FYI - LUCK3 Poker may be shutting down

[Pokerkeep]

With igaming.pro - Rival simply 'took over' the casino. It is Rival's fault in that case if affiliates are 'cut out'. Wish I COULD blame it on the program, but it simply isn't the case with that one. They made some mistakes, but cutting out affiliates wasn't one of them.

That's quite a drama bomb!

Andy, I've been following this quite closely on several forums and don't remember seeing anywhere that Rival had taken over Tradition. Do you have a reliable source?

If this is true, it is seriously rogue-ish behavior by Rival. Unless they can track players back to the referring affiliates and continue paying commissions, they should have simply shut down the casino and paid out the players.

It was bad enough thinking an affiliate program was pulling a Grand Prive but to think a network is doing so is just sickening.

Going to throw up now - be back later.

[Guard Dog]

I had a post somewhere in here about the URLs. Rival had taken over another couple casinos awhile back, so this is at least the 2nd group they took over.

I think June 6th was the date they took over and the URL for the casino is now: xxhttp://www.traditioncasino.co.uk/

Check the domaintools listing and you will see it is a Rival owned domain (same thing Rival did to Slotpower and Vanguard). Rival owns more than a few casinos. I don't know WHAT they are doing with the affiliates who previously supported those casinos.

I did not make money with any of those brands, so I cannot be sure. The affiliate link for the casino is: xxhttp://affiliates.traditioncasino.co.uk/ and you just get a strange message when you go there.


So - yes, Rival took over. And they must be getting FREE players untagged at this point.

[Pokerkeep]

Can anyone who was affected by the past takeovers comment on this? Did you lose your players even though Rival took over the casino and continued operating it?

I would like as much info on this as possible so I can write a detailed expose on the subject. Any help would be appreciated.

[Redbush54]

Rival also now has Vanguard Casino and Slot Power which use to be First Gaming Partners.

[GFPC]

Affiliating is so much fun isn't it?

Everyone is getting shafted left right and center. Free for all!!!

By the way - I got a little update from Natalie at Luck3 a few hours back.

Here was her exact words;

Hello Steve,

unfortunately, there is a silence... :/ as soon as I will know something, I will let you know

At this point - we have no recourse but to list Luck3 Properties as ROGUE

Any affiliates or players must be made aware there is a great chance they are being/will be ripped off!!!

Also CAKE refuses to respond to this matter!!!

Everyone as per usual is remaining silent!!! The same ole " Lets fxxk the affiliates again up the axx"

[Pokerkeep]

Rival also now has Vanguard Casino and Slot Power which use to be First Gaming Partners.

So Vanguard and Slot Power are now re-directing to Manhattan Slots
xxhttp://www.manhattanslots.com/Default.aspxxx

Manhattan Slots is run by CWC Affiliates. What's up with that?

[Pokerkeep]

Thanks for the update Steve. Sorry for the derail on your thread. Maybe Andy would be good enough to move the Rival discussion to it's own thread so we / I don't keep derailing this one.

[Guard Dog]

So Vanguard and Slot Power are now re-directing to Manhattan Slots
xxhttp://www.manhattanslots.com/Default.aspxxx

Manhattan Slots is run by CWC Affiliates. What's up with that?

It's old news... The old owners redirected all the traffic to Manhattan Slots. Rival owns the casinos now and moved them to a .co.uk domain. I think that affiliates still have access to their stats - not sure. But any banners pointing to the old domain are going to go to Manhatten Slots

[GFPC]

Thanks for the update Steve. Sorry for the derail on your thread. Maybe Andy would be good enough to move the Rival discussion to it's own thread so we / I don't keep derailing this one.

No its all good. Its all related anyways

Your welcome for the update as well..

Maybe Greek can add this one to his new site when its live

[HBKKH]

whoa. that's a shame and not fair to all parties involved