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If suddenly you went on a binge-gambling out of a lack of self-control or something else. For example, you deposit money in rapid succession after a series of losses and the casino management freezes your account. And when you call their customer support, they tell you that your account has been frozen for 3 weeks and the reason why they carried out that measure was because they suspected that you were gambling irresponsibly and decided to take that measure so that you can call yourself back to order, will you feel furious, cuss out, sign out of your account and register on another casino and continue betting. Does even freezing a customer's account curb irresponsible gambling or betting addiction?

As far as I know, casinos only freeze an account if the gambler has broken the platform's rules, or if he asks for being freezed. The casino itself won't decide what is irresponsible gambling based on subjective factors and clues. If the gambler is constantly making new deposits and losing money, it's not a concern of the casino at all, unless the gambler contacts their support and tell them he is having difficulties to stop playing, so he can demand his account to be freezed. Then I believe it's an obligation for the casino to do so, otherwise it can be considered the casino is taking advantage of a vulnerable individual, in case the gambler takes further action in the court against the platform.

Let me tell you the truth, gambling sites are happy to see you to always deposit money. They do not make any research about you and they do not care about the money that you are spending on gambling.

No, it can not curb irresponsible gambling because the gambler can go to another gambling site and continue gambling.

Addicts do this all the time, I have seen some classic examples in this forum

To some extent, it can help, especially when it comes to things like Revenge betting after making huge losses. One of the best ways to stop or reduce an addiction is to have a break or forced break. Also, from the legal point of view, the casino will be in a good position to defend itself against problem gamblers who might claim they were not helped fight the addiction or gamble responsibly.

I’ve never had a personal experience with this before but I believe it should work on some people. If they’re chronic addict it won’t do them any good since they can easily open a new account in a different site and resume their gambling activities.  

But for a normal person who has only been using one site for gambling then they should be some hesitation unlike those who have multiple accounts in many sites.

No casino or gambling site will ever close down or freezes a customer account from excessive gambling because it is to their advantage since the house is only the winner in this. The only time aside which they freezes your account is when they notice something suspicious like you breaking the rules or you are signing into the account from various devices and the signee is initiating a withdrawal.they halt everything just to secure your funds.

The only thing have heard and seems logical is that casinos will send you newsletters or advice on how to over come too much loses and we all know all this too is to keep you with them having that belief of winning and nothing more.

i don't know if the OP experienced such situation or just stating a hypothetical scenario. because i never heard a casino freezing their customer's account owed to excessive gambling. they actually like the idea that their player is spending money as much as they can. and that is true, they only freeze acct if the player violated one of their terms and not because the gambler is depositing money successively.

so for the OP, if he encountered such situation, there may be other underlying reasons why the casino resort to that action. not because they want to limit their players and stop their games for some reason.

If its included into their terms and you havent been able to read up as a user then you cant really make out those complaints but if it wasnt included into their terms then you would really be that furious.For sure you would really be that making those scam accusations on such locked up on which i would really be definitely do the same. They dont have the rights on
locking up your account due to successive deposits. Well its not that bad to have that kind of concern into their players and having that kind of approach on stopping them on too much
spending on gambling but it would be always that best that it should really be something to be asked or something that be announcing about on their plans about lock up
whether it is really just that fine or not or having those kind of alerts.

I haven't heard of anything like this happening and I haven't heard of any gamblers having this experience. The casino is happy when a gambler keeps depositing into the casino, the casino has no interest in checking the user's account if the gambler loses money. However, if the gambler continues to win, the casino is interested in checking the user's account and the casino checks whether the gambler has broken any rules of the casino.

So the chances of something like this happening are very low. As a result it is a gambler's responsibility to control himself, the casino will never block the account of a losing gambler. Unless the gambler tells the casino to block his account.

Really hard to believe that a gambling site would do the ff;

1. Stop or hinder players to make deposit
2. Make those limitations or exclusions

We do know and its just common sense that they would really be preferring  with those type of gamblers on which they do become that impulsive
because this is where they would be making that huge profits or revenue into those gamblers who are impulsive as well.

This is why its not something that possible that we could see on this market as of this moment on which it is a bit impossible feature to have or
actions that they would be making.

Ah. You think that the casino management wants you to win? They may want you to win but it’ll be just to win a little so you have the motivation to keep coming back and wasting money on them. Unless this is a feature offered by the platform, they cannot and will not freeze a customers account. Imagine if everyone stops losing, how then will they pay winners? And if it were a service offered by the management, I think that freezing your account can curb irresponsible gambling because it wouldn’t do any harm to freeze it and if it won’t do any harm then it could do good. Maybe the process of creating a new account will bore you out or maybe when the account gets frozen and you sit to think for some minutes, you could come back to your senses.

That's true, That's what casinos really want from gamblers: to put money into their casino, especially if a lot of money is put in, because that's where a casino makes money. If no one deposits with them or there are no players who gamble, the casino will fail for sure.

Now, if we think that we are always unlucky in a casino, of course, as gamblers, we will look for another casino because we will think that maybe when we move to another casino, we will get lucky there, right? Maybe this is what other gamblers do in other casinos.

It’s based on your gambling addiction,because the gambling addicted person can’t be free without any games.If the gamblers is not the addicted person,he can wait for the three weeks.Because the three week is not the big one for the gamblers.But the gambling addicted person will keep on texting the support,this leads to the gambling support to solve the problems in the short period of time.If the gamblers wait like without game it will good for them.

This three weeks gaps will help the gamblers not to get addicted to the gambling site.The gamblers should take responsibility for the game,because they know how to handle the loss in the gambling.The responsible gambling people alone make the big money from the gambling site.

If one casino or betting place freeze the account of a gambler who they know is addicted by way of trying to make them not have resources to gamble with, these gamblers will find their license to gamble elsewhere in a casino that's will accept them and not care about their addiction by trying to control them through freezing their accounts. An irresponsible gambler need to be made to see a reason why they should quit or reduce from gambling. Best help for an irresponsible gambler is to recommend them to a professional.

A gambling site will never freeze the account of the person that is making them to make money. The only reason that a gambling site can freeze account is if the person is against the rules of the gambling site, and that might be if the person win huge and want to withdraw. If the person do not win and not want to withdraw money, the gambling site will allow the person to continue to gamble and waste his money.

personally, I won't, I don't even see myself depositing money on a gambling site in rapid succession after a series of losses. that being said, other gamblers might, especially addicted gamblers.

I think it depends on the person, I mean, perhaps there are people who need some push(in this case, freezing their account) to make them realize that they are going too far and it is not healthy and they need a break from gambling.

Casino officials freezing customer accounts is one way they prevent gamers from engaging in irresponsible gambling activities or becoming gambling addicts. You might get annoyed at first, but keep in mind that the goal here is your security and welfare, even though this action seems to hurt your interest and threaten your fun.

When you freeze your account, it provides some time for introspection in relation to gambling and also triggers the need to seek help in case controlling the habit is becoming difficult. Even though there is always the choice of registering at a different casino and gambling, one must be cautious of this habit leading to negative impacts in the long run.

A measure that casinos can adopt to contribute to their efforts of curbing irresponsible gambling is the freezing of customer accounts, but the final responsibility for controlling your gambling behavior is up to you. In case you realize that it becomes difficult for you to manage your gaming practice, it is quite important to resort to sources available in this area such as support or counseling.

To be honest, trying to detect "irresponsible gambling" by default can be prone to false positives like what if they just had the luxury to deposit more money like loaded people.

In addition, it's difficult to help someone who does not want help hence the measure/s placed should be something they have to request at first. For instance, responsible gambling's self-exclusion, wagering limit, etc.


I believe they do but it all comes down to a person's will power because if someone's unwilling, it would be pretty easy to circumvent such restriction.

The answer to this question is mostly likely not.  It comes down to the age old saying "if there's a will, there's a way".  People that addicted to gambling are going to find ways to gamble no matter what.  If their accounts are frozen they'll simply open new ones (maybe us a VPN) or just go to different gambling outlets.  Let's say they magically got banned from using the internet, then they'd just find places IRL offline.

Well the thing is that this will work on a brick-and-mortar casino setting, and I see it somehow working still when we're talking about online casinos even though the risk of creating dummy or duplicate accounts to evade bans is of course prominent.

First off, we gotta put into consideration that most casinos nowadays require KYC to either deposit money or withdraw their own money within their platforms. With that in mind should they see you creating a new account they could match it against their list of users who got their accounts frozen due to excessive gambling and from there, they could administer a ban on your duplicate account and issue even greater punishments on your original to teach you a lesson, similar to what they do in online games like Valorant and League of Legends against specific users they deem too toxic to be allowed within their community. If this is what they are planning to do then it could just work. Plus let me just say that you're quite the gambler if the casino had to step in and freeze your account. At that point your main concern shouldn't even be how you can evade the ban and still play, your directive should be the reason why you got banned and how you can turn your whole life around in that point. But then again, who am I to really tell people what they should be doing in the first place LOL?

Lol, this is funny because there is no gambling site or casino that will do such a thing, so do not give it too much thought. I feel they always designed the system in such a way that it's automatically taking records of winning and losing; they don't design it in such a way that it will kick out anyone who is losing more and also depositing constantly. Like someone already said in the comments above, casinos even happy to see more losses because it's a business where their profit lies in the number of losses made by customers. If that is the case, why would they freeze customers  accounts?Or do they not want to make a profit? I don't think this can be possible, but if I experience such, I will just move on to another casino, no stress.

That's not making sense. No casino will freeze an account for irresponsible gambling.

In the first place, how can they even determine that there's irresponsible gambling that's happening on the way? Just because of continuous deposit and then all of those will lose? They are business. Continuous deposit from their users is an advantage. Why should they freeze an account because of that? If a casino will do that, they will just giving the reason for their customers to leave their platform.

I will be glad if there's a casino with that feature. Giving their gambler at least a bit of help in terms of moderate gambling. On the other hand though, isn't it a benefit for casinos if users will keep on depositing money? Gambling responsibly is on the gambler's hand, not on the gambling site itself.

If they freeze the account of that user because of that, they might lose customers. What if they freeze the account of a user who will fall into that category but in reality, that gambler is still in responsible behavior. It might annoyed their customers.

First no casino/ gambling site will freeze a customer account because of excessive gambling or even rapid deposits pf large funds,  so for that you have to know that casinos are out for business and they run the business with those deposits and loses,  so they will never block you account and even those that have the self excluding features,  will not even function at it full rate.

So for that gambling casinos that block player account do that because the have other motive towards they gambling lifestyle such as freezing players' accounts only when they win big amount and not allowing them to access the account and taking the balance off the account balance.

it's the first time I heard a story like this, if this happened to me, Of course, I would go to another casino and playing there. As far as I know, they have no right to regulate our life, whatever the situation and condition, like addiction or irresponsible gambling, all that situation is under our control, not by another person who doesn't have regulation to manage our life. We play with our own money, so whatever the situation, lost or won, we have the right to do as we please.

