Our website has been exposing the shady dealing of Bwin.com for over a year now on the affiliate side. As it turns out (and of course no real surprise) their company is also less than reputable when it comes to player interactions as well. For details see this Bwin.com Theft Report by Sports Betting Sites. The story here is a back on October 5, 2012 Bwin locked the account of one of their users who held an over €13,000 account balance. For six weeks the player attempted to contact Bwin and was not given a response or reason for closing his account. He then filed a Sportsbook Review complaint here.

For an additional month Bwin.com failed to provide reason for why they closed the players account, but finally with pressure from player advocate website SBR, they were forced to let up. At this time, December 29, 2011 (85-days from closing his account and never stating a reason) Bwin sent the player a withdrawal for his full account balance less €2432.00. No reason was given for why the payment was short and still to this point there was not a word about why his account was locked in the first place.

Eventually SBR Moderate Justin7 was able to get word from BWIN and their "full of it reason" was they had reason to suspect the player was involved with a betting syndicate. The video from Justin7 is below.


Now in case it's not clear this is a freeroll again the player. There is plenty of reason to suspect Bwin.com was going to steal his entire €13,000 balance but after much noise was forced to pay. However let's back up and pretend they actually were doing some detailed security investigation during those 85 days and not just rubbing players fifties on their tities laughing at how much money they've all made. Even if the player was part of a syndicate (and this is still and "IF") how is mugging him for his account balance a proper remedy. There's an old saying in bookmaking "book a bet and lose you pay; book a bet and win you get paid". Any deviation from this is fraud.

Ethical remedies to dealing with a member of a betting syndicate is to close his account, void the bet before the match is played, or cut his limits much smaller for all future bets. When instead you wait for the match to be played, you are cheating/freerolling. If the bet wins void it, if it loses keep the money. It is no win situation from the player who made a bet, and it is a no loss situation from the unethical gambling site Bwin. What You Need to Understand About Bwin

This is a company masquerading as a honorable company, publicly traded, second highest valued in the world, so must be reputable right? Bwin has showed time and time again they are like mercenaries who don't care about anything but getting paid. You see they're not going to rob a player that is profitable for them. Who they're going to rob, is revenue share affiliates, once those affiliates are earning more than they're bringing in, because this is a profitable move. They're also going to rob winners who have shown talent in the sportsbook because again this is a profitable move.

BWIN is a company that care about nothing other than profit. These are the type of people that will shoot you in the face and steal your boots if they could get away with it (I'm thankful they cannot). Nothing is right, and nothing is wrong it is 100% about profit. The only reasons their crimes are not larger is because those crimes are not possible or profitable. This is how the mentality works and is how they built such an empire, dollar sign, dollar sign, dollar sign is there only concern.

Belosers states it again, only losers patronize or associate themselves with Bwin. For the sake of the industry and the sake of the many players and affiliates mugged by these crooks, please consider boycotting Bwin. Anyways let me conclude with a second shout out to Sports Betting Sites, thanking them for downgrading Bwin.