Status of American Customers on Online poker sites

 

I have received numerous letters from apprehensive Card Player readers who are concerned about the sites where they play poker. Today I will try to address some of those issues. In matters where I have little or no information, perhaps we can help inform one another.

 

PokerStars, Full Tilt, Bodog, Absolute and Doyle?s Room: These sites are booming and enjoying the success of many new players. Not only have we heard no complaints whatsoever, but customers are praising these sites for their loyalty to the US player and also for the fine selection of ?good? games. Noble Poker & Royal Vegas Poker are out.

 

Full Contact Poker: Some of you are frustrated because you are having problems at Full Contact Poker (FCP), Daniel Negreanu?s site. I personally spoke with Daniel last week and he informed me that FCP would remain operational even after the president signed the Enforcement Act. FCP has been a ?skin? of a company called ?ongame.? What Daniel didn?t know last week was that at the last minute, the Ongame Network, owned by bwin, announced that it will block service to players with US addresses. Of course, this left FCP and a number of companies scrambling to find a new poker network provider. I personally know Daniel and I know his team is diligently working on it. We will inform our readers of any further developments.

 

PartyPoker: We all now know that PartyPoker is not doing business in the US. Regarding PartyPoker cashouts, I personally requested that my money be cashed out from PartyPoker and that was accomplished the very next time I checked, which was two days later. PartyPoker is a public company with honorable managers who can be trusted. You will get your money back! PartyPoker issued the following public statement: ?By adhering to the law and as a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization currently in excess of $2.5 billion, we continue to offer our US customers a robust and secure processing system, which means your funds are safe with us and can be withdrawn at any time.?

 

Many of you have asked about the PartyPoker Monster Tournament. I must claim ignorance about the tournament or its structure. However, Party has issued the following statement regarding its Monster Tournament: ?Unfortunately, the structure of the PartyPoker.com Monster made it untenable to continue with the tournament once the act became law, and it was discontinued. We have converted pending Monster Freerolls into equivalent cash amounts. If you had any unused Monster Freerolls, you can log in to your PartyAccount to convert them into cash and see how the amounts were calculated.? Party has also decided to convert freerolls into the cash equivalent.

 

Jetsetpoker: Yesterday, we reported that jetsetpoker had closed shop and left its players out to dry, but one of our readers wrote in to tell us this was incorrect. Zaid wrote to tell me that some Card Player readers got it all wrong regarding jetsetpoker. He received the following information: ?JetSetPoker shall remit remaining balances via cheque. Please respond to accountclosure@jetsetpoker.com and provide your accurate name and mailing address to initiate the cheque disbursement process.? My humble apologies to jetsetpoker.

 

NETeller: NETeller is in and FirePay is out. NETeller is going strong. It is quite simple to set up an account with this public, overseas company in order to fund an online account. Of course, wire transfers are still an available means to transfer funds as well as myCitadel and moneybookers, which I learned about at UltimateBet.

 

Ultimate Bet: UltimateBet is still doing business in the US and the site is accepting new US customers. I understand it has some new and exciting plans on the horizon.

 

Hollywood Poker: Card Player has been informed that Hollywood Poker will no longer accept new US customers. As for the current loyal Hollywood Poker players, the following information was just received by Card Player: ?US players have been provided the opportunity to play through current balances, earn out bonuses, use player points, etc. for approximately the next 30 days. Players can at any time within that period withdraw funds. Past that time, HP will cut a check for any remaining balance not withdrawn above the minimum check amount required by the bank.?

 

I have not purposely included or excluded any site in today?s article. It is our goal at Card Player to keep our loyal readers well informed and we will surely pass along any news as soon as Card Player receives it. I invite players and site owners alike to write allyn@cardplayer.com with information pertaining to the status of any online poker site.

Full Tilt

 

NETeller

 

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Full Tilt

 

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Yea I used to play with Bodog but I switched to Full Tilt.. Its a pretty solid site.. Give 100% bonus too which is awesome! I plan to deposit in sometime soon... Haven't played for real cash in about 3 weeks, had to pay the bills and got the new car payment coming so..

 

Whats your Full Tilt name?

Full Tilt

 

NETeller

 

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Yea I used to play with Bodog but I switched to Full Tilt.. Its a pretty solid site.. Give 100% bonus too which is awesome! I plan to deposit in sometime soon... Haven't played for real cash in about 3 weeks, had to pay the bills and got the new car payment coming so..

 

Whats your Full Tilt name?

 

 

 

I'll just say that I play the .50/$1 NL tables.

 

:shifty

 

 

 

Ive noticed the competition is much better on Full Tilt than it was on Party Poker. I may go try Ultimate Bet soon too. There arent enough fish on Full Tilt.

 

Party Poker was like having this big pond of plump bass in my backyard. Full Tilt is full of sharks.

Full Tilt

 

NETeller

 

Back in action

 

 

Yea I used to play with Bodog but I switched to Full Tilt.. Its a pretty solid site.. Give 100% bonus too which is awesome! I plan to deposit in sometime soon... Haven't played for real cash in about 3 weeks, had to pay the bills and got the new car payment coming so..

 

Whats your Full Tilt name?

 

 

 

I'll just say that I play the .50/$1 NL tables.

 

:shifty

 

 

 

Ive noticed the competition is much better on Full Tilt than it was on Party Poker. I may go try Ultimate Bet soon too. There arent enough fish on Full Tilt.

 

Party Poker was like having this big pond of plump bass in my backyard. Full Tilt is full of sharks.

 

Yea Full Tilt has some good players... I usally play the 10-20 dollar sit and go's.. BTW you wont miss me with my screen name

Full Tilt

 

NETeller

 

Back in action

 

 

Yea I used to play with Bodog but I switched to Full Tilt.. Its a pretty solid site.. Give 100% bonus too which is awesome! I plan to deposit in sometime soon... Haven't played for real cash in about 3 weeks, had to pay the bills and got the new car payment coming so..

 

Whats your Full Tilt name?

 

 

 

I'll just say that I play the .50/$1 NL tables.

 

:shifty

 

 

 

Ive noticed the competition is much better on Full Tilt than it was on Party Poker. I may go try Ultimate Bet soon too. There arent enough fish on Full Tilt.

 

Party Poker was like having this big pond of plump bass in my backyard. Full Tilt is full of sharks.

 

Yea Full Tilt has some good players... I usally play the 10-20 dollar sit and go's.. BTW you wont miss me with my screen name

 

 

 

We wont cross paths on Full Tilt.

 

I play cash games and your a tournament player.

 

 

good luck at the tables!