An update by the French regulator ARJEL in the Europoker liquidation case shows that the players will not receive any bonus rewards they believed were rightfully their’s at the time the site closed, and only 2/3rds of their total player deposits remain in situ.

There’s a term used in Lean Principles for eliminating defects called poka-yoke. Take the British plug as an example. If you don’t put the right male parts into the right female parts, you could electrocute yourself. Only this doesn’t happen because the plug is designed to fit into the wall without electrocuting you. They have designed the potential risk out of the action.

Now let’s take online poker.

Players take a risk when depositing money into an online account. The operator could keep the money, lose the money or go bust. It happened to Full Tilt. And it’s the reason that I am brushing up my French lessons.