Well. In the first place, I don't think there is an actual and accurate enough way for the casino staff to guess whether you would be being irresponsible with your money while gambling, even if they ask your your personal information when you register in their casino they normally won't ask for proof or origins of funds, a letter or job or a bank statement on your savings, so the casino does not have idea on how much money you manage in the real life.
If one of their gamblers started to have a series of losses and continued to depositing into the casino, there is no way for the staff to assume that person has a big or a small salary, they could even believe that gambler is rich and there is no problem. that is the main reason most of the self-exclusion programs are voluntary.
Also, I agree that a gambler who is addicted can always sign up in a different casino and continue to gamble, though, self-excluding from many webpages at the same time could indeed make more difficult for the problem gambler to continue to spend as much money as usually does and help a bit with his recovery, at least that is how it is supposed to work in the theory, in the practice it is harder for it to happen.

I think it will never happen because casinos don't care about their users' gambling addiction. They do include links to responsible gambling services which are usually at the bottom of the site but casinos are a business and the more people deposit the more they profit, they don't care where your money comes from.

But if any casino cares about the addiction of its users then that's great, maybe the casino can limit how much $ can be deposited in a day. Unfortunately, this is not possible and hoping for something like that is just a utopia. Responsibility and gambling addiction is our own responsibility as users, casinos will not help with anything

The process to stop playing needs to come from the user himself. Forcibly removing it will not help at all. I believe that going out little by little or even playing less frequently will help reduce this desire to gamble.

This is just bullshit. I mean it’s my own money. I can do whatever I want with it. I can frequently gamble or don’t gamble at all, that’s upto me. Now how come a casino can interfere with this. If any casino blocks you by stating this, then it’s better to change the casino. This is purely beyond the ethics. We should always avoid these types of casinos, if we guys love our hard earned money. I am completely against this.

So far, I have never heard of a gambling account being frozen because the gambler did not have good responsibilities.
However, in my opinion, it is impossible for a gambling account to be frozen because of a small mistake he made, but if he continues to violate the rules on the gambling platform, it is possible that a freeze will occur.
Maybe for gamblers who are already addicted, if this happens to them, I think they will definitely do a lot of things to be able to gamble again, such as creating a new account for example, and for ordinary gamblers maybe this will make them sad. and angry and maybe they don't want to play. gambled again because he felt annoyed.

I don't think so because they can just create a new account or maybe worse, find another website or casino to play thus losing you a customer. When it comes to this kind of things though, I feel like as a businessman, it's a good idea to not interfere with this people because you're making the most out of these people anyway, you're already in a soulless and deprave business model, why have a heart to stop your customers from gambling their life savings, didn't stop a lot of you from take their money away normally right so why now? To pretend that you care? I don't think that's good for the casino's image, the best thing that someone should do in this situation is that they should just improve their services and amenities to this irresponsible individual so at the very least they're having the time of their life while wasting their finances in your casino.

If that happens all of a sudden in the middle of me very excited and badly wanting to play, I might indeed feel furious, create a support ticket, and probably cuss and cuss them out in my head. But if I am already aware that I have this difficult challenge to stop myself from gambling even if I want to, I think I will be grateful to them instead for finding a way to force me to stop. And since my funds are already locked, opening another account may be pointless. The urge to gamble might significantly subside because of it.

This cannot change anything regarding gambling addiction. It is obvious you've never been addicted to gambling before or seen someone that have been addicted before. A gambling addict has no control over his actions and can't help it.

If the account of gambling addict is frozen for whatever reason it may be, it is a matter of creating new account in another casino or even playing physical casino. The options are just numerous besides, most casinos do not require KYC.

Stopping gambling addiction must come from the determination of the gambler after being convinced that he is going about gambling the wrong way.

That's one way to look at things and make it so much bleaker than it already is although I do agree with it that if you're a business that's all profit then you should probably detach yourself from feelings with your customers, their suffering is what's making you thrive so why be too adamant at stopping them from gambling right? For me though, I think that it does kind of help some irresponsible gamblers because a little pause in your gambling can help you get things into perspective and see that you've been playing for a really long time, I do get the sympathy part if you look at it, you're the one that's losing on this one so even if it does help, it's going to be problematic for you financially.

It can be frustrating but I think it's a preventive measure and to encourage self-reflection. It will be a wake-up call to reassess gambling habits, especially gamblers who impulsively register with another casino. Seeking help and support to control gambling behavior.

But in reality, there's no casino, either physically or online, that does this. In sad reality, it's a favour for them that someone will become irresponsible in gambling as they are the ones that will benefit from it, and also, there are more casinos that are taking advantage of this kind of gambler. The only ones that will control them are themselves. If they can't be responsible with their gambling, then it's their own problem. If there is a casino that has a policy, then they will be popular, but in reality, there will be no casino that has those features.

Its rare for those casinos to advise their customers about responsible gambling because having a concern for their customers or gamblers can be a very good sign that they are in good hands, but mostly casinos focus more on advertising to attract more customers by offering free spins or free funds to gamble.

Casinos freeze their customers' accounts for their own interests, such as when users break rules, or deposit from suspicious sources, etc. I don't think there are any casinos that will freeze the user's account for a series of losses. Moreover, I don't think there will be any benefit in doing this because there are thousands of websites available for gambling, he will go somewhere else for gambling.
Moreover, I think that if a person can afford a series of losses, then I don't see anything bad there. And the main thing is that if the casino applies this rule to the system, then how they will know that how much funds a person can afford? Because his affordability depends on whether he is gambling irresponsibly. So I don't think account freezing is a good way to prevent irresponsible gambling

Point of order, casino platform can not freeze your account due to you are gambling irresponsibly, their is something that matters in gambling and it neither you don't abide on the rules and regulations of gambling in that gambling platform that will make them to freeze your account, when account is being freeze in particular gambling platform know that such account have committed offence because before you start gambling in gambling platform you are supposed to read tye rules and regulations of the platform and understand it before you fund your account, some people do not understand the terms and conditions of casino gambling platform before they kick off, so that is why they do freeze some of them account.

I've never heard of a casino freezing a customer's account for depositing money consecutively.

What if it's a rich person who puts in a large amount of money is it not self-control? Here the casino will not be responsible and will not restrain anyone because their deposits only have rules where when violating the rules the account will be frozen.

So here the casino does not have full control over the customer's responsibility, so it comes back to the individual whether they are able to gamble responsibly or not.

That's a good one; good luck with that. Casinos don't actually care if you even lose all your savings gambling; they take no action over "responsible gambling." They're money-making businesses; it's no place for emotions. They're there, so you'll gamble; your lack of self-control isn't their problem. They'll only freeze your account if you ask them to, or when we're talking about a possible TOS violation. Otherwise, don't expect them to save you from your troubles; even if they actually cared, you can simply create a new account with a VPN in no time.

Did you experience this or just a hypothetical question? Because it's unusual for casino to freeze the account of their player for being out of control. In fact, it is actually beneficial for their business if the gambler keep on depositing money, it means more revenue. So they'll never do this unless there's a violation in the gambler's end.

Anyway, if this actually happened, just shows the casino is not just after profit. Clearly they are concern to their gambler's behavior, preventing their player to have a further losses. It is actually a good thing. So if you are the gambler who experienced this and you are eager to play again to chase back what you have lost. Think deeply if what you're doing is right. Maybe it's better to refrain from playing this time and just do other activities to divert your attention.

If they do that to all their customers, how then will they make profits. We should understand that casinos make profits from our losses so they won't care if you are losing to the extent of freezing your account but rather they will play their part and count their losses.
A casino's only interest I'm freezing your account is when you either break rules or resistance to comply with some kyc or the others. Also when they find some illicit activities from your account like you trying to turn the tables around then you may have your account frozen as well.
Casinos don't mind you lossing as it's all part of the game plan and strategy for them to make their profits of our losses. Even as at that, it won't help in anyway to curb irresponsible gambling activities or betting addiction.

Practical answer? A gambler can just create another account if we are just concerning the gambler's activity. If it is with the credits or money frozen with his account, he woud more likely have bigger drive to still gamble given that fact that he's irresponsible; if there's a will, then for sure there's a way. We are talking about irresponsibility and that is within an individual's habits and personality. It may create a temporary stop to his gambling activity at that moment but there are other platforms he could play with for sure. Likewise with landbased casinos wherein if you are banned, other businesses on the same industry could accept you. It should start within a gambler if he aims to aid irresponsibility. It might not be that easy but alike with his drive to gamble, if he has a will then he would do it even with baby steps just to start with.

+1 on this. Gambling casinos don't really care about gamblers getting addicted or whatsoever. I haven't heard of such stories where someone's account got frozen for that specific reason. Online and offline gambling I never heard of freezing of funds or account. Maybe in some other countries but here in my country I found none.

It won't literally curb irresponsible gambling instead it will disappoint gamblers and might cause any mental breakdown if it happens that gamblers take it seriously.

what I know is that casinos will not freeze accounts if they are not suspected of cheating, casino sites will be happier to get irresponsible gamblers, they will get more profits from their customers

This is a tricky question and I am not really sure if the actions would help reduce irresponsible gambling. From the casino side it's a nice way to try and protect their customers. But does losing money and depositing new funds really mean that we are irresponsible? In some cases yes, but in other cases people just don't like to have too much money at the casino. For me it's a security risk to leave large funds at the casino, I would rather pay a bit more in transaction fee and be in full control of coins. From a gamblers point of view an account freeze could help to take a break from gambling and clear our head. Unfortunately there are a large number of different online casinos we can choose from. The gambler can just switch casinos, deposit new money and keep gambling. The only solution would be if all casinos work together and the account freezes is globally. At the moment this doesn't seem very realistic.

I would like the see casinos act in this manner because it will assist in stopping gambling addiction. Sadly casinos are profit-making organisations so they will always want bettors to keep betting. If a casino freezes my account because of suspected over-gambling, I won't be angry or consider opening another account. Waiting for three weeks will be my best option because it is clear that the casino cares about my well-being. I will be loyal to such casinos because they care about customers.    


Indeed, it might not stop the gambler from gambling because the process of opening another account is easy. However, some gamblers might decide to wait until the suspension elapses if they are used or loyal to the casino. I have played in some casinos but I am attracted to few because of their quality service. There are some casinos I will never use because of the bad experiences I had, so I might consider waiting for three weeks.    

In my opinion, it doesn`t solve any problem because the gambler will immediately create another account and even discourage friends from creating an account with that casino telling them his experience and thereby demarketing the casino but it would only be effective if when your account is frozen it hinders you from opening accounts with other casinos then such a gambler will be careful next time not to face such sanction. For example, once a debtor has been blacklisted it hinders the person from accessing a loan from other loan sharks or financial institutions. This should be the same with frozen a bet account. Except this way, it cannot help an addicted gambler. But then, betting companies are capitalist so since they benefit from a gambler than even gamble more they will never freeze the account because it is in their interest. Some betting companies have been accused of closing the betting accounts of people who won big. So, they only froze accounts of people who have big winnings and not people who fund recklessness.

