see it as being dangerous when you win at an online crypto casino and announce it in the virtual community, because on this case you are sharing your winning's announcement with people from the whole world who have no idea who you are and where you live, and even though if they have a clue about your location and nationality, it doesn't make difference at all, as they aren't going to leave their original countries to scam you somehow.

You just have to be careful to not share your crypto deposit address, wallet and where your money is going to be stored in order to avoid hacking attempts which can come from anywhere on the internet.

Obviously I will never be happy if a gambling site publishes winning news without my knowledge because I personally don't want my winnings to be published by anyone including myself. Publishing news of victory is like inviting new problems for me, people can easily track me down to become a crime target. I think gambling sites should maintain their reputation so that they are always crowded and can maintain the privacy of visitors for security from the terror of crime.

I've never seen whether it would be published or not.

If a gambling site publishes a winner with a large number of winning bets, then the benefits obtained by the gambling site are that they get good ratings from potential players who have not joined and those who have joined but have never experienced big wins.

Prospective players will assume that the gambling site is trusted and will not cheat, so they (prospective players) will register. 
Likewise, players who have joined will be more enthusiastic about playing because if they win a large amount, they will be paid as well.

Meanwhile, if the gambling site publishes the winnings of players who win in large numbers then the winner, on the one hand will face other risks such as robbery and other unwanted negative risks.

It is better if the gambling site asks the winner for permission to publish it in order to maintain positive things that do not harm both parties.

I am currently trying to remember the name of at least one gambler who has won a lot and has been written about in the news, but I can’t. I think you are overstating the issue. It is unlikely that some criminal elements will follow the news to figure out who won a lot of money - there are much easier and more reliable ways to find out about the existence (and specific names) of rich people. In general, the publicity of the winner is often spelled out in the conditions of the draw - people like to see a specific winner, and an anonymous winner causes fear that the organizers will keep the main prize.

There are two possibilities here. One is that the winner has no objection making himself public and telling everyone that he has one big. This would be chosen by those who want to tell their friends and family that they have done a big achievement by winning large amount in gambling. These people want to show off their big winnings and they don't care about the other consequences like being noticed by the thieves etc.

The 2nd category of people do not want to tell anyone as they are afraid of the society and also want to avoid the evil minded people who could be harmful for him as now he has got money.

I believe both of these two types of people have different opinion about it and both are right at their sides.

It really depends on where you live and who knows you. I'm not sure without an escort you will be very safe in an area where the population is quite prone to robbery if someone knows you as a rich person. Many incidents have happened to artists and even a football player has experienced it like what happened to Aubameyang some time ago.

Financial privacy is a good way to keep things from happening in the real world, you don't even have to tell your friends how much wealth you currently have even though your are friends. The world is cruel mate, so always be careful.

I am not sure if you have seen >this< (https://youtu.be/nOWCBlNao10), that young man won over roughly $50,000(#34m) on sports bet last week with just $1.2 (#800) and the whole of his street was over the celebration, he couldn't hide the joy as he runs into a mosque to give thanks to God.  ;D
This kind of joy is hard to hide, no matter how you intend to hide it, it will naturally explode out from you, especially if its a sum of money you have never seen before in your lifetime, this kind of luck is rare but gambling does give the opportunity to win something big.

The downside of this is you will be exposed to dangers and likely becomes a target by criminals, your enemies may become jealous of you and may do something to hurt you. A winning game should remain within the player and preferably should be played online, no one will ever know that you won a fortune.

Maybe this is due to a change in the social status of a person? I mean that those people who are already rich understand how to save their money (and probably multiply), and they have a lot of experience dealing with all sorts of crooks who tried to profit at their expense. The "new" rich do not have such experience (especially in the case of winning the casino or the lottery where you become rich in one moment and do not go to this for a long time), so they can be easily deceived by various crooks at this "high" level. To avoid this, they want to remain anonymous.

don't be arrogant and show off because it will make you unlucky

other than to boast, those who show off their gambling winnings mostly have a goal to spread their referral link and attract more gamblers to follow them, if those really win naturally then they will be afraid of their privacy and will feel threatened by any form of publicity

Privacy these days is not a thing to be taken lightly, mostly when it regards huge amounts being won or huge amounts of other earnings or rewards made public.  Unless one likes the attention that comes with gaining many audiences and intends to be greeted or announced in such a way, it would be doing too much by the gambling agent or casino to publicize such. 
Crime these days never sleep and any of such news on social media or around a vicinity would welcome unwarranted noses with mischievous aims and even relatives or long forgotten foes who had written off such a one.
It is always wise to be discreet and let only a handful know, for security and better investment reasons.

