Virgin Casino Bans Canadian players(WTF!?)

[TheZodiac]

Dear

We are sorry to inform you that we will be suspending all accounts registered by players from Canada effective from the 13th April 2007. Due to recent developments in the global Internet gaming environment and following a review of the legalities of online gaming within Canada, we have determined that it is inappropriate for us to continue accepting online wagers from Canada.

We will be suspending all Canadian accounts on 13th April 2007 09:00 EST, we ask that you please withdraw any funds before this date and time.

Neteller has also announced that it will cease processing Canadian transactions from 9th April 2007. If you use NETELLER to transact with us you will need to withdraw any remaining funds in your account BEFORE the 9th April 2007.

After the 13th April, you will not be able to login into your account. However, you will be able to initiate a withdrawal of your funds by calling our customer support center at +44 800 458 6003

We appreciate your patronage and apologize for the inconvenience.


Kind Regards


Customer Service Team

Virgin Casino
http://www.virgincasino.com

What recent developments????????????????????????

[1C5]

can't be good.

[celiboy]

I highly doubt a shithole casino like virgin casino would have much of a legal team, let alone one that has insider info to the Canadian gov't. They are pulling out simply because they saw Neteller do the exact same thing.

[londomollari]

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I highly doubt a shithole casino like virgin casino would have much of a legal team, let alone one that has insider info to the Canadian gov't. They are pulling out simply because they saw Neteller do the exact same thing.

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Virgin group might. I'm sure Branson is just licensing out the Virgin name but there is no point in them risking the brand name on any perceived impropriety.

[AndyP]

If Party bans Canadian players, I'm gonna cry.

[MrBlueNose]

Isn't that like the exact e-mail and text WPT Online sent out? If not seems very similar.

[cardman]

I wonder who's going to dump us Canadians next.

[Pog0]

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I wonder who's going to dump us Canadians next.

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This does not make sense.

[MiltonFriedman]

The British public companies are sheep who run in a herd. Why would you expect Virgin to be different ? It is a really good bet that whoever advises them is running with the herd of advisors which follows along.

The whole tone of the email is .... Neteller left, so we are too. ....

Well, with a little work, they could realize that Canada is NOT the US.

[MiltonFriedman]

Then what the F*CK were they doing in internet gaming ?