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Red Flags & Delisting — The Burn Pile Criteria
The disqualifying findings that get a casino delisted outright — confirmed unpaid winnings, withdrawal traps, voided wins and rigged games — plus the patterns that push an operator there.
The Holding Tank is for casinos we're watching. The Burn Pile is for casinos we're done with. This page is the disqualification list — the findings that get an operator delisted outright. The live Burn Pile is on the Audit Lab.
Instant disqualifiers
- Confirmed unpaid winnings. A legitimate, verified win that the operator refused to pay. This is the cardinal sin — nothing else outweighs it.
- The withdrawal trap. A site sold as "no verification" that springs a KYC wall the moment you try to cash out a real win. Dishonesty about identity, not the identity check itself, is what burns it — see KYC Classification.
- Voided winnings on invented grounds. Retroactive bonus-abuse accusations or fine-print clauses pulled out to cancel a payout after the fact.
- Rigged or unverifiable games. Results that can't be checked where provably-fair is claimed, or evidence of manipulated outcomes.
Patterns that push toward delisting
- Repeated stalls on legitimate withdrawals after a stint in the Holding Tank.
- Hostile Terms changes caught by the Watchdog that materially worsen player rights.
- A sustained, credible body of unpaid-winnings or locked-account complaints across community channels.
- Vanished or fraudulent licensing, or support that goes dark when money is on the line.
How to protect yourself
Most of these red flags are spottable before you deposit if you know what to look for. Our forensic walkthrough is in the Q&A: how to spot a crypto casino scam. And if a casino you're using shows one of these signs, that's exactly when WagerX's player-advocacy side steps in — see About.