online gambling usage of Bitcoin

[WilsonWu]

I have recently had the following experience:

Bovada.lv, an online casino, encourages their customers to use Bitcoin in order to play at their site. They suggest using "Coinbase" to purchase Bitcoin and then deposit the funds so that one can play online in their casino.

I have done this now for about a month, and know very little about Bitcoin other than purchasing it from "Coinbase", then depositing it on Bovada. I won some money playing, and tried to "cash out" using Bovada's "Bitcoin payout" feature. I went to "Coinbase" to obtain a "wallet address" to send my funds to and then sent it to Bovada. Bovada sent the funds to that wallet address I gave them from "Coinbase", but I didn't receive them, and much to my surprise, I no longer was "connected" to the wallet address I sent to Bovada. So now I cannot access the funds to a wallet address that is not mine apparently. Furthermore, Bovada claims that it CANNOT SEND GAMBLING WINNINGS to Coinbase, which is where I obtained the wallet address; they of course did not tell me this when I applied for my funds to be sent, so that in and of itself is fishy.

But now Bovada send me a link to "prove" they sent funds to the supposed wallet address I gave them. It shows that the wallet is on "Blockchain", which I was NOT a member of when I gave the original address out to Bovada. So how they sent my funds to a wallet address on a website that I am not a member of, and how I obtained a wallet address from "Coinbase" that eventually ends up on "Blockchain" is beyond me.

Bottom line is that I can see the funds sitting in a Blockchain wallet that I can't access. and I can't reach Blockchain to tell me anything about this or to get some sort of advice on how to access my funds.

Anyone know anything about what might be going on? How can I resolve this...is there a "legal" way to investigate what happened?!

[mjglqw]

I've read about issues about gambling sites before. I think you just need another wallet(e.g. copay, mycelium) that would receive and send from the gambling site and coinbase.

instead of gambling site <--> coinbase,
it would be gambling site <--> *another wallet* <--> coinbase

I'm not 100% sure if this is the best solution, though.