Online Casinos to Avoid
Posted by: Dave on: 06 Jun, 2011
Updated 6/6/2011
I have a couple of updates to make to this post. In light of recent events, many online casinos are choosing to no longer accept new US customers or have dropped out of the US market all together.
Here is a list of casinos that are no longer accepting new US customers, but will allow current customers to keep playing: Vegas Technology – Online Vegas, Grand Vegas, Crazy Slots and Go Casino.
Here is a list of casinos that have left the US market in the past couple of months:
Vegas Techology casinos – English Harbour, Caribbean Gold, Millionaire Casino, Silver Dollar Casino, Slots Galore, SuperSlots, VIP Slots
There are currently no Vegas Tech casinos that are still accepting new US customers.
Rival Gaming Casinos – Cocoa Casino, DaVinci’s Gold, Mayan Fortune, Pantasia Casino, Paradise8 Casino, ThisIsVegas, Vegas Regal Casino, VIP Club Casino
Here is a list of Rival Casinos that still accepts players from the United States: Black Diamond, Box 24 Casino, Casino Royal Club, Golden Cherry Casino, Sloto’Cash Casino, Spartan Slots
I have always been a fan of Real Time Gaming software; but unfortunately a lot of the rogue casinos use this software. Here is a list of my recommended RTG casinos: Bovada Casino, Casino Titan, Cherry Red Casino, Club USA Casino, High Noon Casino, Intertops Red Casino, Lucky Red Casino, Planet 7, Pure Vegas Casino, Rushmore Casino, Silver Oak, Slots Oasis
More Online Casinos to Avoid
Below is an updated list of Rogue online casinos. This information is based off of customer complaints. When an online casino gives customers problems with payouts and unfairly changes bonus policies, the online casino will end up on this list. Many of these are the same casinos that I have listed last year on this post.
| Name | Software |
| 99 Slot Machines | Real Time Gaming |
| Bella Vegas | BetOnSoft |
| Bet Villa Fortuna | BetOnSoft |
| BetPhoenix Casino | Rival |
| Captain Jack Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Casino Grand Bay | BetOnSoft |
| Casino Moons | Top Game |
| Casino Vega | Parlay Entertainment |
| Cirrus Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Cirrus Casino UK | Real Time Gaming |
| Cleopatra’s Palace | Real Time Gaming |
| Club Player Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Cool Cat Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Eldorado Palace | Connective Games |
| Gold Betting | Wager21 |
| Gold Vegas Casino – Pending Closure | Top Game |
| Gold VIP Club Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Jackpots Heaven | JHeaven Technologies |
| Jupiter Club | BetOnSoft |
| Lake Palace | BetOnSoft |
| Mighty Slots | Real Time Gaming |
| Money Casino | Top Game |
| Palace of Chance | Real Time Gaming |
| Plenty Jackpots | Real Time Gaming |
| Prism Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Real Vegas Online | Real Time Gaming |
| Rich Casino | Top Game |
| RoadHouse Reels | BetOnSoft |
| Royal Sands | Real Time Gaming |
| Slots of Vegas | Real Time Gaming |
| Sports Fanatik | Merge Gaming Network |
| The Virtual Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Thebes Casino | Top Game |
| Vegascasino21 | Top Game |
| VIP Lounge Casino | Real Time Gaming/21GNET |
| Wild Vegas Casino | Real Time Gaming |
| Yes We Can Casino | Top Game |
| Bet2Win – No US | Digital Gaming Solutions/BetSoft |
| Break Away Casino – No US | Playsafe |
| City Club Casino – No US | Playtech |
| Connect 2 Casino – No US | Rival |
| Dafa888 – No US | Playtech |
| Giant Vegas Casino – No US | Playtech |
| Joyland Casino – No US | Playtech |
| Play United Casino – No US | Playtech |
| Royal Dice – No US | Playtech |
| Royal Kahuna Casino – No US | Visionary iGaming |
| SciFi Casino – No US | Playsafe |
| Sierra Star Casino – No US | Playtech |
Originally Posted April 12, 2010:
Recently, I have been searching around other casino forums around the internet for honest assessments of different online casinos. I am going to have a list compiled from the sources that I have found and I will be giving credit to those forums that I found them on.
The reality is that there is no way that I can play at the nearly 2000 casino/poker/bingo/sportsbetting websites that are out there.
Online Casino City
This is an overwhelmingly large resource for almost all the online casino in existence. The one thing that I like about this site is that you can see what casinos that you are allowed to play at in your own jurisdiction. You don’t have to sort out those casinos that won’t let you play for real.