I think it's quite ridiculous that a casino company will freeze your account because they feel or knows that you are gambling irresponsible, this people are actually looking for money and you are one of their top customer due to addiction, and you think they will stop you? The only thing that would make them take such an action is if you broke their rules.

And talking about if the addictive person involve would stop? No, because an addictive person sees gambling as a thing they can't do without, so I believe they will definitely open a new account, just to keep on gambling wether dy are winning or not.

Freezing a customer’s account will only be a temporary impediment. There’s endless options if they want to continue gambling. Losing access to your funds would make any rational person think twice about their choices, but some people get too caught up in emotion to consider the consequences.

Casinos can only do so much. Ultimately, irresponsible gambling can only be fixed if the person has the mental fortitude to control their behavior.

There is always a chance for someone to continue gambling, even though their account has been frozen on one of the casino platforms they visit most often. Because he can still register on other casino platforms, and even though all casino platforms prohibit him from registering and betting on them, there are still illegal casino platforms that he can still visit.

And talking about responsible gambling, it must be done from within oneself, and if the person does not have the determination and strong commitment to a responsible gambling activity, then whatever form of support and effort is made will be useless and will not never changed his impulsive gambling behavior. For responsible gambling, individual awareness is needed, because whether gambling is good or not depends on who plays it.

The type of concern from the casino. I honestly don't think that there's such casino that exist. Casinos normally just implement their TOS and there has been no TOS that a gambler's account will be frozen once they are found irresponsibly gambling. In fact, I believe that casinos love that, they don't use feelings so they are not guilty. There's a saying that casinos love losers but hate winners, I think that's just the basic principle they follow, nothing else.

Freezing of account would only happen if we violate the TOS, or if the initiative is coming from us like we want to self exclude ourselves for a certain amount of time, and that is using the casino feature embedded in our account.

I know this is a hypothetical question because casino won't have to stop you from gambling the way you are because it is your money and in fact they won't you to gamble more and your chances of winning is limited.

However, for the response to such action, I think it depends on the person involved. An irate person will get angry about that and an addict also will not find it funny but someone who is a moderate gambler will not be abusive but will look inward to himself and make his amendment to his gambling activities.

I will like to see such response from a online casino customer service because it sounds too good to be true, casinos will rather allow you to keep gambling and keep losing everything, it's good for their business, trying to make you stop or control your desire for gambling is like telling people not to gamble, it's clear that they will start making less money.

The only way this idea makes sense is if the gambler is the blocking himself off the casino for a while and later decide to reopen the account, maybe after getting control of themselves again.

Even if your own way is possible, it won't help the gambler to limit his irresponsible gambling because to them they are doing what's needed to be done, you can't force someone to stop their addicting gambling behaviour, it's only the gambler that can stop themselves, they can abandon a casino if they are blocked and open another.

Yes, maybe I will feel angry, swear and not be able to accept the casino treatment. But if I feel that what I did was a form of irresponsible gambling according to the casino, I will accept it and admit that the mistake was mine and I will not repeat it, even in any casino. However, we must admit it was our mistake and say we will never do it again. Maybe freezing customer accounts can curb irresponsible gambling but if it's an online casino, I'm not sure it can stop the people who do it from coming back to that casino. They can even gamble at other casinos that are not too strict in monitoring their customers because such people already have problems in their minds. The person should have felt that he had made a mistake by gambling irresponsibly and depositing money consecutively, which made the casino suspicious.

First and foremost, I doubt that gambling platforms would implement this kind of idea. Additionally, how can they say also that a person has been gambling "irresponsibly" by relying only on the deposit history?

Gambling establishments are businesses. This means that their goal and aim here is to accumulate profit. Any implementation or activity that may hinder their business model is against their mandate and goal in the first place.

While there may be gambling casinos/platforms that have some sort of instrument or sign that may warn a user about their expenditures, I really do believe that restricting another one's account and preventing them from gambling further would not be carried out by these establishments.

Freezing a customers account doesn't not cub irresponsible gambling, but this I would say, largely depends on the gambler him or her self, that is, the type of person he or she is.
Some gamblers are the types who get furious easily, and this is one of their natural threats, for such  gamblers, it's very easy for them to get furious, bash the casino's customer care for what is not their fault, logout of that casino and then register or login on another casino, deposit and continue their gambling.

While there are some other gamblers who such an action would draw them back to order, make them pause and think and realize that they have done something wrong and try to not repeat same thing again.

Overall, freezing a customer's account does not cub irresponsible gambling  in general, but it's still a good measure any casino would take to bring their misbehaving customer back to their right senses.

This is the first time I have heard of a casino freezing people's accounts because they gambled a lot and lost, is something like this even possible? I can't imagine some casino doing this...

If something like this exists, I doubt that it can cause people to gamble less, what's more, I think something like this is counterproductive. Someone (me for sure) would be very annoyed by this, I would certainly change the site and gamble maybe even crazier in another place.

Well, I doubt that some casinos are doing this! First, it's difficult to know how someone gambles, and how much money he spends on gambling, without touching someone's privacy too much. And second, even if they think that someone is really responsible they can inform him about those suspicions, just freezing someone's account is bad and rude. If there is a casino like this, their policy is very bad!

The more often you make deposits, the more the casino will like you, they will not block or freeze your account at all. However, if you make too many withdrawals then your account will most likely be frozen or you will be banned from playing at that casino again.

So the casino won't care how much money you spend at their casino, they won't care about your addiction, but if you withdraw a lot of money from them then they will care and put a mark on your account. Casinos are businesses and not charities or social foundations that care about your problems and finances

An addict doesn't see the way he gambles as irresponsible because his thinking is already affected. It will be difficult for him to accept the sanction in good faith. Secondly, do you think an addict can stay for weeks without gambling? It is not possible. The anger will span from the fact that he still has money in his bet account to gamble and so freezing the account for weeks to him is a denial of the money and this can amount to anger. This feeling is likened to the feeling you get when a bank holds your money for some weeks due to a failed transaction.

There are so many casinos and it is even difficult for an addict to own only one casino account so he can easily focus on gambling with other accounts immediately without bothering about anything except his money in the freeze account.

The undeniable fact is everyone is not the same which prevents this question from having a direct YES or NO answer. Freezing the gambling account of "Mr bob" may make him realize that he had made wrong moves and was involved in an unhealthy gambling practice.therefoe making him amend his ways.
However if same action is taken on "Mr John's gambling account, he could actually get angry an retaliate by staking even more instead of following suit like Mr bob did.
Gambling requires the ability to make the right decisions instead of acting based on emotional rush.

Yes, its totally the opposite on which it would really be that understandable that you would really be the ones who would really be that be liked by the casino. They do love losers and hate up winners.
Therefore, it would be that most unlikely that you would really be stopped by the casino, they do love for people to bust up their capital in the end of the day and wont really be having or in concern
about their customers life when it comes to money. This is why it would really be that best that you should really be that mindful as a gambler on having those limitation.

On the time that casino would really be having those lock ups, then it would be normal that you would be having that kind of reaction on which you would be having those impressions that you might been scammed by the house. On the time that you would be getting those alerts then for sure you would really be having those argumentations on which it would really be that best that you should
give out those explaination and for sure they would really be able to giving it back.

Hmm. That's a difficult question and might depend on our financial capability. I might get furious especially if I have the money and don't really care if I lose more, that will be good for their business so I was not supposed to be locked out. The next thing I might do is register to a different casino but I will still feel bad because on that previous gambling site, I might get the RTP anytime after sacrificing a lot of money. I mean, it's starting all over again if you register for a new one which means feeding them money too without the RTP coming out anytime soon.

Anyway, this is where the terms and conditions will come in. We cannot fight back to customer support if it is written there, we cannot do anything about it but only abide by their rules and just switch to a new gambling site if we want to continue.
There are online casinos that have features for gambling responsibly. Stake.com has that but I have not tried it yet.
They also have one feature where we can set our gambling limits but I didn't try it too. I don't want to have any trouble in the future if I am going far from my betting habit. Not that I think it will happen.
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If it's our fault for mistakenly switching on these features then I think we can do nothing about it. There was once a member who created a thread about limits and responsible gambling options, but I cannot find it anymore. His experience might be helpful on this thread.

Technically the casino doesn't have that legal right to freeze a gambler's account as a result of successive or frequent funding if the account except the user has done anything that violates their ToS of the casino. On the other hand, the casino will be glad that someone is losing money to them and still funding more to lose it in no time, it's therefore in their profit.

But to answer your question, freezing of a gamblers' account doesn't guarantee the curbing of irresponsible gambling. In most cases the gambler will go for the available option of opening a new account to use for his gambling immediately instead of waiting for when his account will be unfrozen. In fact such actions without the gamblers knowledge and permission has the tendency to make the gambler to end up with multiple accounts which will likely aggravate his irrespective gambling.

It's purely business, that's their mentality, and they don't care if you are losing money because that is the success of their business. If you are losing, the assumption is you are fine because in the first place, when you gamble you agree with the terms and you are matured enough to understand that losing is part of gambling.. If gambling site would freeze to prevent further losses, what would happen if the casino keeps winning, are they gonna freeze it too or just allow them to continue winning, because if they choose to allow it, then they are not operating a business, but they are running a charity.


Not only a gambler could create another account but he could choose to play on other gambling sites... Remember that the gambling industry is wide, gamblers could choose in any gambling sites he wants to play with his money.

The casino doesn't have that right or any obligation to freeze your account for irresponsibly gambling. What is even term as irresponsible? Because you lost? It's not fair, I will not use such kind of casino because what if the losses were from your own mistakes? I have I many questions but I think this is why we need to always read the terms and conditions of casino when making a new account, for them to do such, they must have indicated it in their terms and conditions but because we don't care to read them, we accept it without even knowing the things we accept.

The gambling platforms I used all have suspend accounts but it has to be done by you and the moment you activated the "suspend account", they will ask you to confirm from your email and once that is done, they will not activate your account again until that time has elapsed. Should you change your mind later, they will not open the account because they think you are addicted, the first condition will remain which is suspended until that period has elapsed which is good for gambling addicts.

for gambling addicts, maybe they will be angry about this and curse at management for their treatment of their account by limiting and freezing the account. they will probably think that this action is unfair to them and maybe they will try to gamble again in another way, either at another casino by opening another account or logging in to an existing account.

or because their money is limited they might stop gambling and try to stay quiet while feeling stressed and annoyed about it.

so it's possible that the casino's actions by restricting one user's account when they don't gamble responsibly might restrict the player from gambling or not at all.