I think in some casino it can be stated that such amount of winning will be in the news or publicized. This is more of advert to the casino to show that they are genuine, trusted and honest to release cash price as big as it is. It is a confidence that it will give to players that if they happen to have winning it will also be released to them. This is psychological, marketing strategy to win more bettors. It is done to encourage more people to play and try to win because cash out is not a problem to get but if people play more, the casino make more profit.

Regardless if we won huge or not, we can't control those people who have bitter feelings towards us. The same goes for the people who have bad intentions for us. On that big winning experience and let's say the public became aware of it, we should just try to be careful at all times and as much as possible limit our exposure to the public. But I believed it's not that we will become an automatic target for such actions.

In fairness, we haven't seen much news related to a person that got big winnings but suffered the worst experience after that.

I have not seen any crypto casino that did it, but I remember of a fiat casino in my country that disclose the name of a lecturer that played two same bets with very little amount of money and won big amount. If I remember correctly, he played with $1.5 in total after I converted my country's fiat currency to the present price of dollar, he won over $93000. I think it is still the highest winning in my country but I do not know. We know the lecturer, we know the school he is lecturing. Which means people know his house and many other things about him.

Privacy is key in gambling winnings and it can't be over emphasized, but I really don't think neither have I seen a winner with his or her full name and winning amount been published or publicized but I've seen where just tye winnings and most times with the users ID publicized which I don't think would reveal the true identity of the winner.

Whatever the case may be , publicizing a winner isn't a good idea and if truly it must be done to promote the company's payment ability, then it should be with tye permission of the winner as well.

Here in our country, the names of those who win the lottery every week are made public but their faces are not included, or if the mainstream media interviews any lotto winners, they obscure the face of the winner and change his voice as well, to maintain the privacy that is called, and sometimes when it is okay for the winner to be interviewed face-to-face, they also agree, depending on the permission given by the winner.

But in other gambling games that win big money in offline casinos here in our country, they don't publish the winner's face.

In my country, if you gamble officially, you have to pay income tax if your winnings surpass specific amount. If you gamble offline and win big, I think your win wont be publicized. Casino will only congratulate you when you make withdrawal. But if you hit jackpot, get ready for a photo session, and your face will appear first on every casinos social media account, and later mass media will get that info also. If you happen to gamble online, then in case you win more than specific amount, that info will be automatically send to tax authorities. If you are really big winner, by the end of the year tax authorities make top10 gambling winners reports (not exactly gambling, they just do reports and show top areas of income).

Crypto gambling wins are not publicized, as crypto gambling inst allowed and (lol) is blocked in my area.

I think before they public it, they will ask permission on the person who win if they will agree because it was indeed dangerous but despite that, I still see some big winners who shown their full names on public but not their address obviously. If you are a criminal and your plan is to rob the winner then it's always possible to locate his address even by searching his name on the web or his picture.

Pretty sure that some information of that guy will pop out but with that money they won, they can always afford a good security to protect them. They are also prepared for this. If ever I win big I will only keep it a secret even to my local because I am also afraid that lots of people will beg me money :D.

It actually sounds quite ominous - what is the crime situation in your country in general that people who win a small amount of money (I'm guessing a small amount since the draw is held every week) are so afraid for their privacy? Maybe it's just a tradition, but if it's a necessity, then the situation is rather sad.

Crime occurs not because there is an intention from the perpetrator, but because there is an opportunity. People who win a small amount of money or a large amount will always be on the lookout for evil that can happen at any time. maintaining privacy by blurring the face when interviewed by the mainstream media will reduce the level of crime risk to them, caution will lead to safety.

