If we know for ourselves that we are vulnerable since we are well known individual or known to have a lot of asset then I guess gambling maybe is not for us since we will be the target of possible attacks since our data's would be sellable to those criminals used other information just to take advantage on certain situation. What only thing we can do here is we need to be prepared on situation and think about next action if data leaking will happen to the site we are participating in.
I've heard a story of a man who slept and dreamt that he died and was being buried in the dream, that morning, he woke up and said that he will be staying at home all through that day, because probably, death have set trap for him on the road, which is why he had that dream. And later on, just some few hours into the day, he was just coming outside from inside his house, a cow skull he hung on the ceiling lose and the sharp end pierced into his head, he was rushed to the village hospital but he later did not make it, he died that same day.
The above is actually a true live story, and what that teaches us is that, what ever have been destined to happen will surely happen, no matter what we do or avold, if its been destined that your personal information or document will appear in the hands of criminals, that we surely happen no matter how far you run away from casinos where kyc is must , but on the other hand, if it's destined that such will never happen to you, then kyc even with an untrusted casino, your personal data and information will surely remain safe.
So, personally, I feel that what we owe ourselves is to make sure to avoid casinos we know that is generally distrusted, we should only kyc on reputable and well-trusted casinos, every other thing is in the hands of our creator(God).
Well, you know I tried to cut the story as short as possible, the man in question is not a Christian, and neither is he a Muslim, this story is not of something that happens last year, or last upper year, it's actually something that happens several year ago in my village when Christianity was still non-existent, remember those days when our fore fathers worshipped idols as their god, I was not yet born when that happened, it was my late father who told me the story actually .
When it comes to KYC I also agree that each individual has their luck on the casino because I have come across a member here in the forum, whom we use the same casino while the casino demands him to go through KYC account creation, the casino has never asked me for the same KYC since I have been using them now for over a year and this has not to change anything yet aside just nu email verifications.
Some casinos do have a limit to amount of money a non-kyc user can have in their account, and also, an amount of money the gambler can withdraw with being asked to pass kyc verification.
But immediately such gambler exceeds or crossed that limit, the casino will ask the gambler to pass kyc verification, else, his or her withdrawal request may likely not be processed, and the player may likely not be allowed to keep playing.
So, looking at it from this angle, I did say that it's not completely out or because of luck, but simply because you have not reached and exceeded the set limit for non-kyced users, while the member you talked about has, this is why he or she was asked to pass kyc verification, while you was not asked to do the same.