Bettor Wins $1.3 Million and Online
Casino will not Pay!

Mike Brunker
Reporter
MSNBC

In the highest-stakes dispute of its kind in the short history of Internet gambling, an American bettor and a Costa Rica-based Internet casino are engaged in a running battle 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 known as “Pirateofc21” against Hamptoncasino.com and, by proxy, Realtime Gaming of Atlanta, the software company that developed and licensed the “Caribbean 21” game that yielded the disputed windfall.
The battle has been raging for more than two months on Internet gambling forums, with “Pirate” and Hampton officials regularly trading accusations, and has become the soap opera of choice for online gambling aficionados.

The experts have further enlivened the discussion by weighing in with theories as to whether the gambler used a “robot” -- an automatic play program that maximizes the player’s odds by eliminating mistakes -- or otherwise cheated the game or was simply the victim of an unscrupulous casino operator.

"Pirate" declined to comment on the dispute when contacted by MSNBC.com, citing ongoing settlement negotiations. Hampton officials did not respond to repeated interview requests.
Gambler took dispute public in early January

“Pirate,” an out-of-work computer programmer whose real name is Brian Donahue, took the dispute public in January when he posted on the public forum on “online casino watchdog” Casinomeister.com, complaining that his accounts at Hamptoncasino.com and other online casinos using Realtime Gaming software had been frozen.......


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