Topic: A Gambling Operator Court Case - page 3. (Read 364 times)

Believe or Not there’s a real life story that user manage to get a compensation from a casino due to the court ruling in favor of the gambler. If anyone remember the story of Christian Hainz agains a Swiss casino. He loss $3 million in the casino due to his addiction. He accused the casino that they are manipulating him and use his addiction to take advantage on him for not stopping him too early.

The court ruling about the manipulation allegation makes Hainz get a compensation of 500K USD which is not bad to recover some of his loss.

Some court is considerate on cases like gambling addiction. This is the worst nightmare of a casino in an event that the judge is in favor to the victim while they have an incompetent attorney to make their case.

You can read the story number as source for this info: https://greatbridgelinks.com/5-gamblers-who-won-casino-lawsuits/

Was the gambler testing the site or what ? If so then that's really a bad way of doing it.
I think it's the gambler's mistake since he was the one who deposited such a huge amount on the gambling site.
If he wouldn't have done that then he would have lost so much at first place.
On top of that he is also accusing the site for not alerting him? That sounds ridiculous doesn't it?

Was the gambler mentally ill or had any mental disorders that prevent him from answering for his own acts? Because I think that is the only acceptable reason to justify a favourable decision for the gambler by the court. Otherwise, it was just a person fully aware of 'cause and consequence' law risking his money in an attempt to make fast profit over it.

The problem nowadays is that people can't take responsabilities for their own acts anymore, because it's easier and acceptable by the society to blame someone else or to victimize yourself to prevent suffering the consequences for your own mistakes. Instead of learning with their mistakes, people claim to have nothing to do with it and blame someone else for that...

when a person creates an account in a casino he accepts the casino's terms of service, if that person does not see in the casino's terms anything about maximum daily bet amount then that person should not use that casino if he has problems with self control, in fact this person should not use any casino, because the responsibility for managing his money is on the player's side and not on the casino's side, this is the same as when a person takes his salary and takes a trip and stays in the most expensive hotel and I comment on the most expensive food and spend all the salary money and then start blaming the hotel, that just doesn't make any sense

I believe that this guy who sued this casino is not going to win this case, he will spend money paying a lawyer and at the end of the day he will lose the case and run the risk of the court removing him from managing his own money and nominating some relative for this and determining that he is going to be admitted to a hospital to be treated for his addiction, it is clear that he is a person addicted to gambling and has no control over himself. unfortunately there are many cases like his of addicted people who do not control themselves and blame the casino because they think the casino should stop them

There’s no such thing as maximum number of bet as long you place a normal bet then you are good to go. Casino don’t care how many bets you place and they don’t have any business to stop someone since that’s the nature of their business.

I think the only time casino might step in when you have this kind of huge quantity of bets is if you are winning big time on most of it since they might accused you of doing shady things to increase your winning percentage. Casino will not gonna stop you if you are losing big time.

Actually, Responsible gambling policy is a policy for players to read to avoid losses not the other way around. It’s a warning to prevent harm but still it’s up to the consumer on how they will handle there gambling. This user only chance of winning if his account is hacked and not under his control during that bet spike.

ding! I stopped reading right there since I can already picture the rest of this story

"He accuses the operator of failing to stop him"

Lol wut? The operator don't have a responsibility like that. If he did that, then the player would have told him to stfu. That loser needs to grow up and learn to face the consequences of his own actions. If he somehow wins that trial (which he is not gonna), then all the casinos would go bankrupt. Every other loser like him will sue the casino to get back their fairly and squarely lost money.

Maybe there are rules set now, but I remember when I was still gambling, that I was gambling like 14 hours out of 24 hours daily, and both weekdays and weekends, I have not seen any gambling site that stopped me from continuing gambling even if I continue to lose that day. But on some gambling sites, you can check some helpful articles for addicts and anyone that gambling is becoming a problem to.

No gambling site or operator can make this kind of law because the more punters lose the more their gain. Only the government can make it in a way it can be effective. But what most government in most countries are looking for in gambling is how to effectively tax punters. I do not know of other countries, but in my country, you can gamble as many and as long as you can. Some countries may have gambling laws that limit punters but I have not seen such before, and what punters in such country would say is that they do not have freedom over their own money.

I think maximum bet should be changed to maximum bankroll to be used for a day because a maximum number of bet could literally have differences. For example if you're into dice, slots, crash etc., that has huge amount of bets being taken even in just an hour of continuous betting you could really get a vast number of bets. I don't think casinos will do that unless it's a suspicious one and they shouldn't lock it as well just because the user got a maximum bet for the day and I've never seen one tbh.

A gambler made 163 bets in a day and the the casino said it acceptable. Because for some high-rolling gamblers, losing around one-third of a bankroll is considered acceptable.  This gambler is in court. He accuses the operator of failing to stop him, which led to a substantial loss. He said that, "the betting activity didn’t raise any red flags at Bet365, and if it did, it didn’t raise them high enough. It took the operator two months to step in after the massive deposit to verify the source of funds, at which time he was already down £46,907 (US$58,657)."

It should be noted that this is not the first instance of a gambler suing a gaming operator for their losses. In this instance, a gambler claimed that despite having the tools at their disposal, the gambling operator had not done enough to curb his gambling problem. This gambler could spend up to €21,135 (US$21,135) per day and, ultimately, lost €271,234 (US$271,234) in seven months.

What is the maximum number of bets that one can place per day, and do casinos have a system in place to identify any unusual spikes in a user's daily betting activity? Would it be regarded as a component of the casino's responsible gambling policy or as interfering in someone else's affairs it they lock the  gambler's account?

- https://www.casino.org/news/bet365-rejects-claim-162-bets-in-a-day-may-be-a-sign-of-a-gambling-problem/
- https://www.casino.org/news/man-making-3000-a-month-sues-entain-for-letting-him-gamble-over-2m/