Sharing big wins in public will only attract crimes regardless of our motive. We should know that criminals will always be everywhere and just waiting for their next prey so we must be cautious and try not to fall for their trap. Our privacy is important especially if a huge sum of money is involved. It is not necessary to publicize it. We should be the ones to avoid criminals.

Depends on the state because I reckon there are still some states in the US that will give you some option whether you wanted to be publicized or not, but in most cases and states, you don't have that much option because I've read that they have a law about that already that a lottery winner can't be remain anonymous.
It is a huge disadvantage of course because you aren't that much safe anymore compared to the day that nobody bothered to know you. But in online casinos, the situation might be different though, except in the offline casinos where you need to go to the place and play.

That's an important point and I honestly can't understand why a state would want the name of a lottery winner to be published. It reminds me of one of many cases where it was assumed the mafia might hunt down known winners (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080147/Numbers-79m-lottery-winner-Sicilian-wins-huge-jackpot-sparking-fears-Mafia-seek-cash.html). It makes perfect sense because what are the chances they don't hunt you down knowing you are a powerless dude with tens of millions in the bank. No idea why some states would push for such a law.

Why not? Some criminals are not picky but they will target anyone especially if it's a normal individual who experience to win big for the first time. They think they are easy to rob than those rich personalities that they saw on the web but maybe they have attempted to steal them before, we only don't know the result if it's a failure or not.

Before we join the draw, we need to read the terms and conditions first so that we can back out if we don't want to public our names in exchange for the prize that we will won. If it only happen on a crypto gambling sites then it wont be big deal since we are only using our nicknames or username there. They are free to public it.

I agree that such a law does not make sense, I think that the reason laws like that are passed is because state lotteries want to encourage people to gamble but without doing so directly, so they need to show those which won massive amounts of money with them to get other people to buy their lottery tickets, and while a tactic like that would work at the same time they are putting their gamblers at risk as they are making them the targets of criminals by advertising how much money they won.

I have seen that many times but all I know is that they gambling site or company always try as much to make sure that the identify of the winner is keep anonymous if possible. This is a method many gambling sites are using to attract other gamblers to see good reasons to start using there platform and this alone will give other gamblers the confidence to gamble and bet more with bigger funds. All this are strong strategies that do attract more gambler to a casino but many persons might not know how it works.

Depends on a certain platform but if we do look around or speaking about those typical lottery games that we do have specially that government-owned or something in correlate then players had win up the

jackpot isnt really be that introduced which it would really be just a careless part or dumb thing  that they would be exposing off winners identity.It is a casual thing to be done even on online

lotteries or draws that we do have in the market today.It would be just a standard thing on protect that winners identity because we know the risk when someone
hits a huge sum of money.

Good ideas with hidden their face when winning in lottery, seems he want privacy about lottery winning attack from criminal cases or try how to make their family or friend do not know and ask loan from his lottery winning. I think on casino cryptocurrency gambling can hidden and keep privacy when winning but with offline gambling some time we can see the winning without hidden their face. Actually offline gambling in my country they will publish to their friend if win lottery without try keep hidden.

I think they aren't asking regarding that but you can read their terms and conditions at least first and if they breach that, that's clearly a bad sign. I think there's a feature wherein you can make your account a private on most casinos and I prefer people to do the same instead.

This is reasonable, since a person who suddenly becomes rich immediately has many relatives, old friends, and maybe even children that he has never heard of, hahaha. Plus, if this person is single (or even married), gold diggers start chasing him and trying to shake off money from him. Staying anonymous and not drawing attention to yourself is the most sensible strategy for anyone but the media person.

This is exactly what I meant - if people are afraid to show even a little wealth, then the crime situation in that country is very bad. And I would not want to live in such a country, because even if you have money, you need to keep it secret, and if you buy yourself a good car/house/something else, it will not bring joy, but danger and problems.