We both are on same page on this, and you're correct that the casinos are not running a charity organisation and secondly as adult it is believe you are responsible for every action and decisions you chose to take either to keep funding your account after each loss or to restrain from it. Take the individual businessman on the street for instance, if you're selling cigarettes you won't have to start advising your customers to stop smoking as it may damage their lungs, you're leading your business to imminent collapse because they will stop patronizing you and move to the next shop that sales cigarettes.

Just as I used the instance above with a cigarettes business seller, if the casino take such action on their customers they will surely lose patronage and eventually close down because gamblers will make use of the next gambling site that gives them the liberty to gamble as much as they want with their funds.

Freezing a wallet never helps to stop addiction but they will lose clients.
But I'm not sure it is because they detected irresponsible gambling because they are supposed to be happy about having you on their platform and make deposits. Maybe for other violations that connect to irresponsible gambling in general. But as I've said and other members, this won't curb addiction as gamblers will search for another site and continue their gambling habits.

Whatever the reason for freezing an account, gamblers never see it as a worrying scenario. Well, the saddest thing is that we can't withdraw our money anymore.

Casino will not freeze someones account for that reason and for sure they would love to have a costumer like that since their profit will continue and they would let them play not unless if they do abusive action that break their rules then for sure with that they would freeze or totally ban the account of accused gamblers. Casino owners will not get a damn to stop anyone to gamble since this operator want people to come on their site and play as long as they can. Those messages posted about gambling responsibly reminder is just a post but they don't really mean it since the more extended minutes people to gamble the more money to enter in their business.

Did you experience that? I was working in a company where gamblers would sit on our live tables. We had a possibility to report to the management that player had a gambling problem or addiction by clicking on the tab on the screen, them the one responsible for solving those cases would contact the player and have a small chat with them, to ensure whether player really had an addiction or not.
I have always thought that every casino was handling this situation the way I described. I think it is a violation of personal rights to block customers and entitle it as a gambling addiction problem if you didn't have communication with the customer at first.

I don't think gambling casinos would freeze your account for irresponsible gambling unless you request them to stop you personally. I have read some posts about making themselves stop gambling because they know they are addicted. It would not be really effective in the sense that you could just gamble with another casino if you really are itching to gamble. It's still the person's decision where it would really make sense.

No one can stop you from playing if you want to play, there's always other casinos to play so no I don't think freezing a gambler's account will curb addiction as long as there are other alternatives, a compulsive gambler will always find a way, the only way to stop compulsive gambler is through personal intervention and not preventing him from gambling when there are other options to gamble, I have not known a case where an addicted to gambling because he was restricted, that's not how to cure a compulsive gambler.

A compulsive gambler may stop from playing but he will always come back until a professional intervene and laid out a therapy to cure his addiction, many casino have that feature but its a feature they implement as part of their compliancy of making their platform safe from addiction to gambling.

I would feel furious on that, who are they to judge me, as long as I'm not making trouble on their casino, they should still allow me to gamble and let me manage myself. A gambler would only be called irresponsible when he make an action that could destroy other people's properly or worst hurt them. They don't know me, what if I'm just trying to burn my money because I am having fun, and I could lose as much as I want since I am earning a lot of money.

They (casino) should not cross the line, they have rules, that's the only thing they are focus on implementing it, not "suspecting" someone of being irresponsible.

Yes since customers attention will focus on recovering the funds and will help him to cool down. But this is very subjective because how will casino determine if the players is betting frequently due to addiction because some players tend to play small then just deposit partially whenever they lose their bankroll. I will not consider depositing multiple times without knowing the total bankroll of this person.

But assuming the person is indeed addicted. Freezing the account is the right action to stop the addiction. We already witness tons of scam accusation here that related to funds confiscation and all of them spend their time solving their issue rather than continue gambling.

Not all casinos do that, although there are, of course every gambler should be able to understand that they are reminding you to stop gambling, even though you can gamble at other casinos, but actually casinos like to see you make gambling deposits at any time, it's just that maybe this feature can help. you to get out of your gambling addiction and bad habit of playing without proper control, after all it doesn't look bad but maybe there are people who find it fun and there are also those who don't.

Actually I have never received a warning like this but I have heard stories from people out there about restrictions that ultimately make casinos freeze gamblers' accounts for some time in order to avoid losing more money in gambling, for casinos it is actually very detrimental but it can be a thing This is a positive thing that must be seen from the perspective of gamblers, after all, why do you have to rush to make a deposit every time? Shouldn't gambling be done responsibly and not excessively? It all comes down to each person's point of view, things will definitely be different.  8)

VPN for what? If gambling is allowed in his country, why using VPN? There are many reputable gambling sites today that he can choose from. Some gambling sites do not even allow VPN. If a gambling site block his account because they know that he is getting addicted to gambling, he can just open an account on another gambling site and continue to gamble. But if we should be sincere, have you seen any gambling site that does that before? I have not seen a gambling site that will block the account of the person that is given them more money and losing it for their own profit. It is good for OP to know that to stop gambling or stop gambling addiction comes from the gamblers mind and not from any form of centralized control.

Your story touches on a crucial ethical and responsible issue in gambling. I think account freezing is a double-edged sword. It interrupts and forces reflection. Its not only about stopping a spree; its about forcing oneself to reflect. I wonder if this solves the problem.

I believe such treatments work best when people are willing to face their behaviour. Freezing an account may only temporarily deter irresponsible gambling. Does it modify behaviour permanently or just postpone it?

Supporting pleasurable gambling is different from ignoring harm. Casinos and other gaming platforms must secure their consumers' health and safety. Account freezing should be part of a safe gambling approach. Start a discourse that leads to healthier behaviours and choices, not just stop the action.

Casinos can't freeze an account for such reason and rationally it doesn't make sense, its user's responsibility to handle his money, and casinos provide features to exclude themselves if they feel they are over betting and it even exists because of the regulations or casinos would love people who lose their money to them because that is how they can make money for them.

And I really wonder how a casino can decide a person is spending more money than he do.

This thread doesn't even make sense to me.

after I understand the problem related to this case, it seems to refer to gambling addicts because they don't have responsibility for their gambling and chase losses continuously.
freezing a gambler's account after being suspected of irresponsible gambling will only be in vain because there are many ways for gambling addicts to continue betting to vent their emotions to chase losses by using other people's accounts or registering for other gambling sites as said by other people here.

one way to temporarily stop a gambling addict is simply to ban all the data he has from being banned from any casino so that the gambling addict will no longer be able to return to betting and registering at another casino.
that's the best way that I know, but it doesn't guarantee that you can stop gambling addicts because as I said, there is always a way.

I wonder what parameters a casino should use to understand that a person is not playing responsibly. Besides, there are thousands of people in the casino; will they babysit every player? If you are an adult, and this is a condition for registration, then you are fully responsible for your actions.
But there is also an answer from a player who has an addiction, and he will also have no restrictions if he thinks about his addiction for a while.


The player can be stopped only after his desire to be cured, by making a ban somewhere for him, he will move to another gaming platform.

There will be reputable casinos who have as their policy the enforcement of responsible gambling. They may not be so rampant but there are. The topic would have been more self explanatory if the OP had listed a few of those casinos that can freeze their customers account on suspicion that they are gambling recklessly.

Casinos that do that are responsible casinos. Because even though the goal is to make money but making money off of the right way and not off of so gambler's silly mistake is no fun. For those who say that the casinos are there to make profit, I want to tell you that neither would they run at a loss if they freeze the account of some gambler who is already showing symptoms of gambling addiction.

That makes sense.
If you are gambling irresponsibly, casinos will not mind whatever you do. If you lose a thousand per minute, they just let you be and will even like that you gamble that way. Never heard of casinos freezing your account all because of that.

There is no way they will freeze your account for gambling away your money, but they may freeze it if you are winning a huge amount and try to withdraw them all. They will sort of ask for so many requirements other than government documents but probably source off funds as well.

Which are those reputable casinos you're mentioning that enforce responsible gambling? Your statement implies that there are, but fail to state which ones they are; it would be useful if you actually mentioned some of them, because I highly doubt that there are any casinos that care whether you're responsible with your money or not. There's no right or wrong way to make money as a casino, when you sign-up on a when you accept their TOS and the possibility of you losing money, you're responsible for your own actions.

People can get mad as hell but if they really want to gamble they will find a way to gamble. Especially online, people will just go to another casino or register a new account at the casino that froze their activity.

Firstly, I don't think its possible for platforms to freeze your account because of consistent deposits, I've only know them to freeze account on suspicion of multiple accounts or you're in restricted countries.  I've never seen consistent deposits as a breach of agreements on their T & C.

Casinos count their gains from your consistent deposits and their loses from your wins that you withdraw, so as long as you continue depositing, you enrich them and they're even happy to see you deposit more, moreover in actual terms, nobody says no to opportunities to make more money.

Now back to your question, when someone's account is  frozen and the person is a desperate person, the platform that  froze his account has just lost a customer, he will go ahead to patronize another casino which will welcome him with open arms. He continues his habit there and life  goes on. The only way I've seen that someone's addiction habits is curbed its by the gambler coming to his senses and putting an end to his addiction, else, there are many ways to do their thing.

Think freezing an account solves it? Think again. A momentary pause, not a solution. Bet addiction and irresponsible gambling are complicated disorders rooted in psychology, habit, and circumstance. Freezing account? All that's surface. A deep root cause analysis is needed

The battle is won via education, awareness, and intervention. Both casinos and people contribute. Choices, boundaries, and addiction signs. I agree about seeking help when such lines are crossed. Account freezing may appear like action, but change? It comes from inside and is assisted by a framework that understands gambling addiction. Don't oversimplify: get to work

This would rarely happen because this how they make their money, but it would have been a very good measure and will go way far to help curb irresponsible gambling, reason that the gambler will be cautious next time so that such a situation won't occur where his/her account will get frozen as a result of that, while in the other hand, it can make this gambling platform lose customers because the majority of gamblers won't like a situation where they will get restricted to do what they want with their money at anytime.

There is no relationship between gambling addicts and casinos, in fact casinos like to see gambling addicts who continuously deposit their money, it is an advantage for the casino, if they freeze it they are reducing their profits, unless they find violations they will freeze it because it is detrimental they

Well, we first have to be able to separate the functions of each thing. Firstly, the casino is someone's private property and that someone invested money, then it is that person's business and that person complies with all laws to run the casino. he is not to blame for anyone's losses, he did not force anyone to play at his casino and the games at his casino are provably fair games, so he was part of it. Now the player has responsibilities that he must fulfill, first the player must comply with the part of providing truthful information, he must also comply with the casino's terms of service. Afterwards, the player must know for himself that gambling is not a constant source of income and that the risk of losing money playing is much greater than winning and that is why you don't see many people getting rich playing in casinos or lotteries.

