Gambler hits $1.3 million jackpot; Net casino won't compensate - 2004-03-05
In the highest-stakes arguement of its sort in the brief history of Internet gambling, an American bettor and a Costa Rica-based Internet casino are engrossed in a running fight over $1.3 million that the player says he won fair and square and the house claims was amassed using a banned “robot” software program.
The big-money feud pits the gambler named “Pirateofc21”, against Hamptoncasino.com and, by proxy, Realtime Gaming of Atlanta, the software company that produced and licensed the “Caribbean 21” game that yielded the debated windfall.
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