Let's be honest, money laundering is the best thing that can happen to a casino and there is where most of high rollers comes from.
I think you're right. I wrote this last week:
If I'd want to launder stolen money through a casino, I'd make one large high risk bet (say x10). If I win, I can prove that 90% of my money came from being very lucky at a casino! If I lose, I move on to the next casino.
So anyone betting $100k in one bet and winning $1M could very well be laundering money! Anyone losing $100k and abandoning their account could very well have attempted to launder the money! But someone who deposits and withdraws a couple hundred bucks doesn't mean he's he's laundering the money, and even if he would try that way, it wouldn't do him any good.
I guess casinos don't investigate users who lose $100k and leave
I've seen many cases in which a casino suddenly asks KYC after winning. That's because they don't like paying, but they totally don't mind taking the money when people lose.
Nowadays most casinos has KYC, but i don't think that is enough to stop the money laundering, what casinos should do is to investigate the source of the deposits to fight against this illegal activity, but that will not happen because is a win-win game from them.
If they'd truely care about money laundering, they'd ask KYC and details about the origin of the funds
before allowing to deposit. But they don't care, and as long as they're hiding in shady tax havens, they get away with it.
But the case for "Money Laundry" most casino have a golden rules, each deposit need to have 1x turnover before they withdraw. So, the user need to completed first the turn over otherwise is gonna to get "KYC".
I wrote something about that last week too:
Casinos want you to wager because they earn from it.
Wagering 1x doesn't change anything if it's money laundering, other than the casino taking it's house edge from the laundered money.
Check the definition:
Money laundering is the illegal process of making large amounts of money generated by criminal activity, such as drug trafficking or terrorist funding, appear to have come from a legitimate source.
Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.
Money laundering is the processing of these criminal proceeds to disguise their illegal origin.
An abundance of black money leads to the origin of several illegal practices, and money laundering is one such process to disguise the source of such funds.
Money laundering is the practice of making money that was gained through criminal means, such as smuggling weapons, look as if it came from a legitimate business activity.
The intention of money laundering is to make illegally obtained money appear to come from a legitimate source.
Money laundering refers to a financial transaction scheme that aims to conceal the identity, source, and destination of illicitly-obtained money.
the crime of moving money that has been obtained illegally through banks and other businesses to make it seem as if the money has been obtained legally
Those definitions all have one thing in common: the money has to come from an illicit source. Simply depositing and withdrawing doesn't mean the source was illicit, and even trying to hide your money flows from blockchain analysis doesn't mean it's money laundering.
Depositing and withdrawing doesn't mean it's money laundering.