Premier Sports Betting and Casino Company Liberia, (Premierbet.com.lr) has refused to pay a sum of $ 3, 997.35.0 cents to identifed as Sammie Tamba, believe to be in his 30s.
Sammie Tamba, a gamer and football fan, hails from Lofa County, northeastern region of Liberia, thought he had won the sum of ($3,997, 35.0) Liberian dollars from Premierbet Slot game, only for the gaming company to refuse to pay out, and has deliberately remove the specific slot game from their website.
Sammie Tamba told our reporter that he spent the amount of $10,000 Liberian dollars on a Slot game bet on 1st January 2023, and won a screenshot of which seen by journalists, but the bookmarker, Premier Bet Liberia is rejecting the claims and deleted the amount won by Mr. Tamba, a regular gambler.
Tamba, isn’t strange to the gambling business, he has lost approximately 300,000 Liberian dollar on the Premier Bet Liberia Website, and has always been placing Sports Bets, the certificate gamer can be recorded as one of the highest Winner of Sports Betting in Liberia, when he won, the amount of $700,000 Liberian dollars, from one of the Sports betting Company in Liberia, Winners Incorporated Liberia, and collected the funding, while at the same he was rewarded with promotion from the company.
Expressing his grievances, on Truth FM 96.1 and Live Broadcast by others Radio Stations and Media outlets, on Friday, February 3, 2023, Tamba, explained he started placing a bet of $10LD on a slot game minimum, which allows he to won, the amount of $200LD, thereby as he continues in a win and lost basis, he continue playing, at the same time increasing the bet from $200LD, he won $400LD, from that amount he won up to $4,000 LD, as he continues playing in win and lost basis, until he bravely staked the amount of $10,000 Liberian dollar he has won from a $1,000 to came up with a winning amount of $3,997,35.0 LD, and only to notice after few minutes the bet was erase by the company from their website and the slot game was deleted instantly.
He claimed the same day he try contacting Premierbet Liberia to collect the funds, the company hotlines responded that key staffers of Premier Bet Liberia, was off to London, where the Bookmarker head office is stage for a break, and as soon as they return, the assurance the problem will be resolved.
But to make the matter more complicated, after he had complain several times and even travel from Voinjama, Lofa County, to Monrovia, Montserrado County, (Broad street), where the Premier Bet Liberia head office is staged, the Company had keep on delaying with his payment.
The Local Miner, told reporters on his last visit to Premier Sports Betting Liberia head office, barely after a month he won the money, the bookmaker has inform him, that there is no winning possibility for he, after the Company, have deleted the game, stating customers no longer play just game on the website.
Tamba, expressed disappointment about the company action toward he, and pleaded with the Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Liberia National Lottery Authority to intervene and help he collect his money won, noting that he has lost too much to the company, and his family is grievances about the money.
According to Tamba, need to money to cater to his family, sent his children to school and start doing business to sustain his family, stressing that it has been nearly a year, since he left the mining field to focus on Business, at the same time going to School.
“It’s now Month, since January 1st after I won the Slot game, and I can not get my money, after I have lost hugely on the site, and this don’t seem to be getting anywhere. If there’s an error it’s their fault for accepting the bet. It’s very frustrating.
“Just under $3 Million Liberian dollars for a big betting company is pennies for them but for me it’s a life-changing amount of money, he told reporters, all I want is my money.”
In Liberia, sports betting has become a real job opportunity for young people, who converge daily at various betting parlors in Monrovia, including Winner’s Incorporated, DOXXBET, and BETTOMAX Liberia, among others to watch soccer matches on flat-screen televisions via satellite, placing their bets and waiting for the results.
While others has decently, taken gaming from a piece of paper to an on-line betting, something that prompted an additional sports betting companies, including Starbet, 1Xbet and the Primer Sports Betting Company to transition to Liberia.
Gaming is legalized Liberia and has such, every Sports Betting Company operating in Liberia, must adequately prepared themselves to run service to Liberians and it’s customers generally, recently it was the same case with Sammie Tamba, when another betting in Liberia, Bettomax Liberia has also refusely denied the payment of customer Daniel Gaga, from Montserrado County, who won the amount of $ 400,000 Four-hundred- thousands Liberian dollars, until the intervention of the Liberia National Lottery Authority, before the Money was paid out to the customer.
Premier Bet Sports Betting and gaming Casino, is an Worldwide Sports gaming company, besides their head office in the United Kingdom London, the company also operates in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Congo Brazzerville, DR Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinéa, Côte d’ivoire, Malawi, Mali and Liberia.
It brand Ambassador for Africa is former Ivorian International Didier Drogba, who hold share of the company.
