An open letter to Royal, Amit, and Tej: Nobody expects you to pay a player if his account was bet down to 0
THE IMMEDIATE MATTER AT HAND
IF the player bet the money, then don't pay him. You are not doing anyone any favors by paying someone if he is scamming you.
Now you have these tapes. These tapes purport to be of the player canceling the balance of his withdrawal, $20,000, putting it into play, and losing it. The player vehemently denies he did this. He is adamant that he never made such calls.
So who is telling the truth? Are the tapes legitimate?
The Shrink has been taking a lot of heat over this matter. He has tried to mediate this to the best of his ability. He has the player telling him one thing and Royal who has changed their story telling him something else. But Royal has the tapes.
The player has at the request of the Shrink agreed to take a polygraph test as well as submit his voice for analysis.
The Shrink asked Kevin and/or Amit to take a polygraph, they have declined. At first Royal said they would send Shrink the original tapes, then changed it to copies of the originals, then when it came time to get the address from him, they changed the subject. They are clearly not interested in sending either the original tapes or copies.
The Shrink intends to do the best he can with the wave files of the conversations that have been made public by the Major. He intends to have them analyzed by a professional service to see 1) if they match the players voice and 2) if it is possible to tell if they have been spliced together somehow.
Amit, Tej's messenger boy, was very adamant that Shrink come out and say the tapes are real. According to the Shrink, Amit seemed very unsettled about the tape issue. Apparently Royal can live with its slow pay reputation, but if it comes out they doctored tapes, that is even too much for them. It is also interesting that day one when this came up Royal didn't IMMEDIATELY respond with, "His balance is 0, he canceled the withdrawal and bet the balance." Instead we don't hear these claims until later. Seems like a pretty simple defense if that was the truth day one.
SLOW PAYING GAMES, KEEP THEM ON THE PROPERTY
As to your slow paying games, you are a disgrace to the industry. Your slogan should be "Bet Royal, Sweat the Payout!" I think I may have to start referring to your operation as Royal Sweats since that is what people get when they play with you, a royal case of the sweats. There were three more cases of slow payment reported at SBR on July 1.
Your alleged $10,000 a week withdrawal limit can be found nowhere on your site. And it's disproportionate to the action you take from some of your victims. You love the "Keep them on the property game." If you force them to wait for their money, they will lose it. It worked very well in this case when the player was up to 200K, congratulations.
Even in resolution, you are a joke. Last week when you agreed to pay the player, the check couldn't go out on Friday because it was a Canadian holiday, and it couldn't go out on Monday because it is an American holiday. Everyone has to bank somewhere and be subject to local banking holidays, but make up your mind where the money is coming from. You are so used to the phony bank holiday stalls you throw them out there automatically.
NAVTEJ KOHLI, aka TEJ
Royal is allegedly 100% owned by Tej Kohli, a man who has ripped of people at Pyramid as well as Score Sportsbook, as well as the perpetrator of a major financial scam he got caught for in the US which got him sentenced to 80 months. Even if he is just a consultant, Royal should be boycotted for no other reason. Royal's silence on this question has been deafening. Again, if anybody accused me of being associated with him and it was not true, I would be shouting at the top of my lungs. They just refuse to discuss the issue.
Until Tej makes everyone he robbed whole with interest I will not drop this issue. When Royal got in bed with dog sh*t, what did they expect? You have nobody to blame but yourself on this issue. Actually, you also have nobody to blame but yourself for the long train of slow pays.
ROYAL SPORTS IPO
The Shrink told me that Royal thinks they will go public and become the next Party Poker. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh, that's the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. First of all if you want to go public you have to pay all of your players in a timely fashion. Second, you have to have a decent reputation. Ben Franklin once said, "Glass, China, and reputation are easily cracked and never mended well." And third, and most important, you must pass due diligence, you must be transparent. There is no way any operation with Tej at the helm whether he is hiding behind his shell companies or not will stand up to the due diligence requirements on a major exchange.
I mean Tej is no stranger to fraud and inflated financial records. But there is no way that is going to fly in an IPO, not in today's regulatory climate. I still have a few connections on the street at some major institutions. I will personally see that the compliance departments of all the major US, Canadian, European, Australian, and Asian exchanges will be put on notice to be on the look out for this. Don't think you are going to hide behind Cometa NV, Hialea NV, or Interactive Entertainment or whatever shell companies you have morphed them into now. They'll be looking for you Tej. You are a thief and you should have gotten 20 years for your first scam and another 20 for what you did at Score and Pyramid. If they know who you are, and know you are coming, they'll be waiting.
SHRINK IS NOT AN EXTORTIONIST
I don't think it is right that Shrink is being labeled as an extortionist on this matter. He agrees as much as I do that if the player fails the polygraph test or an audio expert confirms that is the player on the tape, that the player should not be paid. Shrink has taken the time to talk to the player, and at this point he is his advocate in this matter. If Royal is in the right here, let them cooperate with the analysis and send the tapes. The reason many are so quick to believe the player on this matter and suspect foul play with the tapes is because Royal has a reputation for jerking players around. I'm sure if this were a top shelf book and they presented the tapes, the matter would be settled. But when you have a long history of slow pays, shady transaction fees, and Tej at your helm, this is what you get.