The other thing that I appreciate is that there have a list of what they consider to be rogue casinos. They are usually consider rogue because of shady business practices like voiding bonuses and winnings without cause or giving you the boot because your winning money. Here are the casinos that you play at your own risk:
| Real Time Gaming | iGaming Software | |
| 99 Slot Machines | AcesAce | |
| Casino Extreme | Amco Casino | |
| Cats Eye Casino | Amco Poker | |
| Cirrus Casino | Amco Sportsbook | |
| Club Player Casino | ApexBets | |
| Cool Cat Casino | Big Daddys Casino & Poker Room | |
| Dreams Casino | C24h – Casino24h | |
| Gold VIP Club Casino | Casino Unreal | |
| Lucky Palm Casino | DomsCasino | |
| Palace of Chance | DomsPoker | |
| Plenty Jackpots | DomsSportsbook | |
| Prism Casino | Empire Casino | |
| Ring Master Casino | Extreme Bet | |
| Slots of Vegas | i-Sportsbook | |
| The Virtual Casino | Paper Chase Poker | |
| VIP Lounge Casino | Poker Face Entertainment | |
| Wild Vegas Casino | Poker Syndicate | |
| PokerOne | ||
| Playtech Software | Rio Party Casino | |
| African Palace Casino | Safest Bet | |
| Casino Fortune | Shamrock Gaming | |
| Goldgate Casino | Stinky Fish Poker | |
| Indio Casino | Super 7 Gaming | |
| Mapau Bingo | The USA Rounder Poker Room | |
| Mapau Casino | TPC – The Poker City | |
| Miami Beach Casino | US Star Casino | |
| Poker Show | USA Sportsbook | |
| Vegas 24 | ||
| Other Software | ||
| Atlantic Vegas Casino | BetOnSoft Software | |
| BetRoyal Sportsbook | Bella Vegas | |
| Casino On Liner | Casino Grand Bay | |
| Casino Vega | Jupiter Club Casino | |
| Collegiate Series of Poker | Lake Palace Casino | |
| Games 4 Money | Road House Reels | |
| Heroes Sports | Villa Fortuna Casino | |
| Jackpot Cash | ||
| Luck N’ Roll Casino | ||
| Rulez Poker | ||
| She-Gold | ||
| Slots Alley Casino | ||
| Sunshine Bingo | ||
| Zex Casino |
I’ll tell you the truth, I have never heard of most of these casinos and haven’t heard of iGaming Software which has the most rogue casinos. The ones that I have played at in the past that I know are bad news is VIP Lounge Casino and Cool Cat Casino.
Latest Casino Bonuses Forum
Here is another great source for shady and rogue casinos. This is primarily the work of one member, dirkemans, who I would like to thank for collecting this information. I’m avoiding putting duplicates from the list above, so this is just an addendum to that list:
Rival Casinos – in general, he said to avoid these casinos but only mentioned the following as confirmed:
Slotsofcash; Mayan Palace; Traditon; Dendera
| Playtech Software | Microgaming Software |
| Caesar’s Gold (www .goldencaesar.com) | Belle Vegas Online |
| Casino Depot | Casino Grand Bay |
| Crazy Horse | Grand Bay Poker |
| Easy Rider | Kasino Grand Bay |
| Flamingo (www .flamingoclub.com) | Lake Palace Casino |
| Gold Nugget (www .24ktgoldcasino.com) | Jupiter Club Casino |
| Golden Palace | Road House Reels Casino |
| Grand Online | Fortune Junction Casino |
| Grand Riviera | Jackpot Wheel Casino |
| Kosher (www .koshercasino.co.il) | Villa Fortuna Casino |
| L’Oasis (www .oasisclubcasino.com) | Big Dollar Casino |
| Lucky Charm | Villa Fortuna Affiliates |
| Merlins (www .merlinsmagiccasino.com) | Grand Prive Affiliates |
| Mystique (www .casinomystique.com) | |
| Online Vegas (don’t confuse with Vegas Tech Online Vegas Casino) |
RTG |
| Pacific Princess (www .pacificprincessonline.com) | Ladyluckscasino |
| Premiere (www .thepremiere.com) | Lucyacecasino |
| Ramses Valley of Kings (www .rvcasino.com) | Party City Casino |
| Six Shooter (www .thesixshooter.com) | Playersupportcenter |
| Top Card (www .tcardcasino.com) | Goldsteam Casino |
| Triple Win | Pharaohs Gold Casino |
| Captain Jack Casino | |
| 7RED Casino | |
| Casino Silver |
Places I’ve Played
This is the last resource I’m including on this post that is getting too long. Places I’ve Played is an online casino and gaming forum that uses Facebook. On it, you can register and put in the online casinos that you have played at and your own personal review.
If you have any questions or comments about any of the casinos listed, I would love to get your comments. I will post those that aren’t spam and you won’t see your response right away. I would suggest using one of the forums above if you want an immediate response.
I may add to this if I can find more bad places to play.
