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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Full Tilt and Pokerstars Withdrawal Options Update
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 by Phil
Here is an update on the current withdrawal methods available to poker players at Full Tilt and Pokerstars.
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The majority of the problems that players have encountered when trying to withdrawal their money from Full Tilt have occurred when trying to request a cash-out by check. If you want to read about some of the events leading up to this point, you can read these past blog entries; Full Tilt Withdrawal Problems, More Full Tilt Withdrawal Problems
In the past few weeks some players have been able to withdrawal their funds by check from Full Tilt while others have been getting denied.
Some people have exchanged several emails with the support staff before they are able to accomplish anything. In many cases, players have been able to get their check withdrawals approved, only to find out a few days later that there was a problem.
For those of you who don’t know, Full Tilt’s support staff is mostly run by a company called Pocket Kings Ltd which is based in the UK. They typically will not deal with Full Tilt’s patrons over the phone, but if you play your cards right, you can get in touch with someone who may provide some useful information.
It appears as though the recent problems were been caused by a combination of many factors. Certain bank accounts held by Full Tilt were closed for various reasons, one of these reasons I still suspect was the recent seizure of Bodog’s funds from the Nevada State Bank.
Right now all players are being allowed to cash out via check. I can’t really say that this will continue to be true, but right now anyone can request a check.
Full Tilt has also removed the Moneygram cash out option. People that got to use this option said it was pretty convenient, but it appears as though this is a thing of the past.
Pokerstars is still running relatively smoothly at this point. They removed their cash pick-up option around the same time that Full Tilt did this week, but their checks are still flowing freely. All players including Americans can request a cashout by check at anytime from the Pokerstars cashier.
I mentioned in my last blog that I had stopped playing on Full Tilt for the most part. I’m not a big fan of the prepaid phone card system. I guess I’m just not a fan of uncertainty in general when it comes to cashing out my money.
I’ve been spending most of my playing time at Pokerstars lately. Their site has about twice as many players at their tables, so their tournaments tend to have a lot more people.
I also opened up an account at Cake Poker because I haven’t heard about any problems cashing out funds over there. Cake Poker has been around for a few years and I had always heard that the lower stakes cash games were pretty good there. Since I don’t play in the big $200/$400 games at Full Tilt, this is just fine with me. If you are interested in playing at Pokerstars or Cake you can navigate there through these links; Pokerstars, Cake Poker.
If you are not American, you have quite a few more deposit and withdrawal options at Pokerstars. Rather than discuss them all here, I’m just gonna post this screen shot. If you would like to read more you can click on the image below to access the Pokerstars withdrawal option information.