I think i now got the reasons why the gambling sites make publication of any huge amount of winning, this is done to encourage more gamblers to keep on gambling with their attempts, it also serves as evidence that gambler can win as big as that or even more without a denied access and this is oart of their promotional adverts on their gambling website because the news  definitely publicize it thereby serving a promotional arvert to the casino, but on the contrary the risk lies on the gambler because obviously everyone knows about his whole deal and worth, but in other way, the gambler can also lias and discuss with them not to reveal his identity through this period of which i doubt they wont and so on, the casino will always work to their own interest and not the gamblers' either it favours or not.

Normally, the gambling sites will not publicize your winnings as this is just something that has to do with privacy. In case they want to publicize, they should ask you for permission or they will turn the winnings public without telling who was the exact winner.

Yes because I think there is a law with it. It's invading people's privacy without their consent. Big casinos are respected and they don't want to do things which can affect their reputation. I wouldn't worry much if my close friends knew that I win big in gambling because I already know them and they already know me.

It's rare if your friends will do something bad only for you to give them money. I'll in fact voluntarily share my money to them even if they didn't ask it and I know that they will be glad at it. You shouldn't be afraid if someone borrows you money because the money that you won is big. It won't even hurt you even if they didn't repay it.

Well it really depends on where you live and how much you have won. If you win 100k in a European country like Germany then nobody is going to care. Sure, they might pat you on the back and tell you congratulations but that is as far as it will go. Even 1 million won't be a huge deal.

But if you live in a very poor third world country where people kill each other over a couple thousand dollars... Well...Then you will be in grave danger, should your name and face become public in some winning announcement.

But either way, personally I would prefer to keep my winnings and my money private. Its no ones business but your own.

And anyone who flaunts their millions in the faces of the poor and desperate is kind of asking for it. You get what you deserve.

privacy must be prioritized because it is a personal thing that must be respected, to be honest I'd rather give the small money voluntarily to my friends than they borrow it, because I don't want my friendship to be damaged just because of debt and I also don't want to collect debts, of course I often treat my friends when I get a little win on gambling sites, that's why I should hide my winnings to avoid old friends who have never communicated with me all this time suddenly contact me just because they saw I won a big prize from gambling

Same here, I can't think of anything that the situation will be in favor or benefit the winner. They are just endangering the safety of their own citizens who won big bucks in the lottery, I mean, it really doesn't make sense why that specific law existed in the first place. Other than that, that winnings will be taxed by the feds up to 37% and so on.
Then you may want to consider in hiring some couple of private bodyguards for your safety and to your family because you will be famous instantly and not just the mafia will track you down, safe to say that almost all notorious thugs will do the same thing.

Many gamblers are very happy after a big win. And they want to be found out about them. Why? They can gamble for years and lose all the time. Gamblers spend a lot of money gambling. I think it's a matter of prestige for a gambler who has won a lot of money to be known. So he rehabilitates himself in the eyes of those who didn't believe he could win at the casino.

By the way, yes, this is an accurate observation. Even if you look at the forums where gamblers communicate, you can see that most of them are very willing to share information about their winnings and almost always keep silent about their losses. It should be expected that having received a big win, a significant part of gamblers will not be able to remain silent about it, even if they realize that it would be rational.

We cant really see any share up of huge losses or totally blowing up their account which is really indeed just normal.No gambler would really be liking on sharing up their losses.What for?
When it comes to big wins then it would be understandable that casinos will really be publicize that hit but it would be impossible that they would really be exposing winners identity.
We've seen lots of hits but with just usernames? It wont be enough on uncovering the the users identity.
For physical casinos then you would be definitely known directly which there's something you cant do.

I saw both types of information in the news: in some cases, they showed and reported brief information about the winners of a large amount in the lottery (perhaps the organizers insisted on this and wanted to advertise), in others, information about the winners was not disclosed, describing only the amount of the winnings and very superficial data.

Of course, publicity can be fraught with consequences, and if there is a choice, it is better to maintain confidentiality. In some cases, this comes to the point of absurdity. I heard one story when a man who won a large amount of money, who wished to remain anonymous, by the way, hid the news of his winnings from his family and from all friends and relatives so as not to tempt them with sudden expenses and get rid of the fact that they would start asking him for money.

There is another vulnerable spot - these are casino employees who can become informants and inform the robbers of the winning players. The probability of this, although small, always remains, therefore, if you are very lucky in gambling, then it is better not to advertise it.