This is something basic that everyone should be aware of. when a person ignores the fact that gambling is not a source of wealth and that person starts playing a lot to the point of becoming addicted to gambling, then this is not the casino's problem, and the casino managers cannot keep closing accounts of people without these people having broken the TOS and without these people having asked the casino to close their account, it is not the casino's duty to keep making assumptions that if customer X or Z are playing a lot then they are addicted to gambling and blocking the account of customer X or Z. it is not correct for a casino to do this. In my opinion, when the client thinks he is addicted, he should seek medical help.

Many people have made the serious mistake of ignoring doctors, they think they will be cured alone without needing doctors, they look for help on the internet, they keep closing accounts in casinos thinking that this is the definitive solution, but it is not a definitive solution because the person can create an account at another casino and continue playing, addiction must be faced head on and for that only medical help is the solution, I hope that people who are addicted seek doctors

This is a serious case and for the casino team to freeze the account of there customer because of recklessness in gambling is a good decision although that might not stop the obsessed gambler from using another casino. For me, I think the casino is trying to respect the user's gambling activities which was too fast and can become worse in less than no time.
 This is one of the things many casinos face because taking such decision do make there user to leave and go try another casino to get there urge satisfied. The freezing of the account is not for any reason than to help the addicted gambler to stay fit and check the way they gamble. This a fight to stop reckless gambling.

Good luck finding such casino  ;D.They will never limit any account which is losing money in succession as long as that means that this behavior is making money to them,even if it was me in the management of the casino I would not care much because I would assume the person has read the terms and conditions and also knows the odds are against them.Even such casino existed and this becomes mainstream still this does not resolve the irresponsible gambling or gambling addiction as even if the account is freeze of such person he will just move to another casino,so it won't work.

Well, that is the reality and that is what we agreed to while registering on a casino. And I am sure 90% of such accusation against the casino's were user's fault and they violated something that goes against their terms will lead to face the consequences like void the bet completely or undergo AML procedure as mentioned.

If that site really cares then it’s fine for them to lose some profit because they can still get big money from you if you will remain responsible in the long run. Though, my concern here is that the site should inform the gambler ahead of time and make sure that the funds on their account can still be withdraw since this can create panic to the gamblers and they might think that the site is scam for freezing their money or account.

I agree. Casinos whether it is online or landbased are simply businesses which would more likely mind getting profit from gamblers than being too concerned of them. I saw some advertisements with certain platforms displaying infographics which points out gambling responsibly however as a user myself, I am not giving that much of attention into it. But mostly, they're not having that much of warnings for their player.

But with the question itself I guess it would only be a buffer to the gambler on his gambling patterns however, a gambler could still find his way with other platforms if he's too eager, as others have said already. But irresponsibility indeed are in many forms. It could be with betting amounts or the time spent whenever he's gambling. But still, such instance won't create that much of an impact with one's gambling habits given that there are alternative ways to do so.

Yes you are correct. This is just a hypothetical scenario. I think I need to get it right.
Casinos do not have any reason to freeze the account of customers. But they do so based on two reason from the best of my understanding -

• They can help the customer to block themselves if the customer who suspects that they are getting addicted to gambling gives their support the permission to go ahead and do so.
• They can also block the customers account which is one of the ways they comply with anti-money laundering act. However, in this scenario, it happens when there is more money coming into the gambler's account while there is no sign of gambling activities.
• Banks, not the casinos this time, can freeze the account of the gambler if they see large amounts of money leave the account of the individual.

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- https://www.rivalry.com/responsible-gambling
- https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9bf2ce45-df05-4c3b-a932-3f07fcf1f111
- https://community.gamcare.org.uk/forum/debates-and-discussions/a-word-of-warning-with-gambling-and-banks/

Its unlikely of them for which they would really be showing up some concern into their customers or players on which they wont really be that giving off that kind of thing on which
the more losses that they would be having the more money that they are making and this indeed fact the reality.It is really just that there people cant really just that make those
kind of realizations that gambling houses or businesses wont really be showing that kind of concern. If ever they would be making those lock ups and having those kind of reasoning
then its quite shady unless if they would really be giving it back to the user then it would be fine but it would be always best that they should be giving some announcement or alerts in regarding into that
excessive deposit.

No.
They are palliatives that do not resolve the underlying problem, many here return and return to the problem of addiction with different nuances, I believe that in reality they do not find a topic for discussion beyond the fact that gambling is bad and you will become addicted.

Addiction has nothing to do with freezing accounts or logging into Casino after Casino, it is an illness that requires professional attention, if you know someone or suffer from it, pay a consultation with a professional or go to a retirement home for addicts. .

An addict is not going to get solutions in a specialized betting forum.

This does not in any way help an addicted gambler, an addicted gambler can decide to abandon such account and make use of another name to open another account and fund it to continue his gamble pending when the gambling firm will freeze his funds for him to continue with that account, I must be sincere to you, it is very difficult to stop addicted gamble from gambling excessively, unless such person is no more living or he or she decided to stop, it is even very difficult for such to happen, gambling site can not freeze your fund for gambling irresponsibly that's not possible, don't forget that the possible for that establishing if profit and how will they even know that you are gambling irresponsibly, so this is not obtainable anywhere.

I think this question is based on assumption because it's impossible for a casino management to take notice of a particular customer who is addicted to gambling with them company besides they actually want people to keep gambling and losing so they keep making more money. On the other hand, it will be very interesting to have such casino who's very concerned about the well being of their customers to the extend of knowing when to freeze them account if they find out about some customers that are becoming addicted i hope to come across such casino company soon.

This is unlikely to ever happen. No casinos would ever freeze an account because of this reason. I believe this topic is related to a scam accusation thread where the user got his account ban because his girlfriend accessed his account and requested that the casino ban him from gambling. The point is, the casino would need your express permission before they can ban your account on such grounds.

This is legislation in some countries where casino providers have to limit user accounts in order to stay legal and not get blocked.
I think this legislation works because many people are not aware of how to bypass it either by finding ways to unlock "blocked" online casinos and/or because access to offline illegal gambling sees very strict enforcement in some countries.

Also governments that want to implement meaningful limits have the resources to do so because they know how much money each person makes at minimum. And let's be realistic, nobody declares more income than they have. So in cooperation with casinos they can know when someone deposits too much in a casino for their tax bracket.

But the fact that this legislation works doesn't mean that it's based on a good mindset. If they wanted to limit gambling they could have tried to provide more access to psychological support and outreach programs other than these overreaching programs. Lately actually addictions are on the rise and reduced support for public health care surely plays a role.

Maybe that happens in fiat casinos, but it doesn't happen in crypto casinos. In crypto casinos, the casino blocks customer accounts if the casino suspects suspicious activity, such as cheating the casino. However, if the customer uses big money for deposit or withdrawal, the casino will ask the customer to do KYC. The casino will approve and verify his account if the customer is completely clean. And customers can continue gambling with big money. But casinos can indeed help customers who feel they have become addicted to gambling to block their accounts by providing a self-exclusion feature. Or customers can ask the casino to block their account because they feel they are addicted to gambling.

Banks also will not immediately freeze a gambler's account if a large amount of money leaves the gambler's account. They will call their customers to ask for an explanation about how their money was used. If the customer cannot explain the use of his money, the bank may block his account. Maybe that's the scenario, but I'm not sure because I've never experienced a case of account blocking due to the use of large amounts of money.

Yes it's true, the casino will not close its profit source voluntarily (users), but we need to notify them via live support or email for the casino to close our account. I have a friend who is quite addicted to gambling and he closed his account of his own accord, after a long time he asked user service to reopen his account and apparently he got a small bonus for that. It happened at our local casino

I really didn't like them doing something like that , because first of all they shouldn't do that Under assumptions, yes, it seems to me that they are people who can be called Responsible , but I spend my money however I want , they Shouldn't do something like that because Basically if I want to do everything just from dumb deposits they Should let me do it , not only would I feel furious, but I would publish it on all the networks until everyone in the community sees it, because that should not be done, it is something that if I have my money, I can spend it however I want, neither a caisno nor Andie has to tell me how things should be, much less like this when I'm trying to have fun obviously things when things get like that, if they have a Thread Ann I would go also in the thread , and not Only would I have them unblock me quickly but I Would look for many people to raise their voice and be able to unban me and Never go to that casino and I would not Recommend it under any scheme because a casino can do something like that if As a client, I ask for it, as a Precautionary Measure, but only if I would ask for it, but not that a casino Assumes that I am an addict and that they leave my money Withheld , that is the worst thing they can do and it would be Reportable.

why do I say this ? because there are many times that We are in a casino and we need and we have the need to play, to cat, and we ourselves must Manage our money, because it is in Crypto  , if we do not let you do this type of things not only a Casino will control us but that any person will control our money, and then it would be an alternative system of the traditional economy where the cais would not behave like Governments , that is, it is not Enough for them to have the KYC  , but Apart from all that without the use of VPN they come to get Involved and freeze Funds , I Would really be Very offended and I would be Able to look for all my friends in the whole world just to have them give him the worst of publicity until they unfreeze my money, because a casino is not a government Nor is it a dictatorial System.

If the casino has this on their term of service then there's nothing you can do you sign up for this, the casino has their parameters on why they freeze your account, so you have no choice, complaining will do you no good, so you have the option to play on other casinos, many players have account on many casinos so in case this things happen they always have the option to continue playing.

No, it will not, gamblers always have a way to continue gambling, and many of them know that this could happen so they have alternative casinos to play, gamblers will play if they want to play as long as they have the time and the money, its not the casinos' rules that will make them stop to gamble, even if you ban them.

I mean even if you do gamble irresponsibly or something like that they dont really have the right to freeze someone's account to be honest because it is just your own money. Most of the casino and gambling websites probably like you to gamble irresponsibly because that is where they are going to earn since they are expecting you to lose money for sure if you are just gambling really frequently so I just dont get it, I guess they actually just wanted to freeze your account but then you appeal to them so they make some kind of expose for what they did.

This just means that at any moment you could lose your account on that gambling website since it's still a custodial thing you dont really have control over your money if it is on the website and even if you win there is no guarantee that you could withdraw that money, I know some cases where after they win a huge amount of money, which is a legitimate win or probably a bug in the system they win a huge amount but accidentally and then they freeze the account and banned him so easily because its a bug as they say, with just a quick one they banned the account and the owner cant open it anymore. That could happen for most of us on some gambling websites so its better to avoid gambling websites that have some of the cases, better to stick with the legitimate and trusted websites already here in the forum.

Yes, this might help irresponsible gamblers a little, but if the gambler doesn't get angry and instead registers at another casino because currently there are so many gambling sites that a person can register more than one account so if the casino freezes his account he can still gamble. on other sites so I think freezing a user's account is just as useless for gamblers who have no desire to be responsible gamblers and have difficulty stopping their gambling.

