Stake.com - Account suspended and withdrawal blocked

[LEVSKI7]

First time I've seen Curacao order a bookie to pay a player ;Dthis is because of the pressure from the Netherlands for online gambling reforms. there will be big changes and there is little chance that curacao will respond to the complaint.from a legal point of view, it is allowed to have an unlimited number of registrations from 1 IP address. the user only needs to be verified

[saxydev]

First time I've seen Curacao order a bookie to pay a player ;Dthis is because of the pressure from the Netherlands for online gambling reforms. there will be big changes and there is little chance that curacao will respond to the complaint.from a legal point of view, it is allowed to have an unlimited number of registrations from 1 IP address. the user only needs to be verified

Not really, on their terms they may allow only 1 account for same household. It happened to me once to be blocked and the regulatory gaming agency to say the blocking was correct, just because I was a student and I was living in a dorm, but that's more than 10-12 years ago. Nowadays they are worse in this situation.

But a site like stake which advertise the use of VPN, the owner uses VPN while plays on his site (while he resides in Australia - stake is forbidden to play there), they can't complain to users for choosing to play with VPN or having multiple users same IP.

[LEVSKI7]

They have no legal basis to ban registrations from 1p. there are also court decisions. which country are you from

[Bitemetwice @ Stake]

I PMed Stunna asking him to take a look at this case on 14 December but he has still not been online on Bitcointalk for almost a month.

@genji87
Has there been any updates or anything new to report?

I tried to send you PM for more info, but it wasn't accepted.
Perhaps you could message me.

You aren't a member of their support team, are you? Judging by your post history and the fact you post all over the place, I would say no.

No sorry i'm not

The support team doesn't even like me...


If I could just make one observation:
Stake have been condoning and encouraging multi-accounting for years when they were building active player numbers...

Why is it now OK to block these accounts and confiscate funds ??

Ask the players with alt accounts to select one.  Merge the funds into that one account and close the rest.. 
Seems a bit of a fairer option to me..

[Pmalek]

Stake have been condoning and encouraging multi-accounting for years when they were building active player numbers...

Why is it now OK to block these accounts and confiscate funds ??

Ask the players with alt accounts to select one.  Merge the funds into that one account and close the rest.. 
Seems a bit of a fairer option to me..

I guess it depends on how you use those accounts. Generally speaking, most casinos have no tolerance for multi-accounting. However, those that don't mind, don't want to see you abuse bonuses and promotions. Abusers who get limited register new accounts to continue with the same playing habits after they got busted and limited. That, of course, is not ok. There aren't that many legitimate reasons to have multiple accounts on one casino.

[Bitemetwice @ Stake]

Stake have been condoning and encouraging multi-accounting for years when they were building active player numbers...

Why is it now OK to block these accounts and confiscate funds ??

Ask the players with alt accounts to select one.  Merge the funds into that one account and close the rest..  
Seems a bit of a fairer option to me..

I guess it depends on how you use those accounts. Generally speaking, most casinos have no tolerance for multi-accounting. However, those that don't mind, don't want to see you abuse bonuses and promotions. Abusers who get limited register new accounts to continue with the same playing habits after they got busted and limited. That, of course, is not ok. There aren't that many legitimate reasons to have multiple accounts on one casino.

As discussed in my last post, Stake actively encouraged multi-accounting up until 12-15 months ago

The extra bonus's and referral's rakeback etc were used by Stake to entice players to use Alt accounts

In the early twitch streams, Eddie often spoke of how many Alt accounts such and such had, congratulating them on being able to manage their accounts simultaneously.

Then Again, this is the same Eddie who always maintained:

There will never ever be any circumstance where Stake will request any KYC or proof of identity from any Stake player

and

Up until a few weeks ago;
Stake will never ever withhold anyone's funds..  If there are problems, your account may be placed into "withdraw only" mode.  But every player will always be able to withdraw their funds.

When Stake got into bed with TGP Europe, who are actually the holders of Stake.uk.com's UK License, things started to change for the worse..
https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/business/detail/domain-names/38898


Looks like a classic example of Poacher turned Gamekeeper to me