If a person is very concerned about the issue of prestige, he should not publicize himself when he wins a gamble because we don't know who will know that he already has a lot of money. He could have been the target of crimes from people he didn't know to ask for the prize money. And although his goal was to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of people who didn't believe he could win at the casino, it wouldn't be a problem because people already knew he was losing a lot. And if he could win this time, people would probably say he was just lucky this time.

By the way, it turns out that Drake (who recently lost half a million dollars betting on Champions League games) is doing a good job - he demonstrates that it is very easy to lose huge sums  ;D I heard that from his high roll bets that he publishes from time to time, none have played and even the expression "Drake's curse" has appeared - if Drake bets on a team, then it will not win.

Also it would be a good way people should know they should not follow celebrities like Drake, I will say quite a greater work as he lost so much for people to understand that celebrity can mislead. But do you think Drake is actually losing? I do not think steamers and celebrity like him is losing, it is only giving what is Ceaser back to Ceaser, I believe he can not be a fool to the extent he will be losing more on gambling than he is gaining. I believe just people that followed him and use his bet to play theirs are the ones that are losing.

You have the right to privacy, so I don't think that this should be publicized.

Now, let's say they do it, the only thing they can make public is your nickname because your KYC documents are private and should be used only to verify your identity, not revealed to allow random people to connect it with your user name.
A physical casino will also never reveal your name because they usually don't know it. Imagine that you win and they tell you: hold on, first show us your ID or we won't let you out. That would be ridiculous.

AFAIK, only lottery winners are announced publicly and that is how the results are announced and it is happening everyday so somewhere someone is winning huge everyday but very few of them goes viral which is good for the casino publicity so they just let it be. If someone really don't want their privacy to be invaded then they have to choose the games which is suitable for them.

Regardless if the winner has given permission or not, I think it’s already an initiative of the casino itself not to post the real identity of the winner to assure security of the winner’s funds and free from life’s threats and attacks. Although in some games  like lottery, winners are publicized but their names are not mentioned and their faces are intentionally blurred for the safety of the winners.

No....
You're getting it all wrong; no one gets publicized in their real personalities ( their real, personal informations), has that ever happened?? No way! Every wager ticket --whether software or printed on paper, has an ID on it. You're known and recognized, both by the systemal documentary and the casino house or site by those random numbers on the wager tickets; these is what they make public on a big win, NOT your personal informations.
Who the hell would do that to a user ?? On a site that pseudonymity is supposed to me maintained? They won't dare that buddy... You just misunderstood the whole process...

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I'm now thinking about what's the reason that leads OP to ask the question if online casinos will publicly put the name of big winners name in public. I'm pretty sure that no online casino will ever do that. There might be a prompt for the big winner but not to the point that the real name will be used. If OP can share a related story, that's a good reference to read.

However, we can expect that in a physical casino, once there's a big winner, that person will really be exposed for an obvious reason that people there are playing together and if such a thing happened, everyone in the casino will put attention to the winner.

You equally have a very good point here regarding this issue, because publicizing such news online or offline with the name of the winner is risky and can put the life of such individual in danger. I have seen a lot of people who won and never got home safely with the money they won, simply because info got leaked,  because at times is not everybody you see during your celebration moment is happy to see you celebrate. Some if given the opportunity don't mind stealing your joy, which is why it is always good to be extremely careful when you are around people, as you never can tell who will be the judas among them all

Publishing big wins on social media that only aim to show off will experience dangerous things in the future. There have been many cases where someone who won a large bet or lottery suffered a painful loss after they made it public to everyone.
don't show off - don't be flashy - just enjoy your winnings with your family in silence, publicizing your winnings can cause great jealousy, this is what I believe and I apply it in my life.

Do you really think so? In truth it would have a completely opposite effect. For this reason most countries do not make public the identities of criminals so that the public cannot take revenge and their families are protected. It's never a fault of someone's children that they decide to for instance murder someone.

Coming back to casinos, they have no right to make your identity public. They can do it if you agree to it and they can make a picture and post it if you're playing in a brick and mortar casino, but posting a picture with first name is different from making all your data public. It would be like painting a target on your back.