However, in my opinion, it is impossible for the casino to freeze its user's account just because they see the user continuing to gamble and continue to make deposits because I think the casino would definitely be happy if they saw their users continue to gamble, whether they are addicted or not, they don't want to know because that's what they want continuously. Continuous gambling certainly makes the casino make more and more profits.

Yes, that's true because a gambling addict will not see or realize that he has a gambling addiction. He just felt that they were still fine in gambling and there were no problems at all. But people who are around him and have seen many changes in his behavior will say that he is addicted to gambling and must be cured before it is too late. A gambling addict will not be able to stand it if they go weeks without gambling. They may become stressed and frustrated or even hopeless when they can't gamble, especially if they run out of all their money, and they will start thinking about how to get money. And that's when many ideas will emerge to get money, including theft or robbery. They are desperate because they don't have the money to fulfill their desire to gamble.

An addict is very likely to have more than one account, especially if he often gambles at online casinos. He will realize that one casino will never be enough to satisfy his desire to gamble so he will register himself at many casinos and make a long list of casinos that he will use for gambling.

This is the first time I have heard something like this. From what I know, an online casino cannot freeze someone's account simply because they gamble irresponsibly. The casino profits from each player's gambling activity, so the more they play, the better it is for the casino. The most common reason for an account to be frozen is due to suspicious activity or a violation of the casino's terms and conditions.

Being the only exception if they have no more money than they had in that casino. Normally such barriers do not stop irresponsible gambling. It reminds me of those who win a jackpot, in a moment of lucidity withdraw the money, and after a few hours deposit it again to end up betting it and losing everything. That is why some casinos consciously put impediments and delay withdrawals.

I wonder if the casino will freeze the account because the customer made consecutive deposits and experienced series of losses, this has nothing to do with the casino rules and regulations.
The casino will only freeze the account if the customer is truly suspected or proven to have violated the casino rules and regulations because they are building business and aim to make money so that when customers deposit more money uncontrollably, the casino will make bigger profits.
In this context I don't really think that casinos care about their customers and casinos will continue to try to attract all customers to deposit more often and spend money on each bet.

This is business and in the gambling business there is only one priority, namely making profit, gamblers as customers will always only deposit money and whatever happens, no matter how much money is deposited, it is still the responsibility of the individual gambler.

Online casinos need such enthusiasts, how can they freeze a potential customer's account, even with a few loyal customers, a few loans can be an exception because following the customer's happiness will be their terrible gain, they won't let the customer go until the account is no longer able to pay, this is a service industry standard, so unless there are special problems, it is difficult to freeze a player's account. Irresponsibility is the image of an individual, casino is a business, tying these two ideas together, it is difficult to agree

Gambling addicts never takes accountability and rarely if they do. They would even put the blame to the casino if they were still able to play after requesting a self-exclusion. What does this suggest? Casinos unilaterally freezing funds of assumed addicts or irresponsible gamblers would not change their behavior. It may save them for a day or two but they will come back.

Instead of  questioning this action from the casino site better to be thankful because this is a kind of casino that must be in this place as Online gambling nowadays are becoming more addicted and this measures is something that people must be thankful.

but at least the site will return all your remaining funds and not to be taken from you because if does then this is scam lol.

It's a business, they have to be professional in dealing with their gamblers, they can't just freeze an account because they felt a certain gambler is already addicted, that's not their job, their job is just to accept bets and pay real time, also, they need to ensure that the system is fair so they could keep their clean reputation. Gambling sites nowadays are 90% operated by a system, it doesn't feel anything, it might read the behavior of bets, wins, and losses, but that's it. Going into the personal feelings or life of a gambler is out of the book already.

Casinos are strictly regulated and don't freeze accounts without justification. Players are essential to a casino's success, thus they have a stake in fairness. Understand that responsible gambling is crucial. Casinos take steps to promote this. Their tools include self-exclusion, deposit limitations, and reality checks. Why? A healthy company model relies on repeat consumers, not driving them away

Your claim that casinos don't care ignores the fact that they live on consumer loyalty. More than just recruiting, players must be retained. Profit is important; they're businesses. However, to portray them as cold profit machines ignores their complexities. Players must play responsibly and gamble within their means. Both the casino and the gambler are responsible

It is also not a correct way to treat their customers. Another important question is how casinos can differentiate between regular gamblers and those who are already addicted. Some people are able to include gambling in their daily routine without becoming addicted, while others may exhibit signs of addiction even if they are not playing frequently. It's crucial for casinos to have effective measures in place to identify and help those who may be struggling with gambling addiction.

This is just a hypothetical scenario to determine if freezing an account will stop irresponsible gambling or not. Don’t make the scenario complicated with the premise because it’s very rare for a casino to freeze someone account while it’s continuously losing money. I think this is very rare and so far I don’t encounter this happening on real life unless the account is already involved in cheating.

But if casino is consistently gaining profit then why they will freeze a customer account assuming the account doesn’t have any record for self exclusion on the casino.

It's the casinos' loss because the player will just look for another casino to play, but they have to implement this measure on their platform because they don't want to get complained that they are not doing anything if a player is committing abuse, but he keeps doing this on all the casinos he's playing he will eventually look for a casino that will not restrict him.

Restricting a player will not stop him from playing, they will always find a way whether online or offline that's how a guy who is addicted to gambling behaves they don't limit themselves to one platform.

I personally do not think that freezing the account of a gambler is a good way to curb his irresponsible gambling especially when the gambler is a chronic addict because he's definitely gonna look for alternative ways to satisfy his addiction which opening another account might just be his solution.
When a gambler is too irresponsible to control his gambling activities, the best thing to do by anyone who loves him is to either take him to rehabilitation center where he can't access any form of gambling or stop him from his irresponsibility through interactions and conversation that'll help stop irresponsible gambling

I think casino sites do not have the authority to freeze the accounts of their customers who are not suspected of cheating, in fact irresponsible gamblers will be more profitable for the casino site, because every business is of course more concerned with the profits of their business than concerned with the fate of other people

Also its unlikely for a casino to have those kind of behavior or decisions on completely stopping someone on making deposits on which it would really be something that they would really be loving
because this is where they could really be able to make money. It is really just that impossible that they would really be stopping on someone on doing so. It is really the best thing that they could really be having and they wont really be showing any concern or sympathy into those players who had been that impulsively making out those deposits or simply they do become that addicted.
You are really that making those reactions on the time that you would really be having those locked fund but if ever they would be doing so then they should be releasing those funds since
its an ethical way to do so.

Yes I think it could help most people because it helps to step back and to get aware of what is going on. Sometimes you lose over and over and you reach one point where losing more money don't disturb you more because you don't realize what actual value it represents anymore and you need something from outside to stop you from chasing your losses.

People that deep into an addiction, or who may have fell into the deep end in a particularly bad session, are unlikely to see it as a good thing at the time. Nor would it necessarily stop them from gambling, if they are able to simply open an account at another company and start again. However it is definitely responsible behavior and should be encouraged by more gambling companies. You would imagine that most people have a certain baseline, where they might spend say $100 a week in regular play, so when someone starts dropping $1,000 or $10k in their account, it would make sense to question what has changed. Maybe just having some sort of automated mechanism like not allowing more than double your previous week's deposit, to stop erratic play like that.

How can they know how much money I have and if depositing fast after a loss means that I'm irresponsible?
I could be a millionaire, deposit $1k for fun to play blackjack while taking a shit, I lose, so I deposit 3k to bet more because $1k is nothing to me and they freeze my account. Of course I'm going to go somewhere else and when they unfreeze me I'll withdraw and they'll never see me again. They should establish what I'm doing, maybe I'm losing the money because I treat it like dust?
Depositing $100 and losing 3 times in a row can be a big thing for someone from Nigeria, but a fun evening with no regrets for a player from Norway.

In my opinion, casinos certainly have certain requirements and also good service because the aim is to make players feel comfortable gambling in the casino because the goal is profit, if the gamblers are comfortable they will get benefits from gamblers who are comfortable gambling in the casino. and I think that if a casino freezes a gambler's account, there may be a certain reason, although I have experienced it, I think it's because they don't want to experience a loss, where they froze my account because I had a pretty big win.

I agree with you, gamblers will always have a certain way to gamble, especially if they are addicted, they will do anything to be able to gamble again. In fact, I think that when they run out of money they will always have a way to continue gambling, including things that are beyond common sense, such as selling the property they own or even stealing. This could happen if they are addicted to gambling and are at the point of running out of money or capital to gamble.

In this situation, the poorest must be very careful. Proportionally, he is investing a lot. So he should be cautious and invest what he can afford to lose. Basically, one will have to be careful and the other will have to be patient.

Not at all!
First of all, a casino would never freeze a user's account just because they find out that the user is gambling irresponsibly. They wouldn't even notice as long as the user is constantly losing because the money is theirs to keep in that case, they would only freeze an account if the user constantly wins which makes them act quickly so that the user can't win more.

Even if they do it, just in case, a gambler can always go to a different platform and start gambling there, as you said. All they would need is to create an account which is extremely easy in cryptocurrency casinos, and then they can make a deposit and start gambling immediately without any restrictions or anything.

A casino will never freeze your account because you are losing money, that is not making sense, I believe they want you to keep gambling and keep losing money, it's better income stream for them than you, if a casino freeze your account it's for another reason, not this one.

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Also even if they do this to help their customer, it won't be effective because the customer is probably gambling with what he can afford to lose, so who are you to say that they are gambling irresponsibly? The person will get mad and quite using the casino and find a better alternative.

It takes few minutes to register and sign up on a online casino, it's not that hard, and the old casino just lost a customer, let's stop dreaming, there is no online casino that wishes to lose customer, if you are addicted to gambling it's your problem, they are not in position to curb gambling addiction for anyone.

There is a casino in the city where I live, yes, they are legal here. And I know that they always require a passport at the entrance to make sure that you are already 18 years old. But besides that, the guard at the entrance also controls the list that he has. This list contains players who will not be allowed into the casino because either they or their relatives so wished. This is a kind of lockdown. But I think that this does not help, because the player can always go to another casino. And in the end, he can always leave to play at an online casino, and there are a lot of them.

That's correct they most likely wouldn't do it because they want you to spend your money. They are not a charity and they aren't going to protect you if you don't protect yourself.
This means that you can have almost any pattern of financing your habit and you can be losing 90% of your games and they'll still let you play there.

Some f you don't understand that often you don't lose money to the casino but to other players, like when you play at a poker or blackjack table. Usually someone wins and your money goes to that person. THe casino has its fees and it makes money on that, so it doesn't care if you win or lose, as it will always make some money as long as you keep playing.
It's a bit different when you play against the house, but we're talking about casinos in general here and in general you have higher chance of being banned when you're lucky than the other way round.

I agree. It makes no sense for the casino to block the flow of money that keeps it active. Because without customers they have no reason to be open. Furthermore, they can help the customer in a more direct way that would solve the problem once and for all.

