Originally Posted by
knight
Hey, welcome to SBR.
Betonline is a shady room; there are countless threads on 2p2 and here on SBR about the very same thing happening to other people, sometimes with five-figure dollar amounts. They can get away with it since they are based in Panama. Furthermore, it's illegal for many US players to be gambling there anyways. It's like if someone were to rob you in a drug deal. You can't go to the cops, and you don't have enough power to get your sh*t back yourself, so you're just effed.
I deposited $50 on there a couple months ago just to play around with, never really expecting to see it again. A couple weeks ago, the Betonline client simply stopped working for me. I can't connect to the poker room anymore - I get stuck on the "connecting to game server..." screen every time I try to. I have tried talking to their customer service about it, and that's like pulling teeth, as I'm sure you know. I've basically been given the same runaround that you and many others are getting. It's been a couple days since I sent them all the info they requested and they are "still looking into the matter" and will "get back to me when the issue is resolved," etc. Really, it shouldn't take more than a quick glance at the .log files they requested, as I'm sure I'm not the first person to have this problem. It's not like they got a team of scientists in a lab and sh*t, testing out different theories, rifling through books in the f*cking library. Never expect to see the $50 again, just taking it as a lesson.
Bottom line is you're probably f*cked. All you can do is complain here and commiserate with others who are in the same boat, but that won't stop them from stiffing the next dumbf*ck to deposit there.
Anyone else think it's crazy that, given all the complaints about BOL and the repeat reports of them stiffing their customers, they still have a B+ rating here on SBR?? That needs to change, right now.