uvwvj, I don't think is a correct way of running a gambling site. More often than not it's legitimate owners trying to make the best of a bad situation should they arise. When nakowa lost 7,000 BTC back to the house on just-dice.com, the owner dooglus changed max profit from 1% down to 0.25%, essentially stopping nakowa recouping his former winnings. Was it fair, or the right thing to do? I really don't know; how dooglus ran his site is absolutely none of my business. He claims it was to allow investors to chose their own risk level, and it probably was. If i was nakowa I would have been furious, but I'm not nakowa, or dooglus, so it doesn't matter.
And you can ask Doog to verify but I hounded his ass here (deleted most of my posts) and the chat room for doing that to in middle of Nakowas deposits as I thought Doog did the right move but he should have shut down site for 24 hours when he did it to announce the new rules. Difference he just limited bets not changed the math to be in his favor.
What Dean did is not payout a winner because he could personally not take the liability imo. We essentially knew Dooglus portion of the bankroll in case something happened do you know Deans?
Doesn't matter what the amount was, 20BTC or 0.002BTC, scammers and cheats will not be cashed out funds they try to steal from investors or other players.