Yes it doesnt really make any sense on this regard on which they would really be trying to cut it off their main source of income or revenue on which we know that as long the user wont really be having no complaints or issues on the platform then they wont really be tending on having those kind of blocking or whatsoever. House wont really be that be in concern about their customers condition or would really be that trying out to be that trying out to engage on personal things like on how they should be spending up their money. Its true that it doesnt have any sense that you would really be
stopping those people on spending via blocking their account because once you do then they would really be just simply creating another one.

I don’t think a scenario like you one in the OP could ever play out. A casino caring so much about a gambler that they restrict the account of the gambler so there would not be any more deposits and the person would not be able to continue playing.
I believe a more likely scenario would be the casino suspending his account for some other legit reason and not cause they’re enforcing responsibility amongst their customers. More like, You’re above 18 and should be old enough to make decisions. If you choose to be irresponsible, they’re probably not going to stop you.

The gambling site may close the account if the site has no automated free option for responsible gambling and few sites might have an automated option which their site may use to stop gambling as the person may think if the account can be live then the user may play again and again which may turn into more loss.

In short, it's always good to play in moderation and see your limits. Bet what you can afford to lose and have fun responsibly. Otherwise, the user may have health complications, etc. And it's bad for everyone.

Gambling sites would love that there is more and more wagering on their sites and this will give more profits to those sites as the majority of the people will lose in gambling and all the losing money goes to the gambling sites. Since we hardly find any P2P gambling model, the losing money from the gambler is actually a winning money for the gambling casino owner or site.


Yes, this is just a formality from them that they care about the gamblers. They know that the gamblers hardly read these emails and golden points mentioned on these emails. Even most of the gamblers do not read the terms and conditions mentioned on the gambling sites (which is wrong on the part of gambler).

Easy to say but when you are on such situation or condition then you would definitely be finding this to be a tough situation.Only a few could be able to mind themselves that they are spending too much and the rest would really be failing on doing so and would really be continuing on what they are doing just because they do have those kind of thoughts that they could really be winners in the end of the day.Well, people wont really be making out those kind of realizations until they would really be able to experience those unfortunate events and this is why its not really shocking
that there are people who do keep on whining and crying on the time that they had experienced those tough situations in regarding to this.

The situation you are surviving only know by yourself,because the gamblers who loss the funds get into the biggest depression stage.The gamblers who get into the deepest depression will become a gambling addicted person most of the time.The end is not know by the gamblers at the beginning,So he will keep play for the good results.When the gamblers keep increasing their initial dollars,he will get some ego towards the gambling site.It must be avoided by the gamblers,because that ego will increase your self confidence.The final result will be the gamblers will double their betting money for each bet which is the risky one which leads to big loss.

I've been an irresponsible gambler before or should I say an addicted gambler and because of my experience, I think I perfectly can relate to what you're saying here. The way people think it's easy to stop a gambling addict from his addiction is actually not as easy most people think and that's because when a gambler become addicted, he'll always think that he's gonna recover all his lost money in the next gamble which is almost impossible to do but he'll still want to try and try again.

For me, I lost every dime on me and had to go almost 72 hours without food before I called myself to order but before that, my close relatives who has already found out that I was addicted had advised me to stop but never did I listen to theme

There's no casino that would try to help you curb your gambling addiction; Mind you, casinos are businesses managed and controlled by people (their owners)...  It'll be a big loss should they try to ask you to stop wagering - cus the more you lose, the more they make profit...

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...But lemme just assume this was the case - I'd simply say it doesn't curb the gambler's urge... They could actually decide to get registered on another site and the worst would be expected. Alot of gamblers may even go as far as absconding from the relative's sight should they try to disturb them (assuming this was a land-based casino issue too)

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Listening into someones advise is never been that a behavior nor a thing for those addicted ones already with gambling. You would definitely be pushing yourself on playing
gambling as long you would really be able to make yourself getting that contented basing up into the things that you do have in your mind. Once you wont really be satisfied then
you wont really be quitting or as long you do have the funds that you could really make use of then you wont really be quitting. This is why on the time that they would
be blocked or would really be stopped then there would really be that huge disappointment or would really be testing out their patience.

If basically the person really likes gambling and has an addictive taste for gambling itself, then there will always be opportunities and ways for a gambling addict to continue carrying out his gambling activities, even though his casino account has been frozen on one of the gambling platforms. Because there is not just one online casino platform in this world, but many. and it is quite difficult for an individual to get out of the problem of his addiction to gambling. Even when he doesn't have enough money to be able to gamble, he will struggle to earn money, even by taking out loans or selling his personal belongings, this he does simply to fulfill his desire to continue gambling. "The losses they experience while gambling, sometimes this is not enough to make them aware of the bad behavior they have been doing." And they will realize this only when their position is really difficult, where there is no longer anyone who cares and believes in them enough, so they can no longer take out a loan, or when they no longer have things that can for sale.

Casino loves those gamblers who are impulsive
Casino loves those gamblers who do chase up loses
Casino loves for people to continously be making deposits
Casino loves to those impulsive gamblers

This is why its really that hard to believe that a gambling casino site or house would be blocking someones account without telling them just because
they are really that seeing that those people are becoming that addicted?It is really that fully contrary on what they do really like.

Casinos don't have the right to do that. Just because they perceive that the person is not gambling responsibly doesn't give them the right to lock the person's account. If he has defaulted on a rule or it was stated in the "terms of service" that they would lock his account if he gambles irresponsibly then they might have the right to do so, but if it's not started the account owner has the right to get angry.

I also do not think freezing or locking a casino account can curb irresponsible gambling. The gambler can easily open another account with a different casino.

This way it makes more sense. Adding rules where the casino can withdraw you makes more sense than not making it clear to the player. This way the player doesn't get angry and neither does the casino lose that much money.

Gambling sites stand for the deposits of the gambler. If the gamblers can't be addicted to gambling then they won't deposit after a loss and in this case, casinos will be a loser and they won't be able to maintain their costs. So, the heading is the full alter site of a casino.

It doesn't. Like for real. It's really easy for someone to just create a new account on another casino, or if tried to ban himself offline, then go register online or something. Casinos don't have any measures at all for trying to curb it to that point since in the end, they're still customers aka money/profit for them.

I mean it already says a lot with them needing someone to request the user to freeze their account before freezing it. Otherwise, you would've expected the legal team of a casino to require individual financial statements so that they can track the difference between the amount they use monthly to pay vs their monthly income. Probably goes a bunch of legal stuff, but tldr, they can't. And even if they can't, they probably won't. Unless required by the law.

Casinos have the right to lock the accounts of all their members, whether they gamble very infrequently or those who gamble often. Even if the person is not gambling responsibly, the casino will not lock that person's account because that person should already be responsible for gambling. A gambler should lock his account using self-exclusion if he does not want to gamble irresponsibly because it is his account and his money. The casino will lock a person's account when the casino finds the person breaking the rules of the casino and the casino will ask for identification from the person before the casino allows them to continue gambling.

Even if a casino locks a person's account, that person can easily open a new account at that casino or any other casino. Therefore, we must be careful when playing gambling and must be able to use gambling as entertainment only.

It also depends on the reason on why our accounts got frozen but usually it is done by the casino because we did an exploit. We still can change from bad to good but we still gonna continue playing gambling.

On your Mr. John example, how can he stake more if his account was frozen? But, he can do it on other casinos. It's only funny if he is the one who is angry when in fact it was his own fault and not by the casino, though there might still be instances that it was the casino's fault, just like when banks freeze their customers' accounts for no reason. This is a shady practice and we can report them for this, and it's not a reason to rage bet.

Many countries got laws saying gambling sites gotta be responsible. Think of it like a club with bouncers checking IDs – they gotta make sure everyone's playing safe. So, limits, pop-ups reminding you to chill, and even self-ban options exist, even if they might seem like buzzkills. Imagine someone going all-in on every hand, losing their shirt, then charging back the money. Not cool, right? By helping players set limits, gambling sites avoid messy situations and keep everyone safe, including themselves.

Sure, impulsive players might bring in a quick buck, but they're like shooting stars – bright but gone fast. Responsible players, on the other hand, are more likely to stick around, play responsibly, and keep the money flowing for the site in the long run.

Casino account freezes to stop people from gambling irresponsibly? Sounds like a noble quest, but hold up, it ain't as simple as it seems. Sure, casinos wanna be the good guys, lookin' out for their players. But losing some dough and adding more doesn't automatically mean someone's a gambling gremlin. Some folks just like keepin' their funds tight, like a ninja with their wallet. Plus, who wants a bunch of cash chillin' at the casino, tempting fate ?

Now, a freeze might help some folks hit the pause button, clear their heads. There's a whole ocean of casinos out there, just a click away. So, poof, the freeze becomes a speed bump, not a roadblock. The real key lies in people being responsible and knowin' when to say "enough." And forget about some global casino hand-holding. These guys are more like competitive squirrels, each with their own nut stash. So, yeah, a united front against gambling woes? Not likely.

Although I have not had this kind of experience yet, I do wonder why your account was frozen, given that they obviously love customers who make regular deposits. It's possible that you broke a regulation or that they discovered suspicious behavior on your account. Your account may have been freeze, so they may look into it, or maybe the casino you are playing at is having maintenance. However, I had no idea that a person's account may be frozen for making more deposits after losing repeatedly. I'm relieved that these kinds of regulations are in place in order to reduce the number of gambling addicts and discourage gambling consumption.

You have a great point, especially on the issue of leaving money with the casino. As I said previously here, blocking the account is a good thing as long as it is within the terms. But it's very difficult to determine when a person is addicted or just plays a lot.

That’s why account freeze initiated by the casino himself for suspected addicted gambler is non-existent because there’s no way to determine online if the user is really addicted or not. Just base on his gambling activity. All casino have self-exclusion feature as an alternative option to fight addiction because no one can determine is addicted except the person itself in an online world.

Although this self-exclusion is rarely being use since it’s very hard to detect addiction by the person itself. So overall casino doesn’t want to meddle on their user personal addiction problem unless the person itself initiated it and not the casino.

If someone who is addicted to gambling has their account frozen, that won't stop them from gambling, we know that when someone is addicted, they will find and do whatever they can to continue gambling. There are many ways to play online casinos and gambling sites. We cannot base the loss or freezing of an account so that a gambling addict can stop gambling altogether or reduce their addiction to it. It is up to the gambler to decide whether they are willing to stop or manage themselves properly, especially when it comes to gambling.

I think, no casino will block your account like that because no one can decide whether you are a poor who sold his house to gamble or you are a rich person who makes high bets. As far as I know, the only time when casinos freeze customer's account because of irresponsible gambling is when you inform about your gambling addiction and request an account freeze or when you send offensive messages in casino chat that indicates that you have a gambling problem and get easily irritated when you lose.