Most of the time it is the gamblers the ones that cannot keep their mouth closed and reveal to everyone that is willing to listen that they won a big amount at the casino, and as we know this is a big mistake as we do not know what kind of people could be listening to that information, after all we know criminals and scammers are attracted to all the places in which money is circulating, then it would not be rare to find a lot of criminals at a physical casino trying to somehow steal from you after your big win.

this can happen even if it doesn't happen directly in a casino.
In Italy there have been several documented cases of people being threatened / robbed / extorted after they had made big winnings from gambling.
I don't think there is any real benefit to bragging about a win.

^In our country, I commonly heard a result of the lottery local which is to have a big grand prize, and when the jackpot will hit, they mentioned where the winner lives but not the name. Probably the reason behind this is privacy and security, once it will publicly announce, robbers will have an interest and it could put your life in danger. So gambling casinos will not ask permission to announce it in public, they already understand it and it also protects their players to mention their identity. It is good if the player who won a big amount will remain anonymous for their safety.

I think this depends on which country the casino is based in and how the privacy laws are there. In general though a casino should never be allowed to publish any personal information without the consent of the winner. In my country lottery winners need to be kept anonymous by law, the company is not allowed to publish any names or pictures. The only thing they publish is the age and the City the lottery ticket was purchased in. It's good to keep as much secrecy as possible to protect the winners. In online gambling things are a bit different, I know that leaderboards are quite common at some casino. From there you can find out the big winners each week and month. But this are only usernames without any additional information. Sometimes there are country flags and that's all the information you can get. As long as you don't use your own name as username, everything is private. And if the casino would ever leak your personal information, then there should be a big fine for it to cover all the cost for higher security.

Fair point and actually that was true. These winners feel that unique experience that only possible when winning big that's why in some cases, they can't control themselves to brag about it disregarding the risks of what they are doing. However, we can't blame that action as they are just being carried away with that enjoyment as it's really difficult to hit such a big amount and it might not even happen again.

Actually, that behavior is fine but since there are bad people around, no choice but the adjustment is really a necessary thing to do for these winners.

The fact that he loses the bets that he publishes is obvious, but it is difficult for me to judge the balance of his profits and losses, since I do not know all his bets, plus the most important thing: the amount of the Stake fee for their cooperation. He is a celebrity of a large scale, so it is not difficult to assume that he receives a lot for casino advertising and it may well be that in the end he is in a significant plus.

The gambling site no obligation to make user open of their winning or reveals winner's identity they can only post the winning on the board but not to reveal their identity. Gambler don't need to be open or go public in any cases other than being anonymous to avoid physical threat or being harm by unknown people.
That is why online gambling is more preferable than offline casinos.

I don't know who to be blame if it's the casino for exposing winners or government for their lack of regulations in some specific areas that partains gambling with public right opinions, but no matter what it's uncalled for to reveal one's identity no matter the case.[/quote]


I agree with you, if they must publicize any information then it has to be on specific information that will not lead to reveal the gambler's privacy to public, but we shouldn't be surprised seing some gamblers less care about their privacy and joyfully accept the offer that goes with their public announcement, i think this is more a thing of choice that some count it a serious thing while some don't even care or mind.

Some sites do so to gather people and entice them to bet more. Leaderboards are there to inspire and something of the likes are present in gambling sites to inspire people to be like those lucky winners. But for publicization, well it's a different story. The government refrains from the publicization of lottery winners because not only is this a right they have the means or ability to exercise, it's also a risk for the winner if they get found out. The risk of someone just mugging them on a busy highway, or an acquaintance literally gunning them down inside their house to rob them is a possibility. So if a site ever publicizes your name and I mean your real government name to their preface, you could sue them.

That is not true, gambling host will never publicize the winner unless the winner give consent.

Indeed it is dangerous because we never know what people will think especially when that person is controlled by envy and greed.


Gambling site need to ask  for permission to publish the name of the winner because the winner is protected by data privacy law.


I think it is an SOP to publish the winner anonymously or an alias is used in place of the real name of the winning person.