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By clicking the following link and reading this 138.com Casino - Into our Hall of Shame report, you will find out that this bookmaker feels entitled to confiscate £23,000 from Kevin reasoning that he was playing irregularly and not for fun but to make a business.

Well, my guess is that the bookmaker somehow sensed that Kevin might be an arbitrage bettor. If you don't know what arbitrage betting means here is a Wikipedia link which explains better than I can: Wikipedia - Arbitrage Betting

Most bookmakers (maybe 90% of them) are not welcoming arbitrage bettors for some reason which I do not yet understand (because the house is supposed to always have a mathematical edge and that is quite large 3% to 12% in sports), but I know this as a fact. When a bookmaker suspects a player of arbitrage betting the bookmaker will simply limit the player to $1 bets or will tell the player that he is no longer allowed to place sport bets and that eventually his account will be closed. BUT ALWAYS the player gets paid his balance in full as long as the player has successfully verified his account. - Therefore 138.com confiscating Kevin's money is just plain robbery.