An approach would be interesting where the website would try to contact the user in order to understand the situation. If something is found, it would be interesting to freeze the account. I believe this way would be the most friendly way possible.

Op sincerely speaking freezing a customer's account can curb irresponsible and gambling addiction because it will help to limit the persons constant activity when it comes to betting excessively and spending carelessly on gambling. This is actually rare because casinos cannot intentionally freeze your account unless your actions or behavior contravenes their rules and regulations before they will deem it necessary to ban your account.  but if by chance the casino house ban or lock your acount for some weeks or months it will virtually increase your chances of not becoming an addict and aslo make you to have less interest in gambling and will make you to have self control and self moderated.

Addiction can be curbed in so many ways including banning or locking of accounts as you mentioned earlier but, in most cases, pure addicts don't care if their accounts are banned or locked because they must surely device another means to gamble which including borrowing money, going to another casino house and many more other measures, however, it takes the grace of God and total abstinence for an addict to change .

This is kinda funny mate, like don't you know that gambling companies are even interested in gamblers losing more than they win so why will dey froze or restrict a gambler's account just because they are gambling irresponsibly I mean they even want gamblers to lose more so if anyone decides to play irresponsibly then they are accountable to themselves and not the betting site or company. Every one opens a business for profits and gambling is not exempted because casino owners and other gambling sites or companies want gamblers to experience more losses than winning so no body will caution anyone gambling irresponsibly.

It's not happening in real scenario, casinos are operating without feelings, so they'll not suspect gamblers that are addicted or just wasting money. What they'll suspect if the gambler is cheating because it's taking their money, not when they are making money from the gamblers. The reason of the business is to generate money, they would love if we keep putting money and loss it, not the other way around.

It is actually a good move from the casinos freezing irresponsible gamblers accounts like that, it proves that the casinos does not need to make their profits out your irresponsibilities or inability to control your gambling capacity.
Hence platforms that are curious to make profits our of your lost of control would not mind if you are gambling responsibly or not, they would even increase the gaming features in a more attractive formats so that you can stay longer with your much looses their sites while they make excessive accounts of profits out of your uncontrol while gambling.

But While getting considering the opinion of the gambler in a case of freezing accounts in such a way, I think the gambler would be so aggressive with that. Especially if the gambler is Such an ungrateful type of person and those who are refused in taking advices.
So likely, curious gamblers like that would eventually decide to create another account and keep to their Irresponsible gambling while upset why the casino would decide for them on how much to bet with and how they could keep a personalized gambling responsibility.

As for me, it is a call to think twice that if the casino could benefiting from my excessive losts and yet they are calling me in order to gambling responsibly then I may have been faulted to my financial disciplines and have to back off and restructure my gambling course of irresponsibilities.

It depends on the financial status of the gambler. If the money that he deposited was his last funds and he his not expecting funds for a long time, that is when blocking the account of the gambler from gambling will work.

However, if the gambler has some other funds and because he gambles irresponsible, he will just move to another site and register with a new casino, funds his account and gambling continues. The only thing that can deprive and irresponsible gambler from gambling is lack of funds. Do you really believe that casino cares about how we gamble maybe responsible or irresponsible.

       -   Maybe a casino online platform would not do that without a valid reason, because the usual reasons why there are casinos that do that, especially since they are reputed gambling platforms, are those who violate their rules and policies.

If the casino is not new and it can't be said that it has a good reputation in the field of the gambling business industry, it can be said that the gamblers who can do this issue have nothing against it, whether their fund is big or small in the casino platform.

I have never heard someone complain that their account was frozen because the casino suspects that they are overgambling. Most of these casinos are only interested in making money because they also have to cover operating costs and make profits. My experience in physical casinos is also the same where many gamblers keep chasing losses aggressively and there is caution from the operators.

I subscribe to your view that it is only a reputable casino that cares about the well-being of customers that will consider blocking such an account for irresponsible gambling. The terms of service will cover the reasons that an account will be frozen, so the gambler will have to refer to the document to confirm if he violated any law.

That correct answer here is a case to case basis depending on the ToS of the casino. Usually they have a responsible gambling terms which indicates this kind of scenario if ever they have one.

If the6 clearly written it on their ToS while you agree on it by creating the account then they have the right to do this safety precautions to avoid gambling addiction. I really doubt that casino will do this because they usually don’t care about users account as long as you are losing continuously because everything is online.

I don't think that the customer support is entitled to do that.In fact in most reputable casino they give you the option to click for freezing your account for a certain amount of time until you fix the way you are thinking and you don't deposit anymore,I have never heard of some customer relations support representative blocking or freezing an account just because they deposit in succession,maybe if you withdraw in succession as they can become doubtful of how come someone is winning so often and to check thoroughly and audit your games.Even so if you exclude yourself for 3 weeks or a month,you can stay 1-2 days without playing and then you go and register in another casino once you release it was a bad move and as such self exclusion solves pretty much 0 things regarding gambling addiction.

That's because they are not doing it, and they don't have the right especially against a gambler who just want to win back his losses. Maybe for some casino they have the "self-exclusion" feature but it is the gambler who will initiate to self exclude himself for whatever reason. It's true, casinos are only interested in profit, and their responsiblity to us gamblers is to pay us when we win, and also to pay the government for their tax due.


Based on your experience, what are the actions of the casino if they see someone chasing his losses?

It would be unethical that they would really be freezing their players account without having those kind of consulting it first to the user itself and also its impossible that they would really be mindful or serious about their gamblers specially on keeps on depositing because this is the primary thing that they do really like in the first place.  :D If ever they would really be putting up some lock/delete account then its something that would be placed on there and not really just that totally making up some outright decisions on how a user would really be preferring into and just like been said that its really that unethical.

I can't tell it for sure. The last time I did a rage bet, no gambling site restricted the money flow and when I had confirmation pending on a site, I used another one to lose any other money I had. So, for a person like me, it won't make any difference. But there are some gamblers who are too loyal to a platform and they might get devastated when their favorite comfort place becomes hostile.
I don't think any casino would block users fund for losing a large amount in small time, rage bet is the profit boost every operator desires. They'd rather enjoy it than to freeze the potentially incoming money.

Technically speaking it doesn't as this is more like a temporary fix, but as far as I know a player can easily find a similar casino or sportsbook to continue where they left and continue gambling and in some circumstances if a casino runs a non KYC service they can easily open another account and try to beat the system.. but of course they get caught  one way or another and funds confiscated to hit them were it hurts the most and before you know it someone gets to complain of how a casino scammed them when in the first place the player is kind of being protected.

Otherwise never run into any casino or sportsbook that freezes accounts based on irresponsible gambling  ::) as casinos are more interested in the money  :P

This happened to a friend of mine, where he tried gambling on a new platform. he does the same thing by registering by filling in all the certain requirements and when he has successfully registered he will make a deposit, but the deposit feature cannot be used, for some reason I don't know, so he makes online contact with the available services and the casino. said that some of his requirements were invalid, such as a registered account. whether it's a violation or something, but what's clear is that he can't gamble on that platform, but that's not a big problem, because he's looking for another platform to register again and gamble.

The second incident happened after my friend got a big win, he gambled with a large bet amount, and as time went by he got free spins which could make him get a big win, without thinking twice, withdrawing was the best action. but when he made a withdrawal and it was still in the processing stage, he waited a long time with no notification, he returned to the platform, but when he tried to log in for some reason suddenly his account couldn't be opened. He tried several times with no good results. However, after trying to contact the casino online, something strange happened, his account was frozen for whatever reason, but the casino said he could withdraw his winnings but not all, only half of the winnings he had obtained. a lot of time was spent negotiating but it didn't produce a good decision, it was just a mistake given by the casino. This is annoying, but instead of not withdrawing the winnings at all, my friend withdrew it according to what the casino suggested.

Agree with you, I also wouldn't believe that casinos do all that, they are in business and they always want to keep gamblers depositing money and betting, in fact every casino will offer various attractive offers to attract gamblers to deposit more money.
No casino will freeze gambler account when they make many deposits in row, after all they do not have any rights over this unless the account is suspected of cheating or making mistake by violating existing provisions.
Hahaha, this is quite ridiculous because if this is done then the casinos will indirectly prevent the gambling sites they run from making profit.

Only ones who can stop it all are the gamblers themselves, whether they spend lot of money and deposit large amounts of money in row will never make the casino care about being responsible for the gamblers.
Moreover it true that gambler will not really be able to restrain his own desire to play and bet, they will do anything to fulfill all these desires so there will be no point in doing all that.

I agree with you, casino have no rights to freeze someone's account unless there's a reported incident regarding cheating, fraud or illegal things that seen as part of history of the account. Freezing an account is not the only way so that a gambler could stop participating on it because there's a lot of ways to recover or to gamble again on that site, they can easily create new account to continue the gambling session etc.

Using too much human personality in business activities would be very redundant as well as there would be no ruthlessness, especially in gambling, once decided to be a casino, the situation of many destroyed families is a scene that has been warned, the remaining compassion would be just a few warnings before making a bet. After that, there will no longer be any tolerance for betting accounts. Even if they are involved in a lawsuit, the casino has proven that they are responsible enough, and the sense of irresponsibility belongs to the other party, they will not freeze the business path they have chosen

Freezing a customer's account is a great way to tackle reckless gambling, but it's just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to encouraging responsible gambling. I just do quick google search and there is actually benefir freezing an account and one of the big reason is Freezing an account provides an immediate halt to all gambling activities, which can prevent further financial loss and give the gambler a break from the cycle of betting.

This heps to an extent but then it can not totally solve th problem of addiction because if a particular casino decide to freeze a gambler account, such gambler might decide to open another account with a different name in the same Casino or other casino so how does this solve the problem, personally I feel that persistent advice and evidence of what addiction has done to people can goo a long way to correct a gambler to work inline to minimize their irresponsible gambling habit, we shouldn't forget that no matter the advice we give to excessive gamblers, is only when they see good reasons to our advise they can stop it, if the measures you outline is been put in place, it may trigger them more once the casino unfreeze their account because at that point they were idle if thats the case they would have been eager to continue their gambling, in conclusion advice and mentorship will help to solve this problem.

I'm also quite strange about this, I mean why would a casino owner do that when the users themselves are not responsible and the casino is only running a business and what is called a business to make a profit no matter how much loss someone they experience from their gambling will I'm happy about that and the casino owners also have no sympathy for anyone who gambles at their casino even if it goes bankrupt, because it's the fault of the users themselves who can't control themselves and don't gamble responsibly, even the casinos don't force their users to continue gambling continuously if it is based on their own abilities.

Even if someone's account is frozen on the basis that the user does not gamble responsibly, I think as a user he will be angry and decide not to gamble at that casino anymore which limits his account, what if the user is a rich person who doesn't care about his losses even though he has experienced losses? which is quite big because the aim is just to have fun so the casino should feel happy with it instead of finding its user account frozen.