Wednesday, June 9, 2010

poker deposits post UIGEA June 1 deadline

I saw a question in yahooanswers and decided to answer it. Now I am cutting/pasting as my next entry because, if I had a following, it would be what u need to know.


Poker service I can actually make a deposit on?
Is there any legitimate online poker service that will accept payment with my Visa Skylight One card, or is there anyway I can use an intermediary to deposit on some service?

Problem is I don't have a bank account, so I can't pay with a check.

My preferred service would be PokerStars, but I've already ascertained that there's no way I can get chips there without using Western friggin Union, and paying a hundred bucks minimum.

I just want to buy 20 bucks worth of chips and play some poker at a low stakes table where people aren't all-in every hand all willy nilly with absolutely nothing in their hand.

AND MY ANSWER
If you just want a quick place to make a deposit with ur visa, any of the sites on the merge network are taking visa gift card deposits and disguising their cc processors as mixed level marketing, or electronics, or web support sites. But beware, almost all of the sites owned by domain holdings (which makes up over half the sites on the merge network) have questionable customer fairness policy and there is no doubt in my mind that they rig their online slots. For a safe site try carbon or pdc or reefer or...

But merge is not that fun. So, if you want to get a bankroll on FTP or Pokerstars, here is what you have to do...

There are a couple of services out there that make transferring chips from one poker site to another pretty easy. And since there are still a couple sites that take visa gift cards, (ie AP/UB) and a few sites that take quicktender, You should be able to fund most popular US sites without paying too much juice.

Here's how it works. 2 ways really. 1) You can find a chip broker, and he will sell you Pstars real funds for AlertPay (you can fund with any CC) or Paypal, and he will charge for example 13.50 paypal for 10 stars. (See pokerntips.com or pokerhex.com or try a search engine but beware there are scammers out there, many more than legit business men. (see pokerscams-exposed.blogspot.com) ) Also, its against PP TOS and policy, so hypothetically, you could get ur Paypal shut down if they caught on.

2) Ur other option is cheaper and, for me at least, exposed me to some of the smaller networks, which I now play on frequently. (See everleaf network and betcris network) First you will need to set up an online wallet account. Either a picclub account (picclub.com) and then make a deposit with ur CC and get the funds deposited into an account set up at victory poker or minted poker. (ORRRRRR set up a quicktender.com account and fund with ur CC and get the funds to a cake poker account) From there you can send ur chips for a small fee to a number of sites that are hard, or expensive to deposit on. That is if you know of the next step...

Now that u got funds in an account that is affiliated with sendmychips.com (which is where you should go next) ur pretty much all set. At smc you can move ur chips from one site to another for a small fee. I did two transactions last week. I think the 20 dollar service cost $21 and an $80 dollar ship cost $83. I have been funding my FTP account (where I always lose) with winnings from my cake account for 9 months now.

The only way to make it simpler is to see if ur visa will work on the scumsite of the industry absolute poker and ultimate bet. They have a number of "alias" credit card processors, so if you can deposit onto them with ur visa, then u can fund any affiliate of SendMyChips.com pretty quickly.

I know it's complicated and I am long winded. But there are ways around the current situation.

Otherwise try ur luck on the forum boards. I know for members at some of the staking sites like thedonkeyfarm.com two members can discuss and conduct trades from site to site with a middle man who is usually an admin on the forum. That way you know you wont get the shaft. Good luck!

Source(s):

pokerscams-exposed.blogspot.com
sendmychips.com
pokerntips.com
thedonkeyfarm.com
picclub.com

SEE U LATER

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