CONTRASTING ATTITUDES

(653) (10-October-2006)

Those who are out, and those who remain for US players

The contrasting attitudes of online gambling companies toward the new US moves to restrict financial flows to online casinos and poker rooms was illustrated this week by the New Zealand owned Kiwi Casino.com and the more recently launched tier one operation Grand Monaco Casino.com .

Kiwi's affiliate program, Gaming Partners told its members that it would no longer accept new US players on a CPA basis from midday October 5. Affiliates were assured that "....we have also taken the same successful formula that saw Kiwi Casino named Online Casino of the Year in 2001 and expanded into the rapidly growing Japanese, European and UK online casino markets, which has also proved very receptive to our other brands including FastWin Casino, Tiki Bingo and Kiwi Poker."

GrandMonaco followed the course set by Villento Las Vegas last week (see previous InfoPowa reports) and said that: "...we continue to accept and honor all our US players, and will keep both our players and affiliates in the loop as to what is happening." 

The company, which is run by a highly experienced and professional online gambling management said there was a possibility "in keeping and upholding the spirit of the law" that it may decide at some future point to block players from individual US states where online gambling was expressly outlawed, namely:

Michigan
Illinois
Louisiana
Oregon
Wisconsin
Washington
Indiana
Nevada
South Dakota