The Shrink only wants the player paid if he is due.
THE IMMEDIATE MATTER AT HAND
IF the player bet the money, then don't pay him. You are not doing anyone any favors by paying someone if he is scamming you.
Now you have these tapes. These tapes purport to be of the player canceling the balance of his withdrawal, $20,000, putting it into play, and losing it. The player vehemently denies he did this. He is adamant that he never made such calls.
So who is telling the truth? Are the tapes legitimate?
The Shrink has been taking a lot of heat over this matter. He has tried to mediate this to the best of his ability. He has the player telling him one thing and Royal who has changed their story telling him something else. But Royal has the tapes.
The player has at the request of the Shrink agreed to take a polygraph test as well as submit his voice for analysis.
The Shrink asked Kevin and/or Amit to take a polygraph, they have declined. At first Royal said they would send Shrink the original tapes, then changed it to copies of the originals, then when it came time to get the address from him, they changed the subject. They are clearly not interested in sending either the original tapes or copies.
The Shrink intends to do the best he can with the wave files of the conversations that have been made public by the Major. He intends to have them analyzed by a professional service to see 1) if they match the players voice and 2) if it is possible to tell if they have been spliced together somehow.
Amit, Tej's messenger boy, was very adamant that Shrink come out and say the tapes are real. According to the Shrink, Amit seemed very unsettled about the tape issue. Apparently Royal can live with its slow pay reputation, but if it comes out they doctored tapes, that is even too much for them. It is also interesting that day one when this came up Royal didn't IMMEDIATELY respond with, "His balance is 0, he canceled the withdrawal and bet the balance." Instead we don't hear these claims until later. Seems like a pretty simple defense if that was the truth day one.
SLOW PAYING GAMES, KEEP THEM ON THE PROPERTY
As to your slow paying games, you are a disgrace to the industry. Your slogan should be "Bet Royal, Sweat the Payout!" I think I may have to start referring to your operation as Royal Sweats since that is what people get when they play with you, a royal case of the sweats. There were three more cases of slow payment reported at SBR on July 1.
Your alleged $10,000 a week withdrawal limit can be found nowhere on your site. And it's disproportionate to the action you take from some of your victims. You love the "Keep them on the property game." If you force them to wait for their money, they will lose it. It worked very well in this case when the player was up to 200K, congratulations.
Even in resolution, you are a joke. Last week when you agreed to pay the player, the check couldn't go out on Friday because it was a Canadian holiday, and it couldn't go out on Monday because it is an American holiday. Everyone has to bank somewhere and be subject to local banking holidays, but make up your mind where the money is coming from. You are so used to the phony bank holiday stalls you throw them out there automatically.
NAVTEJ KOHLI, aka TEJ
Royal is allegedly 100% owned by Tej Kohli, a man who has ripped of people at Pyramid as well as Score Sportsbook, as well as the perpetrator of a major financial scam he got caught for in the US which got him sentenced to 80 months. Even if he is just a consultant, Royal should be boycotted for no other reason. Royal's silence on this question has been deafening. Again, if anybody accused me of being associated with him and it was not true, I would be shouting at the top of my lungs. They just refuse to discuss the issue.
Until Tej makes everyone he robbed whole with interest I will not drop this issue. When Royal got in bed with dog sh*t, what did they expect? You have nobody to blame but yourself on this issue. Actually, you also have nobody to blame but yourself for the long train of slow pays.
ROYAL SPORTS IPO
The Shrink told me that Royal thinks they will go public and become the next Party Poker. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh, that's the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. First of all if you want to go public you have to pay all of your players in a timely fashion. Second, you have to have a decent reputation. Ben Franklin once said, "Glass, China, and reputation are easily cracked and never mended well." And third, and most important, you must pass due diligence, you must be transparent. There is no way any operation with Tej at the helm whether he is hiding behind his shell companies or not will stand up to the due diligence requirements on a major exchange.
I mean Tej is no stranger to fraud and inflated financial records. But there is no way that is going to fly in an IPO, not in today's regulatory climate. I still have a few connections on the street at some major institutions. I will personally see that the compliance departments of all the major US, Canadian, European, Australian, and Asian exchanges will be put on notice to be on the look out for this. Don't think you are going to hide behind Cometa NV, Hialea NV, or Interactive Entertainment or whatever shell companies you have morphed them into now. They'll be looking for you Tej. You are a thief and you should have gotten 20 years for your first scam and another 20 for what you did at Score and Pyramid. If they know who you are, and know you are coming, they'll be waiting.
SHRINK IS NOT AN EXTORTIONIST
I don't think it is right that Shrink is being labeled as an extortionist on this matter. He agrees as much as I do that if the player fails the polygraph test or an audio expert confirms that is the player on the tape, that the player should not be paid. Shrink has taken the time to talk to the player, and at this point he is his advocate in this matter. If Royal is in the right here, let them cooperate with the analysis and send the tapes. The reason many are so quick to believe the player on this matter and suspect foul play with the tapes is because Royal has a reputation for jerking players around. I'm sure if this were a top shelf book and they presented the tapes, the matter would be settled. But when you have a long history of slow pays, shady transaction fees, and Tej at your helm, this is what you get.
The Shrink only wants the player paid if he is due.
