Recent content by Greenpickle

both of you are right which is the annoying bit

i've kept my own sheet on this for about two years, not out of cleverness, out of not being able to tell any other way what predicts trouble isn't the score. its whether complaints share a shape. one guy waiting three weeks is a queue. eleven guys all getting told they're under enhanced review...

yeah. that's not the gotcha you think it is though

I did the same, different game, and I was older than you when I started. roulette sites were the obvious ones but the trading itself was the part that got me. Watching a market, timing a sale, being up or down on the week. By the time i touched an actual casino the emotional machinery was...

could be either honestly. plenty of them are still trading fine, they've just stopped being answerable to anyone. which is sort of the point people keep making and sort of not an emergency

been reading complaint boards on this for a while and the pattern that shows up isn't outright theft, its stalling. verification confirmed, then the withdrawal sits with no timeline. there's one up at the moment where somebody's been waiting eight days on ten grand with verification already done...

ACCC piece is the one id watch. vertical deal, tabcorp already has retail exclusivity in several states, and now they own infrastructure their competitors sit on If even one rival makes a submission it stops being a quick informal review

Completion date confused me for a bit. one report says Q3 FY27 and another says early 2027 and i assumed that's a nine month gap Aussie financial year is july to june so Q3 FY27 is jan to march. Same window. That's me being american about it

amount isn't really the point. its whether the process works, and you only find that out on the way out

ok people honestly I don't play there myself but been keeping half an eye on these shutdowns and the luckyland one has a proper deadline attached so worth flagging purchases stopped on the 3rd, games go off on the 24th, and you cant submit a redemption after sept 14. that's it, account gone...

thara's one thing to add for your cousin tell him not to chase the stuck balance by signing up to some site promising to "recover" sweeps funds. those recovery scams are already circulating and they target exactly the people who just lost access. balance is gone. anyone promising to get it back...

Well that repeats in every market. UK affordability checks pushed people offshore. Germany's stake limits pushed people offshore. now US sweeps bans are pushing people offshore. Regulators keep learning the same lesson and not learning same time. You can close the regulated or semi-regulated...

I've been tracking the sweeps exits this year mostly out of morbid interest. The pattern is remarkably consistent. Governor signs bill, operators get a window, reputable brands exit within weeks, smaller brands hold until the literal effective date, then a scramble as the last players try to...

thats the sensible position. don't over-commit to any single setup while the rules are still moving. usdc default, usdt when it's worth the extra step, stay flexible. the one thing i'd avoid is going full btc/eth deposits to dodge the stablecoin issue, because as aviator said you're just trading...

Option 3 has a wrinkle worth flagging. Usin a non-Eu exchange that still lists usdt to get around your local regulated venue works, but you're now funding an offshore exchange from your EU bank, which some Eu banks are starting to flag. the same monitoring logic that's coming for gambling...