After a sudden death of Warren Cloud, an online casino pioneer of South African, at the end of June after a heart attack, there are a lot of unanswered questions left concerning money owed to creditors and what will happen to the online casinos which he founded. The US internet casino sites including RealTime Gambling directed by him closed down. These sites told their clients to remove their money from all online cash accounts connected with these sites by 31 July, 2008, because there is a risk for customers to lose their money. The reason which influenced on closing the sites hasn’t been announced still.

The Silver Sands Casino works still. But I wonder how long they could keep their head above water without Cloud. Let’s begin with the matter that Cloud’s business acumen was dubious and he used some aliases in his business deals. A number of the casinos under his management brought in millions but due to his shady start, he got a bad rap because he hadn’t paid players who tried to withdraw their money.

After forming up with RealTime Gambling Cloud’s online casino career got moving. Albeit his online casinos are still popular, his reputation was tarnished and for several years he was intermittently on the rogue list of consumer protection sites. So, one of the biggest protection sites, CasinoMeister, warned users to stay away from Cloud’s sites for a long time. Brian Bailey, the CasinoMeister’s owner, states that players have been constantly complaining about Cloud’s casinos. Some of such complaints are still waiting to be settled up.